Name/Title
Painting: Holland America Line Fifth Street Pier, Hoboken, N.J.Entry/Object ID
2014.046.0001Description
Painting: Holland America Line Fifth Street Pier, Hoboken, N.J.
Acrylic on canvas, sight size 13-5/8" high x 31" wide; framed in red stained wormwood with orange painted wood liner, 21" high x 39" wide. Reverse has dust cover and framer's printed label (Span Craft Studios, 37 Front St., Redbank, N.J.)
Signed by artist in lower right corner: S D L(?)
Date: undated, circa late 1940s-early 1950s.
Prior owner: Adriaan P.L. Roggeveen (1890-1957), Director of Operations, Holland America Line, Hoboken.
Adriaan P.L Roggeveen Collection. Gift of Robert Roggeveen.
The painting depicts the pier area with horse-drawn wagons or carts and no modern motored land vehicles other than railroad tracks. It is apparently a tribute painting and may have been based upon a tryptich of photographs of the same viewpoint taken circa 1910-1915. See notes and reference image with this record.
While similarities exist between the photographs and the painting (such as the same railroad cars in the same position), there are major differences. The painting depicts a single stack un-named ocean liner while the photos show the two-funnel Rotterdam. A coal (or grain) elevator barge is seen in the painting near the bow of the ship. There is no elevator in the photographs.
Roggeveen, whose office was in this pier building, retired in 1953. This painting may have been a present to him upon his retirement. Per donor, it was framed by Roggeveen, his grandfather, when living near Red Bank, N.J. in the 1950s.
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Holland-America / Holland American / Holland-American / passenger ships / ocean liners /Acquisition
Accession
2014.046Source or Donor
Roggeveen, BobAcquisition Method
GiftCredit Line
Adriaan P.L Roggeveen Collection. Gift of Robert Roggeveen.Made/Created
Date made
1945 - 1955Notes
Date: 1945-1955General Notes
Note
Notes: Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994008416/PP/
Title: Holland American docks, Hoboken, N.J.
Related Names:
Detroit Publishing Co. , publisher
Date Created/Published: [between 1900 and 1915]
Medium: 3 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-det-4a10362 (digital file from original) LC-DIG-det-4a10363 (digital file from original) LC-DIG-det-4a10364 (digital file from original)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: LC-D4-15659 <P&P> [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes: Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-10364, 10363, 10362.
"G 7217 L," "G 7218 C," and "G 7219 R" on left to right negatives respectively.
Detroit Publishing Co. no. 015659.
Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Subjects: Ocean liners.
Marine terminals.
United States--New Jersey--Hoboken.
Format: Dry plate negatives.
Panoramic photographs.
Collections: Detroit Publishing Company
Part of: Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection
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http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994008416/PP/
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2014-08-18
