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  • The Coast Guard Art Program (COGAP)

    These images bring to life the multi-missions performed by the Coast Guard and vividly demonstrate the Service’s contributions to the country.

  • Vessel Launches: Heckin Good Images

    • Art
    • Collections
    • Photography

    The Mariners’ Museum and Park has glorious photographs in its collections, of course, many of them maritime. Despite the number of battle-at-sea images, many of the most striking visuals are vessel launches.

  • Telling a Story: A Documentarian Eye

    • Art
    • Collections
    • Conservation
    • Photography

    Documentary photography is a genre of the medium where the goal is to tell a story through images. The idea is to take photos that, viewed together, can give you a more complete understanding of an event, a person, or even just a location. A do

  • Beyond the Frame: Live Again

    • Art
    • Beyond the Frame
    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage

    In the International Small Craft Center at the Mariners’, there’s a Portuguese Moliceiro, or Kelp Boat. This boat was one of the first 5 in our collection, accessioned in 1934. This moliceiro had a life on the water, felt the sun’s rays and was used and loved by the kelp gatherers.

  • BEYOND THE FRAME: Live Again

    In this episode of Beyond the Frame, Kyra Duffley takes us into the International Small Craft Center to explore the life of our Portuguese Moliceiro, as told through a 1933 painting of the boat by Spanish artist José María López Mezquita. In this work, we learn about the people who used this boat to feed their nation.

  • Beyond The Frame: The Fun of It

    • Art
    • Beyond the Frame
    • Collections
    • Women's History

    While I was looking for information on a different painting, I saw this one of Anna Vaughn Hyatt (later to be Huntington). I was enamored with it and when I discovered the artist behind this painting, Marion Boyd Allen, is female, I might have done a little happy dance.

  • Beyond the Frame: The Fun of it

    This larger-than-life painting portrays Anna not through the gaze of a man or a lover, but through the lens of a friend and admirer looking at someone and capturing their essence, their inner beauty. Anna was fierce, strong, and independent.

  • BEYOND THE FRAME: Will They or Won’t They? 

    Let the darkness, drama, and piercing moonlight draw you into this episode of Beyond the Frame. Artist William Richardson Tyler's 1892 work depicting the sinking of USS Monitor has a greater story to tell than what we might initially think and its a daring, captivating story that leaves us questioning.

  • Beyond the Frame: Will They or Won’t They?

    • Art
    • Beyond the Frame
    • Civil War
    • Collections
    • Military
    • USS Monitor

    Looking at this work, “Rescue of the Crew of the USS Monitor by USS Rhode Island, December 31, 1862” by artist William Richardson Tyler is an experience best enjoyed over a few minutes, at least.

  • Fore-edge painted books

    These magical books are known as Fore-edge painted books, they are very rare and are painted through a specific, delicate process. The fore-edge paintings are sometimes added later than the publishing of the book, so the exact date of them is unknown.

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