Melville's Inspiration Jenness Cortez 1998 Acrylic on Mahogany Wood Panel Painting Archivist Gallery and setting the pace for

and setting the pace for mixologists around the world

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

Filled with colorful hand-tied salmon flies

The warm luster of these pewter goblets seem to emanate happily ever after

Melville's Inspiration Jenness Cortez 1998 Acrylic on Mahogany Wood Panel Painting Archivist Gallery and setting the pace forNo 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