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Artist:
Antonio Jacobsen, born Copenhagen, Denmark 1850-died West Hoboken, NJ 1921  Search this
Medium:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
22 1/8 x 36 1/8 in. (56.2 x 91.6 cm.)
Type:
Painting
Date:
ca. 1895
Luce Center Label:
Antonio Jacobsen spent his free time at New York’s harbor and along the Hudson River, painting pictures of vessels as small as tugboats and as large as transatlantic liners. A close look at this painting of the tugboat May McWilliams shows the captain in the top cabin at the front of the vessel and a single passenger at the rear. Harbor captains used tugboats as early as the 1700s to escort larger ships through narrow or complicated passages.
Topic:
Waterscape\sea  Search this
Architecture\boat\May McWilliams  Search this
Travel\water\tugboat  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
Object number:
1966.83
Restrictions & Rights:
CC0
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
Department:
Painting and Sculpture
On View:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 9B
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor
Data Source:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk71be83add-cfd8-4319-9d18-66160b4bd714
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:saam_1966.83