Article: See-worthy paintings set for sale.

Seven lively, colorful and amusing marine paintings by Cape Cod artist Ralph Cahoon will go on the block Friday, the first part of Eldred's two-day sale in East Dennis.

The paintings include "Sailor's Wedding;" "Transportation," depicting a race between a locomotive, a horse-drawn carriage, a high-wheeler bicycle and mermaids and sailors; "Jolly Tars of 'Sconset," a still life of a Nantucket basket; "Boston Tea Party," showing a smirking Gen. Gage taking tea with a mermaid as cases of tea are tossed overboard from the Beaver; a scene in the "Jolly Tar Barroom," painted for the Temperance Society of Cape Cod; and a scene of four mermaids playing golf, with no ...

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