Strait of Messina
Medium
Drawing
Classification
Drawing
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Martha F. Butler
Accession Number
1991.56.279
Tags
Art Historical Context
Visitors to the Smithsonian American Art are invited to admire *Strait of Messina*, captivating drawing by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg (4–1889). This undated work captures the dramatic vista of the narrow waterway separating Sicily from mainland Italy, a site steeped in ancient mythology as the perilous domain of Scylla and Charybdis from Homer's *Odyssey*. Kellogg, a 19th-century American artist for his neoclassical portraits evocative landscapes from European travels, likely sketched this during his sojourns abroad, blending Romantic appreciation for nature's grandeur with precise observation. ...