19 Signed ORIGINAL A. Aubrey Bodine photographs are currently on auction at Alex Cooper Auctions. This Art Collector’s Discovery timed auction closes Tuesday, January 14 @ 7:00 PM. This auction is On-Line only. Images include Bodine’s trains, Hunt Cup, harbor, and others.
On-line bidding is currently available @ www.alexcooper.com.
Lots # 7108 thru # 7126
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Jennifer B. Bodine, Estate of A. Aubrey Bodine, 410-479-1312 or at jbb@aaubreybodine.com
7108 Baltimore Harbor Night (1949) Forty-six miles of waterfront bustles with the varied traffic that makes Baltimore the nation’s second seaport in total volume of foreign commerce. As the tugs work the huge freighter into the harbor seems a far cry from the early days of the privateers and the swift Baltimore clippers that made the name of the city feared and respected.
7112 Greenmount Infra-Red ( 1958) Green Mount Cemetery- Johns Hopkins, Betsy Patterson, Enoch Pratt, Sidney Lanier and Confederate Generals William H. Winder and Joseph E. Johnston are among the dead who repose in this cemetery, the name of which is often incorrectly written as a single word. The brownstone chapel is of a Gothic design that has been praised as remarkably pure and graceful.
7115 Oyster Dredgers (1953) Mouth of Choptank River in Talbot County.
7116 Doris Hamlin (1939) On board the Doris Hamlin sailing the Chesapeake Bay below Bloody Point. That trip was made in 1939. The following year the four-master, loaded with coal and carrying a crew of ten set out for the Canary Islands. She disappeared at sea and not a trace of her or her crew has been found to this day.” The wooden ship was built in 1919. It had a displacement of 1,500 tons. The masts towered 117 feet above deck.
7121 Engine 1408 (1950) Engine 1408 was one of the twelve 4-8-4s WMR purchased from the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1947. They were built to handle the steep grades in western Maryland and West Virginia.
7124 Western Maryland (1950 One of the great railroad venues in the American east is Helmstetter’s Curve between Cumberland and Frostburg. Here a mixed freight train is rolling through the curve.
7126 Going Home (1953) Team Work. The Bullwhacker” Calvert County: On his farm, “Levels”, near Prince Frederick, Joseph Sunderland drives his oxen in with a log from his wood lot.
