Cleveland Museum of Art
The Ghost Story
Walter MacEwenLinkedCulture matchlcp-6faee5b357c0
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- America
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 105224
During the 1880s, the Netherlands became a magnet for several American artists, among them Walter MacEwen. His most famed painting, The Ghost Story , presents a group of individuals in a Dutch interior listening with rapt attention to spooky narration delivered by a woman at a spinning wheel. A young girl clutches her doll in fascination. The women in this painting wear the traditional clothing of Volendam, a fishing village located in the province of North Holland.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness
- Provenance
- Mrs. Edward S. Harkness.
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