The Builders
Object Detail
Artist
Date
Circa 1920s
Period
20th century
Media
Oil on canvas
Measurements
47 x 55 inches (unframed)
54 1/2 x 61 1/2 x 2 3/8 inches (framed)
54 1/2 x 61 1/2 x 2 3/8 inches (framed)
Classification
Subject Category
Group Portrait
Credit Line
Gift of Aline Davis Hulbert, the artist's niece, 1993.20
Accession No
93.20
Context
Unique to Maine’s early boatbuilding tradition was its highly subjective folk art approach to construction. Early shipwrights learned their craft by observation and on-the-job training from the school of life. By the mid-late nineteenth-century, blueprints had replaced the more traditional and informal process of shipbuilding using a wooden half-model with any changes or alterations addressed by eye.
Featured in “Maine and American Art: Farnsworth Art Museum” with thanks to the Henry Luce Foundation and Wyeth Foundation for American Art.
Featured in “Maine and American Art: Farnsworth Art Museum” with thanks to the Henry Luce Foundation and Wyeth Foundation for American Art.