ARTIST: William Nowland Van Powell (Tennessee, 1904 - 1973)
NAME: Sail Ship - The Flying Cloud
YEAR: 1971
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Very good. No visible inpaint under UV light. Original frame.
SIGHT SIZE: 18 x 30 inches / 45 x 76 cm
FRAME SIZE: 25 x 37 inches / 63 x 93 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right and on verso
NOTE: Flying Cloud was a Clipper Ship that set the world's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco, 89 days 8 hours. The ship held this record for over 130 years, from 1854 to 1989. Flying Cloud was the most famous of the clippers built by Donald McKay. She was known for her extremely close race with Hornet in 1853; for having a woman navigator, Eleanor Creesy, wife of Josiah Perkins Creesy who skippered Flying Cloud on two record-setting voyages from New York to San Francisco; and for sailing in the Australia and timber trades.
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BIOGRAPHY:
William Nowland Tom Van Powell, sometimes known professionally as William Van Powell or Nowland Van Powell was an architect, painter, and historian from Memphis, Tennessee. Nowland was also a sugar broker.Working with George Mahan, Jr. in 1939, he was the architect of the Greyhound Bus Station in Jackson, Mississippi. Working with Ben Watson White, he designed the Blytheville Greyhound Bus Station in 1937. He is also credited as the designer of two nearly-identical Greyhound Half-Way Stations: the Greyhound Half-Way House in Waverly, Tennessee, that has been preserved, and another in Flat River, Missouri that has been substantially remodeled into a laundromat. In 1927, he was the architect of the Venetian-inspired Memphis Steam Laundry building, formerly at 941 Jefferson Ave., Memphis, demolished in 2009.Along with Henry Ehrensing, he was the architect of the Grand Palace Hotel, New Orleans (built originally as Claiborne Towers), and promoted by its developer as "likely to be one of the greatest buildings the South has ever seen." At the time, Claiborne Towers was the South's largest apartment project, with a planned 1036 units that included air conditioning. He was also the architect of Memphis' Farnsworth Building (now the Memphis Business Journal Building), which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.