Biography of fitz hugh lane owls head
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Fitz Henry Lane: Painting, Science, & Owl's Head
By Sandy Kelberlau, Karen Quinn, and Jean Woodward
An Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2016)
Fitz Henry Lane's Owl's Head, Penobscot Bay, Maine, 1862(inv. 47) has long been a highlight of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, celebrated for the quiet beauty of its luminous light and color– a masterpiece of mid-nineteenth-century American landscape painting. Surprisingly, three more versions have surfaced. All four paintings are extremely close in size and composition. What could this mean?
Mary Blood Mellen, Owl's Head, 1860s(not published) Isaacson Family Trust
| Fitz Henry Lane, Owl's Head, Penobscot Bay, Maine, 1862(inv. 47) |
Mary Blood Mellen, Owl's Head, 1860s(not published) Private Collection | Mary Blood Mellen, Owl's Head, Early 1860s(not published) Private Collection
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Lane had a talented student, Mary Blood Mellen, who seemingly copied many of his compositions. But the working relationship between Lane and Mellen appears to have been more complex than a student merely copying a master’s work. By the 1850s, Mellen was an apprentice in Lane's Gloucester studio, where, as part of her training, she spent time copying her teac
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