Great Lakes Art Database

"Tug Champion with Eight Vessels in Tow"

Description
Creator
Whipple, Seth Arca, Artist
Item Type
Lithographs
Description
Print of Seth Arca Whipple's best-known work, the "Tug Champion with Eight Vessels in Tow" in the Detroit River. Similar in detail to a watercolor the artist did of the same subject, the rendering is more highly finished in the chromolithograph.
With very little formal art training, Whipple painted his way to a lasting place in America's marine art history. His first dated work is perhaps the most famous of all, Champion and Tow, 1878. So convincingly did it represent the marine traffic of it's time that Calvert Lithographing and Engraving Company reproduced it by of chromolithography. It shortly became the prototype of pictures hung in every steamship waiting room and ticket office on the Lakes, and Seth became one of the best known marine artists whose work were mass- produced during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
Date of Original
1878
Date Of Event
ca. 1878
Image Dimensions
Image Width: 36
Image Height: 24
Subject(s)
Schooners
Champion (Tug)
Windmill Point lighthouse
Local identifier
1995.012.079
Collection
Dossin Great Lakes Museum
Geographic Coverage
  • Detroit
    Michigan, United States
    Latitude: 42.3512237053692 Longitude: -82.9403499145508
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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"Tug Champion with Eight Vessels in Tow"


Print of Seth Arca Whipple's best-known work, the "Tug Champion with Eight Vessels in Tow" in the Detroit River. Similar in detail to a watercolor the artist did of the same subject, the rendering is more highly finished in the chromolithograph.
With very little formal art training, Whipple painted his way to a lasting place in America's marine art history. His first dated work is perhaps the most famous of all, Champion and Tow, 1878. So convincingly did it represent the marine traffic of it's time that Calvert Lithographing and Engraving Company reproduced it by of chromolithography. It shortly became the prototype of pictures hung in every steamship waiting room and ticket office on the Lakes, and Seth became one of the best known marine artists whose work were mass- produced during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.