Name/Title
Carl Philipp Weber | Passamaquoddy Fishing Encampment, Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick | Oil on canvas, 1878Description
22 x 36 in. (55.9 x 91.4 cm.)
Frame: 26 1/4 x 40 1/4 in. (66.7 x 102.2 cm.)
Provenance:
Private collection, Ontario.
Born in Germany, C. Philipp Weber, and his cousin the artist Carl Weber, lived and worked in Philadelphia and were active in several artists groups there. Both artists focused on painting vigorous, untamed nature in the Barbizon tradition. Like Alfred Thompson Bricher, C. Philipp Weber traveled to Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick during the 1870s. Aside from the fishing camp depicted in the present painting, Weber also painted from Fish Head at the tip of the island. Based primarily in the state of Maine, the Passamaquoddy tribe used Grand Manan and its surrounding islands as summertime hunting grounds.