Heavy Canvas

Artist Arthur John Trevor Briscoe (English, 1873 - 1943)

Date1931

MediumEtching

DimensionsPlate: 13 1/2 × 8 3/8 inches (34.29 × 21.26 cm)

Credit LineGift of Robert B. Fizzell

Object number55-110/8

Edition/State/Proof26/75

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This bracing etching recalls the great days of sailing ships, which were never wholly displaced by steam until the 1900s. Here the crew takes in one of the sails to avoid too great an expanse of canvas in a high wind. A sense of swaying vertigo is suggested by showing the masts and sails isolated from the deck of the ship.

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Robert B. Fizzell (1889-1978), Kansas City, MO, by December 7, 1955;

Given by Robert B. Fizzell to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1955.

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