Arts and Artists in SF Maritime Collections

Highlights from the Park's collections related to the arts, artists, crafts, artisans, and traditional skills:

 

Artists, artisans, craft workers:

Cleveland, Ron:

• "Collection Spotlight: Ron Cleveland Photograph Collection" (blog post)
  

Hiler, Hilaire:

• "Bathhouse Building a legacy of the New Deal" (article)
  
• "The colors of Hilaire Hiler" (article at Vastari.com featuring photo of Bathhouse Building ceiling)
  
• "Discovering Hiler" (blog post)
  

Johnson, Sargent:

• Sargent Johnson: Bay Area Artist (.pdf version of Park handout, 1 page)
  

Ramm, John Milton:

• "John Milton Ramm" (Collections Corner article)

 

Arts, crafts, skills:

Models and modelmaking:

• America: "Ship Model of the Schooner Yacht America" (Collections Corner article)
• America: "Model of the Racing Sloop Yacht America"
  
• Deep-keeled large pond racing yacht model
  
• Golden Hind (full hull model): "What d'ya mean by 'Crow's Nest'?" (blog post)
  
• Hydraulic dredge models: "Hydraulic Dredging" (blog post, showing and discussing patent models)
• Plans for the Park's historic vessels: see our Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Drawings page for obtaining them free online, or in print for a fee.
• See also: "Cleveland, Ron" (above)
  

Painting and paintings:

• "Interesting Items Dug Up During Renovation Work" (Collections Corner article about items found during renovation of the Aquatic Park Bathhouse (Museum) Building and work on the Building's murals)
• "A Wartime Mural Preserved" (Collections Corner article)
  

Scrimshaw:

• "Play Cribbage Like a Sailor" (blog post)
  
• "Scrimshawed Walrus Tusks" (Collections Corner article)
  

Silverwork:

• "A Silver Link to our Golden Past" (Collections Corner article)

Textiles and fashion:

• "Digging for Gold at the Library: Shipshape" (blog post)
  
• "Summer of 2012 has Arrived--Got Your Layers?" (blog post)
  
• "Yarns (That You Can Knit or Crochet)" (blog post)