" WORKING THROUGH A FOG , EAST RIVER , NYC "
Don Demers

45 s/n Giclee Canvas
20" x 24" 
$395

The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 all but sealed New York Harbor’s destiny as the
most important port in North America. Ships from around the world called on the port
365-days a year and the business of piloting these vessels into the harbor was profitable
and competitive. The pilot schooner fleet’s boats were handsome, heavily-sparred
vessels that raced each other to incoming ships for the right to pilot them in. The
most well known of these, the "America," was the fastest vessel of her day and
the namesake of the America’s Cup

The "Joseph Pulitzer" was built for Mr. Pulitzer as an ocean racer and was one of 22 such
schooners operating out of New York Harbor in 1894. Ever since its completion in 1883,
the Brooklyn Bridge with its epic proportions and grand design, was the background against
which life on Fulton Street and the East River played.

Demers' "Working Through a Fog, East River, NYC" embraces the waterfront’s moody
atmosphere and the convergence of the eras of steel, steam and sail. All that is missing
from this gorgeous Fine Art Edition Canvas are the sounds of steam whistles wafting
across the water and the warm moist smell of salt in the air.

 

Don Demers- Working Through a Fog - East River , New York City

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