Canoe Builders

NBI ID: 86.I
Title: Canoe Builders
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 26 3/4 x 37
Signature: unsigned
Current Owner: National Museum of American Art
URL of Owner: http://americanart.si.edu/index3.cfm
CityState: Washington, DC
Date: 
Provenance: Williams T. Evans, 1902; gift to National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C., 1909.
Published: 
Exhibited: Union League Club, N.Y., 1903; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1907-09; Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C., 1910; Union League Club, N.Y., 1911.
Subject Description: This painting is in such an advanced stage of deterioration that a description of the composition is all but impossible. There appears to be a structure of some kind at the right center with an arched roof and central doorway. To the left of this the shape and structure of a canoe seen from the end can be discerned. A moon appears above the horizon at left center.
Condition: Badly degraded by alterations in the paint structure. Report of Evans Collection Curator, 1917, indicated advanced deterioration at that time.
Infra-red: The drawn outline of the canoe can be seen.
UltraViolet: Nothing of significance.
Color: 
X-ray: Nothing of significance.
Additional Examination Notes: Painting was studied at the Brookhaven Laboratory by neutron autoradiography on April 28, 1975.