Oil on canvas, signed, l.r Eddy, Overall, 28” x 24”, window, 23.5” Hx 19.5”W. Old price tag on back stretcher, Henry S. Eddy $400,dirty and some inpainting Henry Stephens Eddy (1878-1944) Henry Stephens Eddy was a prominent member of the Nantucket Art Colony from its inception until his death in his Nantucket home in 1944. He created vibrant canvases of Nantucket's rambling lanes and alleys and light splashed waterfront views, using a bright palette and generous swaths of paint applied with the palette knife, mixed with choppy, expressive brushwork capturing light at a specific time of day. Eddy discovered Nantucket via the Provincetown Art Colony, which he visited beginning in 1920 together with fellow members of the Art Students League in New York City. Hailing from Rahway and, later, Upper Montclair, NJ. Eddy received formal art training at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and subsequently at the Art Students League under an impressive array of teachers including John Twachtman and Stephen A. Douglas Volk. Through a Montclair acquaintance, Eddy and his wife traveled to Nantucket in the summer of 1922 to rent one of Florence Langas waterfront studios.