Inchcliffe Castle

Name/Title

Inchcliffe Castle

Entry/Object ID

1940.002.001

Description

Oil painting by Anton Otto Fischer, c. 1940. A small motor boat with two men in the foreground watching the freighter "Inchcliffe Castle" steam by with naval ships in the background and a squadron of sea planes and other aircraft overhead. Light color wooden frame = 35" X 31" Approx. Published to accompany a short story by Guy Gilpatric entitiled "The Smugglers of San Diego," April 13, 1940, Saturday Evening Post, page. 13. The caption to the reproduced painting reads: "The Inchcliffe Castle continued down the bay, sliding past city and suburbs until it seemed that the pilot intended taking her into the mountains." See text in Curtis Publishing file.

Collection

Fine Art Collection

Made/Created

Artist

Fischer, Anton Otto

Date made

1940

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Painting

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects