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Ship in Storm

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David Claypoole Johnston

David Claypoole Johnston was a printmaker, watercolorist, and illustrator, remembered mainly as a popular satiric commentator on American life. Later in his career, however, Johnston increasingly painted and exhibited landscapes like this small watercolor of a sailing ship tossed on stormy ocean waves.
Artist
David Claypoole Johnston
(American, 1798 – 1865)
Title
Ship in Storm
Date
ca. 1850
Medium
Watercolor on wove paper
Dimensions
6 1/4 x 8 13/16 in. support
Credit
Gift of D. Frederick Baker from the Baker/Pisano Collection
Accession No.
2022.34.6
Classification
Drawings & Watercolors
Geography
United States

Related

<span>March 1975, sold by Hirschl &amp; Adler (New York, NY) to Reverend Albert P. Neilson; 25 February 2022, sold by Thomaston Place Auction Galleries (Thomaston, ME) to D. Frederick Baker (New York, NY); August 2022, gifted to the Chazen Museum of Art</span>

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