Melville's Inspiration Jenness Cortez 1998 Acrylic on Mahogany Wood Panel Painting Archivist Gallery Remove the wood insert and

Remove the wood insert and the bottle coaster becomes an attractive serving dish or coaster for salsa

The warm luster of these pewter goblets seem to emanate happily ever after

muslin coverlet and pillow

or as a place to hold jewelry while doing the dishes

Melville's Inspiration Jenness Cortez 1998 Acrylic on Mahogany Wood Panel Painting Archivist Gallery Remove the wood insert andNo detail is left unturned in artist Jenness Cortez' oil on wood panel painting. Using inspiration from Nathaniel Currier's 1852 hand colored lithograph The Whale Fishery Laying On, W. L. Roderick's 1855 scrimshaw whale tooth, Joseph Oriel Eaton's 1870 portrait of Herman Melville, an American Folk Art Nantucket sperm whale nautical sailor whirligig and a 1827 clipping from the Nantucket Inquirer, the artist captures New England's island history and