23-259 Rosenfeld “Migrant Headsails” Poster 32×40

Exhibition posters printed by museums and galleries are an affordable way to add important artworks to your home’s interior design. This 1990 poster features duotone offset reproduction of the 1934 photograph by Morris Rosenfeld titled “Migrant Headsail.” It measures 32×40 inches matted and framed in white wood. Allow 2 weeks for custom framing. The original photo is in the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut.

The headsail men aboard the three-masted schooner Migrant take to the foot-ropes under the long bowsprit to gather in the big jib topsail about to be lowered away. Migrant was built in 1929 and at 223 feet overall was hailed as the largest schooner-yacht in the world.