"lee-bowing the tide"

8.25" x 6" (etching only)
12" x 9" (including border)

seascape etching by George Gale (1893-1951). signed by artist. minor wear to paper consistent with age, otherwise excellent vintage condition. frame not included.

Marine painted and etcher George Albert Gale was born in Bristol, Rhode Island and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence. Gale earned his bread upon the waters, serving as a seaman for the American and Hawaiian Steamship Line and Quartermaster of the Bristol (RI) Ferry, also working as a boat builder on the George Washington Bridge in New York. his work is held by a number of institutions including the Museum of Rhode Island School of Design, the Nantucket Whaling Museum, and the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, CT.