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Folk Art Early 20th Century Gouache - S.S Electra

20th Century

A fine nautical painting in gouache and watercolour depicting the HMS Volage, its billowing sails resplendent in the sunlight. The white cliffs of Dover can be seen on the horizon be...

A view of a clipper at sea under full sail. Presented in a pale blue mount and a distressed gilt-effect wooden frame with an ornate outer edge. Signed and dated to the lower-left edg...

A wonderful maritime painting depicting the steam vessel RMS Dalesdy navigating choppy waters, with smoke billowing from its funnel as it travels across the horizon. The work is sign...

An abstract gouache by the artist Christian Julia (1921-1991). Signed to the lower right. Smartly presented in a slim wooden frame. On paper. Image size: 40 x 27cm.

Gouache painting showing snowing the English built Cargo Steamer S.S. Thornaby. The ship was built by Ropner Shipbuilding at Stockton on tees in 1889. She hit a mine and sank in 1916...

Art Sz: 14 1/2"H x 19 1/2"W Frame Sz: 17 1/2"H x 22 1/2"W watercolor w/ gouache on board w/ original gold frame Signed LR

Art Sz: 11 3/8"H x 8 3/4"W Frame Sz: 14 3/4"H x 11 3/4"W SS Savannah was an American hybrid sailing ship/sidewheel steamer built in 1818. She was the first steamship to cross the A...

An interesting piece of Edwardian British maritime folk art by the celebrated pier-head painter Alexander Harwood (1873–1943). Painted in 1911, this watercolour and gouache portrait depicts the steam trawler S.S. Greyhound (H84) navigating a dramatic, churned North Sea swell. The vessel was originally built in 1889 by the celebrated Hull shipbuilders Cook, Welton & Gemmell for the Humber Steam Trawling Company. Born in Scarborough and a celebrated British “Pierhead Painter”, Harwood spent his life working directly alongside the fishing fleets as a fish porter. This firsthand, gritty familiarity with the vessels manifests in the draftsman-like precision of the Greyhound’s rigging, hull registration, and the thick charcoal smoke billowing from her funnel. Today, Harwood’s culturally significant documentations of Great Britain’s industrial fishing golden age are highly sought after, with several of his ship portraits preserved in the permanent collection of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum. While this 1911 painting...