"Drying the Nets"
Oil on Canvas - 20" x 24"
Signed, lower right

Emile A. Gruppe was a painter-teacher and the son of the painter Charles P. Gruppe (1860-1940). Born in Rochester, New York he is known for his New England landscape and marine painting. He founded the Gruppe Summer School in Gloucester, MA. in 1942, and is best known for his views of fishing boats docked at Gloucester and Rockport, MA.