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The Chicora

Painting
21x38" framed watercolor painting of the steamship Chicora floundering in high waves. 2.25"silver painted frame and 4" white mat. Artist: Randall Higdon.
ChicoraStorm.jpg; 4 MB -- Digital file at 2021.72.02
Randall Higdon, Chicora artist visits Shipwreck Exhibit Site; Randall Higdon, artist of the original image of the Chicora 'lost at sea' visited the Boathouse exhibition barn at the History Center on July 2. He is pictured above with Kristi Mueller, the volunteer graphic designer who converted the original 22 PicCheck.jpg 219KB - transfered from SDHC photo blog in 2023; Previous Blog Info: Sep 23, 2008 Jack Sheridan, artist, and Bill Werme in front of Pumphouse Museum. Check of $2000 paid to artist for the painting he did which was used in the 2002 Shipwreck exhibit. PicCheck2.jpg 242KB - transfered from SDHC photo blog in 2023 ChStorm.jpg 26.3MB; Digital file on Jack Sheridan Drive 2021.72.02

2018.09

On paper

Watercolor

This painting, depicting the stout ship's final hours before sinking in 1895, was commissioned by the SDHC for use in the 2002 exhibit "Storm, Fire and Ice" and companion publication. In 2012 the painting was reproduced as a mural for the Francis Lifeboat display and shipwreck exhibit in the History Center's garden

ArtworksNauticalTransportation: water

Voss, Mary

Higdon, Randall

2002

21 in

38 in

2nd floor gallery/conference room

Excellent

Chicora (ship) 1892-1895

Status: OK Status By: Mary Voss Status Date: 2018-03-12

03/12/2018

09/05/2024