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Tug Boats
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
One of the rarest paintings from American artist Ron Blumbergs New York series, "Tug Boats", has
Category

1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Tug Boat in New York Harbor
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Tug Boat in New York Harbor Screen print, c. 1942 Signed in the screen lower right (see photo
Category

1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Tug Boat
By Maura Segal
Located in Tulsa, OK
Maura Segal’s abstract works conjure a delicate simplicity. Blocks of color languidly splay behind thin meandering lines and freeform fluid curves. Yet upon closer investigation, the...
Category

2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Tug Boat
Tug Boat
H 30 in W 50 in
Brooklyn Tug Boat
Located in Norwell, MA
The harbor tug Brooklyn was designed and built in 1910 by William Cramp and Sons at Philadelphia
Category

20th Century Nautical Objects

Brooklyn Tug Boat
Brooklyn Tug Boat
H 21 in W 33 in D 13 in
Jack Laycox Mid Century "Tug Boats" Oil Painting c.1960
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jack Laycox Mid Century "Tug Boats" Oil Painting c.1960 Original oil on panel Dimensions 36" wide
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Tug Boat on the Thames, Early 20th Century Etching Print, London Landscape
Located in London, GB
Etching on paper, signed bottom left Image size: 9 x 4 3/4 inches (22.75 x 12 cm) Framed
Category

1910s Landscape Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching

English Impressionist Signed Oil Painting Sailing Yacht at Sea with Tug Boat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
J. Wingate, British mid 20th century signed & dated oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 21.5 x 27.5 inches canvas: 18 x 24 inches provenance: private collection, English condition...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

River Seine Paris Tug Boats Moored 1960’s French Post Impressionist Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Banks of the Seine signed by Édouard Righetti (1924-2001) dated 1959 or 1960 framed oil painted on canvas, beautifully painted. very good condition framed: 30 x 23 inches canvas:...
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Leslie Moffat Ward (1888-1978) - Early 20th Century Etching, Among the Tugs
Located in Corsham, GB
industrial town beyond. Figures onboard a steam ship look out onto the river as smoke rises from the tug
Category

20th Century Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

Mid 20th Century Oil - Dutch Canal Boats
Located in Corsham, GB
A rustic, impressionistic Dutch School canal scene showing a tug boat and other traditional canal
Category

20th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Pal Fried 'Hungarian, 1893-1976' Towboat
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Boats being pulled by tug boat up canal - signed lower left - Framed dimensions: 36.5 in x 30.5
Category

Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Paint

Sailing Ship Diorama, Late 19th Century
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a beautifully detailed diorama or shadow box of a late 19th century schooner and tug boat.
Category

Early 20th Century American Shadow Boxes

Materials

Wool, Paper, Plaster

Sailing Ship Diorama, Late 19th Century
Sailing Ship Diorama, Late 19th Century
H 14.5 in W 21.5 in D 4.75 in
Brooklyn Bridge Tugboat (1953) Archival Pigment Print - Oversized
By H. Armstrong Roberts
Located in London, GB
Brooklyn Bridge Tug Boat (1953) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized (Photo by H. Armstrong
Category

1950s Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin, Black and White

"Seine Scenery" by Thurston Hopkins
By Thurston Hopkins
Located in London, GB
Paris and a tug boat on the river belches smoke from its funnel. Original Publication: Picture Post
Category

1950s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

Old Tug under Brooklyn Bridge New York Skyline Magenta
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A captured moment of Old Tug Boat as it passed under the Brooklyn Bridge and set against the 1970
Category

1970s Post-Impressionist Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink

Early 20th Century American Maritime Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
. Sailboats and a Tug Boat in an harbor with a lighthouse on the distant cliff. Original oil on canvas
Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Sunrise Tug, original realist impressionist nocturnal marine landscape
By Neal Hughes
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
, scale and motion that you wonder if the tug boat is a marine landscape in oil or a fanciful dream. This
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Antique Shadowbox Diorama of Ship Models
Located in Bridgeport, CT
masted schooner sets the background with a tug boat, two masted vessel and a steamship labeled
Category

Antique 19th Century American Classical Nautical Objects

Materials

Wood

Antique Shadowbox Diorama of Ship Models
Antique Shadowbox Diorama of Ship Models
H 17.25 in W 33.5 in D 9.5 in
Early 20th Century Folk Art Ship Diorama
Located in San Mateo, CA
Folk art diorama of a ship being towed by a tug boat. At the bottom of the diorama is a
Category

