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Shady Side (steamboat) by Bard - Public domain image of a steam boat
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Shady Side, steamboat built 1873, watercolor on paper by James Bard. This vessel served until 1922, and in later years was part of the Black Star Line, which was owned by en:Marcus Garvey. The Steam Paddle Shady side of New York, official number 115180, tonnage 444, gros 329 net, built at Bulls Ferry, N.J., in 1873. Original owner: The North and East River Steam Boat Company.[1]
Born in New York City, eight years after Robert Fulton sent the first steamboat up the Hudson River, James Bard saw and reflected in his marine paintings the industrial development of shipping in America. He and his twin brother John Bard together painted more than 350 marine portraits, steamships and sailboats in the New York Harbor and on the Hudson River. Likely James did the outline sketches, and John filled in the color and backgrounds.
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