William Trost Richards had a thing about ocean waves. He would wade in among them or stand on the beach, studying them for hours, “until people thought he was insane,” one of his children recalled. He was not crazy, though. He was an American
Pre-Raphaelite, a follower of the English critic John Ruskin’s dictum of artistic truth to nature, the achievement of which should brook no compromise. The payoff for Richards’s observational extremism came in the form of landscape and maritime paintings and drawings of arresting, nearly photorealistic intensity, a selection of which can be seen in “William Trost Richards: Visions of Land and Sea,” at the National Academy Museum.
William Trost Richards at National Academy Museum - NYTimes.com
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