signed with device, inscribed and dated 'WAUWINET. JULY. 1892' (lower left)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on paper
10 3/8 x 14 1/8 in.
At the invitation of the Fine Art Society Crane held his first retrospective there in 1891; what was not sold formed the core of a touring exhibition which went to the United States and then Europe.
Crane and his family arrived in Boston on 19 October 1891; his tour took him to Chicago, St Louis, Los Angeles, San Francisco and then on to Philadelphia by April.
The transfer of the exhibition from Philadelphia to Brooklyn was delayed and Crane decided to take his family to New England on holiday, although Crane completed a commission while he was there. He writes in An Artist's Reminiscences, 1907 'We found at Wauwinet a charming cottage, with a studio, most kindly placed at our disposal by our friends Mr and Mrs Pretyman. I had work to carry out here too. I had been commissioned to paint two large panels for the decoration of the hall of the Woman's Temperance Building at Chicago.... Wauwinet was a most remote little place, consisting of an inn and a few scattered timber dwellings along the sandy shore. It was nine miles from Nantucket, the only town on the island.' After remaining there for six weeks they returned to Boston and embarked for home.
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