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This richly illustrated volume, including color plates, presents more than 1,000 marine paintings and drawings in the collection of Mystic Seaport Museum. The book's 636 entries cover American, European, Chinese, and Japanese artists. Indexes to vessels depicted, names of their masters, and geographical backgrounds of the paintings are included. Published under a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this book is indispensable to the collector, curator, and scholar of maritime art and history.
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Excerpt from Maritime Mystic Maritime Mystic is the story Of a typical New England community which had its seafaring glory in the period which climaxed with the peak days Of the Age Of Sail. The book is the outcome Of painstaking research into the life and activities Of men and women, families and firms, sloops, schooners and Ships which helped create a heritage we must not forget. Historic data has been woven into a fabric that gives new insight into the seaport life Of the past, supplemented by fresh information concerning some Of the happenings recounted in earlier studies Of the area. It is a happy fact that Mrs. Anderson's concept emanated from her thesis as a student at the Munson Inst...
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