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Ireland Reef
Ireland Reef
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Ireland Reef

Artist Rockwell Kent (American, 1882 - 1971)
Date1926
(not assigned)United States
MediumOil on panel
Dimensions24 x 30 in. (61 x 76.2 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift from the Stephen and Carol Shey Collection
Object number2008.15
Collections
Visual DescriptionDramatic landscape of a remote and uninhabited reef set against an expansive sky of blues and pinks, rendered with precise forms and strong contrasts of light and dark; depicts a reef in Ireland, on the isolated northwest coast in County Donegal.
Crisply rendered landscape; hills in the foreground, trees in the middle ground, mountains on the horizon.
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