Approaches run the gamut from Chase's "Bayberry Bush" (1895), a view of three young girls amid the dunes, to contemporary artist April Gornik's water view "Light Before Heat" (1984).
Ms. Gornik takes a kind of postmodern approach to landscape, with color in a minor key that gives the painting a coolly detached mood, as if she were deliberately playing against the emotional intensity that has been such a signature element of this genre, particularly in 19th-century America.