Colonel Glover's Fishermen Leaving Marblehead for Cambridge, 1775

Date1922-1928

MediumOil on wallboard

DimensionsSight: 22 7/8 × 49 1/8 in. (58.1 × 124.8 cm)

Object numberN0024.1961

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label TextJ. O. J. Frost was a late-19th century Romantic fully caught up in the historical fervor inspired by the ending of the Civil War and the Centennial of the Declaration of Independence and in full bloom during the 1920s as the Colonial Revival. He expressed feelings of patriotism and pride in his community by creating this image of a local war hero and his troops. Revolutionary War General John Glover commanded the Fourteenth Continental, a company comprised almost entirely of fishermen from the coastal Massachusetts town of Marblehead. One historian referred to this company as "the first truly amphibious regiment in the annals of warfare." In Frost's scene, Glover and his men are depicted leaving the streets of their hometown as they march for Washington's camp at Cambridge in June 1775. This painting was part of Frost's roadside museum designed to give visitors to Marblehead a sense of its local history.
Exhibition History"The Revolutionary War: Founding the New Nation," Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, January 16, 2000 - March 26, 2000.

“Grandma Moses and the ‘Primitive Tradition,’” Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT, June 11, 2011 – October 30, 2011.

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