Arctic Seas
by James Williamson
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22.000 x 15.000 inches
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Title
Arctic Seas
Artist
James Williamson
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
Come o'er the sea, where'er blows the welcome winds, through calm, through tempest, the wild oceans call.
Arctic Seas watercolor painting by artist James Williamson.
Artist James Williamson, ASMA
Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists
To some explorers, the bitter winds of the polar seas sang a sirens song, offering the promise of a northern passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the chance to conquer a frozen frontier.
Plowing through frigid northern seas, generations of explorers scoured a maze of islands and inlets for a passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific. Evidence for a passage in northern latitudes was flimsy, but hopes were high.
Explorers from countries such as England, Holland, France and the United States came poorly prepared for the Arctic, where temperatures sank to minus 50 degrees F and seas choke with pack ice. They discovered new lands, fishing grounds and people, but the original goal, an easy northern passage from Europe to the Orient, remained elusive. The record of men who defied death and disappointment in the Arctic's forbidding environment is an epic of endurance.
Though all the early passages proved to be dead ends, impassable for the ships of the time, the unknown mistie, melancholy and snowy world of northern seas yielded many surprises.
Arctic Seas is dedicated to the ships that sailed the polar seas, and to the mariner's life at risk with achievement, the hard-won reward and to the courage, skill and endurance of the crews and their experienced and practical captains. A tribute to the lives invested, the youth, strength and talents spent by adventurous explorers and merchantmen during the age of sail. ARGH! LADS and LASSIES! Arctic seas give way to global warming and climate change and navigating the poles will become a bit more comfortable.
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