Most casual observers have no idea that a Line Boat out in the river actually runs from one fleeting area to the next. Like a waterborne freight yard, she sits midstream while stwitch boats add on or remove empty barges.
The time period of this painting is in the mid 1980's. Shown is the operation of Making Tow.
Edition Size: 600
Signed and numbered lithograph $165.00
Image Size: 16” x 32” plus borders
Edition Size: 50
Artist enhanced giclee on canvas $750.00
Image Size: 20” x 40”
In the coming years he wrote many additional insightful river classics including Pilotin’ Comes Natural, Saga of the Delta Queen and the monolithic river reference guide Way’s Packet Directory. This directory details the careers, service and dates of thousands of Western River steamboats and the men who ran them. Many of the boats have grand little essays detailing personal information. In some cases these little essays become miniature literary masterpieces. Such is the case with the last paragraph on the Queen City. (4615). This short essay may be found in my commentary section of www.blaserstudio.com
Michael Blaser knew Capt Way in the last years of his long and productive life. This essay and many more like it have been literary paint for the artists brush for 30 plus years. It is worth the read if you fancy yourself a student of the river.
Giclee on paper $225.00
Image Size 16 inches by 20 inches
Artist hand retouched giclee on canvas $450.00
Image Size 16 inches by 20 inches
Artist hand retouched giclee on canvas $750.00
Image Size 26 inches by 36 inches
The imposing towers of the Suspension Bridge have dominated the Cincinnati riverscape for over 120 years. This scene is a formal portrait of the great Gordon C. Green. Included in her court are the Julius Fleischmann and the beloved Island Queen.
Edition Size: 950
Signed and numbered lithograph $125.00 SOLD OUT
Image Size: 18” x 30” plus borders
Artist Remarque $275.00 SOLD OUT
The old cotton packet Kate Adams of Memphis was brought to the Upper Ohio in 1926 for the packet business that was running between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati.
The sternwheel towboat J. T. Hatfield ran coal from Charleston, W. Va. to Cincinnati for over 30 years.
Edition Size: 950
Signed and numbered lithograph $185.00
Artist remarque $800.00
Image Size: 19” x 30” plus borders
Edition Size: 25
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Image Size: 25” x 40”
On March 1, 1948 at 6:00 a.m. Captain Fred Way tied up the Delta Queen at the Greene Line Wharf Boat. Thus began her illustrious career as the “Queen” of the Inland Rivers.
Edition Size: 1800
Signed and numbered lithograph $185.00
Artist remarque $825.00
Image Size: 15 1/4” x 29” plus borders
The big band music drifting across the sawdust covered dance floor at Moonlight Gardens. Sounds of the calliope and the swish of the paddle wheels. Stolen kisses on the Moon Deck of the Island Queen. River fog and memories.
Edition Size 950
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Image Size: 18 1/2” x 31 “ plus borders
Artist Remarque $825.00 SOLD OUT
Official Portrait - Tall Stacks 2006
It's an event like non other in the nation designed to pay tribute to the steamboat heritage on the Western Rivers. Cincinnati is inextricably linked to the steamboat era that transformed her into a powerful city of trade and commerce that we know today.
Edition Size: 450
Signed and numbered lithograph $225.00 SOLD OUT
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Image Size: 19” x 30” plus borders
Edition Size: 40
Artist enhanced giclee on canvas $800.00
Image size: 25” x 40”
This grand lady of the river was built in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1897 for the Pittsburgh & Cincinnati Packet Line. Her homeport was destined to be Pittsburgh, PA. She made a reputation for her many Mardi Gras cruises (11 in all) from Pittsburgh and Cincinnati to the “Big Easy”. “As steamboats go, their average age of usefulness is about that of a horse. A 20 year old steamboat is an old critter. The Queen City was an exception to this rule” - quote from Captain Fred Way.
Edition Size: 150
Artist enhanced giclee on canvas $650.00
Image Size: 24” x 44”
The first in a series of four reproductions on the dramatic and great waterfront heritage of Cincinnati. The Island Queen, affectionally known as “Big Liz” was still transporting her passengers daily to Coney Island in 1935.
Edition Size: 950
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The history of the great packet fleet along the Ohio River is legend. The original Island Queen built in Cincinnati in 1896 is shown at the right. On November 4, 1922, she along with the steamers Morning Star, Chris Greene and Tacoma were destroyed in a fire at the Public Landing.
Edition Run: 950
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In 1875 the cotton business on the lower Mississippi was reaching its zenith. Much of this trade was controlled by vessels owned or constructed in the Cincinnati such as the Thompson Dean. She was built in Cincinnati in 1872.
