Coast Guard Art Program

2019 Collection

2018 George Gray Award Recipient

Partnership by Leendert van der Pool

Inaugural Exhibition: June 23—July 6, 2019

Salmagundi Club
Cover:

Partnership

Leendert van der Pool

Brooklyn, N.Y.

Oil

14 x 20 inches

In a training exercise, the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spar works in Port Clarence, Alaska, with 

the crew of the Canadian Coast Guard ship Sir Wilfred Laurier. The crews transfer a U.S. Coast Guard 

Vessel of Opportunity Skimming System (VOSS) between the two ships. VOSS equipment is used to remediate oil spills. Such exercises foster cooperative relationships which are critical to safety of sea lanes 

and security on the world’s oceans. 

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About the artist

Leendert van der Pool was born in the Netherlands and moved to New York City in l994. A self-taught 

artist specializing in drawings, pastels and oil paintings, van der Pool has exhibited his work widely in museums and galleries in the U.S. and Europe. His drawings have been included in numerous books as well 

as in several museum collections. He teaches workshops in color theory and drawing in the U.S. and Europe, and has conducted two teaching tours in Japan. Van der Pool, a former sailor for the Dutch merchant navy, worked on various ships including coasters, freighters and salvage ships for 14 years. His experiences in the maritime industry have given him a solid background in painting maritime subjects. Over 

the past ten years, the artist submitted six paintings to the Coast Guard Art Program. All were accepted 

and in 2018, his painting won the prestigious George Gray Award. The artist divides his time between 

New York and Paris.

The U.S. Coast Guard and its art program thank the New York City Council of the Navy League of the 

United States for its generosity in hosting the reception for the Coast Guard Art Program’s acceptance 

ceremony and inaugural exhibition opening.

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Coast Guard Art Program

2019 Reception and Acceptance Ceremony

June 26, 2019

Salmagundi Club

New York City

6:30 p.m.

Viewing of Art and Reception

Music by Musician Senior Chief Megan Sesma, harp

and Musician First Class Meera Gudipati, flute

U.S. Coast Guard Band

7:15 p.m.

Opening Remarks

Elizabeth Spencer, President, Salmagundi Club

Emcee Capt. Jason Tama, Commander, Sector New York

Presentation of Colors and Pledge of Allegiance*

Invocation*

Chaplain Donna Cole

U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary

Introduction of Guests

Capt. Jason Tama

Comments

Charles Blaich, Col., USMC (Ret.)

President, New York Council of the Navy League 

Comments

Karen Loew

COGAP Committee Chair, Salmagundi Club

Presentation of Art to U.S. Coast Guard

Elizabeth Spencer

Acceptance of Art by U.S. Coast Guard

Admiral Karl L. Schultz

Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard

Presentation of Public Service Awards and

George Gray Award for Artistic Excellence

Closing Remarks

Capt. Tama

Benediction*

Chaplain Cole

*Guests Please Stand
ABOUT THE COAST GUARD ART PROGRAM

The Coast Guard Art Program (COGAP) makes use of fine art to educate diverse audiences about the Coast Guard. Today, more than ever, the service addresses an abundance of challenges as it works to maintain the nation’s security at 

home and abroad and executes its 11 statutory missions. COGAP art provides visual testimony to the unique contribution the service makes to the nation in its multifaceted roles as a military, humanitarian and law enforcement organization. Art from the program is exhibited at museums around the country. It is displayed in offices of members of 

Congress, cabinet secretaries, senior government officials and other military services and Coast Guard locations nationwide. It has also been displayed by the State Department in its prestigious Art in Embassies program.

Today, the collection holds over 2,000 works of art. While pieces received earlier tended to portray Coast Guard assets and history, more recent works capture the experience of actual service in the Coast Guard. COGAP’s talented 

corps of volunteer artists—most of whom are professional artists—brings to life the missions performed daily by the 

over 42,000 active-duty men and women of the service, as well as reservists and Auxiliary members.

The 2019 collection is comprised of 40 works by 30 artists, making this one of the service’s largest collections in recent 

years. Highlighted are the service’s response to the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Florence and Maria and other 

daring rescues. Other missions portrayed are illegal drug interdictions and the work of Coast Guard icebreakers. Protecting living marine resources and the environment, motor lifeboats pounding treacherous waters, life aboard the 

cutter Tezanos and the important mission of aids of navigation are also depicted. 

