Lopez Island Wa Watercolor By Daniel Clarke

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Medium:

Watercolor

Size - (USA):

20 W x 16 H x 0.1 D (inches)

Size - (metric):

50.8 W x 40.6 H x 0.3 D (centimeters)

Theme:

Landscape

Edition:

Original

Artwork ID:

644042

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Artwork Description:

Lopez Island is the third largest of the San Juan Islands and an unincorporated town in San Juan County, Washington, United States The ancestors of today s Northern Straits Coast Salish people began to appear in the wake of the continental ice sheet that started to recede 11,000 years ago. Archaeological evidence suggests that the island supported hunting and gathering between 6,000 and 8,000 years ago. The marine culture encountered by the first Europeans to the area developed about 2,500 years ago, and traces of its once thriving villages remain in the shell middens found along the shoreline of American and English camps and throughout the San Juan islands. During the Wilkes Expedition, Lopez Island was given the name Chauncey Island, after the American naval commander Isaac Chauncey. When the British reorganized the official admiralty naval charts in 1847, Henry Kellett systematically removed many of Wilkes s names. He renamed the island Lopez, for Gonzalo López de Haro, the Spanish naval officer who was the first European to discover the San Juan Islands archipelago. 2 The Lopez Island Historical Museum collects and preserves the regional history of Lopez and the San Juan Islands. The museum features artifacts reflecting Lopez s contributions to the maritime, fishing and farming industries. The museum has an extensive archive of local historical documents as well as artifacts depicting life on Lopez Island in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Artwork Keywords:   Washington, Island, Islands, Trees, Ocean, Water, Evening, Lopez, San Juan, Original Watercolor

Materials:   Watercolors