Lobster Traps

Name/Title

Lobster Traps

Entry/Object ID

64.30

Artwork Details

Medium

Watercolor on paper

Context

Credit Line: Purchased by the Canton Museum of Art

Made/Created

Artist

Harry Armstrong

Date made

1964

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Frame Size

Height

23-1/2 in

Width

32-3/4 in

Dimension Description

Image Size

Height

17 in

Width

27 in

Interpretative Labels

Label

Armstrong was fond of rural Ohio, often capturing subjects and landscapes in his traditional manner, spending part of one summer in 1964 painting the Gloucester, Massachusetts area. "Lobster Traps" is a scene from Pigeon Cove, an area in Gloucester that is now home to a factory.