Two conversing women are seated by a path leading through the grassy dunes to a seaside town.

On the Dunes

Datec. 1900 - 1910

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsCanvas: 24 1/2 × 30 inches (62.2 × 76.2 cm)
Framed: 35 × 41 5/16 × 3 1/4 inches (88.9 × 104.9 × 8.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Anna Belle Karow.

Object number1915.1

On View

On view

CopyrightThe images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextThe popularity of landscape painting and the growth of rural art colonies were a result of the increasing urbanization and industrialization of the Western world. William Merritt Chase offered a summer art class in one such rural art colony, located in Shinnecock, Long Island, where Charles Hawthorne was a pupil. In 1899, Hawthorne established a community in Provincetown on Cape Cod, which remains a vital art colony today. On the Dunes shows Hawthorne’s debt to Chase; his placement of the horizon and treatment of figures and the sky echo Chase's well-known paintings of his daughters passing summer afternoons on the dunes at Shinnecock.

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