Gloucester’s Celebrated Artist Fitz H. Lane’s Ships, Boats, and Harborscapes at the Cape Ann Museum

When Fitz H. Lane was painting in Gloucester in the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s there were no commercial galleries or museum exhibition spaces for art in the city. One could see his work in the bank, in the town hall, in the stationary store, tacked to the outside of at least one tradesman’s shop as signage, even paraded through the street on political banners, but there was no publicly available venue to see Lane’s paintings as there is at the Cape Ann Museum. This institution has a collection of dozens of his paintings and over a hundred of his drawings in the archives. The result of the efforts of generations of Gloucesterites, this treasu

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Gloucester’s Celebrated Artist Fitz H. Lane’s Ships, Boats, and Harborscapes at the Cape Ann Museum

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