Pull For The Shore, 1878, oil on canvas, 34-1/8" x 56-1/8" framed by Gill & Lagodich for the Chrysler Museum of Art, in a second-half 19th century painting frame, stained wood outer molding element with applied solid mahogany; gilded applied composition ornament and sand on wood. Molding width: 4-5/8” "In this ideal of teamwork, old and young row in unison to bring their tiny craft home through swelling seas. John George Brown based Pull for the Shore on sketches made on Grand Manan Island off the far northern coastline of Maine. Each face is a portrait of a local fisherman whom Brown met and sketched, but this epic New England battle of man against nature also may address American politics of the Reconstuction era. Following decades of sectional conflict and the violence of the Civil War, North and South struggled in the 1870s to heal the nation's wounds and work together toward prosperous future." — permanent collection label. Painting gift of Walter P. Chrysler 71.552