David Blackwood
Vision of the Lost Party
1964,
Etching A. P.,
74.8 x 50.2 cm
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Vision of the Lost Party is an etching by David Blackwood. It is part of a series called the Lost Party. Blackwood grew up in Wesleyville, which was the home of many prosperous and famous fishing and sealing captains. As a child, the artist would have heard tales of disasters on the ice. This image depicts men waiting to be found on the ice, freezing and in despair. The shape of a trigger mitt in the foreground gives the impression that the viewer is reaching out to help the lost men. The bull's head which rises in the blowing snow, the sign of the beast, is a symbol of approaching death. Survivors of one sealing disaster in the early 1900s reported seeing such a beast, perhaps as an hallucination, though some say the sight has religious significance. © 1998 AGNL. |
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