T. Lux Feininger

American Schooner "Wyoming", Visitor in the Baltic

Repro: A22

1971, in Cambridge, 22 Arlington St.
Oil on board
approx. 11 3⁄4 x 28 inches
Inscr. not known

TLF: "American Visitor in the Baltic" (six-m. schr. and 3 coasters), 1971 [101]; "American schooner 'Wyoming' in the Baltic", 1971 or '72 Cambridge [102, Nr. 163]

Whereabouts not known
Provenance: 1973 sold through the agency of Mrs. Underwood in the charity auction of the Swaine School, New Bedford, MA
TLF: "American Visitor in the Baltic: This (imaginary) scene confronts the huge six-masted schooner “Wyoming” with types of Baltic coastwise vessels with which I was most familiar in my youth. In the foreground is a ‘Tjalk’, a type as common in Germany as it is in Holland, in the hazy distance, a vessel we should call a schooner, but which, because of pecularities of hull design, is known in Germany as a galiot. The “Wyoming”, whose silhouette was trace from her sail plan, was built in 1908 and was the longest wooden vessel ever constructed (about 330 feet). Needless ot say she never traded in the Baltic, a sea of small cargoes: but in the juxtaposition of Europe and America, I have attempted to portray something of the polarity I feel in my own intimate make-up, while the fact of cargoes being either taken out or brought in, speak of reconciliation." [Text written for a publication in The Christian Science Monitor 1972, Cambridge, MA, September 12, 1972]
Themes: Ships-Sails