
Percy Cowen, Trap Fishing in Menemsha, oil on canvas, circa 1919–20.
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Cowen’s family preserved such letters for more than a century.
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Each of Cowen's letters to his wife included an illustration; many had wistful remembrances of home.
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Percy Cowen, Sperm Whale Upsetting a Whaleboat, oil on canvas, circa 1916.
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The artist drew upon his deployment in this 1922 oil-on-board illustration for Cosmopolitan magazine.
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Percy Cowen, Fishing Boat in a Rough Sea, oil on canvas, circa 1919–20.
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Cowen and his wife, Jane Look, on Martha’s Vineyard, as seen in this circa-1920 photograph.
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Percy Cowen, Geese in Flight, circa 1920–22.
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Cowen’s landscape Menemsha from Creek Hill, circa 1920–22, inspired the artist’s grandson, Allen Whiting, to paint his own version.
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