America / 1887
The Ghost Story
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs The Ghost Story as painting (America · 1887).
The women in this painting wear the traditional clothing of Volendam, a fishing village located in the province of North Holland.
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this painting as oil on canvas and credits Walter MacEwen (American, 1860–1943).
The museum's collection notes: During the 1880s, the Netherlands became a magnet for several American artists, among them Walter MacEwen. His most famed painting, The Ghost Story , presents a group of individuals in a Dutch interior listening with rapt attention to spooky narration delivered by a woman at a spinning wheel. A young girl clutches her doll in fascination.
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