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The Red Tanker - Museum Purchase Award Mystic International Marityime Art Exhibition 2008 Permanent collection of Mystic Seaport's Museum of America and the Sea, Mystic, CT. This old tanker with its name obscured by paint on the bow is being towed to a breakers yard in Brooklyn by a Turecamo tug. The scene is in the mid 1970's before the "Twin Towers" were brought down by terrorists. The tanker and "Twin Towers" are gone forever and the world, in general, has passed into a more complicated and lethal era. Watercolor on Arches 140LB WC paper. This watercolor was selected for the 29th Annual International Marine Art Exhibition at the Maritime Gallery, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT. 9/27/08 to 11/16/08. The painting was awarded the "Museum Purchase Award" and is now part of the museum's permanent collection. Reference #5112 17 X 23 (image) SOLD Browse Categories • Pencil and Watercolor Studies • Freighters, Tankers,Tugs and Barges • A Press of Sail! • Ships and Marine Railways • Landscapes and Seascapes • Model Ships
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