Tarpon Fishing
Chromolithograph after Frederic Schiller Cozzens

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Tarpon Fishing or Catching a Tarpon
Frederic Schiller Cozzens (1846 - 1928)
Tarpon Fishing or Catching a Tarpon
Bradlee Whidden (Publisher), Boston: 1889
Chromolithograph
Signed in the stone lower left: Fred. S. Cozzens 89.
12 x 18 inches (image), 14 x 21 1/2 inches (sheet)
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A fish leaps from the waters of the Gulf in Florida as two fishermen watch from a small boat in the distance. This print is from a portfolio by various artists entitled "Sport or Fishing and Shooting." The title is from the descriptive text which originally accompanied the complete set.

Frederic Schiller Cozzens was a prominent American maritime artist known for his watercolors of sailing ships, yachts and marine scenes.  Born in New York City, Cozzens graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, but was basically a self-taught artist.   He worked primarily in watercolor, pen and ink and gouache.  Many of his paintings were issued as fine chromolithograph prints. His first portfolio, American Yachts, Their Clubs and Races (1884) was a series of 27 chromolithographs accompanied by a book written by Lieutenant James Douglas Jerrold Kelley.  This publication proved so successful he went on to produce four more series on maritime themes, including Typical American Yachts (1886), also with text by Kelley. Cozzens contributed illustrations and yacht portraits to many magazines, most notably Harper's Weekly.  His works are in numerous collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New-York Historical Society, the New York Yacht Club and the Museum of the City of New York.