W F Halsall Signed Lithograph Old Glory Battleship Oregon in Old Frame & Glass

Description: W F Halsall Signed Lithograph Old Glory Battleship Oregon in Old Frame & Glass Cover. The frame measures 17" x 29" that fits 16" x 28"; the artwork area shown is about 11" x 22 3/4". The original painting was displayed in Provincetown for many years (see below). The edges of the frame have some wear, otherwise everything is in fine solid & sturdy clean condition - see detailed photos. USS Oregon (BB-3) was the third and final member of the Indiana class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1890s. The three ships were built as part of a modernization program aimed at strengthening the American fleet to prepare for a possible conflict with a European navy. Designed for short-range operations in defense of the United States, the three Indiana-class ships had a low freeboard and carried a main battery of four 13-inch (330 mm) guns in a pair of gun turrets. Oregon and her sister ships were the first modern battleships built for the United States, though they suffered from significant stability and seakeeping problems owing to their small size and insufficient freeboard.After entering service in 1896, Oregon briefly served with the Pacific Squadron before being transferred to the East Coast of the United States as tensions with Spain over Cuba grew in early 1898. She completed a 14,000-nautical-mile (26,000 km; 16,000 mi) journey around South America in the span of 66 days, arriving shortly after the start of the Spanish–American War. She thereafter took part in the blockade of Santiago de Cuba, which culminated in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba on 3 July, where Oregon contributed to the destruction of the Spanish squadron in Cuba. After the war, Oregon was deployed to the Asiatic Squadron, serving during the Philippine–American War and the Boxer Rebellion in Qing China. The ship returned to the United States in 1906, when she was decommissioned and placed in reserve for the next five years, during which she was modernized.Reactivated in 1911, Oregon spent the next several years cruising off the West Coast of the United States, frequently going in and out of service. During the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War in 1918, she escorted a convoy for the Siberian expedition. The ship was decommissioned in 1919 and efforts by naval enthusiasts in the early 1920s led the Navy to loan Oregon to her namesake state for use as a museum ship. After the start of World War II, the Navy decided in late 1942 to scrap the ship for the war effort, but after work began the Navy requested the ship's return for use as an ammunition hulk for the upcoming invasion of Guam in 1944. She remained off the island through the mid-1950s before being sold for scrap in 1956 and broken up in Japan. Not for William F. Halsall (1841-1919) would any chicken-coop garret suffice as a painting studio. No; Halsall, an English marine painter of the old school, needed the space to create vast canvases, the equivalent of Cinemascope in their day. And so he set up shop around 1899 in what had been a short-lived shirt factory. He was the first of several important artists to work here, followed by Ross E. Moffett (1888-1971), Charles Anton Kaeselau (1889-1972) and — perhaps most importantly because he is the most undeservedly overlooked, Niles Spencer (1893-1952) — a precisionist and modernist whose work is an appealing mix of Charles Sheeler and Stuart Davis. In addition, the old shirt factory was the home in the 1930s of the Artists’ Lithograph Printing Studio.Adapted from "Provincetown, Mass." bird's-eye view (1910), by George H. Walker. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library. Call Number G3764.P78A3 1910. W3.The Old Shirt Factory was, in other words, one of the most important art studios in Provincetown history. As a shirt factory? Not so much. It seems to have been in business quite briefly, in the 1880s and 1890s. A notice in The Advocate of 29 June 1899 said simply, “With regret we note that the shirt factory closed yesterday, it being unable to carry on business.” The date is interesting because it coincides with the time that the battleship Oregon, the “Bulldog of the Navy,” had seized America’s popular imagination. Launched in San Francisco in 1893, she was in service in the Pacific in February 1898 when the battleship Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, offering the United States its rationale for declaring war on Spain. The Oregon was ordered almost immediately to proceed to the Atlantic theater — no easy feat before the Panama Canal. She left San Francisco on 19 March and was pummeled by a terrible storm as she navigated the Strait of Magellan, but managed to arrive at Jupiter Inlet, Fla., on 24 May; 14,500 miles in 66 days, with only five stops for coal. It was an astonishing achievement in naval prowess but also a potent reminder that if America were to play a commanding role on the world stage, it had to be able to move its warships from one coast to another in less than two months’ time.

Price: 275 USD

Location: Weymouth, Massachusetts

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