This year the program is honored to have Admiral Karl L. Schultz, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, accept the 

2019 collection on behalf of the service, offer his insights and serve as a juror for the George Gray Award, the program’s best in show award.

ABOUT THE SALMAGUNDI CLUB, COGAP’S PARTNER ORGANIZATION

 

Since 1981, the Salmagundi Club has been the cosponsor of the Coast Guard Art Program. In the course of its 140-

plus year history, it has served as a center for artists from New York and around the country. It offers exhibitions of 

paintings, sculpture and photography, conducts art classes, painting demonstrations and holds auctions of member 

artists’ work throughout the year. While members are mainly residents of the greater New York City metropolitan 

area, Salmagundians are to be found throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in cities overseas including 

London, Amsterdam and Lisbon.

Originally formed as the New York Sketch Club in 1871, the club adopted its present name over 100 years ago from 

Washington Irving’s Salmagundi Papers, a satirical and urbane periodical Irving co-authored.

Through the years, the club has been the gathering place for important artists such as Childe Hassam, William Merritt 

Chase, Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, Charles Dana Gibson, Ogden Pleisner and many others. Honorary members have 

included Sir Winston Churchill, Buckminster Fuller, Paul Cadmus, Al Hirschfeld, Thomas Hoving and Schuyler Chapin.

The Salmagundi Club is located at 47 Fifth Avenue between East 11th and East 12th Streets. It has been at this location for more than a century. To learn more about the club, please visit its website at www.salmagundi.org or by 

telephone at 212-255-7740. 
THE GEORGE GRAY AWARD

Named for the cofounder of the Coast Guard Art Program, the 

George Gray Award for Artistic Excellence recognizes Coast 

Guard artists for outstanding artistic achievement. One artist 

from the 2019 collection contributors will be named winner of 

this award.

George Gray worked as an artist for over seven decades. A muralist and illustrator, he specialized in historical and military 

themes. Love of country compelled him to enlist in the Coast 

Guard during World War II. During the Vietnam War, he spent 

six weeks sketching Marines in action for the U.S. Navy’s fine art 

program. He co-founded COGAP in 1981 and served as its chairman and tireless champion for over 20 years. Born in Harrisburg, Pa., in 1907, he is a direct descendent of Capt. Robert 

Gray, who, in 1788, became the first American to carry the nation’s flag around the world. He died in 2004 at the age of 96.

JURORS FOR THE GEORGE GRAY AWARD

Admiral Karl L. Schultz is the 26th Commandant of the Coast Guard and the first commandant in over two decades to 

preside at a COGAP opening. Previously he was Commander, Atlantic Area and concurrently served as Director, Department of Homeland Security Joint Task Force-East. Prior flag assignments include Director of Operations (J3), U.S. 

Southern Command; Commander, Eleventh Coast Guard District; and Director of Governmental and Public Affairs. 

Pervious operational assignments include Sector Commander in Miami, Florida, as well as command tours aboard 

Cutters Venturous, Acacia and Farallon. He has also held numerous senior staff assignments. The Admiral is a 1983 

U.S. Coast Guard Academy graduate and has a Master's Degree in Public Administration from the University of Connecticut. In 2006, he completed a National Security Fellowship at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. A much decorated officer, his awards include among others the Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, four Legions of Merit, four Meritorious Service Medals, three Coast Guard Commendation medals, and two Coast Guard Achievement Medals. The Connecticut native and his wife Dawn have five children 

- Kelsey, Lindsey, Annaliese, Eric, and Zachary.

Newly elected Salmagundi Club President Elizabeth Spencer has served as Salmagundi First Vice President, Chair of 

the Jury of Awards, and on the Board of Directors for six years. In addition, she is a long time member of the Salmagundi Art Committee which juries artwork for Salmagundi exhibitions along with the artwork of prospective new club 

artist members. She is a gifted artist who works in oil, watercolor, and pastel, and who has won numerous awards in 

all three mediums. Her works can be found in collections throughout the United States, Europe, and the Far East. 

The artist teaches beginning to advanced painting and color theory privately and also teaches a popular painting and 

drawing class at the Salmagundi Club.

