Drifting
Dateca. 1925
Mediumoil on board (masonite?)
DimensionsImage: 25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
CreditGift of Charles Vezin, Jr., 1954, 54.28.1
Accession Number54.28.1
DescriptionFor this study of glassy water and ice, the title, Drifting, is appropriate, as the eye is drawn across the painting's surface. Vezin was fascinated by the magnificence of the unspoiled Palisades, a startling foil to the nearby bustling New York City. He creates an elegant goodbye to American Impressionism with his signature soft pinks and blues, a style increasingly at odds with the sharpness and pointed social commentary of upcoming artists who reveled, instead, in the glassy surfaces of the city's high rise buildings.
Exhibition HistoryVezin exhibited a painting of this title at National Academy of Design in 1926. There is a label on verso re: display at Lyme during the artist's lifetime.
To City Managers Office, Oct. 1974. City Manager in October 1974 was J. Emmet Casey. By 1987 Casey was COUNTY Personnel Officer, and then he retired in 1991, a few years before Ursula LaMotte was elected. Casey must have taken it to the County Office Building with the rest of his things, because HRM has no paperwork on the move; Retrieved from County Legislator Ursula Lamotte's office, 12/10/2007, where it had hung at least since her election 12 years earlier; HRM Collection Gallery, 2011- 2012; Palisades display in HRM Collection Gallery, UM, Summer 2012-Summer 2013; HRM Collection Gallery, Oct. 2013 +