Early 20th Century American Folk Art Nautical Objects

Materials

Rope, Glass, Wood

Original Vintage Poster Ashtabula Harbor Lake Erie New York Central Lines Rail
Located in London, GB
onto ships with tug boats on the water and steam rising into the sky, the text on the border below
Category

Vintage 1920s American Posters

Materials

Paper

Original Vintage Cruise Travel Poster French Line Plymouth New York Art Deco
Located in London, GB
tug boats on the calm blue water and a French flag flying against the cloudy sky background, the text
Category

Vintage 1930s British Art Deco Posters

Materials

Paper

Original Vintage Travel Poster Red Star Line Pennland Ocean Liner Cruise Ship
By Charles Edward Dixon 1
Located in London, GB
boats by the coast and a tug boat named Josephine in the foreground. Founded in 1871 the Red Star Line
Category

Vintage 1920s Belgian Posters

Materials

Paper

Original Vintage LNER Train Travel Poster Kings Lynn Norfolk Havens And Harbours
By Frank Mason
Located in London, GB
dock by a warehouse building, a man in a rowing boat and people in a tug boat in the foreground with
Category

Vintage 1930s British Posters

Materials

Paper

Untitled
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
notably the long-running Tug-Boat Annie and with maritime painting, Fischer was more versatile than
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Michael McGovern Days End Seascape Maritime Boat Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Dayton, OH
Vintage oil on canvas seascape painting titled “Day’s End,” showing a small tug boat and two row
Category

20th Century Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood

Saturday Evening Post Illustration
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
-running Tug-Boat Annie and with maritime painting, Fischer was more versatile than depicting the sail and
Category

1930s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Early 20th Century Carmel Point Lobos and Monastery Beach Seascape
By Rinaldo Cuneo
Located in Soquel, CA
Francisco, and in 1916 and 1917, he worked with a tug boat service at San Anselmo. He also pursued his
Category

Early 1900s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Tug of War
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
youths practice boating safety procedures on a small craft that happens to be indoors. Another pair have
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print

Morning on East River New York City Impressionist Bridge Boat Scene Oil Painting
By Christopher Willett
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Impressionist New York City a wonderful morning on the East River. Tug boats gently make their way
Category

Late 20th Century American Classical Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint

“New England Homestead”
Located in Southampton, NY
. Leech’s ‘Coal Tug,’ which depicts a dingy old tug boat with somber, snow covered mountains in the
Category

1950s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite

Boating Instruction
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
youths practice boating safety procedures on a small craft that happens to be indoors. Another pair have
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Riverscape oil painting of shipping on the Thames with Tower Bridge
By Edward Henry Eugene Fletcher
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Henry Eugene Fletcher. A variety of boats are depicted in the scene, including tug boats and barges. In
Category

Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Antique Robert J Paisley Nautical Maritime White Ship Boat Life Preserver Ring 3
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique Robert J. Paisley boat life preserver buoy saftey ring featuring a hard foam core with a
Category

Early 20th Century Nautical Objects

Materials

Canvas, Foam, Paint

Lipton Challenges the Cup
Located in Columbia, MO
principal duty – as a hand on an ocean-going tug sailing the Aleutian islands, North Pacific, Bering Sea and
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Landscape Paintings

Materials

Screen

Against the Angry Sea
Located in Columbia, MO
principal duty – as a hand on an ocean-going tug sailing the Aleutian islands, North Pacific, Bering Sea and
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Landscape Paintings

Materials

Screen

New York Harbor Near Castle Garden
By Elisha Taylor Baker
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
pilot tug repositioning her on the port side. The brig's crew is busy with duties on deck including
Category

1860s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Newlyn Harbour: Contemporary Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
This is an archetypal Stafford painting. Cheery tugs and Cornish fishing boats bobbing about in the
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Wharf, Original Painting
By Robert Hofherr
Located in San Francisco, CA
, wharf, dock, ship, boat, tugboat, tug, Fauvism, Derain, horizon, expressive, pier, harbor, expressionism
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist More Art

Materials

Acrylic

Impressionist View of The Leuvehaven in the Port of Rotterdam, Dutch Watercolour
Located in Cotignac, FR
of Rotterdam. Steam tugs drawing barges filled with goods. In the background the cranes loading and
Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Ruckus Tugboat
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
tugboats in this three-dimensional lithograph. This tug, the ”Lysiane”, steams through rolling waves…with
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary More Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Ruckus Tugboat
Ruckus Tugboat
H 21 in W 16.88 in D 24.13 in
Newlyn Harbour: Contemporary Seascape Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
This is an archetypal Stafford painting. Cheery tugs and Cornish fishing boats bobbing about in the
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

