Ernest Fiene

Ernest Fiene was a native German from Wuppertal. He fled to the United States in 1912 via the Netherlands to avoid German military service in World War I. He then studied in New York after World War I, and later in Paris and Firenze in the late 1920s. In 1927 he also became an American citizen. The extremely versatile graphic artist was best known for his lithographs and etchings of landscapes and New York city views. He died of a heart attack in Paris in 1965.

His lithography Regatta was created in 1928; the image was 29.8 x 44 cm and the sheet 40.6 x 58.1 cm. The motif was said to be either the coast of Maine or the area of La Malbaie (formerly Murray Bay) in Québec, which Fiene visited in 1927.