The skyline of Cincinnati, Ohio, serves as a backdrop for this Glen Tracy lithograph of a shantyboat on the Northern Kentucky bank. Tracy was a Cincinnati artist known for his sympathetic depictions of life along the Ohio River, including the shantyboat communities on both sides of the river.

He attended the Art Academy of Cincinnati, studying under painter-etchers Frank Duveneck and Louis Henry Meakin, and taught there. He earned his living as a commercial artist and book illustrator. He exhibited for four decades, starting in the 1910s as a member of the Society of Western Artists.

This lithograph is featured in PFA Press’s Black and White: Kentucky Prints and Printmakers, available here.

Original prints by Tracy are featured in the exhibition Driftwood: The Life of Harlan Hubbard, now showing at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky, through March 2025.