USS CHICAGO Off Castle Williams and Governor's Island, New York Harbor
By Granville Perkins
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
carries a lone mariner, perhaps out to the lanteen-rigged fishing boat heavy with the day's catch piled
Category

1890s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Donkey Basketball
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
strange competitions meant to establish their standings amongst one another. Two youths practice boating
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

The Test, Assembled Kinetic Modernist Sculpture Puzzle Construction
By William King (b.1925)
Located in Surfside, FL
and helped his father and older brother build furniture and boats. He came to New York, where he
Category

1970s American Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Exercise at Home
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
. Two youths practice boating safety procedures on a small craft that happens to be indoors. Another
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Sit-Up
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
youths practice boating safety procedures on a small craft that happens to be indoors. Another pair have
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Laps
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
youths practice boating safety procedures on a small craft that happens to be indoors. Another pair have
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print

Laps
H 20 in W 24 in
Push Ball
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
youths practice boating safety procedures on a small craft that happens to be indoors. Another pair have
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print

Wooden Dumbbells
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
youths practice boating safety procedures on a small craft that happens to be indoors. Another pair have
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Sasha
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
youths practice boating safety procedures on a small craft that happens to be indoors. Another pair have
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Garage
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
youths practice boating safety procedures on a small craft that happens to be indoors. Another pair have
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print

Sail vs Steam, 19th Century French Marine Drawing
By Georges Ricard-Cordingley
Located in Cotignac, FR
drawing capturing the scene of a steam tug docked next to a larger sailing boat, the scene probably at
Category

Late 19th Century Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Pencil

Frank Brangwyn, Armchair for the Canadian Pacific Liner 'SS Empress of Britain'
By Frank Brangwyn
Located in London, GB
'. Tragically the liner was sunk in 1940 by a U-boat. Brangwyn also designed marquetry panels for the private
Category

Vintage 1930s English Arts and Crafts Armchairs

Materials

Oak

Reclining Figure (woman)
By William King (b.1925)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
in a cowboy hat, she in a long dress) holding hands; a tall man reaching down to tug along a
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Original Vintage Poster Ashtabula Harbor Lake Erie New York Central Lines Rail
Located in London, GB
onto ships with tug boats on the water and steam rising into the sky, the text on the border below
Category

1920s More Prints

Materials

Paper

Original Vintage Cruise Travel Poster French Line Plymouth New York Art Deco
Located in London, GB
tug boats on the calm blue water and a French flag flying against the cloudy sky background, the text
Category

1930s Art Deco More Prints

Materials

Paper

Original Vintage Travel Poster Red Star Line Pennland Ocean Liner Cruise Ship
By Charles Edward Dixon 1
Located in London, GB
boats by the coast and a tug boat named Josephine in the foreground. Founded in 1871 the Red Star Line
Category

1920s More Prints

Materials

Paper

Original Vintage LNER Train Travel Poster Kings Lynn Norfolk Havens And Harbours
By Frank Henry Mason
Located in London, GB
dock by a warehouse building, a man in a rowing boat and people in a tug boat in the foreground with
Category

1930s More Prints

Materials

Paper

Untitled Tug 4
By Kathryn Lynch
Located in Jackson, WY
of themes include tug boats on the Hudson River, speeding city cars and taxis, modern apartment
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Archival Paper, Oil

Untitled Tug 5
By Kathryn Lynch
Located in Jackson, WY
of themes include tug boats on the Hudson River, speeding city cars and taxis, modern apartment
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Archival Paper, Oil

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Tug Boat For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate tug boat for your needs in our varied inventory. There are many Abstract and Photorealist versions of these works for sale. Making the right choice when shopping for a tug boat may mean carefully reviewing examples of this item dating from different eras — you can find an early iteration of this piece from the 19th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 20th Century. On 1stDibs, the right tug boat is waiting for you and the choices span a range of colors that includes brown, gray, red and white. Creating a tug boat has been a part of the legacy of many artists, but those crafted by Ron Blumberg, William Jack Laycox, Fernand Léger, Keith Miller and Reginald Marsh are consistently popular. These artworks were handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in paint, oil paint and board.

How Much is a Tug Boat?

A tug boat can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $1,500, while the lowest priced sells for $88 and the highest can go for as much as $10,500.