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.