Frederick Waugh was first and foremost a seascape artist generating images of pure sea and shore. He has captured in this painting the great reflections of the afternoon sun illuminating the sea, cliffs and sky.
With 2,500 seascapes to his credit, Waugh shows his mature and accomplished style in this work, painted in the last decade of his life. In it one sees the evolved progression of his heavy, impasto brush strokes and crisp colors, often pulled straight from the tube.
Sketching and working at the shoreline, Waugh often brought the coastal images back for completion to his province town, Massachusetts studio, which was built of old ships' timbers.
