"The Seas of Cape Horn" oil 30x40 James E. Mitchell Jim Mitchell has tackled the most difficult of marine subjects-the raw sea with no distractionswith breathtaking success. This fine composition mounts, wave by massive wave, to the Horn itself, and sweeps beyond the horizon with artless grace. Mitchell's large repertoire of fluent brushwork apparently carried no white, just infinite shades of blues and greens of entrancing subtlety. The irresistible siren is the wanton sea itself.
"Sheeting In" oil approx. 38x48 Charles R. Robinson The steep foredeck of the Falls of Clyde offered precarious footing for sheeting in the outer jib. Aching shoulders and cold wet bunks were worth it, for the thrill of dipping the rail to a mountainous sea in the Roaring Forties. The drama cast by empty sunlight on the geometry of rigging focuses on the dynamic wedge of straining figures. This boldly cropped composition was sketched on board at the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, one hundred years lo the day after Clyde's commissioning in 1878.