
Fishing Boat on Heavy Sea
1939 · Watercolor with gouache, over graphite, on ivory wood-pulp laminate board
43.5 × 61 cm (17 3/16 × 24 1/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago

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James Milton Sessions was an American artist born in Rome, New York. Sessions was a master watercolorist of marine, sporting, and military World War II scenes. He developed a love of the sea and is probably best known as a painter of marine subjects. Sessions painted images of numerous locations, from the Bahamas to New England's busy fishing harbors, north to the raw fishing grounds of Nova Scotia, and ultimately to the Navajo reservations in New Mexico.
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