Out of the Fog

Catalog no. 0000535

MediumOil on Canvas
Size25 1/4 x 30 1/4 Inches
SignedSigned LR: W.A. Coulter
DateCirca 1920

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About the artist

William Alexander Coulter grew up in a seafaring family along the rugged Northeast coast of Ireland. His father was a coast guard captain and two of his brothers were captains in the China Trade. At the age of thirteen young William shipped aboard his first square rigger as ship’s boy. Since the age of seven, Coulter had been drawing and sketching sailing vessels in the harbor at Antrim where he grew up. At sea in his spare time he devoted all of his attention to acquiring the skills of a marine artist. In 1869 Coulter arrived in San Francisco Bay where after a shore side accident which…

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