About the Artwork
They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships
1956
Reynold H. Weidenaar
1915-1985
American
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on wove paper
Plate: 13 × 16 7/8 inches (33 × 42.9 cm) Sheet: 15 1/8 × 19 1/4 inches (38.4 × 48.9 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Hal H. Smith Memorial Purchase Prize, 47th Annual Exhibition for Michigan Artists, 1956
56.180
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower right: Reynold Weidenaar A.N.A. Signed, in plate, lower right: PERPETRATED BY | REYNOLD | "OLD BEAGLE-EYE," | WEIDENAAR
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: They that go down to the Sea in Ships Inscribed, in plate, lower center: AHOY YOU STOUT SAILORS, MERRY MARINERS AND BRAVE BOATERS, FORSOOTH CAST OFF BOLDY UPON THE STORM-SWEPT, FOR-BOUND SEAS, NAMELY OUR OWN LITTLE REEDS LAKE.
Provenance
1956-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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47th Annual Exhibition for Michigan Artists. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1956, no. 196.
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Reynold H. Weidenaar, They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships, 1956, etching printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Hal H. Smith Memorial Purchase Prize, 47th Annual Exhibition for Michigan Artists, 1956, 56.180.
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