Charles Yoder was raised and educated in Europe and the United States where he finished his formal education with a 

bachelor’s in fine arts from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y. Over the years he has supported his art-making with various 

jobs including director of Castelli Graphics and curator to Robert Rauschenberg. Currently, he paints full time and 

teaches printmaking part time at the School of Visual Arts. As the artist recounts it, some time ago he found himself 

standing in the shadows of a pine forest in deep snow under a full moon. The simple beauty of what he saw was an 

epiphany. All that he had been looking for in painting was literally lying at his feet. Theories and isms no longer defined what he painted. The given provided all that was needed. His work then as now is a meditation on that glimpse.

George Gray

drawing by James Dyekman
Regular maintenance

Daven Anderson

Watercolor

18 x 14 inches

St. Louis, Mo.

Coast Guard service members from St. Louis perform 

maintenance on aids to navigation in the Upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. The crew reclaim lost 

channel markers, while moving or replacing others 

and installing batteries in lighted markers. The service maintains the more than 50,000 buoys, lights 

and beacons that make up the visual component of 

aids to navigation.

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Aids to navigation

Cutter Ida Lewis performs ATON

Mike Mazer

Watercolor

16 x 20 inches

Mattapoisett, Mass.

Crew aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Ida Lewis, a 175-foot Keeper 

Class Coastal Cutter, repairs a 

buoy in the Cape Cod Canal in 

Buzzards Bay, Mass. The cutter, 

homeported in Newport, R.I., also 

conducts search and rescue, 

domestic icebreaking and coastal 

security missions.

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Fixin’ the chain

James Consor

Oil

24 x 30 inches

New York, N.Y.

A Coast Guard welder aboard the 

Cutter Katherine Walker repairs a 

chain cable from an anchor to a 

channel buoy marker from Newark Bay. Safety tie-downs normally secured on aboard by the 

buoy have been temporarily

removed to facilitate repairs. The 

cutter is homeported in Bayonne, 

N.J.

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The dirty chain

James Consor

Oil

24 x 30 inches

New York, N.Y. 

Crew aboard the Coast Guard Cutter 

Katherine Walker, a 175-foot buoy 

tender, repair the chain and buoy in a 

channel in Newark Bay. The cutter is 

homeported in Bayonne, N.J., and 

has a crew of 24. The service maintains the more than 50,000 buoys, 

lights and beacons that make up the 

visual component of aids to navigation.

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Heat and beat competition

LT Rebecca Rebar

Acrylic

28 x 20 inches

Kodiak, Alaska

A Damage Controlman aboard the Cutter Spar in Juneau, 

Alaska, competes in the Buoy Tender Roundup Olympics by 

heating a shackle during the heat and beat competition. 

The Buoy Tender Olympics blends competition and camaraderie with the day-to-day work crews are required to perform.

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Changing buoy moorings

James Wall

Watercolor

12 x 15 inches

Bloomington, Ill.

Crew from the Cutter Spar 

works on buoy maintenance. Here the Damage 

Controlman cuts buoy 

moorings while a second 

crew member sorts the 

chain. The service maintains the more than 50,000 

buoys, lights and beacons 

that make up the visual 

component of aids to navigation.

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Setting markers

Kathleen Denis

Oil

18 x 24 inches

Tavernier, Fla.

When Hurricane Irma struck in the summer of 2017 it 

caused widespread devastation and was one of the 

costliest hurricanes on record in the Atlantic basin. 

Damages in the affected area were estimated at 

$64.76 billion. Here Coast Guard Sector Key West 

crew replaces day markers in Hawks Channel which 

were damaged by the unforgiving storm.

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Readying for patrol

MK2 Jasen Newman

Oil

18 x 12 inches

Port Angeles, Wash.

A Maritime Security Response Team (MSRT) member lowers into a large 

boat from the Coast Guard Cutter Active. The MSRT serves here as part of 

the Joint Inter-Agency Task Force-South which detects and monitors illicit 

trafficking. Despite over fifty years of service, the Active is one of the most 

effective Coast Guard assets operating in the Eastern Pacific.

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On the front line of defense

Ron Weil

Acrylic

14 x 18 inches

Oregon City, Ore.

Coast Guard marine inspectors examine all 

vessels, foreign and domestic, entering American ports to ensure the safety, security and 

adherence to regulations required by Congress. Here a highly trained marine inspection 

team in the engine room of a visiting ship 

checks the condition of its equipment and 

ensures safety protocols are observed.

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Maritime security, patrols and inspections
On the job

Louis Stephen Gadal

Watercolor

14 x 20

Los Angeles, Calif.

