Art and Literature | New Bedford Whaling Museum
网页Learn about scrimshaw, the most well-known whaler's art. Look at the most famous of all whaling literature, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
Derek Fine | Maui Hands
网页Derek Fine was introduced to scrimshaw by his father, renowned scrimshaw and whaling art authority Doug Fine. At age 10 he began doing the art of scrimshaw, and at age 19 was working professionally. Since 1990, Derek …
Scrimshaw | Wikipedia
Scrimshaw is scrollwork, engravings, and carvings done in bone or ivory. Typically it refers to the artwork created by whalers, engraved on the byproducts of whales, such as bones or cartilage. It is most commonly made out of the bones and teeth of sperm whales, the baleen of other whales, and the tusks of walruses.
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A Look Back at the History of Scrimshaw | Whaler's Locker
在whalerslocker.com上查看更多信息When we think about the origins of this maritime art form, we have to first think of the industry that made it possible in the first place: commercial whaling. Standard scrimshaw pieces were first carved on whale teeth, and when that wasn't available, walrus tusks. Best guesses for the origination of scrimshanders (the na…Scrimshaw: The Whaler's Art by Dr. Alan Granby | InCollect
网页2022年7月27日 · Scrimshaw is the art of engraving on or carving items from whale bone, sperm whale teeth, walrus tusks, baleen, and other material byproducts of the nineteenth …
Scrimshaw | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
网页Title: Scrimshaw. Date: 1830–70. Medium: Probably bone or ivory. Dimensions: W. 12 1/4 in. (31.1 cm) Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Screven Lorillard, 1953. Accession Number: 53.179.21
| National Museum of American History
网页Scrimshaw began in the late 18th or early 19th century as the art of carving whale bone and ivory aboard whale ships. The crew on whalers had plenty of leisure time between …
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Scrimshaw and ship models | JFK Library
网页This folder is part of an addition to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Papers, and consists of items that were recovered by the National Archives and Records Administration on …
Scrimshaw: Folk art obsession of American whalers
网页2022年1月28日 · Scrimshaw, or artwork made typically from whale bones or teeth, is often considered one of the first truly American folk arts. American whaling ships based on the …
Scrimshaw Art | New Bedford Whaling Museum
网页Scrimshandering, as the whalemen called it — making scrimshaw — was an indigenous and exclusive shipboard art of the deep-water trades, practiced mostly by whalers. Scrimshaw was an art form used to help …
