Unloading Knockdown Freight Cars, La Pallice
date: label: date made
content: 1919
name: label: artist
content: Aylward, William James
notes: label: Description
content: Watercolor and charcoal sketch on paper. The work depicts the harbor at La Pallice, France. Pictured at left is a large orange crane unloading a knockdown freight car. Several dock workers surround the freight car to assist in the unloading. There is a man in a blue shirt and tan hat sitting in the foreground of the sketch and a man in white shirt and tan vest walking at the left foreground. In the background of the sketch is another crane and a large white ship with a yellow smoke stack. Small buildings line the harbor along the right of the painting. The sky is a vibrant blue with gray and white smoke rising from smoke stacks. Signed at bottom right by the artist, "W.J. Aylward, A.E.F. '19"
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
label: depicted
content: France: Nouvelle-Aquitaine, La Rochelle
topic: label: related event
content: World War I
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Naval
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.25677
label: catalog number
content: 25677
label: accession number
content: 64592
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sketch
label: Other Terms
content: Sketch; Watercolor; Charcoal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: watercolor; charcoal (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 in x 27 in; 53.34 cm x 68.58 cm