Sloop smack ELLA MAY, derelict at Noank, Connecticut

oil painting

Oil painting on canvas covered board; sloop smack ELLA MAY (bt. 1877 by D. O. Richmond, Noank, CT.) as a derelict at wharf, Noank, Connecticut; by William Sherman Potts; signed lower left "POTTS"; paper label glued to back, printed, handwritten, and rubberstamped "TITLE DERELICT/ PRICE $150./ ARTIST W. SHERMAN POTTS/ 45 EAST 59TH STREET, NEW YORK". See "Log of Mystic Seaport", Vol. 42, No. 2, page 40 for photograph of same scene.