USF Constitution’s main fighting top in action 1814
Print from aquarelle. Cover Art for “Boarders Away II – Firearms of the Age of Fighting Sail”, by William Gilkerson, Andrew Mowbray/Publishing.
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USS Constitution raking HMS Guerriere
Aquarelle, painted by the artist 1987. Part of a collection of pictures of USS Constitution during the war of 1812.
See more...Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter Marguerite T entering Santiago de Cuba
Painted by the artist while tracking the voyage by famous pirate Calico Jack Rackham from the Bahamas to Jamaica.
See more...Ultimate Voyage
Ultimate Voyage, Shambhala Publications, Boston, 1998. Subtitled. A Book of Five Mariners, this is the artist’s first novel, a maritime historical yarn with color frontispiece and brush and ink drawings throughout. With 326 pages in 6″ x 9″ format. Hardbound.
See more...Boarders Away, Volume II
The second volume, subtitled With Fire, continues pioneering research of the previous work, dealing with the firearms and combustibles of the sailing navies. With 332 pages in the same format as the first volume, but double the text and the … See more…
Boarders Away, Volume I
Boarders Away (Volume I & II), Andrew Mowbray, Inc., Lincoln, R.I., 1991. The first volume, subtitled With Steel – the edged weapons and polearms of the classical age of fighting sail, 1626-1826…tracing their development in the navies of England and … See more…
The Ships of John Paul Jones
The Ships of John Paul Jones, Naval Institute Press and the Beverley R. Robinson Collection, U.S. Naval Academy Museum 1987. Portrays all of Jones’s ships, as well as other vessels that he sailed on, with accompanying story text by the … See more…
An Arctic Whaling Sketchbook
An Arctic Whaling Sketchbook, Edward J. Lefkowicz, Inc., Fairhaven, 1983. Includes artist’s remarks regarding the studies prepared for American Whalers in the Western Arctic, plus reproductions of scores of drawings; 56 pages in 15″ x 12″ format, two-color, in an … See more…
American Whalers in the Western Arctic
American Whalers in the Western Arctic, Edward J. Lefkowicz, Inc., Fairhaven, 1983. Subtitled: The final epoch of the great American sailing whaling fleet, an anecdotal history by John R. Bockstoce, with portfolio of 12 color plates by Gilkerson plus numerous … See more…
Maritime Arts
Maritime Arts by William Gilkerson, published by the Peabody Museum of Salem, 1981. Text and reproductions (in color and black and white) covering all work which appeared in the museum’s 1981 one-man show by the artist. 96 pages in 8½” … See more…
The Scrimshander
The Scrimshander, Troubador Press, San Francisco, 1975. Subtitled: The nautical ivory worker and his art of scrimshaw, historical and contemporary. Includes text on old and new scrimshaw, and primarily a photographic, portfolio in black and white of Gilkerson scrimshaw. Contains … See more…
From Rocks to Rockets
Osprey Books has re-released the author’s 1963 classic Gilkerson On War under the new title From Rocks to Rockets, in reformatted United Kingdom and North American editions. “William Gilkerson takes the history of the human race and puts it in words … See more…
Gilkerson on War
Osprey Books has re-released the author’s 1963 classic Gilkerson On War under the new title From Rocks to Rockets, in reformatted United Kingdom and North American editions. “William Gilkerson takes the history of the human race and puts it in … See more…
Vessle swept along the waterfront
A Tancook schooner
Portrait of a small Nova Scotia schooner plying Mahone Bay with a full load of passengers.
See more...The Pequod at Nantucket, a scene from Moby Dick
Pequod at Nantucket, aquarelle, 1984. Ahab, Ishmael, and Starbuck standing on their ship’s forepeak on the eve of the quest for Moby Dick. Litho image 12″x 16″ on 17 1/2″x21″ paper.
See more...Research Schooner R/V Westward
Printed from oil on canvas. Portrait of the S.E.A. training schooner with backed staysails, getting in an otter trawl off Newfoundland. Published by the Sea Education Association of Woods Hole.
See more...Scow Schooners on San Francisco Bay
Reproduced from oil on canvas. Portraying hay scows WITCH OF THE BAY and ALMA sailing in bay fog.
See more...Bluenose II
Aquarelle. The near-replica of the famous original BLUENOSE is portrayed as the artist viewed her over the afterdeck of his own gaff cutter ELLY with friends and family.
See more...Barque Picton Castle rounding the Lahave headland
Gilkerson was aboard for this particular passage out of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, to Bermuda. Ship under the command of Captain Daniel Moreland.
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