USS Louisville

 

Waldo Spore Chase

  1895 - 1988 (biography)

1931  

color woodcut 

5 11/16 x 9 15/16"  

pencil, lower right 

not stated, presumed small 

pencil titled and dated "'31" 

 

cream laid 

proof 

artist 

18785 

SOLD

Waldo S. Chase had learned woodcut while in college and taught the techiniqueshis to his brother, Wendell Corwin Chase. The brothers began to try to make a living as woodcut artists in the early 1920's. During the 20's and early 1930's the Chase brothers lived in tepees on the Olympic Peninsula, The Cascades and Mt Rainier, creating woodcuts to pay their way. Their story is chronicled in W. Corwin Chases's book "Tepee Fires" published in 1981. The USS Louisville was launched on September 1, 1931 at the Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bemerton, Washington where Waldo Chase saw the ship and did this woodcut. Ths was the third ship to be named after the city of Louisville, KY and fought in the Pacific in WWII. The ship is officially called the USS Louisville (CA-28).