G. H. McNeal This Is Fish Boat Back in Year 1929 Run by Steam, (sculpture).

G. H. McNeal This Is Fish Boat Back in Year 1929 Run by Steam, (sculpture).

Payne, Leslie J., ca. 1907-1981, sculptor.

G. H. McNeal This Is Fish Boat Back in Year 1929 Run by Steam, (sculpture).

Carved and painted wood, corrugated and painted metal, fishnet, plastic reflectors, and paper.

32 5/8 x 52 1/8 x 12 1/2 in.

Grey and red painted fishing boat travelling in an ocean made of blue corrugated metal. The boat is equipped with fishing nets. A thimble caps one of the boat's spars. A lighthouse is depicted at the stern of the boat.

Architecture -- Boat -- G. H. McNeal

Architecture -- Boat -- Riverboat

Architecture -- Lighthouse -- Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th & G Streets, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20560 Accession Number: 1988.74.15

Gift of Hemphill, Herbert Waide Jr., c. 1974-1988.

Acquired from Payne, Leslie J., c. 1974.

National Museum of American Art, 1990.

Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006.

Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe, "Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art," Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990, no.189.

Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe, "Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art," Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990, pg. 218.

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