Friday, August 14, 2026

Pulpit Rock Paintings...early 1900s

 Pulpit Rock Paintings by Noted Artists

in the early 1900s by
George Bellows, James Fitzgerald,
Robert Henri, Edward Hopper, and Leon Kroll
plus a photo from the Marjorie Bouvé collection

1
Pulpit Rock
George Bellows (1882-1925), American
Oil on wood panel, 20" x 15" (w x h), 1913
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT

2
Surf at Pulpit Rock
James E. Fitzgerald (1899-1971), American
Watercolor, 13" x 10" (w x h)

3
Pulpit Rock Gray
Leon Kroll (1884-1974), American
Oil on canvas, 25" x 30" (w x h), 1913

4
Rocky Coast, Monhegan Island, Maine
(Pulpit Rock)
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), American
Oil on board, 12" x 10" (w x h)
Gift of the artist to Mary Kelsey, Monhegan Island, Maine.
By descent from the above to the present owner
Sotheby's NY 2008 auction sold $6,875 USD

5
Rocky Promontory, Monhegan, Maine
(Pulpit Rock)
Robert Henri (1865-1929), American
Oil on canvas, circa 1903
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

6
Rocks and Waves (Pulpit Rock)
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), American
Oil on composition board, 13" x 10" (w x h), circa 1916-1919
Josephine N. Hopper Bequest to
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

7
Study of Rocks at Monhegan (Pulpit Rock)
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), American
Lithographic crayon on paper, 16" x 10" (w x h), circa 1916-1919
Josephine N. Hopper Bequest to
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

8
Pulpit Rock, Monhegan, Maine
Marjorie Bouvé (1879-1970), American
Photograph, circa 1895-1918
Marjorie Bouvé papers, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

2 comments:

Painter47 said...

Hi Bruce....The only Pulpit Rock I know of is on North Haven, ME, right at Pulpit Harbor! Then again I don't know Monhegan very well, yet!!

Bruce McMillan said...

There's more than one Pulpit Rock in Maine, though no preachers, and the most noted and painted one by famous artists is Pulpit Rock on Monhegan Island