Skip Whitcomb (B. 1946) Fishing from a Boat

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  Skip Whitcomb (American, B. 1946) "Fishing from a Boat" Signed lower left. Original Watercolor painting on Illustration Board.
  
  Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation.
  
  This painting is the original painting which was published on the Fleetwood First Day of Issue Maximum Card for the U.S. 19c Fishing Boat stamp issued August 8, 1991.
  
  "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish." With this sentence, Ernest Hemingway began his immortal classic The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Hemingway masterfully silenced critics with its publication, later winning the Pulitzer Prize for the work, a simple tale of an old man, a fish, the sea and a boat. For as long as man has turned to the sea for food, boats have played an important role. Fishing boats such as those belonging to the old man in Hemingway's yarn have transported man onto lake, river and ocean for centuries. As early as 6000 B.C., the Egyptians built boats from tightly-woven bundles of reeds, craft which took them out onto the waters of the Nile and into the Mediterranean in a never-ending quest for fish. The first boats employing planking along the sides supported by ribs were developed in 2000 B.C. in Crete. Slowly, the fishing boat took on different designs around the world, each design adapted to the waters and available construction materials in specific areas. Today, some of the old designs are still in use and fishing boats still play a very crucial role in modern economies. Contemporary fishermen may rely upon dozens of inventions from electronic sonar equipment to locate fish, to sensitive instruments which gauge water quality, but even the best fishermen of today can go many days without taking a fish just as Hemingway's Old Man.
  
  Image Size: 10 x 15.25 in.
  Overall Size: 13.75 x 18 in.
  Unframed.
  (B12954)

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