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Edmund Lewandowski (1914–1988)

Pride of Algoma II

APG 20777D.002

1949

EDMUND D. LEWANDOWSKI (1914–1998), "Pride of Algoma II," 1949. Watercolor on paper, 17 x 23 in. Showing wood frame with painted flat-and-bevel liner.
EDMUND D. LEWANDOWSKI (1914–1998), "Pride of Algoma II," 1949. Watercolor on paper, 17 x 23 in.

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EDMUND D. LEWANDOWSKI (1914–1998)
Pride of Algoma II, 1949
Watercolor on paper, 17 x 23 in.
Signed and dated (at lower right): E. D. LEWANDOWSKI 1949

EXHIBITED: H. V. Allison Galleries, New York; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina, 1990, Edmund Lewandowski: Fifty Years of Painting, no. 3 n.p. illus. in color // Winthrop University Galleries, Rock Hill, South Carolina; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia, 2010–11, Edmund Lewandowski: Precisionism and Beyond, pp. 12 no. 29, 86, 87 illus. in color

EX COLL.: the artist; to [H.V. Allison Galleries, New York, by 1990]; private collection, Concord, Massachusetts by 2010 until the present


Pride of Algoma II shows a “gill net tug,” a traditional Great Lakes fishing boat, set against a backdrop of a shoreline fish processing plant. Algoma, Wisconsin, sited where the Ahnapee River joins Lake Michigan, is about 30 miles northeast of Green Bay and 125 miles north of Milwaukee. At the turn of the 20th century, it was home to the largest Great Lakes fishing fleet, and it remains, today, a center for sport fishing. 

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