
Walter MacEwenAmerican, 1860–1943May one see it?
Cleveland, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
During the 1880s, the Netherlands became a magnet for several American artists, among them Walter MacEwen. His most famed painting, The Ghost Story, presents a group of individuals in a Dutch interior listening with rapt attention to spooky narration delivered by a woman at a spinning wheel. A young girl clutches her doll in fascination.
The Cleveland Museum of Art