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Post artists go to sea: "the sweetest way to me is a ship's upon the sea," wrote Rudyard Kipling. And those who aren't inclined to hang over the rail with seasickness will likely agree. (The American Illustrators Hall of Fame).

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From: Saturday Evening Post
Date: 20030501
Author:Blythe, Samuel G.; Faulkner, William

"I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky," John Masefield wrote, and our Post illustrators have had the same urge, except for a different reason--they were looking, for good ideas for cover paintings. There were, for example, the graceful and awe-inspiring ships themselves, so brilliantly portrayed by Anton Otto Fischer, whose 1932 vision of a clipper ship (right) might well have been inspired by further lines from the poet laureate:

"And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by/ And the wheel's kick and the wind's song, and the white sail's ...

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