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| There She Blows |
| FES Title: | There she blows | |
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| Date: | 09/12/1917 | |
| Size: | 27″H x 18″W | |
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| Type: | illustration | |
| Published: | Wallace, Dillon. The Arctic Stowaways. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1917: facing 90. caption: “Th-ere she blows! T-h-e-r-e she blows!” |
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| Inscription: | lr: F.E. Schoonover | |
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| Comments: | index; edit | |
| Commentary: | Hackettstown, NJ artist William Helslip, Delaware farmer Byron Briggs and Stanley Nadler visited the artist in his studio in the late 1960’s. Stan, a sailor, liked this painting, but there was a hole in it. Helslip told him he could repair the hole, which he did, after Stan bought the painting. (interview 2007)
This painting was conserved by Michael J. NeVille, Wilmington, Delaware in 2006. |
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| Provenance: | Sold by artist to Stan Nadler, Oceanport, New Jersey (circa 1968); Collection of Dr. Edward Burka, Worton, Maryland (2007); Thomas Burka, New York; private collection (May 2023) | |
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