Melville's Inspiration Jenness Cortez 1998 Acrylic on Mahogany Wood Panel Painting Healthy Cookbooks toasting spices or nuts stove

toasting spices or nuts stove top

the flask is making a comeback today

the narrow border looks equally attractive for black and white photos as it does for cherished color snapshots

wooden nut salt cellar fashioned from acacia wood

cocoa powder

Melville's Inspiration Jenness Cortez 1998 Acrylic on Mahogany Wood Panel Painting Healthy Cookbooks toasting spices or nuts stoveNo 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