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"DESTROYER", Ceramic Sculpture, Sinking Boat, Sinking Ship, Disaster, Humor, SOS
By Andrew Smenos
Located in Toronto, Ontario
rusted hulk of a ship is sinking however, itself destroyed... At 4x7x3", this compact but accurately
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Paint, Ceramic

"CALL NOW WHILE SUPPLIES LAST", Ceramic Sculpture, Sinking Ship, Disaster, Humor
By Andrew Smenos
Located in Toronto, Ontario
SUPPLIES LAST" – a cargo ship sinking slowly... At 6x3x3", this compact but accurately detailed sculpture
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Paint

Sinking Ship
By John Hultberg
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: John Hultberg Title: Sinking Ship Medium: Serigraph Signed: Hand Signed Edition: From
Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

"Sinking Ship", Oil Painting
By Scott Fraser
Located in Denver, CO
Scott Fraser's "Sinking Ship" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts gold fish snacks
Category

2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Sinking Ship drawing", Graphite Drawing
By Scott Fraser
Located in Denver, CO
Scott Fraser's "Sinking Ship drawing" is an original, handmade graphite drawing that depicts gold
Category

2010s Photorealist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Loose Lips Sink Ships, Oil Painting
By David Shepherd
Located in San Francisco, CA
, lips, people, large, people, flora, realism, oil painting, pinkLoose Lips Sink Ships
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sinking Ship, Abstract Print by John Hultberg
By John Hultberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Hultberg Title: Sinking Ship Year: 1978 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in
Category

1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Striving Hard to Reach the Wreck, British Seascape, Sinking Ship, Rescue
By Thomas Rose Miles
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Thomas Rose Miles (British, 1844-1916) Signed: T R Miles (Canvas Verso) " Striving Hard to Reach the Wreck " Oil on Canvas 22" x 34" Housed in a 3 1/4" Frame with a 1" Liner Ov...
Category

Late 19th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"The Reefing of the USS Radford" Color Photograph of Sinking Ship
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
sizes This iconic photograph depicts the sinking of the USS Radford, with part of the vessel
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

C Print

Kitchen Sink Drama
By Lauren Rinaldi
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Kitchen Sink Drama" is an original artwork made from oil on panel by Lauren
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Sinking Of The Saratoga Watercolor By War Correspondent
Located in New Orleans, LA
sinking, the composition illustrates the once formidable ship at a dramatic angle, surrounded by swelling
Category

20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Dynamic Sink Pulse One One One One
By Christina McPhee
Located in New York, NY
Dynamic Sink Pulse One One One One, 2009 digital chromogenic print, aluminum back mount, acrylic
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

C Print

American Merchant Ship S.S. PLEIADES, Later WWI US Navy Ship USS PLEIADES
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
1917 date the ship would be commissioned as the US Naval Ship USS PLEIADES. The ship was built in 1900
Category

1910s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Careless World ...A Needless Sinking original 1942 vintage World War 2 poster
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Spokane, WA
from their ship that has been bombed and set afire. Smoke billows from the sinking ship creating a
Category

1940s American Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Offset

The Isle of Skye Ferry, 20th Century Travel Poster Original Oil
By Norman Wilkinson
Located in London, GB
unprecedented success in torpedo attacks on British ships, sinking nearly eight per day. In his autobiography
Category

20th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

The Broken Mast
By George Curtis
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
forth a work of accomplished artistic beauty from the subject matter of the rescue of a ship which has
Category

1870s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A view in Lyon, France 1927, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
unclog toilets and sinks - We "prune"* cats without pain). *That's indeed the exact translation of the
Category

1920s Art Deco Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Original "BEWARE Spreading Vital Informaton .. SILENCE" vintage WWII poster
Located in Spokane, WA
the safety of Armed Forces members. The theme of Loose Lips Sink Ships was a standard message in
Category

1940s American Impressionist Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Original "Fire Away! Buy Extra Bonds, 5th War Loan" vintage submarine poster.
By Georges Schreiber
Located in Spokane, WA
a Navy ship at sea. One sailor uses a searchlight, and the other is looking through binoculars. The
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Offset

