Oil on artist canvas board.
Inscribed on back:
"A BOAT" By T. I. Phelan 33 Grey Street East Melb.
A bare masted ketch at an inshore mooring.
Phelan exhibited the painting in the 1953 Victorian Artists Society Autumn Exhibition. The signed exhibition label is extant on verso.
Signed lower left. 
Image size. 245 x 292 mm. (9 5/8 x 12 inches).