''Enough to Clutch at the Heart'' The Fribergs, Marine Artists by Alex A. Hurst
Maggie and Handel at home, surrounded by evidences of the seafaring heritage they celebrate in their work .
Flying Fish.famous McKay clipper of I 85 1, storms along close-hauled in a picture that expresses the eager look of the ocean greyhound and the urgency with which she is sailed.
Stock holm was not idly dubbed "The Venice of the North." Even today, the huge, box-like a nd often multi-colored ferri es cannot detract from its charm as they ply its spendid approaches through an archipelago which is sheer magic . And th e harbor with its radiating waterways, must rank amongst the cleanest in th e world , even though it may not vie with the greatest in terms of cargo-hand ling. Sweden is a country wi th a great maritime tradition extending back to Viking times and, in those last days when merchant sail was still operati ng, Stockholm still had a mass of jakts, galleasses and small schooners coming to its quays, some of the for mer being built at nearby Roslag and elsewhere. There th ey were, with their brai ling sails and high deckloads, rubbing shou lders with the steamers, mainly painted white, which were operating virtuall y in the heart of the city. Then , only hours away, there was Mariehamn, home of the last big fleet of squ are-riggers, and all this was eno ugh to clutch at the heart of many a you ng man. So it was with Carl-Handel Friberg. Oddly, his family had little enough connection wit h the sea, but their home was situated where it looked over the entrance to the harbor , and soon he was haun ting the Skeppargrund (Skippers' Lane), the Lotsgatan