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Hunter Wood

Hunter Wood (1908 - 1948) was active/lived in United States.  Hunter Wood is known for Marine-ship portrait.

Hunter Wood was born in 1908 at Babylon, Long Island, the son of the famous marine painter Worden George Wood who served aboard the Clipper "Yankee" in the Spanish-American War and the great-grandson of John L. Worden who commanded the "Monitor" in its fight against the "Merrimac" in the Civil War.

After a brief period of formal education, Hunter Wood at seventeen, entered the New York Merchant Marine Academy, and his experiences at sea became the references for the subject matter of his paintings.

He was first on the training ship "Newport", a three masted barkentine, single topsail and top-gallant, the old order windjammer of the heavy canvas type sailing the seven seas.

At the end of his training on the "Newport", Wood was in charge of the fore top-gallant, the main topmast stay-sail and the mezzin gaff topsail. He had mastered the long oar and was given the rating of coxswain of the Captain's gig, or personal boat. His training on the "Newport" included being   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4704 characters.]  Artist bio

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