Boston Pastime

Date:	1988
Medium:	Oil on canvas
Size inches:	48 x 120
Size cm:	121.9 x 304.8
Signature:	Signed and dated lower left and on the reverse
Location:	Nutter, McClennen & Fish Corporate Collection, Boston

 

A 35 mm slide of painting in progress in 1988 is available in archive.

Reference
Boston Pastime includes a quotation, on the left, of Thomas Eakins's Max Schmitt in a Single Scull, 1871, and, on the right, a quotation of James Tissot's On the Thames, c. 1875-76. The Tissot has been altered to incorporate the U.S.S. Constitution, a Boston reference.