With its brilliant palette, engaging design and dynamic brushwork, Gloucester Harbor is a quintessential example of Peterson’s work and was likely painted during the teens or early twenties when she returned each summer to the town’s streets and waterfront in search of inspiration. Alternating between a fully-loaded brush to render the ships, wharves and fishing shacks, and willowy strokes of dark pigment to delineate the reflections on the rippling water, Peterson instills the scene with a sense of rhythm while retaining the atmospheric glow of a Cape Ann summer. (http://www.vosegalleries.com/artists/jane-peterson/works/gloucester-harbor-792aa933-3192-4d60-8b69-08d11e0b733a#.WSLHoIU41WY)