American Art Collaborative

With fluid, satiny brushstrokes, Rockwell Kent effortlessly captured a moving tug as it skirts a row of barges on the Hudson River. Hard-working deckhands, rendered with just a few quick swaths of black paint, suggest a rush of activity. The tug releases a snow-white puff of smoke that mingles with the lush green brushstrokes of the passing land, perhaps a reminder of the Hudson River’s legacy as the locus of American landscape painting in the previous century.