Vintage Carved Relief Painting Of H.M.C.s. Iroquois (Signed By: L. Grenier)

The carved and painted wood depiction of the HMCS (Canadian Navy) destroyer Iroquois looks to be from the World War II period and was made by a local craftsperson - or perhaps a soldier who was on the ship. The ship was launched in 1942 and decommissioned in 1966

RELIEF PAINTING: Relief is a sculptural technique, where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term relief MEANS to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane.
RELIEF PAINTING can be made in two ways, either cut the surface in one by one layer to create the relief OR create layers on overlapping layers to create the relief.

HMCS IROQUOIS1. was the first "Tribal" destroyer to commission in the Royal Canadian Navy and her arrival marked a new departure in naval warfare for the rapidly expanding Canadian navy. As far back as the dark days of 1940,2. when the RCN comprised little more than a scant force of some six pre-war "River" Class destroyers, and even before the first stalwart corvette had made her way to sea, Canadian naval planners were beginning to think in terms of an offensive strategy which would carry Canada's war at sea to the very doorstep of the enemy. Aggressively armed, the Tribals were designed as hard hitting, swift moving ships of war which would operate with the. Royal Navy's Home Fleet destroyers in the North Atlantic and in the danger studded waters about the British Isles.
http://jproc.ca/iroquois/brief_history.html

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Good (shows signs of regular wear)

14 1/2 x" x 7 1/2"

Fine Art, Paintings

18%

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