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City of Brockton
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: James Bard
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City of Brockton by James Bard is a precise steamboat portrait in profile, ideal for anyone who values maritime history and honest, unshowy craft.
Description
Description
The steamboat cuts a clean line across still water, smoke trailing thin from its stack, flags catching a breeze that barely stirs the surface below. This is the moment James Bard fixed in paint: a working vessel caught in full profile, doing exactly what it was built to do.
About City of Brockton
City of Brockton belongs to the body of work that occupied Bard for much of his career, a steady documentation of the steamboats, ferries, and sloops that moved people and goods along the rivers and harbors of nineteenth century America. He paints the ship broadside, at full length, so every rail, window, and stack reads clearly against the sky. The proportions are exact in the way a shipbuilder or owner would want them recorded, and that precision, rather than any wish to dramatize, is the engine of the composition.
Light in this painting does its job without calling attention to itself. Bard was a self-taught artist, and his instincts ran toward accuracy over atmosphere: the water carries a plain, believable motion, built from small, controlled strokes rather than loose or theatrical brushwork. There is a flatness to the sky and a directness to the water that mark this as an early or mid-career piece, made when Bard was refining the formula of ship portraiture that would define nearly everything he painted afterward.
A hand-painted oil painting reproduction of City of Brockton is made by a trained artist working in oil on artist-grade canvas, matching the palette of the original and keeping the visible brushwork that gives the water its texture and the hull its weight. It is a painted object, built up in layers of pigment, not a printed copy, and as a fine art reproduction it carries the same surface depth a collector would look for in the original. The result rewards close viewing the way the painting itself does.
The hand-painted reproduction
This suits a study, an office, or any room where someone appreciates plain craft and maritime history over spectacle. It also makes a fitting gift for anyone drawn to ships, working harbors, or the quieter corners of American realism.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, not a print
- Available in multiple sizes
- Gallery-ready presentation
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
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Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
Framed — Ready to Hang
Select a handcrafted frame and we’ll deliver your painting fully assembled, protected, and ready to hang.
For safe shipping, framing is available up to a maximum size. Larger sizes will automatically disable the frame option.
Stretched Canvas
Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
Gallery Wrap
Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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We ship with UPS, FedEx, or DHL straight to your door. You’ll receive a tracking number as soon as your order leaves our studio. Typical delivery is 5 to 7 days after dispatch; large, framed, or stretched pieces may take longer depending on the safest shipping route.
Unframed canvases are protected with a film, carefully rolled, and secured inside a rigid shipping tube.
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