Enjoy a visit to Ed Whitebone’s marine photography collection from the 1980’s and 1990’s! His images of working boats from the coast of British Columbia include ships, tugboats, coastal views. This Fraser Valley, BC, artist has a second collection at the same location based on Kodak Instamatic images of the 1970’s.
Whitebone has made an [...]
See more historic Alaskan fishing boats than you ever imagined! Additions made regularly. I just rediscovered this amazing photo archive of 20th-century Alaskan fisher folk and their craft! What an inspiration: many thanks to the creator of the site.
I found this one a few years ago. Then somehow I lost track of the link and [...]
Maritime art on the east coast has an outstanding practitioner in Tim Wood of Vermont. His subject are New England boats and harbors, and he usually works in acrylic. The painting that made me a fan is below, called, “While Commercial Street Frolics”, combining the challenge of capturing the sense of individual boats in harbor [...]
Also tagged art, boat, east coast, marine, Tim Wood, vermontRobert Earle Wood, 1926-1999.
The masterful watercolorist was born in Gardena, CA; he grew up in southern California and studied at Pomona College, with major influences being Rex Brandt & Phil Dike. Wood taught art at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and other institutions. He brought the “California Style” of painting to new heights, being one [...]
Above is a recent photo by me of another restored boat at Pillar Point Harbor in northern California: the F/V Verona, a fishing vessel more than one hundred years old, now restored to its historical beauty and dash!
If you enjoyed the earlier links, I have three more you may like, which are websites put up [...]
Inspiring are the photos online of vintage Pacific fishing boats. (Shown is the “Irene 3″, refurbished as a harbor tour boat, docked in Pillar Point Harbor in March 2009. A 90-year-old wooden boat, once the pride of the fishing Bettencourts of that same harbor for many years.)
Some sites, such as www.salmontrolling.com [go to Pictures and [...]