Crew on small boat from the 

Coast Guard Cutter Swordfish 

inspects a recreational boat in 

the Puget Sound. The 87-foot 

Cutter Swordfish is a patrol 

boat homeported in Port Angeles, Wash. It performs many 

missions including maritime 

law enforcement, search and 

rescue, and protecting living 

marine resources.

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Semper Paratus

Dick Kramer

30 x 20 inches

Pencil

Leesburg, Va.

A member of the Tactual Law Enforcement Team 

(TACLET) at Air Station Miami stands as he pensively 

stands watch. The missions of these highly-trained 

service members include law enforcement, national and 

international security, and training foreign military and 

police forces. The Coast Guard introduced the concept 

of TACLETs over 30 years ago. Today, two units are 

deployed: one on the East Coast and the other on the 

West Coast in San Diego. 

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On assignment: Coast Guard Cutter Tezanos

In 2018, COGAP artist Robert Selby was selected to visit Sector San Juan where he deployed aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Joseph 

Tezanos for May 5 to May 17, 2018. The artist created the oil painting triptych shown here and 36 drawings comprising the artist 

sketchbook—a portion of which is shown below—as a result of his visit.

Guardians of the Puerto Rican Coast

Robert Selby

Oil triptych

4 x 2 feet

Colton, N.Y.

The crew depicted in the center panel is aboard the small boat of Fast Response Cutter Joseph Tezanos as the crew transfers 

illegal migrants to the Dominican Navy off the coast of the Dominican Republic. On the left, a male service member stands watch

as the cutter exits San Juan harbor. On the right, a female service member stands watch as the cutter approaches Mona Island. 

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Artist’s Sketchbook

Robert Selby

Colton, N.Y.

In 2018, COGAP artist Robert Selby visited Sector San Juan where 

he deployed abroad the Joseph Tezanos from May 5 to May 17. 

During his stay on board, the artist created a sketchbook of some 

36 drawings which captured life aboard the ship and the important 

work being done by the officers and crew. These were mounted 

and framed on six panels. Shown here is the first of the six panels.

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(To view the sketchbook please visit: https://

coastguard.dodlive.mil/2018/09/the-tezanos-sketchbook//.)
Stemming the flow: interdicting illegal drugs

Bertholf on drug patrol

Leendert van der Pool

Oil

18 x 24 inches

Brooklyn, N.Y.

Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf crewmembers prepare to launch a 33-

foot small boat from the stern of 

the cutter during a counterdrug 

patrol in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. 

National Security Cutters, among 

the largest vessels in the service, 

are 418 feet long and have three 

small boats which can be launched 

from the stern or lowered down the 

side of the cutter by davit cranes.

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Drop launch ready

Karen Loew

Oil

24 x 18 inches

New York, N.Y.

Crew aboard a small boat is lowered from the Coast 

Guard National Security Cutter (NSC) Bertholf during 

a counterdrug patrol in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. 

The Coast Guard is the lead federal agency for drug 

interdiction on the high seas. NSCs—among the 

largest cutters in the service—are 418 feet long and 

have three small boats which can be lowered from 

the side or stern.

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Coast Guard icebreakers: patrols and rescue

Ice rescue

Amy DiGi

Oil

16 x 20 inches

Yonkers, N.Y.

Crew from the Coast Guard Cutter Penobscot Bay conducts ice 

rescue operations on the Hudson River. Communication between the crew and the service member deployed to rescue is 

critical and hand signals are often employed in pulling a victim to 

safety. Homeported in Bayonne, N.J., this Bay-class icebreaking 

tug is responsible for ice-covered waterways in New York City 

and the Hudson Valley as well as throughout coastal New England. 

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Icebreaking on the Kennebec River

C.R. “Bob” Bryant

Oil

16 x 20 inches

Cape Neddick, Maine

A Coast Guard small harbor tug conducts 

icebreaking on the Kennebec River. Coast 

Guard icebreakers, in cooperation with the 

Canadian Coast Guard, keep Great Lakes 

and Northeastern U.S. waterways open for 

commercial traffic, assist vessels transiting 

ice-filled waterways and prevent ice-related 

flooding.

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On the bridge of the Cutter Mackinaw

Emily Waldman

Watercolor and ink

10 x 12 inches

Pittsford, N.Y.

A Coast Guard lieutenant looks pensively at the horizon while on the 

bridge of the Cutter Mackinaw. The service maintains its heavy icebreaking capability on the Great Lakes to assist in keeping channels and harbors navigable during winter to meet the shipping needs of industry. The 

cutter is the Coast Guard's only heavy icebreaker on the Great Lakes and 

was designed to provide multi-mission capabilities with state of the art 

systems.

