Original charcoal and pencil in a private collection
Limited edition lithographic prints; total signed editions 1, edition sizes 150; substrate premier white 100% acid-free paper
Image size 20 x 14 in. $110.00
This black-and-white rendering of skipjacks at Deal Island, MD depicts man versus nature in a non-classical "x" composition (i.e., draw an imaginary diagonal line from the dark ducks to the mid-ground dark boat and then another connecting the white boat to the left with the white ducks and the snow in the right foreground). Skipjacks are shallow-draft wooden sailboats (25-60 ft. long, with a centerboard) favored by Chesapeake Bay oyster dredging and crab pot fishermen. The only sail-powered working fleet remaining in the United States, skipjacks used to be plentiful (2,000 in 1910) but less than a dozen now fish Bay waters.
