Accession Number: 2025-012-02
Original work: Oil on Linen
Original size: 21 by 21.5 inches
OnFriday 2 July 2010 USS Missouri (SSN-780,) the seventh of the Virginia-class attack submarines is under way from the General Dynamics Electric Boat facility in Groton, Connecticut to the Atlantic Ocean for sea trials. The Missouri would, later that month, be commissioned and join Submarine Squadron 4 based at US Naval Base New London in Groton. The submarine was the fourth US Navy vessel to be named in honor of the state of Missouri. Following numerous deployments, the Missouri left New London for its new homeport of Pearl Harbor on 26 January 2018.
Why I chose this topic:
I started this painting to work on at the National World War I Museum in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, as I was scheduled to work with the Communications Outreach Division of NHHC in November 2024 painting on location. I was originally born and raised in the Kansas City area and it seemed fitting that I would complete such a painting
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Painting Details:
This painting was completed on 30 January 2025. It has been roughly a three-week project with holiday leave in Kansas City with family and to pick up the painting I had left there a few weeks earlier. I used a pre-gessoed smooth Centurion linen to aid in detail and I stretched the linen on Gator board using a neutral pH adhesive made by LineCoas I would be carrying it to KC on the airplane.The painting was accomplished using oil paints, Neo-Megilp (Gamblin) gel medium and was varnished with a 50/50 mixture of Gamsol odorless mineral spirits and Galkyd (both Gamblin products.)
Reproduction Size:
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