Reflections, Old Lyme c.1919
Oil on canvas, 30 x 30”
Signed lower left
Ebert arrived in Old Lyme with his artist wife in 1919 after two decades in Greenwich. There he had been inspired by John Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, and Childe Hassam to paint landscapes in bright colors with delicate brushwork that emphasized unusual atmospheric effects.
He lived in Old Lyme for 40 years but visited the art colonies at Gloucester and, most often, the one at Monhegan Island in Maine. Some American Impressionists preferred to work alone, but others, like the Eberts, worked best in a communal setting, where the exchange of ideas was stimulating and the social life good fun.