Unloading Knockdown Freight Cars, La Pallice

Aylward, William James · 1919

Watercolor and charcoal sketch on paper. The work depicts the harbor at La Pallice, France. Pictured at left is a large orange crane unloading a knockdown freight car. Several dock workers surround the freight car to assist in the unloading. There is a man in a blue shirt and tan hat sitting in the foreground of the sketch and a man in white shirt and tan vest walking at the left foreground. In the background of the sketch is another crane and a large white ship with a yellow smoke stack. Small buildings line the harbor along the right of the painting. The sky is a vibrant blue with gray and white smoke rising from smoke stacks. Signed at bottom right by the artist, "W.J. Aylward, A.E.F. '19"