New Castle Ferry
Date1949
Artist
Andrew Wyeth
(American painter, 1917–2009)
MediumWatercolor on paper
Dimensions23 × 31 in. (58.4 × 78.7 cm)
frame: 34 1/4 × 42 3/4 in. (87 × 108.6 cm)
frame: 34 1/4 × 42 3/4 in. (87 × 108.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 2017
Object number2017-5
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextA familiar sight when Wyeth painted this, the New Castle–Pennsville Ferry operated between 1925 and 1951, when it was made obsolete by the opening of the Delaware Memorial Bridge.
