A beautiful Fitz Henry Lane is joining the collection of Princeton University Art Museum. This masterpiece of Luminism was unveiled in a press release and reported by ArtFixDaily. As reported in Princeton’s press release,  said Karl Kusserow, the Museum’s John Wilmerding Curator of American Art described the work:

“In certain great works of his late career, Lane gravitated away from portrayal of the crystalline light that served as an essential feature of his early maturity and toward an exploration of more complex atmospheric conditions, such as fog. Although Ship in Fog portrays a relatively modest scene—a variety of ordinary craft in a sizable but not major port at the end of a late-summer day—what makes the painting extraordinary is Lane’s ability, unsurpassed in American art, to impart a resonant grandeur to such moments, as if to impress them both in time and for all time.”

We congratulate Princeton on their extraordinary acquisition.