Antonio Jacobsen spent his free time at New York’s harbor and along the Hudson River, painting pictures of vessels as small as tugboats and as large as transatlantic liners. A close look at this painting of the tugboat May McWilliams shows the captain in the top cabin at the front of the vessel and a single passenger at the rear. Harbor captains used tugboats as early as the 1700s to escort larger ships through narrow or complicated passages.
- Title
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The Ocean-Going Tug “May McWilliams”
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1895
- Location
- Dimensions
- 22 1⁄8 x 36 1⁄8 in. (56.2 x 91.6 cm.)
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Museum purchase
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on canvas
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Architecture – boat – May McWilliams
- Waterscape – sea
- Travel – water – tugboat
- Object Number
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1966.83
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
