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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(Maritime Painting) |
| Author: |
Edgar, William |
| Title: |
Schooner George H. Billings |
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| Item # : |
214556 |
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| Sale Number |
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433 |
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198 |
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| Fine Americana: The Library of Andrew Griffin; with the Collection of Calvin P. Otto, Part II |
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07/22/2010 |
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1pm PST |
| Low Estimate |
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$ 7,000 |
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$ 10,000 |
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| Description: |
| Oil painting on canvas, signed in lower right W. Edgar. 47x69 cm. (18½x27"), framed. |
| The 1,260-ton, five-masted schooner George H. Billings under sail. The ship was built in 1903 at the Hall Brothers shipyard at Port Blakeley for the firms own account, and named for the manager of the Hall Brothers fleet. This was the last sailing vessel built by this historic yard, the 108th of the Hall sailors. It was burned for scrap at San Pedro in February, 1941. The ship is pictured in Pacific Lumber Ships by Gordon Newell and Joe Williamson (p.41), and in West Coast Windjammers by Jim Gibbs (p.25). The noted maritime artist William Edgar was born in Australia, and was active by 1870 in Honolulu, Sydney, Newcastle, and New South Wales. He was in San Francisco in 1908, 1912 and 1918; while there he painted seascapes and a view of the Farallon Islands. The accuracy of his ship portraits evince his thorough knowledge of the subjects. See Edan Hughes, Artists in California II, p.165. |
| Condition: |
| Mild, even soiling, very good or better. |
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