Charles Jones's Sloop

Charles Jones's Sloop

Watercolor on beige paper with lead pencil highlights depicting a sloop. Foreground depicts choppy water in blue, black, and white pigment. Midground focused on a single-mast sloop pointing to the left, sails furled, towing a small dinghy; man standing on deck, leaning back on the boom and facing the viewer; smoking pipe with hands tucked into waistband; two ships in the distance behind the sloop, the coastline visible in the background is lightly wooded and painted brushily with green and grey pigment. Clouded sky fills upper two thirds of the painting above the horizon line. Frame and backing are original to the artwork.

14.5 x 17 in. (unframed); 18 x 20.4375 in. (framed)

Signed lower right corner, "Edw. Lange. 1882. Elwood. Suffolk. Co. N.Y."

According to family history this is Charles S. Jones, great-grandfather of Hal Wilson, consigner of the painting to Preservation Long Island.

2010.4

Preservation Long Island purchase