Variant of “The Clipper’s Home Was In South Street”

Variant of “The Clipper’s Home Was In South Street”
Variant of “The Clipper’s Home Was In South Street”

Variant of “The Clipper’s Home Was In South Street”

Datec. 1917
Artist (American marine painter, illustrator, and teacher, 1875–1956)
Illustration CitationNot reproduced. Variant of frontispiece for "The Clipper Ship and Her Seamen," by W. J. Aylward, in Scribner's Magazine, April 1917
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions30 1/8 × 24 1/8 in. (76.5 × 61.3 cm)
frame: 37 1/4 × 31 1/4 in. (94.6 × 79.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Beverly P. Hoffman in memory of her husband, Howard E. Hoffman, 2019
Object number2019-6
On View
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ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextThis unpublished painting is a variant of one of William Aylward's nautical illustrations for the article "The Clipper Ship and Her Seamen," published in Scriber's Magazine in 1917. Aylward's article and illustrations centered on the history of fast-sailing cargo ships, or clippers, especially those which--as seen here--docked at New York's South Street Seaport.

Aylward was well known as a marine illustrator, an interest and skill fostered in his native city of Milwaukee, where his father built Great Lakes ships.

In 1902, Aylward and his fellow aspiring illustrator Arthur Becher, members of the same Milwaukee sketch club, brought samples of their art to Howard Pyle, who took them on as advanced students while they became established illustrators.
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