Title: |
Good Bye - Fare Ye Well |
Artist: |
Wales, George Canning (Boston, 1868 - 1940) |
Date: |
1926 |
Medium: |
Original Etching |
Note: |
“Mr. Wales’ etchings are of great variety both in the subject matter of which he is so fond, and in the quality of episodes connected with that matter, and are little records of history; of a history of sailing ships which is falling farther and farther into the past, and of which the record is too often only topographical on the one hand, or ignorantly impressionistic on the other. Here is to be found the work of the accurate observer associated with the touch of the artist, the satisfaction of the demand for correct delineation of some of the most exquisite creations of man with the feeling for the moods of the elements which they conquered.” *
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George Canning Wales: A leading American marine etcher and
painter of the early twentieth century, George Wales actually spent the
first part of his life as an architect. To this end he studied at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology from 1885 to 1888. He first worked for the architectural
company of Peabody & Stearns and then founded his own Boston architectural
firm, which he managed from 1893 to 1924. George C. Wales first studied
etching in 1917 under William M. Paxton. His first published etchings date
from that year. In 1921 Goodspeed's Bookshop in Boston launched a major
exhibition of Wales's etchings and lithographs. In this marine scene, Wales depicts
two ships at sea, the one in the distance is a steam driven, sail assisted, ship,
the other is a sailing vessel which appears to have three masts. As you can see,
Good Bye - Fare Ye Well is a striking depiction of his original graphic art. |
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George Canning Wales was a full member of the Brooklyn Society of Etchers,
the Guild of Boston Artists and the American Federation of Arts. Today
examples of his fine nautical etchings are included in the collections
of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, the New York Public Library,
The British Museum, London, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the
Stavanger Museum, Norway, and the United States Naval Academy. |
Reference: |
* C. Howard Walker, “Etchings of Ships by George
C. Wales”, The Print Connoisseur, W. P. Truesdell, ed., Champlain,
New York, Vol. III, No. 1, January, 1923, pp. 1 - 22. |
Size: |
7 7/8 X 11 3/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Matted with 100% Archival Materials |
Condition: |
Printed on hand-made, laid paper and with full margins as published in Boston in 1923. Titled, dated and signed by the artist in the plate to the lower left and signed in pencil along the lower margin. Containing one very faint rust mark in the sky to the upper left, else a finely printed impression and in very good condition throughout. Good Bye-Fare Ye Well represents a prime, original example of the marine art of George Canning Wales. |
Price: |
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