Newport Show 2014

59 WILLIAM VAREIKA FINE ARTS LTD 212-214 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, RI 02840 401.849.6149 info@vareikafinearts.com w ww.vareikafinearts.com BOOTH 6 William Trost Richards (1833-1905) Race the Sea, My Sons, 1876 Watercolor and gouache on paper, 10 x 14½ inches Signed and dated, lower left Provenance: Family of the artist Note: The figures depicted on the rocks in this watercolor are the artist’s sons, Archer W. Richards and Theodore William Richards. The latter was a Harvard chemistry professor who in 1914 became the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.