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Victor Mays - Lulu W. Eppes at Ellesworth Maine

limited edition print on paper

550 numbered and hand signed by the artist

11.5 x 19.5

MAYLU1

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Victor Mays - Block Island Boat Beaching

limited edition print on paper

550

10.25 x 17.5

MAYBL1

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Victor Mays - Collier Brig and Barge

limited edition print on paper

550

5.75 x 10

MAYCO1

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Victor Mays - Lumber Docks Bangor Maine

limited edition print on paper

550

11.25 x 19.5

MAYLU2

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Victor Mays - Block Island Boat Beaching

giclée on canvas

12 x 20

MAYBL2

$125.00

LEWIS VICTOR MAYS (1927-2015) was the son of Indiana parents transplanted to Manhattan. Raised in Bronxville NY during the 1930's, he vividly recalls square-rigged, rust-streaked grain shops sailing up Long Island Sound, weathered schooners still working the coast and the thrill of driving past rows of magnificent Atlantic liners at their Hudson River piers. His interest in both the sea and drawing began at an early age. Mays enlisted in the Navy in the latter days of World War II and was commissioned upon graduation from Yale following the war. While at Yale he took several art electives and after college wrote and illustrated Fast Iron, a sea novel for older children which won the Boys Club of America Gold Medal. Mays continued a career as a writer and freelance illustrator of magazines and books with a parallel career as a naval Intelligence officer on both active and reserve service. In 1978, Mays retired from the naval reserve as a Captain, and at the same time gave up book illustration, devoting full time to historically-oriented marine watercolors "” the subject and medium he most enjoys. He concentrates on the everyday working vessels of the 19th and early 20th centuries, favoring stone sloops, oyster carriers and coal schooners over the more elegant clippers.