Christos J. Palios - Gold Dust, Study VI, Photography 2018, Printed After
By Christos J. Palios
Located in Greenwich, CT
sinking of the SS Central America, the "Ship of Gold", discovered on the ocean floor in the 1990s. The
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Christos J. Palios - Gold Dust, Study V, Photography 2018, Printed After
By Christos J. Palios
Located in Greenwich, CT
sinking of the SS Central America, the "Ship of Gold", discovered on the ocean floor in the 1990s. The
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Christos J. Palios - Gold Dust, Study IV, Photography 2018, Printed After
By Christos J. Palios
Located in Greenwich, CT
sinking of the SS Central America, the "Ship of Gold", discovered on the ocean floor in the 1990s. The
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Christos J. Palios - Gold Dust, Study III, Photography 2018, Printed After
By Christos J. Palios
Located in Greenwich, CT
sinking of the SS Central America, the "Ship of Gold", discovered on the ocean floor in the 1990s. The
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Christos J. Palios - Gold Dust, Study II, Photography 2018, Printed After
By Christos J. Palios
Located in Greenwich, CT
sinking of the SS Central America, the "Ship of Gold", discovered on the ocean floor in the 1990s. The
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Christos J. Palios - Gold Faceplate, Photography 2018, Printed After
By Christos J. Palios
Located in Greenwich, CT
America wooden sidewheel steamer sinking 200 miles off the Carolinas’ coast in 1857. Shortly after being
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

1944 Original American Poster for the liberation of Paris - WWII - Eiffel Tower
Located in PARIS, FR
sink." The motto accompanies and refers to the ship represented on the coat of arms of Paris, symbol
Category

1940s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

"Superior (Great Lakes), " Oil on Panel, 2023
Located in Chicago, IL
of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a Great Lakes freighter that was downed by a massive
Category

2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Oil

Limited Edition Williams College Museum exhibition poster on lithographic paper
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
(this work ships rolled in a tube measuring 36" x 6" x 6") Unframed Limited edition vintage (1976
Category

1970s Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Bark HESPER Unloading Lumber at San Diego
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
This bright and serene scene of ships unloading off San Diego, California features a ship with a
Category

Early 2000s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Red Cross Annual Roll Call original vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
different outlook during wartime on the "Loose Lips Sink Ships" Very little information is documented
Category

1920s American Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

1942 Grumman "Avenger" US torpedo bomber plane identification poster WW2
Located in London, GB
and widely-used torpedo bomber of World War II, sharing credit for sinking the super-battleships
Category

1940s Modern Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Illustration for 'Somewhere at Sea'
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
wronged by his superiors, shows up to save them from the sinking ship, Selkirk. The artist captured the
Category

1910s Paintings

Materials

Oil

El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate III
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Fairlawn, OH
inevitable: suddenly pilot error or disarray of the compasses, the ship leaves the canal and sinks under the
Category

1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Whitehaven Quay
By Robert Salmon
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
exposure to the prevailing westerly winds. This animated scene likely depicts the sinking of the British
Category

1820s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel, Cardboard

Undreamed Shores - Contemporary Oil Painting of a Woman Walking Through Water
By Jantien de Boer
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
resistance that the water evokes. As modern water nymphs, her water-ladies wade, sink and sink through
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sleepwalker - Contemporary Oil Painting of a Woman Seen From Under Water
By Jantien de Boer
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
resistance that the water evokes. As modern water nymphs, her water-ladies wade, sink and sink through
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Edith - 21st Century Contemporary Portrait Oil Painting of a Woman
By Jantien de Boer
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
resistance that the water evokes. As modern water nymphs, her water-ladies wade, sink and sink through
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Touch- 21st Century Oilpainting of a girl floating and reflecting in the water
By Jantien de Boer
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
resistance that the water evokes. As modern water nymphs, her water-ladies wade, sink and sink through
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Topsyturfy-21st Century Painting of a Girl Floating in water
By Jantien de Boer
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
resistance that the water evokes. As modern water nymphs, her water-ladies wade, sink and sink through
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

PRINZ EUGEN - A Royal Demise
By Arthur Edwaine Beaumont
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
and sinking the ship in minutes. It was a stunning defeat for the British, but one that would be
Category

1940s Post-War Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Liz Sweibel, All Fall Down 6, 2019, Thread, vellum, Abstract Drawing
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
hull hogged. The anchor dragged. The ship runs up a reef, breaks up, burns, sinks, gets towed, or
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Post-Minimalist Abstract Drawings and Wate...

