On Lancaster Sands, Low Tide
1840s
David Cox captures the vast, sweeping atmosphere of Morecambe Bay in this breezy watercolor. The sky dominates the composition, filled with billowing, stormy clouds that dwarf the two tiny figures strolling across the wet sands below. Cox was a master of capturing light and weather, using loose, expressive washes to convey the feeling of a blustery day at low tide. This piece shows how British landscape artists were experimenting with light and atmosphere long before the French Impressionists made it famous.
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