CATALOGUE

Prices & availability of prints and lithographs, as seen on this site

Effective Spring 2003

NOTE: All items below are listed by the website artwork display sections within which they appear. Click on a title to view each image by itself. To run a slideshow of selected, in-stock prints in a separate window, click here. Edition sizes, publisher information, availability and prices are listed below. Prints and lithos denoted as “out of print” in the catalogue are sometimes available; contact either of the addresses listed under “Orders” for availability and price.

Scow Schooners on San Francisco Bay. Published by The Scrimshaw Shop, Sausalito, California, in an edition limited to 300. Out of print.

The Last of the Spouters (set of four lithos in portfolio). Privately produced in an unsigned, unnumbered edition; all but 143 sets were destroyed in a fire. Out of print.

Pilot Schooner WANDERVOGEL. Privately printed for the WANDERBIRD restoration project in an edition limited to 250, of which the first 50 were signed and numbered. Out of print.

DRAKE vs. RANGER. Privately printed for the National Maritime Historical Society in a reproduction made for hand-highlighting in the artist's studio. Edition limited to 250, all signed, numbered, and highlighted. Price: $600.

Research Schooner R/V WESTWARD. Published by the Sea Education Association of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in an edition limited to 750, unnumbered. Price: $400.

A Whaling Triptych (set of three prints intended to hang together as illustrated):

1. Whaler CHARLES W. MORGAN
2. Whaleboat from the brig DAISY
3. Bark CALIFORNIA in tropical waters

PEQUOD at Nantucket. Privately published in an edition limited to 75, signed and numbered. Out of print.

New Bedford whaler JOHN & WINTHROP. Privately printed in an edition limited to 178 signed and numbered copies. Out of print.

A series of 12 lithographs published under this title by Edward J. Lefkowicz, Inc., in an edition limited to: 400 (of each) bound into the elephant folio volume of the same title (see Books), plus 400 more sets boxed in portfolio and signed and numbered, plus printer's overrun of some 100 copies of each, signed. Prices based on availability of printer's overrun copies. Individually, the lithos are:

1. Bark SUPERIOR enters Berinq Strait. Price: $200.
2. Bark CALIFORNIA and boats. Price: $250.
3. Bark JIREH SWIFT pursued. Price: $250.
4. Wrangel Island discovered by the bark NILE. Price: $250.
5. Barks EUGENIA and JULIAN abandoned. Price: $250.
6. Bark HELEN MAR clearinq Prince of Wales Shoal. Price: $200.
7. Jim Vincent's boat lost in the ice. Price: $250.
8. Steam barkentine NEWPORT amonq wbales. Price: $250.
9. Steam whalers wintering at Herschel Island. Price: $300.
10. The Fourth of July celebrated at Herschel Island. Price. $250.
11. Tbe survivors of NAVARCH rescued. Price: $200.
12. Whaler YOUNG PHOENIX, a derelict. Price: $200.

The Seventy-four qun ship. Published by Jean Boudriot, Paris, for Collection Archéologie Navale Francaise in an edition limited to 450 lithos numbered marginally. The first 100 are signed. Price: $300.

Sloop PROVIDENCE pursued. Published by Sippican, Inc., in an edition limited to 200 numbered copies. Price: $400.

USS CONSTITUTION vs. HMS CYANE and LEVANT. Published by Sippican, Inc., in commemoration of CONSTITUTION's bicentennial, in an edition limited to 600 copies. Signed on image; unnumbered. Price: $300. (None remarqued)*

The Bicentennial Sail of USS CONSTITUTION. Diptych, scheduled for publication in 1999 in an edition of 500; both images on one sheet. Price: $300.

Tancook whaler. [not shown on site] Privately published at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in an edition limited to 750, with the first 50 (subscribed) copies signed and numbered. Price: $150.

BLUENOSE II entering Lunenburg Harbour. [not shown on site] Printed in Nova Scotia in an open edition. Unavailable from Maritime Heritage Prints. (Available from Bluenose II Preservation Trust, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, BOJ 2CO, Canada.)

Nassau Town, Bahamas, the Pirates' nest. Published by Pirates of Nassau Museum and the artist in an edition limited to 750 marginally numbered copies signed on image. Price. $250. (None remarqued)*

Capt. Wm. Kidd at Isle St. Marie, Madagascar. Published by Pirates of Nassau Museum and the artist in an edition limited to 750 marginally numbered copies signed on image. Price: $250. (None remarqued)*

Ultimate Voyage (Poster). 1000 published by Shambhala Publications, 300 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.

VESSLE. Renaissance seaport scene (Chapter II illustration for Gilkerson's Ultimate Voyage); litho image 17" x 13" on 23" x 18" sheet.Published by Maritime Heritage Prints in an edition limited to 750 copies. Price. $300.

Commences the list of the artist's posters for maritime museums and institutions. Some of these are out of print, as noted, but others are still sold by the museums that published them, at modest prices. The addresses of tbese museums are provided; inquiries as to prices should be addressed to their individual gift shops.

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, "Small Ships of the Sea." One edition of 50O. Out of print. Rare.

Peabody Museum of Salem, "Maritime Arts by Wm. Gilkerson." One edition of 500. Out of print. Rare.

The Whaling Museum of New Bedford. Multiple printings over the years; numbers unrecorded. Available from the Museum at: 18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, Massachusetts 02740.

The Kendall Whaling Museum. 2000 produced; edition still open. Available from the Museum's gift shop: address the Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon, Massachusetts 02067.

USS CONSTITUTION Museum. Produced in an edition of 2000, of which the first 50 were signed presentation copies with printed remarque of Capt. Isaac Hull in the rigging. All now out of print.

Nantucket Whaling Museum. 4000 initially printed in an open edition of which the first 50 were signed presentation copies with printed remarque, a boatman overboard, swimming. Production copies are available from the Museum at: Post Office Box 1016, Nantucket, Massachusetts 02554.

WoodenBoat, "The Last Sail of the Season." 1000 produced. Out of print.

U.S. Naval Academy Museum, "The Ships of John Paul Jones." 1000 produced. Out of print.

Ventura County Maritime Museum. 1500 initially produced in an open edition, still available from the Museum: 2731 S. Victoria Avenue, Oxnard, California 93035.

Ship SUSAN CONSTANT. 4000 copies produced. Out of print.

U.S. Naval Academy Museum & USS CONSTITUTION Museum, "Huzzah! for CONSTITUTION." Because this poster was made for an exhibit to be shown in two venues, two printings were made, of 1000 copies without show dates, and 2000 copies with dates. The first lists the Museums' names at the bottom in roman type without show dates, the second (illustrated) includes dates in italic type. Production copies of type 2 are available from the USS CONSTITUTION Museum, Post Office Box 1812, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129.

South Street Seaport Museum & The Mariners' Museum, "Under the Black Flag, Life Among the Pirates", Painted by William Gilkerson / Curated by David Cordingly. One edition of 1000 was printed for these two museums; out of print. Another edition of the same poster was printed by the exhibition's third venue, bearing the name of Philadelphia's Independence Seaport Museum, in an edition of another 1000 copies. At last notice these are available from the Independence Seaport Museum, 211 S. Columbus, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106.

Independence Seaport Museum, "Ship TRUELOVE." 2000 initially produced in an open edition; available from the Museum's gift shop: 211 S. Columbus, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106.

U. S. Naval Academy Museum, "USS CONSTITUTION 1797-1997", Paintinqs and drawings by William Gilkerson. Printed in an edition of 1000, available from: Naval Institute Press, The Bookstore, 118 Maryland Avenue, Annapolis, Maryland 21402.

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