Materials

Thread, Vellum

Liz Sweibel, All Fall Down 7, 2019, Thread, vellum, Abstract Drawing
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
hull hogged. The anchor dragged. The ship runs up a reef, breaks up, burns, sinks, gets towed, or
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Post-Minimalist Abstract Drawings and Wate...

Materials

Thread, Vellum

Liz Sweibel, All Fall Down 2, 2019, Thread, vellum, Abstract Drawing
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
hull hogged. The anchor dragged. The ship runs up a reef, breaks up, burns, sinks, gets towed, or
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Post-Minimalist Abstract Drawings and Wate...

Materials

Thread, Vellum

Liz Sweibel, All Fall Down 4, 2019, Thread, vellum, Abstract Drawing
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
hull hogged. The anchor dragged. The ship runs up a reef, breaks up, burns, sinks, gets towed, or
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Post-Minimalist Abstract Drawings and Wate...

Materials

Thread, Vellum

Liz Sweibel, All Fall Down 3, 2019, Thread, vellum, Abstract Drawing
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
hull hogged. The anchor dragged. The ship runs up a reef, breaks up, burns, sinks, gets towed, or
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Post-Minimalist Abstract Drawings and Wate...

Materials

Thread, Vellum

Liz Sweibel, All Fall Down 1, 2019, Thread, vellum, Abstract Drawing
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
hull hogged. The anchor dragged. The ship runs up a reef, breaks up, burns, sinks, gets towed, or
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Post-Minimalist Abstract Drawings and Wate...

Materials

Thread, Vellum

El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate I
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Fairlawn, OH
disarray of the compasses, the ship leaves the canal and sinks under the incredulous eyes of a forbidden
Category

1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate IV
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Fairlawn, OH
disarray of the compasses, the ship leaves the canal and sinks under the incredulous eyes of a forbidden
Category

1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

18th Century French Map and City View of Joppe/Jaffa (Tel Aviv) by Sanson
By Nicholas Sanson d'Abbeville
Located in Alamo, CA
ship on the left appears to be firing its canons and a small ship on the right appears to be sitting
Category

Early 1700s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Engraving

Secrets of the Deep, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
sinking into the depths of a dark and murky puddle? What secrets does this deep pool hold? This painting
Category

2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Vintage Illustration Judaica Painting, The Rabbi's (Men at Prayers)
By Samuel George Cahan
Located in Surfside, FL
crouched outside a restaurant and drew the sinking of Maine. At the time, it was recognizable ship that was
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Young Lady in Profile
By Harrison M. Fisher
Located in Fairlawn, OH
actress, Miss Dorothy Winifred Gibson (1889-1946). She was one of the lucky ones who survived the sinking
Category

1910s American Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Graphite

A Fine Judaica Etching "Atonement" Yom Kippur in the Synagogue
By Samuel George Cahan
Located in Surfside, FL
sinking of Maine. At the time, it was recognizable ship that was smashed by the British. One of the men
Category

Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

After a Long Day 1
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
sinking into its embrace, providing a much-needed respite from the outside world. The white round-neck top
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Charcoal, Mixed Media

After a Long Day 1
After a Long Day 1
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El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate X
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Fairlawn, OH
the Ghost Ship (1868), 12 illustration by Wilfredo Lam Edition: 99 (6/99) This one of an edition of 99
Category

1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Landscape with Trees
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Quartermaster Corp at the Army Depot in Philadelphia, where he served for more than a year loading ships with
Category

1920s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Crew Quarters
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
exhibition at The Front Room. Mallon's extraordinarily soulful portrait of the great ship combines sweeping
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Promenade 30"x45" limited edition photograph, 1/5
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
extraordinarily soulful portrait of the great ship combines sweeping views of the rusty hull with intimate
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Promenade
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
exhibition at The Front Room. Mallon's extraordinarily soulful portrait of the great ship combines sweeping
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Crew Quarters
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
soulful portrait of the great ship combines sweeping views of the rusty hull with intimate interior shots
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

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