Hog Island, 1: Ribs of a Beginning Ship

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Hog Island, 1: Ribs of a Beginning Ship
© Artist or Artist's Estate. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Hog Island, 1: Ribs of a Beginning Ship

Date1918
Artist (American painter and illustrator, 1881–1953)
Printer/Printmaker (American painter, printmaker, 1864–1936)
Illustration Citation"The Greatest Shipyard in the World: Building Our New Merchant Marine at Hog Island: A Series of Sketches by Thornton Oakley," advertisement for United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, in Harper's Magazine, October 1918
MediumLithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 21 3/16 × 14 1/8 in. (53.8 × 35.9 cm)
sheet: 22 1/4 × 15 1/8 in. (56.5 × 38.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. D. Meredith Reese, 1976
Object number1976-2
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThornton Oakley depicted the Hog Island Shipyard, located on Hog Island in the Delaware River, in a series of 15 lithographs commissioned by the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, a government body established in 1917 to acquire and operate merchant ships for wartime defense and commerce. The images, showcasing the "greatest shipyard in the world," were designed to engender pride in America's fleet.
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