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Another view of Beavertail Light painted in the evening light and
from the West Passage side looking southeast.
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Located on the southern tip of Dutch Island, south of the Jamestown
Bridge, in the center of the West Passage to Narragansett Bay, RI, it is
first light one sees after sailing north past the Beavertail Light. Built
in 1826, the Dutch Island Light is now inactive.
It is a rather uninteresting subject to paint, so I
depicted it in a rainstorm.
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Plum Beach Light is also located in the West Passage to Narragansett
Bay just north of the Jamestown Bridge. Built in 1897, it was extensively
damaged by a number of hurricanes (the worst being the one of 1938)
and was deactivated in 1941. Thus far, it has not become a candidate
for preservation and, it is sad to see it rusting away, filled with
seagull droppings.
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Another view of the Plum Beach Light on a bright sunlit day. This
painting was done some years after the one shown above. The new Jamestown
Bridge (a boring structure) is shown in the background and to simplfy the
composition the old Jamestown Bridge (which is still standing just south
of the new bridge) has been eliminated from the picture
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Established in 1826 to guide ships through the narrow strait in the
Narragansett Bay between Warwick Neck and Patience Island, it is still active
with an occulting green light flashing every four seconds.
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Warwick Neck Light on a foggy day.
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