Between 1891 and 1902, William Merritt Chase spent his summers at Shinnecock, on the south shores of Long Island, where he directed the first out-of-doors summer art school in the United States. Chase encouraged his students to find beauty in landscapes that at first seemed unremarkable, which he has done here. The scrubby bushes, grass, and shoreline are framed with a diagonal slice of sea on the left and dirt path on the right. The figures in the painting include Chase’s wife and four of his daughters.