The Helen Mar
by Bill Hudson
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Dimensions
14.000 x 20.000 inches
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Title
The Helen Mar
Artist
Bill Hudson
Medium
Painting - Watercolor & Casein
Description
The reference for this painting is a photograph taken in 1871 by Stephen F. Adams. This is the bark Helen Mar, a whaler being fitted for new sails in New Bedford, Massachusetts which was then the whaling capital of the world. The Helen Mar “set out for the North Pacific on September 26, 1871 and returned four and a half years later, laden with sperm whale oil and 36,085 pounds of baleen.”¹ On October 6, 1892 the Helen Mar crashed into an ice floe and sank within 10 minutes taking 34 men to their grave. Five men leaped onto the ice and survived.
1 Whitman, Nicholas, (1994), A Window Back, Photography in a Whaling Port, (p. 15), Spinner Publications Inc.
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November 8th, 2016
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