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The Triumph of Venus and Galatea Over Moby Dick
Located in New Orleans, LA
In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to redress past wrongs, re-draw archetypes, and reflect th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Benton Spruance-Man Against Monster-22" x 16"-Lithograph-1968-Modernism-Brown
Located in Brooklyn, NY
One of twenty-six color lithographs from the collection "Moby Dick Passion of Ahab". Spruance died
Category
20th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Descent from the Cross, Pop Geometric Silkscreen by Alan D
Arcangelo
By Allan D
Arcangelo 1
Located in Long Island City, NY
. Moby Dick)
Year: 1978
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150, T/P
Image: 26.5 x
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Pair of Borghese "Leather Bound Book" Bookends
Located in Los Angeles, CA
, making it tough to spot they are holding up your priceless copy of Moby Dick and War and Peace!
A
Category
20th Century Italian Bookends
Late 19th Century English Leather Faux “Book” Table with Classic Book Titles
Located in Middleburg, VA
English classical titles “Moby Dick”, “Tale of Two Cities”, "Twenty Leagues Under the Sea" and Robert
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English End Tables
Materials
Leather, Wood
Ahab’s Leg, From the Waves, 1989
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
works based on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. In Melville’s novel, Ahab was a ship captain whose leg was
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Linocut, Screen
A Squeeze of the Hand (From the Waves Series), 1988
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Stella interpret and transform Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. In Stella’s “Wave” series, he interprets the
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Linocut, Screen
Early 20th Century Carved Wooden Miniature Pequot Ship
s Figurehead Model
Located in Nantucket, MA
figurehead of the Whale Ship PEQUOD in Melville's "Moby Dick." The finely done carving includes great detail
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Pine
Collection Gilt Leather Bound Library Book Twenty Seven Volumes
Located in Tarry Town, NY
" Confessions"- Virgil -Gulliver's Travels - Moby-Dick . Each book is in great condition. Minor wear. Each on is
Category
20th Century Books
Materials
Paper, Leather
Huge Photograph of a "Nantucket Sleighride", circa 1920s
Located in Nantucket, MA
sleighrides staged for the silent film Down to the Sea in Ships and the later film Moby Dick, this shot is not
Category
Vintage 1920s Peruvian Other Photography
Materials
Other
Early to Mid-20th Century Folk Art Carved and Decorated Plaque of Tashtego
Located in Nantucket, MA
of a New England whaling crew of the period, but also a very important character in the Moby Dick
Category
Vintage 1940s American Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood
1968 Benton Spruance
The Samuel Enderby
Modernism Black
White Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
-six color lithographs from the collection "Moby Dick Passion of Ahab". Spruance died unexpectedly
Category
1960s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
1968 Benton Spruance
The Town-Ho
Modernism Brown, Gray Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
-six color lithographs from the collection ""Moby Dick Passion of Ahab"". Spruance died unexpectedly
Category
1960s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
1968 Benton Spruance
The Albatross
Modernism Blue, Brown, Gray Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
-six color lithographs from the collection ""Moby Dick Passion of Ahab"". Spruance died unexpectedly
Category
1960s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
1968 Benton Spruance
The Rose-Bud
Modernism Gray Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
-six color lithographs from the collection "Moby Dick Passion of Ahab". Spruance died unexpectedly
Category
1960s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
1968 Benton Spruance
The Jeroboam
Modernism Brown, Yellow Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
-six color lithographs from the collection "Moby Dick Passion of Ahab". Spruance died unexpectedly
Category
1960s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Hanging Right Whale Carving by Jeff Raymond, Folk Art from the “Whale Guy”
Located in New York, NY
, often drew inspiration from Moby Dick and spent his later years selling through Nantucket’s Four Winds
Category
20th Century American Nautical Objects
Materials
Wood
P110 Lounge Chairs by Rosselli, Partner of Gio Ponti, Exhibited at MoMA, NY
By Alberto Rosselli Saporiti
Located in bergen op zoom, NL
'moby dick,' 'jumbo','jaranda' and 'play' . Rosselli's rare 'moby dick' chaise longue featured in the
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Minimalist Lounge Chairs
Materials
Chrome
LIE TO ME, Mixed Media Abstract Painting with Text
By Henri Bassmadjian
Located in Surfside, FL
immersed himself in the myth of Moby Dick. Many exhibitions (Brussels, Tarbes, Lyon, Rennes) while teaching
Category
1980s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache, Graphite
Laying The Hose Pipe Ghost, Harpers New Monthly Magazine
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
