T. Lux Feininger

The "Alexander Hamilton" ahead

Die "Alexander Hamilton" vorn und die "Peter Stuyvesant"

Repro: Negative, art-archives.net

1940, in New York
Negative, film: 45 x 70 mm
Prints known:
1. The Maritime Museum at Battleship Cove, Fall River, MA, Inv. Nr. BCMM 114, gelatin silver print, 203 x 254 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: "Alexander Hamilton" ahead
2. The Maritime Museum at Battleship Cove, Fall River, MA, Inv. Nr. BCMM 125, gelatin silver print, 202 x 254 mm
TLF: "I saw an ad in the paper for the Columbus Day trip up the river, of the “Alexander Hamilton”, last of the season. I made hot haste for the 42nd St. docks whence the Day-Liners sailed, and was in time to see her disappear around the end of the wharf, flags flying, brass band playing and the decks swarming with multi-colored holiday-makers. It was a bright, breezy October day and the wavelets of the river splashed musically at my feet." [205]
Themes: Harbor & Sailors, Ships-Steamer