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JAMES STUART BLACKTON
(1875-1941)
Portrait of the Tugboat Edgar F. Luckenbach

2 – 12 August 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

Sold for US$5,120 inc. premium

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JAMES STUART BLACKTON (1875-1941)

Portrait of the Tugboat Edgar F. Luckenbach
signed "J. Stuart Blackton. / 73 E. 120 St. / N.Y." at lower right
oil on canvas
22 x 36 in.
framed 26 x 39 5/8 in.

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Provenance
Property from an Important New York Collection.
Heller Washam Antiques, Portland, Maine.

Note
Edgar Frederick Luckenbach (1868-1943) was a steamship builder in New York City, commissioning several vessels named for himself and family members. The portrait may depict the oceangoing tugboat Edgar F. Luckenbach, which sank after a collision with the Clyde Line freight ship Pawnee in New York Harbor on 28 January 1908. Another two-masted tugboat named Edgar F. Luckenbach was built in 1891 and became the USS Cherokee upon her purchase by the US Navy 1917. She sank in a storm near Fenwick Island, Delaware, the following year.

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