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Fishing Boat and Nets

Painting
View from the Kalamazoo River of Jim Sewers commercial fishing docks at the north end of Water Street. A white gill-net tug is moored by a shanty with three net-drying reels Next to the left is the blue-roofed Sewers barn and another weathered wood shanty with white-flagged net buoys. The painting has a silver frame and beige mat. Painting signed in lower right corner.
Fishing Boat and Nets picture number 1
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2020.35.05

Easel

Oil

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2020.35

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Donation, unconditional

Crawford, Louise Evelyn 1908-1971

1940

43 in

22 in

AC bay 24 long works

Art Conservation Room

Water St. Fishing Docks

Louise Crawford 1908 – 1971 Sewers Docks Saugatuck, Michigan c.1940 | oil on canvas Notes: Louise was the daughter of Captain Andrew Crawford, owner of the Crawford Transportation Co. which ran passenger boats between Chicago and Saugatuck, 1909 to 1913. She worked as a commercial artist for the Douglas Aircraft Co. and was a charter member of the Saugatuck Art Association. In Saugatuck she painted large portraits and garden scenes.* *from: “Painting the Town” by Kit Lane Collection: Saugatuck Douglas Historical Society Gift of: Henry and Claradine Gleason Trust

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