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.
MediumWatercolor and graphite on gesso on canvas
Dimensions29 1/4 × 23 5/8 in. (74.3 × 60 cm)
frame: 33 5/8 × 27 5/8 in. (85.4 × 70.2 cm)
Credit LineLouisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund, 1934
Object number1934-20
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis unpublished watercolor is a variant of one of William Aylward's nautical illustrations for the article Clipper Ships and Her Seamen, published in Scriber's Magazine in 1917. Aylward's article and illustrations centered on the history of commercial sailing ships, 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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