The Marine Paintings of Carl G. Evers

Unpaginated. Includes color illustrations. "When Evers begins a commission, he checks ship's plans, blueprints, and photographs and when possible, sketches from life. He draws in the hulls, the masts, and then goes back to the research material for details. He studies the ship, for each ship is unique. His attention to detail is so thorough that he is able to recreate dramatic episodes in marine history, like the rescue of the Captain from the Flying Enterprise, or the painting for the epidsode with Vickers' Voyager. The extraordinary talent of Carl Evers, the gift that makes his paintings so memorable, is his ability to capture the sea at the very point of its fluid restlessness, its ever-changing patterns of wave and surf, its frothy spray and unfathomed depths. His sea is alive in all its many moods, clear and calm, mysterious, awesomely threatening."