How does Meditation by the Sea elucidate its Acquisitions?
Art collector Maxim Karolik bought the painting from J.B. Neumann for $650 in 1943; it was one of the first 19th-century paintings he acquired.  In 1945 Karolik donated the piece to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to inaugurate the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Art, 1815–1865.
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