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Andrew Wyeth
Night Hauling 1944
Tempera on masonite
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
Night Hauling was painted by the twenty-seven-year-old Andrew Wyeth at
the height of World War Two. Set against the Maine coast in Port Clyde,
where Wyeth’s family summered, it depicts a shadowy lobsterman hauling
in a trap under cover of darkness, the scene lit only by the figure’s
concealed lamp and the water’s startling nocturnal phosphorescence.
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