The Burner, Port Gamble

 

Dorr Bothwell

  1902 - 2000 (biography)

1928  

color pencil drawing 

12 1/2 x 9 1/16" image & paper 

pencil, lower right 

 

dated after signature; label verso: (drawn from memory while in Samoa) 

 

unknown 

 

 

ABMM247 

Price On Request 

Dorr Bothwell drew this image of the Puget Mill in Port Gamble, Washington, when she arrived in Samoa on a solo adventure in 1928, perhaps in a moment of reminiscence. Her family had lived for some time in Port Gamble before they relocated to San Diego after the death of her father in 1927. The Puget Mill was the longest running lumber mill in the U.S., operating from 1853 to 1995. Seen in the background is the Kitsap bay.