Harlequin Freighters
date: label: date made
content: July 1918
name: label: artist
content: Smith, J. Andre
notes: label: Description
content: Charcoal and watercolor sketch matted on brown matte with blue inner border. Two freight ships at right are shown in the harbor at St. Nazaire, France. The ships are painted with brightly-colored dazzle camouflage in blue, white, green, and pink. To the left are docks and cranes. A rowboat with two people in it passes in front of the ships. Smoke is visible from the smoke stacks in the background. Signed at bottom left by the artist, "J. Andre Smith / St. Nazaire, July '18."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: France: Pays de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire
topic: label: related event
content: World War I
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
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content: Military
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content: Official Art from the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I
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content: Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.25994
label: accession number
content: 64592
label: catalog number
content: 25994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sketch
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: charcoal; watercolor (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 15 1/2 in; 29.21 cm x 39.37 cm