Great Lakes Art Database

City of South Haven

Description
Creator
Dowling, Edward J., S.J., Artist
Item Type
Watercolor paintings
Description
One watercolor painting of the passenger steamship, CITY of SOUTH HAVEN. Built at Craig Shipbuilding Co. in Toledo for Dunkley-Williams Co. of Chicago, this vessel ran a regular run between that city and her namesake resort town in Michigan from 1903 to 1918. After service on salt water during and after WWI, she returned to Lake Michigan running for Crosby Transportation between Milwaukee, Muskegon and Grand Haven briefly. Laid up in 1926, she was destroyed in a shipyard fire in 1935.
The painting shows a starboard side view of the ship which is underway in fair weather. The ship has a black hull, white decks, and two smokestacks with black/red/white horizontal stripes. Black smoke is pouring out of both smokestacks and white steam is rising from the whistle. A shoreline is faintly visible in the left background. A lighthouse can be seen at the end of a harbor breakwater in the right background. The artist has signed his name, "Edward J. Dowling, 1964," at the lower left corner. The painting is held in a decorative, gold-colored wood frame with a white cloth matte border and protective glass.
Date of Original
1964
Date Of Event
ca. 1915
Dimensions
Width: 33 in
Height: 22.5 in
Subject(s)
City of South Haven (Propeller)
Local identifier
2006.004.131
Collection
Dossin Great Lakes Museum
Language of Item
English
Geographic Coverage
  • Lake Michigan
    Michigan, United States
    Latitude: 43.0573225835785 Longitude: -86.2579333947754
Donor
Fr. Edward J. Dowling, S.J.
Copyright Statement
Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
Contact
Detroit Historical Society
Email:jeremyd@detroithistorical.org
Website:
http://detroithistorical.org

Street/mail address:

Jeremy Dimick

Director of Collections & Curatorial

Detroit Historical Society

5401 Woodward Avenue

Detroit, MI USA 48202

P. 313.297.8391

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City of South Haven


One watercolor painting of the passenger steamship, CITY of SOUTH HAVEN. Built at Craig Shipbuilding Co. in Toledo for Dunkley-Williams Co. of Chicago, this vessel ran a regular run between that city and her namesake resort town in Michigan from 1903 to 1918. After service on salt water during and after WWI, she returned to Lake Michigan running for Crosby Transportation between Milwaukee, Muskegon and Grand Haven briefly. Laid up in 1926, she was destroyed in a shipyard fire in 1935.
The painting shows a starboard side view of the ship which is underway in fair weather. The ship has a black hull, white decks, and two smokestacks with black/red/white horizontal stripes. Black smoke is pouring out of both smokestacks and white steam is rising from the whistle. A shoreline is faintly visible in the left background. A lighthouse can be seen at the end of a harbor breakwater in the right background. The artist has signed his name, "Edward J. Dowling, 1964," at the lower left corner. The painting is held in a decorative, gold-colored wood frame with a white cloth matte border and protective glass.