On the Quay

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This energetic composition highlights Wilcox’s skill in conveying motion. In 1910, Wilcox traveled to Paris, where continued to create art in a realist manner rather than adopt abstraction. Here, he appears to be depicting a scene of minor difficulty. In the lower right, a man crouches next to a horse, its legs buckling under either the weight of the load or a misfitted harness. Another man grabs the attached cart, possibly to keep it from spilling over. Much like the viewer, the other figures in the scene watch the struggle unfold. Wilcox’s watercolors of France garnered him early acclaim, but he later became more well-known for his Cleveland images.

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