On the Delaware (Becalmed), (painting).

On the Delaware (Becalmed), (painting).

Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916, painter.

On the Delaware (Becalmed), (painting).

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10 1/8 x 17 1/18 in. (25.7 x 43.5 cm).

(Lower right, probably by Eakins' friend and pupil Charles Bregler in preparing the painting for sale or exhibition:) E (On back, lower right:) T. E. 1874 signed

A hazy summer day with large and small sailboats awaiting the start of a boat race on the calm waters of the Delaware River. In the lower left corner, two figures in a small boat row out into the river to watch the race. In the center there is a two masted sailboat with one sail up and a three masted sailboat with its sails down. A steamboat is visible in the distance.

Waterscape -- River -- Delaware River

Waterscape -- Boat

Waterscape -- Season -- Summer

Architecture -- Boat -- Sailboat

Recreation -- Sport & Play -- Boating

Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1967.36

Formerly in the collection of Eakins, Thomas, Mrs., until 1939.

E. C. Babcock Gallery, New York, New York 1939.

Gift of Schnakenberg, Henry, New York, New York 1939-1967.

The painting was originally titled "Becalmed," but was renamed "On the Delaware" sometime before 1933.

Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 332-333.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, plate 55.

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