Rosenthal’s capture of the Thomas E. Lannon schooner, built in 1997 in Essex and moored at the Seven Seas Wharf in Gloucester today, is evocative of Homer’s watercolor “Gloucester Schooners and Waterboat,” from 1880, also on display in the Cape Ann Museum’s Homer exhibit. (Archival inkjet print, 2018. Gift of the artist. Collection of the Cape Ann Museum.)
Winslow Homer: “Gloucester Schooners and Waterboat.” Watercolor over graphite on paper, 1880.
Winslow Homer: “Rocky Coast and Gulls.” Oil on canvas, 1869.
Steve Rosenthal’s “Halibut Point Surf #1” captures the movement of the dark and light waves crashing at Halibut Point in Rockport. Homer captures the water crashing against the rocks at Singing Beach in his “Rocky Coast and Gulls” oil painting, on exhibit now at the Cape Ann Museum. (Archival inkjet print, 2018. Gift of the artist. Collection of the Cape Ann Museum.)
“I am not a morning person,” admitted Manchester’s Steve Rosenthal, the nationally acclaimed photographer who took this photo. Nonetheless, here he was bright and early at Singing Beach at 5:00 a.m. to capture this breathtaking scene as the sun’s rays broke through the fog and the ocean waves rolled gently onto shore. Over a year ago, Rosenthal was asked by William R. Cross, another Manchester resident and co-curator of Cape Ann Museum’s exquisite “Homer at the Beach: A Marine Painter's Journey, 1869-1880” exhibit to complete a series of accompanying photographs inspired by Homer’s work. His photographs, including this one (called “Eagle Head in Morning Fog”), are on display now through December at the museum.
