Name/Title
The Lobster Float [Eastport, Maine] | Walter Dubois RichardsDescription
Artist: Walter Dubois Richards
Medium: Linocut
Classification: Prints
Old Accession Number: 514
From label on back of print:
"Walter Dubois Richards was born in 1907, and raised in Northern Ohio. He is a graduate of the Cleveland School of Art and was one of the first students to receive a fifth year scholarship. He first started his commercial career in Chicago. In 1931 he returned to Cleveland to work for the Tranquillity Studio as an illustrator. Richards has exhibited in a number of national and international exhibitions and has been awarded prizes at the Cleveland Museum of Art's "May Show."
The inspiration for the print "Lobster Float" was brought about by a trip to Eastport, Maine. In the Bay of Fundy, due to the unusual tides of twenty eight feet, it is necessary that the floats must rise and fall with the tide. The floats are composed of rafts surrounded by floating boxes which contain live lobsters. It is in this manner that the lobster fisherman is able to have fresh lobster for his customers.
This print is a relief cut done on linoleum and with a companion print won honorable mention at the "May Show" at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1933. It is printed on French Rivers paper and two hundred and fifty copies were made available to members of the Print A Month Club."