Arts and Artists in SF Maritime Collections

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Highlights from the Park's collections related to the arts, artists, crafts, artisans, and traditional skills:

 

Artists, artisans, craft workers:

Cleveland, Ron:

• "Collection Spotlight: Ron Cleveland Photograph Collection" (blog post)

Hiler, Hilaire:

• "The colors of Hilaire Hiler" (article at Vastari.com featuring photo of Bathhouse Building ceiling)
• "Discovering Hiler" (blog post)
• See also "Painting and paintings" below for more on the Bathhouse Building

Johnson, Sargent:

• Sargent Johnson: Bay Area Artist
• See also "Painting and paintings" below for more on the Bathhouse Building

Ramm, John Milton:

• "John Milton Ramm" (Collections Corner article)

 

Arts, crafts, skills:

Models and modelmaking:

• America: "Ship Model of the Schooner Yacht America" (Collections Corner article)
• America: "Model of the Racing Sloop Yacht America"
• Deep-keeled large pond racing yacht model
• Golden Hind (full hull model): "What d'ya mean by 'Crow's Nest'?" (blog post)
• Hydraulic dredge models: "Hydraulic Dredging" (blog post, showing and discussing patent models)
• Model Ships (NPS Museum Web Catalog "Collection Highlights" online exhibit which features some of the models in our Collections)
• Plans for the Park's historic vessels: see our Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Drawings page for obtaining them free online, or in print for a fee.
• Triple-expansion steam engine model
• See also: "Cleveland, Ron" (above)

Music

• Chantey Pathfinder (a guide to recordings, literature, scores, and sites all about chanties)
• "Now Online: Gems from Olivette" (blog post)

Painting and paintings:

• Aquatic Park Bathhouse Building (pan, scan, and zoom images of the interior of the building at nonplused.org)
• "Interesting Items Dug Up During Renovation Work" (Collections Corner article about items found during renovation of the Aquatic Park Bathhouse (Museum) Building and work on the Building's murals)
• Maritime Artwork at San Francisco Maritime (NPS Museum Web Catalog "Collection Highlights" online exhibit)
• "A Wartime Mural Preserved" (Collections Corner article)

Scrimshaw and carvings:

• "Play Cribbage Like a Sailor" (blog post)
• Reardon Collection of Scrimshaw and Carvings
• "Scrimshawed Walrus Tusks" (Collections Corner article)

Silverwork:

• "A Silver Link to our Golden Past" (Collections Corner article)

Textiles and fashion:

• "Digging for Gold at the Library: Shipshape" (blog post)
• "Summer of 2012 has Arrived--Got Your Layers?" (blog post)
• "Yarns (That You Can Knit or Crochet)" (blog post)