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Rocks at Nahant
William Stanley Haseltine
Date: 1864
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1999.65
Text Entries: Nineteenth-century landscape painter William Stanley Haseltine closely studied nature with a scientific curiosity. The rocky Nahant coast, north of Boston, attracted Haseltine because of its beautiful, open expanses of sky and water and its unique masses of smooth-topped, reddish indigenous rock. Remarkably commanding, the polished detail of the rock in this painting dominates the coastal scene as it diagonally divides the picture.