T.V. CHOMINSKI, OIL ON CANVAS, EARLY 20TH C., H 26", L 36" "CONSULTATION AT WASHINGTON":Titled "The Naval Strategy Board in consultation at Washington". Naval board: Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan; Captain A. S. Crowninshield; Secretary of the Navy: John Davis Long; Rear-Admiral Montgomery Sicard. Signed lower right and framed.
Condition
This canvas has been relined. There is a 5" long repair by the gentleman's arm on the right-hand side. There are various areas of overpainting on the canvas. There is a scratch to the paint on the lower right-hand side. (Nicely done. Additional condition info as viewed under UV light in the unopened frame: damage and probable restoration to the far right officer's left arm - there is also a 4 3/4" long crescent shape tear there as well; 7/8" scratch in LL; 1/2" tear at bottom lower right; 3/4" light scrape near the top of the UR; lined; original stretchers; period wood frame.)