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Motor lifeboats on roiling seas

All ahead frantic

Dennis Boom

Oil

15 x 30 inches

Hillsboro, Ore.

A motor lifeboat (MLB) crew from Coast 

Guard Station Fort Macon, N.C., conducts 

high speed training. The crew is trained to 

respond to distress calls and maritime emergencies during storms that create exceedingly high, turbulent seas with surf often over 

15 feet in height. Surfmen are among the 

service’s most proficient small boat operators.

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Surfman

John T. Ward

Acrylic

16 x 30 inches

Saranac Lake, N.Y.

A crewmember aboard a 47-foot 

motor lifeboat from Coast Guard 

Station Cape Disappointment in 

Washington battles the spray of 

heavy seas as he navigates the 

surf boat. The station is one of 

only 20 Coast Guard surf stations. 

Crews undergo rigorous training 

to ensure that they are prepared 

to respond to distress calls and 

maritime emergencies during 

storms that create high and very 

turbulent seas.

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Cutter Penobscot Bay assists

Amy DiGi

Oil

18 x 18 inches

Yonkers, N.Y.

Crew from the Coast Guard Cutter Penobscot Bay 

assists a loaded tug moving a barge through ice on 

the Hudson River in support of Operation Reliable 

Energy for Northeast Winters. This program run by 

the Coast Guard ensures communities there have 

supplies and resources needed throughout the cold 

season. The cutter is homeported in Bayonne, N.J.

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Saving lives: Coast Guard to the rescue

The rescue of the Michael and Kristen

Kirk Larsen

Oil

12 x 16

Hicksville, N.Y.

The Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba arrives to the rescue 

of the Gloucester lobster boat, the Michael and Kristen. The small commercial vessel lost engines some 

200 miles southeast of Nantucket. Crew from the cutter passes a line to the boat from which a tow line is 

fed and which is used to pull the boat to safety. 

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Relief from Hurricane Maria

Dino Sistilli

Oil

18 x 24 inches

West Deptford, N.J.

Hurricane Maria, a category five storm, devastated much of 

Puerto Rico in September 2017. It was one of the worst natural disasters on record and the strongest to hit Puerto Rico in 

more than 80 years. Nearly 3,000 lives were claimed by the 

storm whose economic impact is estimated at least $43 billion. The federal government responded with a massive aid 

effort and reconstruction continues to this day. Shown here 

are Coast Guard personnel delivering food and water to residents of San Sebastian. 

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Hurricane Florence strikes

Jim Stagner

Watercolor

14.5 x 22 inches

Johnson City, Tenn.

Hurricane Florence, a powerful 

storm that whipped parts of the Carolinas, caused catastrophic damage, 

most of which was from flooding. 

More than 50 people lost their lives 

in the storm that totaled some $24 

billion in damages. T he Coast Guard 

quickly arrived on scene. Here crewmembers in a shallow water boat, 

along with local authorities, rescue 

imperiled North Carolinians.

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Christening in Alaska

Christening at Air Station Kodiak

Susanne Corbelletta

Oil

20 x 30 inches

Glen Head, N.Y.

Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak 

welcomes the first HC-130J Super 

Hercules. Five more of the 

planes are planned for this year. 

These will replace the HC-130H 

model planes. The new plane 

boasts advanced engines and 

propellers. They provide a 20 

percent increase in speed and 

altitude, and a 40 percent increase in range. The new aircraft 

also features state-of-the-art 

avionics, including all-glass cockpit displays and improved navigation equipment, a feature that 

will aid in Alaska’s unforgiving 

weather and terrain. 

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Hiker rescue

Frank Gaffney

Oil

20 x 16 inches

Mountlake Terrace, Wash.

A Coast Guard aircrew, local fire and rescue medics 

and the victim’s father transport an injured hiker to a 

MH-65 Dolphin helicopter which landed below a cliff 

on a tidal pool in Whale Cove, Ore. The hiker needed 

Coast Guard assistance when local rescuers were 

unable to transport him to a nearby hospital.

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Responding to emergencies

Fire drill

MST3 Thomas Unger

Coffee

16 x 20 inches

Morehead City, N.C.

