- Titles My Man Has Gone to Sea (Proper)
- Artist Walter Sanford, American, 1912 - 1987
- Medium mixed media on board
- Dimensions 19 × 14 1/2 in. (48.3 × 36.8 cm)
- Credit Line Gift of Norman and Carnetta Davis, 2020.71
- Work Type painting
- Classification Paintings
- Signature Verso, upper right, graphite: Sanford
- Inscription Verso, upper right, graphite: My Man has gone to Sea- / Sanford 51 Verso, on frame at right, printed label: CHARLES & Co. / Pembridge Frameries / 45 Pembridge Road / London, W.11 / Tel. : 01.727 6306
- Provenance Private collection, Indianapolis, Indiana; auctioned at African American Fine Art - Session Two, Treadway, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 15, 2019; lot 376; purchased by Carnetta and Norm Davis, Vestavia Hills, Alabama, at Inaugural Black Art Auction, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 16, 2020, lot 123; gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 2020