, The Mutineers, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Dark Frigate, Moby Dick, and his own written work
Category
1910s Other Art Style Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cult
By Tony Caramanico
Located in Fairfield, CT
to jumping off a ship’s mast in a gale and landing on Moby Dick for a
few seconds of oneness with the
Category
2010s Mixed Media
Materials
Photographic Film
$12,000
Le Progres
By Tony Caramanico
Located in Fairfield, CT
to jumping off a ship’s mast in a gale and landing on Moby Dick for a
few seconds of oneness with the
Category
2010s Mixed Media
Materials
Photographic Film
Frank Stella Prints 1967-1982 Vintage Exhibition Poster University of Michigan
By Frank Stella
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
general way to Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. Throughout his career he was commissioned to create various
Category
Late 20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Nantucket BookScape Square Colorful Photograph / Max Steven Grossman
By Max Steven Grossman
Located in Greenwich, CT
on Nantucket gardens, houses, and light houses. Featuring "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville, "Nantucket
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary More Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital Pigment
The Whale as a Dish (from Waves II)
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
white whale itself.
All the works in the Waves series are based on chapters from Herman Melville’s Moby
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
The Counterpane (from The Waves
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Waves series shares a title with a chapter of Herman Melville’s acclaimed novel Moby Dick. “The
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph, Linocut, Screen
Boats on the Beach, Sag Harbor
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
19th century—referenced several times in Moby Dick—Sag Harbor's wharf is a landmark of a town with a
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Going Abroad (From The Waves II Series)
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
a chapter of Herman Melville’s acclaimed novel Moby Dick. “Going Abroad” refers to chapter twenty
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Linocut, Screen
The Fossil Whale, State 1 (huge signed etching and aquatint)
By Frank Stella
Located in Aventura, FL
From The Moby Dick Engravings. Etching and aquatint with carborundum and relief on White Wove
Category
1980s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Brandt, Art Deco Dolphin Whale Lamp or Sconce, Chiseled Wrought Iron, Alabaster
By Edgar Brandt
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
lamp or for a library where this whale could sit next to Herman Melville's Moby Dick or Carlo Collodi's
Category
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Animal Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster, Wrought Iron
Book Cover for "Resurrection" by Edwin Balmer, 1920
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Dark Frigate, Moby Dick, and his own written work, Focs'le Days: A
Category
1920s Other Art Style Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Day
s Catch
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
his illustrated books were "Moby Dick", "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", and "Treasure Island
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"At Full Sail" by Anton Otto Fisher
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Wiscasset, ME
1903. Among his illustrated books were "Moby Dick", "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", and
Category
Early 20th Century American Victorian Paintings
Materials
Paint
Mid Century Giovanni Offredi Saporiti Italia Modern Leather King Wave Bed MCM
By Giovanni Offredi
Located in Dayton, OH
furniture – the Jumbo chair, the Moby Dick chaise longue, the Confidential sofa – which are still in the
Category
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Beds and Bed Frames
Materials
Leather
Summer Seas
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Sheffield, MA
1903. Among his illustrated books were "Moby Dick", "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", and
Category
1940s Post-War Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Frontispiece, from Illustrations after El Lissitzsky
s Had Gadya Series, 1984
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Moby-Dick series and his Cones and Pillars iconography.
Created in 1984, Frank Stella Illustrations
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Linocut
Watercolor Still life Painting Vegetables Claus Hoien Greengrocer Kitchen Series
Located in Surfside, FL
lifetime of painting sailing vessels, fish, whalers, and Moby-Dick, among other subjects. The idea of a
Category
20th Century American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Shards II (From Shards)
By Frank Stella
Located in Missouri, MO
such as Herman Melville's "Moby Dick." Since the late 1980s, Stella has been involved with several
Category
1980s American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
"Figure Study" Rockwell Kent, American Modernism, Work on Paper
By Rockwell Kent
Located in New York, NY
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick—simultaneously precise and abstract images that drew on his architect’s eye
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Mr.
