William Stanley Haseltine

American, 1835 - 1900

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American painter (1835-1900)

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William Stanley Haseltine, Mount Tacoma, 1899, watercolor and gouache over graphite on blue wove paper, Gift of Helen Haseltine Plowden, 1968.11.2

Mount Tacoma

William Stanley Haseltine · 1899 · watercolor and gouache over graphite on blue wove paper ·  Accession ID  1968.11.2

William Stanley Haseltine, Santa Maria a Cetrella, Anacapri, c. 1892, watercolor and gouache over graphite, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009.70.136

Santa Maria a Cetrella, Anacapri

William Stanley Haseltine · c. 1892 · watercolor and gouache over graphite ·  Accession ID  2009.70.136

William Stanley Haseltine, Blankenbergh, 1876, gouache over graphite on blue wove paper laid down to board, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Roger H. Plowden, daughter of the artist), 2015.19.768

Blankenbergh

William Stanley Haseltine · 1876 · gouache over graphite on blue wove paper laid down to board ·  Accession ID  2015.19.768

William Stanley Haseltine, View across the Giudecca Canal toward the Salute and the Campanile of San Marco, c. 1875, watercolor over graphite on blue wove paper, Gift of Helen Haseltine Plowden, 1956.5.1

View across the Giudecca Canal toward the Salute and the Campanile of San Marco

William Stanley Haseltine · c. 1875 · watercolor over graphite on blue wove paper ·  Accession ID  1956.5.1

William Stanley Haseltine, Blankenberge No.3, 1875, pen and black ink with gouache on blue wove paper, Gift of Helen Haseltine Plowden, 1956.5.2

Blankenberge No.3

William Stanley Haseltine · 1875 · pen and black ink with gouache on blue wove paper ·  Accession ID  1956.5.2

William Stanley Haseltine, A Venetian Lagoon, 1871/1874, pen and brown ink with watercolor and gouache over graphite, with white heightening, on blue-gray wove paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1968.12.1

A Venetian Lagoon

William Stanley Haseltine · 1871/1874 · pen and brown ink with watercolor and gouache over graphite, with white heightening, on blue-gray wove paper ·  Accession ID  1968.12.1

We look slightly down onto a rocky, natural stone arch next to a cave opening, both perched on a high, grassy cliff in front of a shimmering, aquamarine-blue body of water in this horizontal landscape painting. The arch is situated to our left of center, and the cave beyond the gaping opening extends off the left side of the canvas. In tones of ash and caramel brown, the jagged arch and outcroppings are lit from our left so deep shadows are cast along crevasses to our right. Shadow also sweeps across the emerald-green grass at the base of the arch and cave. A few more serrated rocks poke out of the water like teeth far below, to our right, presumably at the base of the cliff on which we are situated. To our left, the rocky shoreline juts into the water in the distance in front of mauve-purple mountains in the deep distance along the horizon, which comes about halfway up this composition. Tiny in scale, minuscule, triangular white sails dot the waterway. Similarly tiny white birds fly high above the water. Pale, petal-pink and white clouds line the horizon beneath a sky that deepens from light turquoise over the clouds to the same aquamarine blue of the water below.
William Stanley Haseltine, Natural Arch at Capri, 1871, oil on canvas, Gift of Guest Services, Inc., in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1989.13.1

Natural Arch at Capri

William Stanley Haseltine · 1871 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1989.13.1

We look out across a band of broad, craggy boulders at an ocean bay dotted with boats in this horizontal landscape painting. The tops of the flat boulders are caramel brown in the sunlight and darker, rust-brown shadows down the sides. Smoke-gray fissures create web-like crevices across their surfaces. A few rocks sit atop the boulders, and a glassy pool created in a shallow near the lower right corner reflects the pale blue sky. The water beyond is a blend of aquamarine blue and bottle green with choppy waves that break and spray up white against the boulders. Two people wearing straw-colored hats are near the water on the far side of the boulders. One wears a red shirt, brown pants, and holds out a fishing rod. A basket sits near his feet nearby. Just to our left, a woman wearing a rose-pink dress sits and seems to look off into the distance. One sailboat is at the center of the composition in the distance, and several, even smaller touches of ivory-white along the horizon suggest more sailboats almost out of sight. Also hazy in the far distance, a finger of sand-brown land topped with pale, sage-green growth extends about halfway across the horizon, which comes about halfway up the composition. A few light gray clouds drift across the sky, which lightens from powder blue across the top to nearly white along the horizon. Several white birds with black wing tips fly over the water. The artist initialled and dated the lower left, “W.S.H 64.”
William Stanley Haseltine, Narragansett Bay, 1864, oil on canvas, Gift of Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin, 2010.10.1

Narragansett Bay

William Stanley Haseltine · 1864 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2010.10.1

William Stanley Haseltine, Shag Rocks, Nahant, Massachusetts, 1860-1865, graphite and gray wash on wove paper laid down to board, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Roger H. Plowden, daughter of the artist), 2015.19.810

Shag Rocks, Nahant, Massachusetts

William Stanley Haseltine · 1860-1865 · graphite and gray wash on wove paper laid down to board ·  Accession ID  2015.19.810

William Stanley Haseltine, Rocklined Beach with Distant Boats, probably 1860/1869, pen and black ink with graphite and gray wash, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1983.51.1

Rocklined Beach with Distant Boats

William Stanley Haseltine · probably 1860/1869 · pen and black ink with graphite and gray wash ·  Accession ID  1983.51.1

Bibliography

1947

  • Plowden, Helen Haseltine. William Stanley Haseltine: Sea and Landscape Painter (1835-1900). London, 1947.

1992

  • Simpson, Marc, Andrea Henderson, and Sally Mills. Expressions of Place: The Art of William Stanley Haseltine. Exh. cat. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1992.

1996

  • Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 271-272.