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Article: Ships and an island.(the book 'An Eye for the Coast: The Maritime and Monhegan Island Photographs by Eric Hudson')
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Unless you reach for the Dramamine at the first mention of salt water, the maritime photographs of Elmer Forrest ("Eric") Hudson (1862-1932) will hit you like an onshore breeze on a summer shore. Hudson's twin passions were painting and the sea, and they fed each other. His paintings of ships and of Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine, where he summered for years, were widely exhibited at all the right museums. However, his photographs, or rather his glass-plate negatives, remained in boxes in the care of his daughters Julie and Jacqueline Hudson. In 1993 Julie died and Jacqueline gave the plates to Earle G. Shettleworth Jr., one of the authors of this book, to present ...
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