DRAWING

Description: PENCIL SKETCH ON HEAVY CARDBOARD. UNTITLED SKETCH. ARTIST UNKNOWN. THE SKETCH APPEARS TO ALSO HAVE BEEN BY C.H. MCKENNY. SKETCH DEPICTS FOUR-MASTED, UNIDENTIFIED CLIPPER SHIP SAILING THE OPEN SEA. ANOTHER SAILING SHIP IS SHOWN AT A DISTANCE. UNFRAMED.

History: 1915 WRITTEN ON THE BACK. FOREMOST ETIZIKOM ALSO WRITTEN ON THE BACK. *UPDATE* IN 2015 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF ART OBJECTS. ACCORDING TO AN ARTICLE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOWN OF WARNER, ALBERTA FOUND IN THE JULY 19, 1909 ISSUE OF THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD, A "C. E. MCKENNEY" WAS THE PRINCIPAL OF THE WARNER SCHOOL AT THAT TIME. NO OTHER INFORMATION TIED TO THE ARTIST'S NAME SIGNED ON THIS DRAWING WAS FOUND. THE WORDS "FOREMOST" AND "ETZIKOM" ARE WRITTEN ON THE BACK OF THE DRAWING. ETZIKOM IS A HAMLET IN ALBERTA, APPROXIMATELY 20KM EAST OF THE TOWN OF FOREMOST. LIMITED INFORMATION ON THIS ARTIFACT'S DONOR, FRANK MCNABB, WAS FOUND IN NOTICES FROM THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD IN 1958, 1960, AND 1975. MCNABB WORKED AT SICK'S LETHBRIDGE BREWERY FOR OVER 38 YEARS AND RETIRED IN 1960. HE DIED ON MAY 13, 1975. IT IS UNKNOWN HOW HE CAME TO POSESS THE TWO DRAWINGS DONATED TO THE GALT MUSEUM (P19640106000 AND P19640107000). SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR HARDCOPIES OF LETHBRIDGE HERALD NOTICES.