In Frank Vining Smith's ca 1900-40 oil painting, The Wild Gulf Stream,  we explore the artist's muse and his inspirations through his depiction of a singular large wave that fills his grand canvas. His life led him to the waters' edge time and time again, and in this blog we explore what it is about a wave that calls us, too.

This “Artifact of the Month” is a piece of china from the White Star Line. The White Star Line was a prominent British shipping company and today is most known for its ship, RMS Titanic.

In this edition of Beyond the Frame, we explore a grouping of 4 small oil paintings by the artist Milton J. Burns painted between ca. 1875 and 1925. Though this grouping was very likely never intended by the artist, they work together to tell a greater story, allowing the viewer insight into the life of the artist, and even an interpretive narrative of the life of a fisherman.

Early European explorers and settlers to Virginia found that the Indigenous population had a successful watercraft of their own: the dugout canoe. Canoes were laboriously crafted from a single log.