C. 1920s

Unknown size
Oil on canvas

Temple by the Sea (The Farewell)

Farewell by Marian Spore Bush

Image credit: ©PETER A. JULEY & SON COLLECTION, SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM. (IMAGE USED FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY)

I have found two titles for this painting. “The Farewell” and “Temple by the Sea.” It was described by The New York Times as the “most arresting in the collection” during her exhibition at the Knoedler Galleries in February 1933, with “rich interblending blues”, “burning yellows” and a “red that turns purple where sky meets a purplish sea.”