Babson and Ellery Houses
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White clapboard houses and gray outbuildings sit along a low rise beyond a still pond, with a figure in a small boat at the left and a stone wall running across the middle ground. The sky is a large, luminous field of pale pink and cream, taking up more than half the canvas. There are no strong shadows and almost no movement. Lane painted specific properties and views around Gloucester, Massachusetts, with documentary precision, and the quiet here is deliberate. The landscape is observed the way a surveyor would observe it, except the light is the dominant subject matter.