Robert Spring: Put to the Torch, CSS Florida and Clippership Jacob Bell Large The composition rises from small

The composition rises from small figures along the foreground shore to the clustered village buildings and ultimately to the soaring abbey silhouette above

‘Femme en Chemise’ is the first work by this important artist exclusively for patrons of Associated American Artists

Henry Clay

Rockwell Kent illustrated the 1930 Lakeside Press edition of “Moby Dick”

Kathe Kollwitz

Robert Spring: Put to the Torch, CSS Florida and Clippership Jacob Bell Large The composition rises from smallOriginal watercolor signed by artist. The merchant ship Jacob Bell was in the West Indies, bound from Foochow, China, to New York, with a valuable cargo when she was captured by CSS Florida on 12 February 1863. She was burned the next day.