Ships In Dry Dock and Harbour In Art And Illustration

Below is a collection of ships… but these ones aren’t at sea. They’re on the dock getting built, or fixed. They’re anchored in a harbour, or about to be. This emphasises their size.

1930 4 April

The Lifeboat, Eric Ravilious, 1938. Painted at Alderburgh in Suffolk, England

1940c Destroyer in Dry Dock oil on canvas 63.5 x 76 cm Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, UK John Nash

‘Cleaning the Boat.’ (c1950) Gerard Dillon

Oscar Björk (Swedish, 1860-1929), ‘Watering’ (c. 1884)

Vincent van Gogh Fishing boats on Saintes beach, 1888

Arthur John Elsley (1860–1952)

Gloucester Harbor, Hayley Lever (American, 1876-1958)

Amédée-Julien Marcel-Clément (French, 1873 – 1937) Fishing Boats, Sunset

Edward Seago (1910-1974) Norwich, England, Snow on the Beach, Great Yarmouth

Walter Farndon (USA, 1876-1964) Moonlight on Shore

1933 June, cover by Paolo Garretto

Philip Richard Morris – The Nancy Lee of Great Yarmouth ship

Lawrence Beall Smith, c 1935, for a Readers’ Digest cover

Philip Mendoza (British, 1898-1973) Katie the country mouse and her barrel riverside home, 1964

Claude Monet. Boats on the Beach at Etretat, 1883

From ‘The Little Red Engine gets a name’ by Diana Rosswith illustrations by Lewitt-Him. First published by Faber in 1942, this reprint, 1969

Suzanne Müller, 1957

Albert Sebill. c.1930

1884 North German Lloyd New York and Bremen

Willem van Hasselt (Dutch 1882-1963) La Garonne à Bordeaux, oil on canvas

John Brett – Entrance to Yarmouth Harbour

Markey Robinson (1918-1999, Ireland) FOUR SHAWLIES & BOATS

Rudolf Kremlicka (1886 – 1932) Port, 1930

George Shepherd for a Timkens roller bearings advertisement 1946. This is actually a plane but is clearly influenced by ships. (I’m no physicist but this doesn’t look like it’ll ever be airborne!)