Charles J Lundgren (New York, Connecticut, 1911 - 1988) "Tovarisch" Signed lower right. Oil on Masonite.
Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation.
This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood First Day Cover for the USSR 20k Kruzenshtern stamp issued September 18, 1981.
This 20th century wind machine climaxed the evolution of the sail yet the Kruzenshtern was only the after-glow of a brief and glorious day when the square-rigger touched perfection. Built in 1926 for the once-great Laeisz firm of Hamburg, this spectacular four-masted bark of 378 ft. and 3,064 tons was christened the Padua, and was the last of a generation of legendary "Flying P" German cargo square-riggers. One of the largest "windjammers" in the world, the Padua was designed to glide around Cape Horn at 16 knots with more than 4,000 square feet of sail. But soon, World War II and its advancing diesel technology finally completed what World War I had begun with its steam engines ... the twilight era of the windjammers. In 1946, the Laeisz firm's Padua became a war reparation from Germany to the Soviet Union and was renamed the Kruzenshtern after renowned Russian one of the very few commercial sailing ships that found "life after death," sailing as cadet training vessels, tradition-encrusted symbols of the seafaring past for modern navies. Now sailing under the Soviet flag, the Kruzenshtern is a cadet's dream, a legend of the sea, and a successor and creator of new seamanlike traditions.
Image Size: 19.5 x 22 in.
Overall Size: 25 x 27.25 in.
Unframed.
(B07268)
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