The Height of the Season
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Sickert explores the meeting of sea and overcast sky in this image of the beach at Dieppe, a resort town on the coast of Normandy. While using a vertically oriented format, Sickert cleanly divides his composition into flat, horizontal bands and applies the blue green of the calm sea and the gray of the low-hanging clouds in thick but evenly applied strokes that run the width of the panel. Although Sickert defines the horizon line with linear precision, he reveals a lighter, more improvisational touch in the puffy white clouds, the patch of blue sky, and the throngs of holiday makers who mark the water’s edge.
Caption
Walter Richard Sickert British, born Germany 1860–1942. The Height of the Season, 1885. Oil on panel, 12 1/2 × 9 1/8 × 1/8 in. (31.8 × 23.2 × 0.3 cm) frame: 23 × 20 × 2 1/2 in. (58.4 × 50.8 × 6.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Ferdinand Gottschalk, 18.37. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 18.37_SL1.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
The Height of the Season
Date
1885
Geography
Place made: France
Medium
Oil on panel
Classification
Dimensions
12 1/2 × 9 1/8 × 1/8 in. (31.8 × 23.2 × 0.3 cm) frame: 23 × 20 × 2 1/2 in. (58.4 × 50.8 × 6.4 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right: "Sickert."
Inscriptions
Verso upper left: "10 Rue Sygogne/20 mil (?) Vernis"
Credit Line
Gift of Ferdinand Gottschalk
Accession Number
18.37
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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