Somewhere in the world, Frederick Waugh sat down in the early morning and watched this morning arrive. Sketched and captured in his mind's eye, he would have then painted the composition in his studio in Provenance Town, Massachusetts, blending the colors on his palette and straight on the canvas board. His is the art of a spiritually focused human, essentially looking for his own presentations of the majesty of the world. Nothing more primal than the rising dawn upon the crash of the surf.

Waugh was extremely prolific, and focused his primary artistic effort in painting ‘true seascapes". Stylistically recognizable, he also used his very identifiable block signature on his works. What he chose not to do, as is the case here, is identify the specific geographic inspiration for each coastal work. They take on a universal sort of quality, and it is more than one who will approach a painting such as this and definitively identify the scene, to be just as positively contradicted by the next viewer.

This particular painting has such superior qualities of movement in the ocean and the rolling breakers carry the sensation of the wet cold sea. It has the necessary elements to count this painting among his best.