The Union League Club

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Treasure of The Union League Club A Summer Morning Painted before 1881, by Arthur Quartley (1839-1886)... Arthur Quartley was a 19th century American artist who began his painting career after he became too sick later in life to continue running his design firm in Baltimore. Upon moving to midtown in New York City, a multitude of his works featured New York Harbor, Long Island, and Rhode Island. Quartley was one of the founders of The Tile Cluba social movement of artists and writers. It is particularly appropriate that The Union League Club have this piece since many Tilers were known for the made significant intellectual contributions to the arts in the Civil War. A Summer Morning occupies the wall to the left of the Club’s Main Bar, and depicts the East Rock on Star Island, which Arthur Quartley came to know from 1875 to 1881, via doctor’s orders to enjoy the sea air as a remedy for his ailments. The painting experiments with both sublime dominance of nature and its pure quietude. The fisherman and ships appear to be sauntering around them in pure peace; however watermarks on the rock indicate it is low tide. At high tide, the bow-dooming boulders would be completely veiled, and the viewer is reminded of the careful balance between calamity and serenity.

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