MARINE ART:
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"Coffee's Ready," 24 x 36 inches, oil on linen. This peaceful morning scene at Manitowoc shows a bit ofthe harbor now occupied by the Wisconsin Maritime Museum. I have painted it as it might have looked I 00 years ago, with cargo schooners and a steam barge.
fter Navy service in the Pacific in World War II , Charles Peterson studied at Chicago's Art Institute and graduated fro m the American Academy of Art. He earned a BA at Marietta College and an MFA at Ohio U nivers ity and pursued further study at the U ni versity of W isconsin. T hereafter he enjoyed a twenty-year career as Professor of Art, including fifteen as head of the Art Depanmen t at Marietta College. In 1973 Peterson moved with his family to Ephraim, Wisconsin, and took up a new career as fulltime painter in which he soon established a national reputation. Initially Peterso n became widely known fo r his ill usrrations for WoodenBoat, Sail,
"Empty H anded: Mate's Boat," 21x28 inches, watercolor. These men have approached a whale for a successful harpooning followed by a wild "Nantucket sleigh ride" and finally lost a potentially valuable and certainly dangerous quarry. They are returning to their ship exhausted, frustrated but glad to be alive-an aspect ofthe industry rarely portrayed. ~--------~~~-----------~
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SEA HISTORY 101 , SUMMER 2002