A Coast Guard Marine Science Technician 

(MST) signals the crew of a foreign-flagged 

vessel to seal a mask leaking air. The crew is 

performing a fire drill during a Port State 

Control (PSC) exam to test the crew’s proficiency in fighting shipboard fires. PSC 

officers verify that foreign-flagged vessels 

operating in U.S. waters comply with applicable international conventions, U.S. laws, and 

U.S. regulations. The goal of the PSC program is to identify and eliminate substandard 

ships from U.S. waters.

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On station

Charles Van Horn

Watercolor

28 x 20 inches

Glen Head, N.Y.

When a fire occurred after the explosion of a fuel 

tank near San Juan, the Coast Guard Cutter Matinicus provided assistance while establishing a security and safety zone. Fortunately, there were no injuries. After several days, the fire was under control. The cutter, a 110-foot patrol boat, is homeported in 

San Juan.

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Protecting living marine resources and the environment 

Returning home

Acacia Anglin

Gouache

12 x 16 inches

Port Angeles, Wash.

Coast Guard service members from Cutter Joshua 

Appleby and a commercial crew work together to 

safely return a beached pilot whale to waters 140 

miles west of Clearwater, Fla. The 725-pound female whale, nicknamed “Gale” by the Coast Guard 

crew, is a member of the dolphin family and is second only to the killer whale in size. The Joshua 

Apply is a 175-foot Keeper Class Coastal Buoy Tender homeported at Sector St. Petersburg.

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Going home

Del-Bourree Bach

Acrylic

12 x 16 inches

Mystic, Conn.

Hundreds of thousands of marine mammals 

and sea turtles die yearly from entanglement 

on fishing nets and gear. But this turtle was a 

lucky one: Spotted by crew from the Coast 

Guard Cutter Harriet Lane, it was cut from 

nets and then gently released into waters off 

the Puerto Rican shore. The service’s mission 

protecting living marine resources is critical to 

saving endangered marine life.

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Sharing the ice

Robert Tandecki

Mixed media

11 x 14 inches

Sumner, Wash.

Since the United States purchased Alaska 

from Russia, the Coast Guard has been a leader in the exploration of the Arctic region. On 

the first cruises in Alaskan waters, vessels of 

the United States Revenue Cutter Service 

carried geologists and surveyors who helped 

chart the new unexplored territory. Today, 

the Coast Guard continues to carry scientific 

teams to the North Pole aboard the Cutter 

Healy. Here, polar bears stand watch as the 

Healy breaks ice. The cutter is the nation’s 

largest and most technologically advanced 

icebreaker as well as the service’s largest vessel. The Healy is homeported in Seattle, 

Washington.

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Service member Blasio

Acacia Anglin

Gouache

12 x 16 inches

Port Angeles, Wash.

Coast Guard explosives detection agent Blasio, 

a German Shepard, hones his agility skills under 

the watchful eyes of his handler a Marine Law 

Enforcement Specialist (MLE). The handler and 

his canine partner form a tight bond. Normally, 

the two will work together for the duration of 

the canine’s career. There are 16 such teams in 

the service. Like their four-legged partners, 

MLE’s also undergo rigorous training which 

takes place during a nine week course at the 

Maritime Law Enforcement Academy in 

Charleston, S.C.

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Coast Guard canines: Explosive detection agents in training

Perfect trust

Tom Hedderich

Watercolor

11.5 x 18 inches

Westtown, N.Y.

A Coast Guard petty officer is kissed by his canine 

partner Strike while undergoing hoist training. 

The two partners are from the Canine Explosive Detection Team, a part of the Maritime Safety and Security Team stationed at 

Kings Bay, Ga. Canine service members remain with their human partners for the duration of their careers. 

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Coast Guard musicians

James Dyekman

Watercolor

20 x 16 inches

Chesapeake City, Md.

A Coast Guard singer and band members are shown 

as they perform in myriad venues around the country. The Band educates young and old about the 

Coast Guard. Its home is at the Coast Guard 

Academy in New London, Conn. 

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And the beat goes on...

Studying makes the Coast Guard semper paratus

Studying for third class

Dennis Boom

Oil

18 x 24 inches

Hillsboro, Ore.

A crewmember from Coast Guard Station 

Tillamook Bay studies for advancement 

aboard one of the station’s three motor 

lifeboats (MLB). The MLB is docked near 

Garibaldi, Ore., where the station was 

moved in the early 1980s. The station is 

one of 20 surf boat stations in the service 

and its members are responsible for protecting over 2,000 square miles of the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

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