Waves along the Shore.  Oil on canvas.  Signed and indescribed indistinctly lower right.  6 in. high x 9 in. wide, (with frame 9.25 in. high x 12.25 in. wide)

Van Dearing Perrine was born in Kansas in 1869. Coming from humble beginnings, he worked as a farmer and cowboy before moving to New York and studying art at the National Academy of Design.  He lived for many years in New Jersey, near the Palisades, which became the subject of many of his paintings and earned him the nickname "The Thoreau of the Palisades".  One such painting was purchased by Theodore Roosevelt and hung in the White House. Other notable buyers of his work included Mrs. Montgomery Sears and Isadora Duncan who reproduced one of his works on the cover of her program for the Metropolitan Opera House in 1916.  He won awards at the Carnegie Institute in 1903 and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915 and was elected a National Academician in 1931. His work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Condition: In good condition.