Coming Squall (Nahant Beach with a Summer Shower)

Museum record 185185: Coming Squall (Nahant Beach with a Summer Shower) by Thomas Doughty. A verified entry point for discovery.

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As the first American artist to identify himself as a landscape painter, Thomas Doughty was instrumental in pushing the genre beyond mere topographical description to explore the larger idea of nature itself. Produced at the height of his career, this view of the sea at Nahant, Massachusetts, recalls 17th-century Dutch landscapes in the way that it captures changing atmospheric conditions and their effect on the surroundings without any hint of a narrative. Such paintings made Doughty one of the most pop…