Schooner Boats
Daten. d.
MediumGouache and watercolor on watercolor paper
DimensionsSight: 15 1/16 × 10 3/8 inches (38.3 × 26.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alexander Brook.
Object number1948.7
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The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextWilliam Zorach was only four years old when his family moved to Cleveland, fleeing anti-Semitic violence in Russian-occupied Lithuania. Forced to quit school at the age of thirteen to help support his family, Zorach took a job at the Morgan Lithography Company, where he came to the realization that he wanted to become an artist. He attended night classes at the Cleveland School of Art, and moved to New York in 1908 to enroll at the National Academy of Design. By 1910 he had saved enough to go to Paris, where his formerly conservative style began to reflect the arbitrary color of fauvism and the geometric structure of cubism. Zorach later returned to New York and in 1913 exhibited in the Armory Show, which introduced modern art to an unsuspecting American public. Schooner Boats, is likely reminiscent of his love for the sea, where he was buried, according to his wishes, after his death in 1966.
