Marblehead
Summer Whites

Summer is a state of mind, as well as a season.

Marblehead Summer Whites celebrates the season that
we wait for all year. It remembers summers past even as we
look forward to summer 2006.

White sails, white surf, white clothes, white hats and gloves all
evoke images of summer by the sea. The new exhibit, presents paintings, clothing, furniture and decorative arts that are icons of summer.

Paintings include J.O.J. Frost’s On the Grand Banks, a ship’s portrait of the Mary Helen, and photographs of sailing races, promenades at Fort Sewall, and baseball at Seaside Park.

On display are Victorian and early 20th century clothing and accessories, including parasols, which were the quintessential ladies’ summer accessory.

Included in the exhibit will be a recent acquisition by 19th century American Impressionist John Joseph Enneking. The oil painting, Marblehead Coast, Massachusetts was given to the Museum by Morris Cohen, professor emeritus at MIT, Swampscott resident and Enneking collector. This painting depicts a Marblehead seaside scene
and is the only one in Cohen’s collection that is of Marblehead. The rest of his collection was left to the Cape Cod Museum of Art.

The exhibit is planned in connection with the exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum entitled Painting Summer in New England.