Shared Experience: Hull Riveting

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This is the second painting of the subject and is based on sketches completed in 1943 at the United Shipyard in Montreal. A rivet gang works on the hull of a 10,000-ton cargo ship. A 1945 article explains Taylor’s motivations:

He wishes, by expressing pictorially his admiration and respect for Canadian industry and industrial workers, to accomplish two things: first, to heighten the public’s appreciation and respect for the contribution industry has made; and secondly, to strengthen the workers’ self respect and pride by seeing their work as others see it.

Paintings

• Corvette Galley
  Leonard Brooks
• Glass-blowers 'Gathering' from the Furnace
  Mervyn Peake
• Parachute Riggers
  Paraskeva Clark
• Sections of buoyancy tank and floating caissons, Sydney graving dock
  Herbert McClintock
• No 1 projectile shop, (Commonwealth Ordnance Factory, Maribyrnong)
  Sybil Craig
• Working in the snow, Australian Forestry Unit, Scotland
  Sheila Hawkins
• Hull Riveting
  Frederick B. Taylor
• ATS at Work
  Rodrigo Moynihan
• The Camouflage Workshop, Leamington Spa, 1940
  Edwin La Dell
• The Merchant Navy: The chain-locker
  Henry Carr
• Private Roy, Canadian Women's Army Corps
  Molly Lamb Bobak
• Ruby Loftus screwing a Breech-ring
  Dame Laura Knight
• The billy boy
  William Dobell
• Transport driver (Aircraftwoman Florence Miles)
  Nora Heysen
• Weighing Down The Tail, New Brunswick
  Moses Reinblatt
• Patients waiting Outside a First Aid Post in a Factory
  Ruskin Spear