On loan to The Met The Met accepts temporary loans of art both for short-term exhibitions and for long-term display in its galleries.
Kathleen, Yachting on Lake St. Louis, near Montreal, QC
Notman & Sandham, Montreal
James Weston Canadian
Not on view
In these two yachting scenes, several layers of artifice—the calculated informality of the poses; the seamless blending of studio set and painted background; details such as a tilted deck, a flapping sail, a hand securing a hat against the wind—coalesce into a marvelous naturalism that belies the pictures’ cobbled-together construction.