WIlliam Trost Richards

New issue of American Art Review has an article on landscape painter William Trost Richards. Below is one of the images therein, a beautiful seascape titled "Rolling Surf, Pink Clouds" painted 1890s on cardboard. The web site for the magazine.

William Trost Richards Rolling Surf

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