Edition Run: 950
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The sun rises slowly over the bustling Ohio River metropolis. The sidewheeler Cincinnatus steams towards the Public Landing past the facade of Casilly's Row and Mt. Adams.
Edition Run: 950
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The packet business lasted until 1941. Pictured is the famous little packet Betsy Ann owned by Captain Fred Way. Her saga was made famous in the best seller Log of the Betsy Ann. Also shown are the Greene Line steamers Tom and Chris Greene at the Greene Line Wharf Boat.
Edition Size: 950
Signed and numbered lithograph $135.00
Artist remarque $825.00
Image Size: 15” x 25” plus borders
Edition Size 25
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Image Size: 25” x 40”
In the Moonlight July, 1947
It was the end of July in 1947 when the Str. Delta Queen arrived in Cincinnati after her 5,000 mile trip from San Francisco. She joined the rest of the Greene Line fleet, the Chris Greene, Tom Greene, Evergreene and the Gordon C. Greene. The Island Queen still ran to Coney Island the last part of the summer of 1947. This was to be the last great rendezvous of steam on the Ohio River.
Edition Size: 950
Signed and numbered lithograph $190.00
Artist remarque $850.00
Image Size: 16” x 30” plus borders
The White Collar steamers City of Louisville and City of Cincinnati frame the J. T. Hatfield on a wintry Ohio River at Cincinnati.
Edition Size: 50
Artist enhanced giclee on canvas $850.00
Image Size: 24” x 44”
The White Collar Line owned by Commordore Frederick Laidley of Covington, KY. Was totally destroyed by the Great Ice Gorge of January, 1918. Ice Bound shows the harbor vessel Hercules Carrel attempting to free the famed steamer City of Louisville from the ice on the Covington side to bring her across to the protection offered by the Cincinnati-Louisville wharf boat on the Cincinnati side of the river.
Edition Size: 150
Artist enhanced giclee on canvas $725.00
The beginning of the day as the crews from the Belle of Louisville and the steamer Natchez make ready for a day of "rollin on the river" during Tall Stacks 2006.
Edition size - 150
Artist Hand Retouched Giclee On Canvas
Image Size 11" x 14"
Retail Price - $175.00
Dawn breaks over the Cincinnati Public Landing as the steamer Natchez arrives for the start of Tall Stacks 2006. Making her first appearance at Tall Stacks, the Natchez was the "belle of the ball". Designed by Alan L. Bates, Louisville, Ky. the
contours of the Natchez can only be described as "perfection
on the water". She is one of the remaining six working
steamboats on the Inland Rivers.
Edition size - 150
Artist Hand Retouched Giclee On Canvas
Image Size 11" x 14"
Retail Price - $175.00
The steamer Gordon C. Greene prepares for a misty morning
landing at the levee in the early 1950's. The steamer Avalon is
waiting to pick up afternoon excursion passengers. The Avalon has continued her career on the river - she is now known as the
Belle of Louisville.
Edition size - 150
Artist Hand Retouched Giclee On Canvas
IImage Size 9" x 12"
Retail Price - $150.00
The steamer Island Queen will always be associated with the
“big band” names of Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and
Moonlite Gardens at Coney Island. She ran from 1925 - 1947.
Edition size - 150
Artist Hand Retouched Giclee On Canvas
Image Size 11" x 14"
Retail Price - $175.00
The Betsy Ann was the first vessel owned by legendary Captain Fred Way, Jr. who guided the destiny of the Betsy Ann in the packet trade between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati until 1932. The Betsy Ann is shown leaving the Maysville Landing heading to Cincinnati.
Edition size - 150
Artist Hand Retouched Giclee On Canvas
Image Size 9" x 12"
Retail Price - $150.00
The Belle of Louisville has lived three different lives since she came out new in 1915. Her first name was the Idlewild then Avalon and finally in 1962 she was named Belle of Louisville after purchase by the Jefferson County Fiscal Court. She remains today a legacy of the river as one of the last of the true working steamboats on the rivers.
Edition size - 150
Artist Hand Retouched Giclee On Canvas
Image Size 9" x 12"
Retail Price - $150.00
Derby Week in Louisville also has the Great Steamboat Race. 1982 was the real race when the steamer Natchez of New Orleans beat the Delta Queen and the Belle of Louisville.
Edition size - 950
Image Size Image Size: 26 x 14 1/2" and borders"
Signed and numbered - $150.00
