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  • BEYOND THE FRAME: The Foundry

    In this episode of Beyond the Frame, we visit the floor of the Newport News Shipbuilding foundry in both 1953 and present-day to explore the impact of scale in Thomas Skinner's 1953 painting "The Foundry".

  • Conserving the Samuel Hartt Pook Papers

    These documents outline, firsthand, the career of Naval Architect Samuel Hartt Pook. These historic papers highlight one of the most significant advancements in American Naval history. At the onset of the Civil War, Pook and his father (also a naval architect) aided the transition of the US fleet from wooden to iron and steel-hulled warships.

  • USS Neversail: The Landlocked Ship That Made Its Own Waves

    • Collections
    • Military
    • Photography
    • Technology

    During World War I, a Navy vessel ‘sailed’ the concrete of New York City for three years. The only water it ever encountered was from the sky and the city’s municipal water supply. The battleship, nicknamed “USS Neversail” and the “Street Dreadnaught,” was officially christened USS Recruit.

  • Beyond the Frame: The Essence of a Memory

    • Art
    • Beyond the Frame
    • Collections
    • Recreation

    Have you ever had a moment that feels almost like Deja-vu? It feels like it’s a memory, but you know it isn’t? Experiencing “Full Tide” by Frederick Judd Waugh is a moment like this – a memory or possibly something deeper in our subconscious.

  • BEYOND THE FRAME: The Essence of a Memory

    In this episode of Beyond the Frame, we explore the essence of memories as represented by Frederick Judd Waugh's 1929 seascape, "Full Tide." In this work, we see how the artist has shown us not just the way this moment looked, but the way it felt.

  • A Pirate “Takes” a Wife

    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage
    • Exploration

    As promised, here is the rip-roaring story of how Manolis Mermelechas, a pirate of Mykonos, Greece, “took” his wife (and I mean “took” literally, not figuratively!). Pay attention Hollywood…there’s a great plot for a pirate movie here!

  • Beyond the Frame: The Story of the Ship

    • Art
    • Beyond the Frame
    • Collections

    The Story of the Ship is a story of life cycles. In this circa 1924 series by Harry Neyland, the artist uses 5 small oil on panel paintings to illustrate the creation, life, and demise of this vessel. But there are two life cycles directly associated with this series.

  • BEYOND THE FRAME: The Story of the Ship

    In this episode, we explore "The Story of the Ship" series by Harry Neyland (1924 Oil on Canvas). It is a series of 5 works - a first for Beyond the Frame, but also the first 5 oil paintings in the Museum's collection. We

  • A ‘Bucko’ No More

    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage

    On ‘Talk Like A Pirate’ day in September 2019, we posted a message on Twitter showing a watercolor portrait of an ornately dressed man named “Marmalakè.”

  • Parthian and the Pirates

    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage

    This week, while trying to identify prints in our collection that showed dghasa, a beautiful little craft native to Malta, I stumbled across a really interesting watercolor painted by Nicolas Cammillieri. The artwork is titled “H.M. Sloop Parthian Capturing a Spanish Pirate.” The computer record didn’t contain any information about the event depicted but I figured there must be an interesting story behind the artwork–and I was right!

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