Yawl On San Francisco Bay

Catalog no. 0001494

Size16" x 24 Inches" -Framed 20" x 28 Inches"
SignedSigned and inscribed LR: Joseph Lee, Painter

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Oil on canvas.

About this work

Oil on canvas.

About the artist

Of the sixty known paintings by Joseph Lee, all are San Francisco subjects and more than three-quarters of them are ship portraits of remarkable quality. Lee’s portraits are of such accuracy, with every shroud, ratline and block exactly in place, that it is quite possible he worked directly from rigging plans. Old timers along the San Francisco waterfront used to say "you could rig a ship from one of Lee’s pictures". Although considered the foremost portraitist of Pacific Coast ships during the 1860s and ‘70s, details regarding the life of this important San Francisco marine artist remain a…

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