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USS Scorpion at Periscope Depth
Oil on Canvas
18 x 24
$750.00 Available
This is the fifth painting in my "Ships That Never Were" series. It features the sole surviving American naval vessel surveying the devastation in the Northern Hemisphere after an apocalyptic nuclear war.
"Scorpion" and her crew were the subjects of Nevil Shute's 1957 novel "On The Beach" and the 1959 film of the same title starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner.
Though Shute chose "Scorpion" for the name of his fictitious nuclear boat, there were actually two US submarines of the same name: SS-278 lost in January 1944 in the Pacific during World War Two, and SSN-589 lost in the Atlantic in May 1968.
In creating this work I hoped to convey the dark solitude of the submarine's world and deep somberness of her mission. I hope you'll agree I've succeeded. |
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