Cleveland Museum of Art
Market Square, Providence, Rhode Island, During the Great September Gale
- Date
- 1815
- Medium
- black crayon and pastel, with graphite and stylus; scraped and incised in places
- Culture
- America
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This anonymous drawing combines a meticulous depiction of actual buildings with a wonderfully abstract rendering of waves and weather effects. The artist was led to stretch his artistic abilities because of a bizarre and memorable event: a hurricane that washed ships into the streets of downtown Providence in September of 1815.
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