This painting was a gift from Alletta Morris McBean to Doris Duke. It is one of the few American paintings in Doris’s collection and certainly reflects Leta’s taste more than Doris’s. (Leta’s home in Newport, Chepstow, displays many more examples of paintings from the 19th-century American Hudson School.) It also points to Doris’s affection for her friend and the value she placed on the gift.
Near Reef of Norman’s Woe
