Word: boated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quite a bit different from last summer," said Bert Haines the other day as he stood at the top of the Weld Bost Club dock-runway. There was one oarsman shoving off in a wherry, a couple more running themselves against the wall of the Boat Club, a few swimming off the end of the dock...
Otherwise the summer rowing hub was as quiet as Newell Boat House across the way, padlocked ever since the Varsity crew look off for New London after Commencement...
Being a waterman at Chelsea on the Thames was a good way to get to know artists. With its cluttered wharves and shadowy hulls in the mist, Chelsea Reach was a famous painting spot. An old boat maker named Greaves (rhymes with leaves) used to row famed Painter J. M. W. Turner up & down the Reach. Walter Greaves, the boatman's son, painted heraldic devices on his father's boats and, as he grew up, longed for broader canvases. One day in the 1860s, when Walter was in his late teens, he got to know a Chelsea neighbor...
...Friendship. For almost 20 years Walter and Harry often took Whistler for boat rides on the Thames, watching him as he made studies for his famed "Nocturnes." Then one day, as impulsively as he had adopted them, Whistler dropped them. He had a new follower: young Walter Richard Sickert, later to become the leading British painter of his day. Not much was ever heard again of Harry Greaves, but Walter remained a dogged admirer at a distance...
...gallery, an indication that his reputation was on the rise again-as a painter in his own right. His pleasingly melancholy river scenes lacked the sophistication of Whistler's art, but had a simple boatman's directness and integrity. "To Mr. Whistler," dogged Walter once said, "a boat was always a tone; to me it was always a boat...