Ed Vebell (1921-2018) "First Immigrants Land" Oil

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Important Fine & Decorative Art Auction

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Sep 26, 2021

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  Ed Vebell (American, 1921 - 2018) "First Immigrants Land" Signed lower right. Original oil painting on Masonite.
  
  Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation.
  
  This painting is the original which was published on the Fleetwood Commemorative Cover for Epic Events in American History series issued in 1985.
  
  Immigration is the great, the central, theme of American history; all Americans, except Indians, are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. For all -- English, Dutch and French in the seventeenth century; Germans, Scots and Scandinavians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Italians, Slavs, Greeks and Hispanics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- the experience held much in common. All had to uproot themselves, break away from families and folkways, and adjust themselves to a new environment, new institutions and a new language. From the founding of the Republic until 1917, the United States welcomed all newcomers and invited each to membership in its social and political community. If the United States was not precisely a "melting pot," it was a loom on which the domestic warp and the imported weft were woven into a harmonious pattern. Over the century and a half for which we have statistics, over fifty million immigrants sought American shores. During most of the nineteenth century immigrants were "processed" at Castle Garden in lower Manhattan; in 1892, the entry port was transferred to Ellis Island in New York City's harbor. Ellis Island became, and remains, inextricably associated in the American imagination with the gates to the promised land. This association was reinforced by the location, on adjoining Bedloe's Island of the Statue of Liberty. This colossal monument to American freedom was a gift of the French people on the centenary of American independence.
  
  Image Size: 20 x 21 in.
  Overall Size: 24 x 27 in.
  Unframed.
  (B05346)

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