Melville's Inspiration Jenness Cortez 1998 Acrylic on Mahogany Wood Panel Painting Archivist Gallery or as a place to

or as a place to hold jewelry while doing the dishes

Filled with colorful hand-tied salmon flies

Named for the boat building of Bristol

A handmade ceramic petite bowl for olive oil

and a pelican peering into a picnic basket to find a kitten snacking away

Melville's Inspiration Jenness Cortez 1998 Acrylic on Mahogany Wood Panel Painting Archivist Gallery or as a place toNo detail is left unturned in artist Jenness Cortez' oil on wood panel painting. Using inspiration from Nathaniel Currier's 1852 hand colored lithograph The Whale Fishery Laying On, W. L. Roderick's 1855 scrimshaw whale tooth, Joseph Oriel Eaton's 1870 portrait of Herman Melville, an American Folk Art Nantucket sperm whale nautical sailor whirligig and a 1827 clipping from the Nantucket Inquirer, the artist captures New England's island history and