Hortense Ferne (1885-1976) Oil on Paper “Rainbow Fleet-Nantucket”, circa 1945, pencil signed lower right and titled lower left
10 in. x 13 in. Overall 17 ¾ in. x 22 in.

Ferne Studied with William Merritt Chase and Charles Hawthorne. Her works are in the Metropolitan Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian. Her papers are in the archives of American Art at the Smithsonian.