T. Lux Feininger

The "Normandie" and the "Queen Mary" at the Dock

Die "Normandie" und die "Queen Mary" im Dock

Repro: Negative, art-archives.net

1939, October, in New York
Negative, film: 45 x 70 mm
Prints known:
1. The Maritime Museum at Battleship Cove, Fall River, MA, Inv. Nr. BCMM 359, gelatin silver print, 203 x 253 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: October 1939.
2. Private collection, gelatin silver print, 203 x 255 mm
TLF: "I also saw a very recent arrival in port, the (then) new “Queen Elizabeth” [sic!] in her wartime battleship-gray paint; next in dock was the “Normandie”, still in her peacetime livery. A cordon of grim-faced policemen kept the sightseers at a distance. ... There had been threats of sabotage, and less than 18 months later the “Normandie” burned and sank ... a victim of “fifth columnists." [205]
Themes: NYC-River, Harbor & Sailors, Ships-Steamer