Joe Duncan Gleason, (American, 1881-1959)
The California Clipper Ship -- Young America
Oil on canvasboard
16 x 12 inches (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Private collection
The Young America was built by William H. Webb of New York. She was launched in 1853, at the height of the clipper construction boom. She sailed in the California trade, on transatlantic routes, and made voyages to Australia and the Far East.
In 1857, Young America transported 800 Chinese coolies from Hong Kong to Melbourne via Guichon. She sailed from Liverpool to Melbourne under Captain D.S. Babcock with 289 passengers in 1858. In 1865, she brought a cargo of sugar and hemp from Manila to New York in 100 days.
In 1886 February 17, she sailed outward bound from Philadelphia for Fiume under command of Captain Vlassich and was never heard of again. More on The Young America
For Joe Duncan Gleason, (1881 - 1959
Glendale, CA) It was boating -
and life on the sea, in general - that steered the motley professions and
avocations of the California painter Joe Duncan Gleason. Trained at the Chicago
Art Institute and the New York Arts Students' League, he illustrated for
various magazines, including Leslie's Monthly, Ladies Home Journal, and
Forecast, from 1903 to 1914; during this period, while competing as a gymnast
in national competitions, he acquired a 36-foot yawl and sailed often on Long
Island Sound. Gleason's earliest paintings are Impressionist in style and
depict the scenic hills of his childhood Los Angeles as well as the peopled
shores of nearby Laguna Beach. A brief return to New York from 1919 to 1924
inspired Gleason to take up marine painting, model shipbuilding, and writing
about sailing: he published Windjammers, a book of etchings (1922), followed
later by Islands of California (1950). In the mid-1920s, Gleason established
his studio in the harbor town of San Pedro, California, and began consulting
for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros., providing visual guides for the ships
that appeared in such films as Yankee Clipper, Captain Blood, and The Charge of
the Light Brigade. When not painting or lecturing on historical ships, he was
sailing, both with the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary during WW II and
recreationally with the California Yacht Club.More on Joe Duncan Gleason
Young America
Photographic print
Builder: Wm. Webb 1853
Dimensions: 243 x 43.2 x 26.9
Tonnage: 1961
Type: American Clipper (Wood)
San Francisco Public Library
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