Fishermen Unloading a Boat, Sea Bright, New Jersey
Medium
Photography-Photoprint
Classification
Photography-Photoprint
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
Accession Number
1994.91.181
Tags
Art Historical Context
Louis Comfort Tiffany’s 1887 photoprint “Fishermen Unloading a Boat, Sea Bright, New Jersey” captures a quiet moment of daily labor along the Jersey Shore. The image shows several men maneuvering baskets of fish from a beached vessel, their figures silhouetted against the and sky. Created when photography was still a relatively new medium, the work demonstrates Tiffany’s interest in documenting ordinary American scenes with an eye for light, texture, and composition. Although best known today for his luminous stained-glass windows and leadership in the Art Nouveau movement, Tiffany explored p...