Seaside Sightings

Caspar David Friedrich
Monk by the Sea
1808-1810
oil on canvas
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Andreas Achenbach
Beach at Scheveningen
1851
oil on canvas
Dordrechts Museum

Paul Cézanne
Rocks at the Seashore
ca. 1865-66
oil on canvas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Eugène Boudin
Marine Scene
1878
oil on board
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota

Max Klinger
Women at the Seashore
1883-84
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Périclès Pantazis
On the Beach
ca. 1885
oil on canvas
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer
At the Shore
ca. 1890
oil on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art

Joseph J. Gould
Lippincott's - August
1896
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Winslow Homer
A Light on the Sea
1897
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Edvard Munch
Two Women on the Shore
1898
color woodblock print
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

William Frank Calderon
"On the sea-beat coast, where hardy Thracians tame the savage horse"
(quotation from Alexander Pope's translation of The Iliad)
1905
oil on canvas
Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand

Max Liebermann
Beach at Noordwijk
1908
oil on panel
Landesmuseum Hannover

Max Slevogt
Nordic Beach Landscape 
ca. 1908
oil on canvas
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Paul Cadmus
Two Boys on a Beach
1938
etching
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Willi Beutler
North Sea
1950
gelatin silver print
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Svend Wiig Hansen
People on Beach
1954
lithograph
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

from Baltic Amber

Rational Pliny considered it

an emetic property of the sea

beached with the whale's 

disgorged ambergris

after an ice-choked winter.

But for the Greeks it meant the sun.

A falling star, a shattered axle-tree;

Phaëthon, that original boy-racer . . . 

– Caitríona O'Reilly, Geis (2015)