Old Sailors Haven, 1939 Blaire Field a watercolor painting by Chris

a watercolor painting by Chris Oldham

a watercolor painting by Hugh Duncan

The club was called Schwandagoosie but I can't discover where it was located

Published for the exhibition Everyday Life in California

I wish my mother were alive to tell me more about the history of this fascinating location

Old Sailors Haven, 1939 Blaire Field a watercolor painting by ChrisA California fine art gicle print on premium watercolor paper. One of the picturesque buildings still found in New York's harbor area in the 1930's. It seemed to be a meeting place for Merchant Marine Sailors that were either too old or too injured to sail again. Here they would spend their days trading stories and reliving the past. Shown in a one man show at the Jake Zeitlin Galleries 1940 and the Biltmore Art Galleries in 1945. Courtesy of son Ian