Shirley Hogge Maritime Artist

 26 Apr 26:

Hampton Roads maritime artist Shirley Hogge painted this scene of the steamboat ISLE of WIGHT departing Pagan Creek in Smithfield, VA. There are the peanut factories and warehouses on Wharf Hill in the background and an intriguing bowsprit of a skipjack in the foreground. Wof course are most interested in the small boats that ISLE of WIGHT carries.