- ArtistJan L. Munro (American, contemporary)
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- Size16 in. x 20 in.
Jan L. Munro (American 20 – 21st Century) Mixed Media on Masonite titled “Summer at Sankaty”, signed lower right. 16 in. x 20
in. The painting was exhibited at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in the “Lighthouses in Cape and Islands Art” Show. Distinguished by a wide red band midway up its white tower, Sankaty Head Light was built in 1850 in the village of Siasconset on the southeast coast of Nantucket. The original 53-foot tower constructed of brick and granite still stands and remains in operation, having been moved approximately 400 feet back from an eroding bluff in 2007. Sankaty is the tallest lighthouse on the Cape and Islands. In addition, it was the first lighthouse in Massachusetts equipped with a Fresnel lens – and the first in the country to have a Fresnel lens installed as part of its original equipment. (French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel had developed a lighter, more compact lens for lighthouses in the 1820s. It had greater focusing power, so as to throw light greater distances.) Nationally recognized folk artist Janet Munro has imagined Sankaty Head Light presiding over a real nice clambake.
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