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Article: Shipshape Mysteries On Canvas; At NGA, the Shining Seas of Fitz Hugh Lane
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- The Washington Post
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- May 15, 1988
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Hermaphrodite brigs, Chebacco boats, dinghies, dories, droghers,
sloop-rigged packets, shallops, the schooner yacht America (1851),
clipper ships and barks. Woven in those names is the slap of waves
on water, the far-off cries of gulls, the music of the sea. If you
care at all for sailing ships, you ought to pay a visit to "Paintings
by Fitz Hugh Lane," the exhibition that goes on view this morning at
the National Gallery of Art.
And if you are attuned to the shining of the numinous or the
transcendental's shimmer, you should see this show as well. There is
something almost ghostly in its yellow-purple-crimson-lilac-orange
glow. A strange surreal quietude haunts the seascapes on the ...