Bar Harbor
ca. 1892
Medium
Drawing
Classification
Drawing
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Laura Dreyfus Barney and Natalie Clifford Barney in memory of their mother, Alice Pike Barney
Accession Number
1952.13.10
Tags
Art Historical Context
Alice Pike Barney’s *Bar Harbor* (ca. 1892) offers a charming bird’s-eye view of the Maine coastal town, capturing its blend of farmland and shimmering water from an elevated vantage point. Created as a drawing, the work invites viewers to appreciate the quiet rhythms of late-nineteenth-century rural life along the Atlantic shore, where tidy fields meet the sea. Barney, an accomplished artist whose daughters later donated the piece to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in her memory, used the medium’s fluid lines to suggest both the vastness of the landscape and the intimate details of daily ...