SOLD FOR $96,000
Ralph Eugene Cahoon, Jr. (Massachusetts 1910-1982) Oil on Masonite “Ships and Scrimshaw,” depicting a stern view of the ship “Susan – Nantucket” with five sailors and four mermaids, three other gun boats anchored and flying American flags, painted domed scrimshaw foliate band, surrounded by two scrimshaw tusks, pair of carved hanging whalebone fids, two hanging scrimshaw sperm whale teeth, two whalebone busks and a scrimshaw bone plaque lower center inscribed, “Ships and Scrimshaw, R. Cahoon PINXT,” in 4 inch antique lemon gilt frame.
31 ½ in. x 41 ½ in. Overall 37 ¼ in. x 47 ½ in.