Mrs. Moby Dick, Allan D
Arcangelo
By Allan D
Arcangelo 1
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Allan D’Arcangelo (1930-1998)
Title: Mr. & Mrs. Moby Dick
Year: 1978
Edition: 75/150, plus
Category
1970s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Illustrated by Rockwell Kent, 1930
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick. New York: Random House, 1930. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. First
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Books
Materials
Leather, Fabric, Paper
1968 Benton Spruance
The Sphynx
from Moby Dick
Located in Brooklyn, NY
collection "Moby Dick Passion of Ahab". Spruance died unexpectedly prior to the completion of this
Category
1960s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Benton Spruance-Call Me Ishmael-22" x 16"-Lithograph-1968-Modernism-Gray, Brown
Located in Brooklyn, NY
One of twenty-six color lithographs from the collection "Moby Dick Passion of Ahab". Spruance died
Category
20th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Benton Spruance-The Spirit-Spout-22" x 16"-Lithograph-1968-Modernism-Gray-boat
Located in Brooklyn, NY
One of twenty-six color lithographs from the collection "Moby Dick Passion of Ahab". Spruance died
Category
20th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Benton Spruance-Ahab in the Jaws-22" x 16"-Lithograph-1968-Modernism-Black
Located in Brooklyn, NY
One of twenty-six color lithographs from the collection "Moby Dick Passion of Ahab". Spruance died
Category
20th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Collection of Easton Press Leather Bound Books, 20th Century
By Easton Press
Located in Hamburg, PA
like "The Iliad of Homer", "Moby Dick or The Whale", "Brave New World", etc.
Category
Late 20th Century American Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Rockwell Kent Plate, Salamina
Located in Phoenix, AZ
printmaker and illustrator. He illustrated many books but his most notable was Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Art Deco Dinner Plates
The Whale Watch
By Frank Stella
Located in Los Angeles, CA
silkscreen Stella created for the Moby Dick Deckle Edges series of prints in the 1990s (also published by
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Textile, Silk, Archival Ink, Digital, Archival Pigment
The Whale Watch
By Frank Stella
Located in Los Angeles, CA
silkscreen Stella created for the Moby Dick Deckle Edges series of prints in the 1990s (also published by
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Textile, Silk, Archival Ink, Digital, Archival Pigment
1930s Large Art Deco Chrome Geometric Mirror
Located in London, GB
the filming of Moby Dick in 1956, after filming in Fishguard it was gifted to the Fishguard Hotel
Category
Vintage 1930s English Wall Mirrors
Materials
Chrome
The Whale Watch
By Frank Stella
Located in Los Angeles, CA
silkscreen Stella created for the Moby Dick Deckle Edges series of prints in the 1990s (also published by
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Textile, Silk, Archival Ink, Digital, Archival Pigment
The Whale Watch
By Frank Stella
Located in Los Angeles, CA
silkscreen Stella created for the Moby Dick Deckle Edges series of prints in the 1990s (also published by
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Textile, Silk, Archival Ink, Digital, Archival Pigment
Frank Stella
The Funeral
(Dome) 1992
By Frank Stella
Located in Miami, FL
FRANK STELLA (1936-Present)
Frank Stella's 'The Funeral (Dome)' from the ‘Moby Dick (Domes)’ series
Category
1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Carved and Painted Miniature Ship
s Figurehead of the Pequot Harpooner Tashtego
By Willard Shepard
Located in Nantucket, MA
Pequod in Moby Dick. Tashtego was a Wampanoag man from Gay Head (now Aquinnah) on Martha's Vineyard. New
Category
Vintage 1950s American Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Pine
The Essex Taking on Provisions
By Nicholas Berger
Located in Greenwich, CT
inspiration for the first Great American Novel, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Folk Art Sign for "The Sea Devil
s Foc
sle" at "The Spouter Inn", circa 1960s
Located in Nantucket, MA
ground floor. The name "Spouter Inn" of course comes from the famous scene in chapter one of Moby Dick
Category
Vintage 1960s American Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Plywood
Ambergris 100% silk shawl
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
"Ambergris" from the Moby Dick Deckled Edges series, also published by Tyler Graphics.
Itears Frank Stella's
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Materials
Silk, Mixed Media, Screen
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