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inv. 781

Halfway Rock off Marblehead

Alternate title: Halfway Rock in Marblehead

Oil on canvas

53 3/4 x 35 3/4 in. (136.5 x 90.8 cm)

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts (2023.25.1)

Provenance (Information known to date; research ongoing.)

Childs Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, September 14, 1979

George Lewis

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, 2023 (by gift)

Exhibition History

2021 Peabody Essex

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, In American Waters: The Sea in American Painting, May 29–October 3, 2021. (Finamore and Bailly 2021). Traveled to: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, November 6, 2021–January 31, 2022.

2022–26 Peabody Essex

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America, 2022–ongoing.

Published References

Finamore and Bailly 2021

Finamore, Daniel and Austen Barron Bailly. In American Waters: The Sea in American Painting. Contributions by Austen Barron Bailly, Mindy N. Besaw, Sarah N. Chasse, Daniel Finamore, and George H. Schwartz. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2021. Exhibition catalogue (2021 Peabody Essex).

Record last updated January 22, 2026. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: "Halfway Rock off Marblehead, n.d. (inv. 781)." In Fitz Henry Lane Online. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Museum. www.fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=781 (accessed on February 4, 2026).