Watercolor Map Of Nantucket, Designed 1921 by Austin Strong (American, 1881-1952) (SOLD)

Sz: 13 1/2"H x 16 1/2"WWatercolor & ink embellished on paper w/ board backing VG Scroll Down for (16) Additional Pics:One of the great Nantucket personalities of the twentieth century, Austin Strong was a stage designer, theatrical producer, author, landscape architect, Mason, clairvoyant, commodore of the Nantucket Yacht Club (1931 and 1932), founder of the Wharf Rat Club, promoter of and participant in the Nantucket Cottage Hospital “fêtes,” and a leading force in many of the chief island organizations and cultural activities from the 1920s through the 1940s. He designed this map of Nantucket in 1921, the sale of which generated substantial funds for the hospital. In addition to his more formal public art work, Strong delighted in making improvised sketches caricaturing the miscellaneous personalities he encountered on Nantucket and in his travels. Strong spent his childhood years with his step-grandfather Robert Louis Stevenson in his home, “Vailima,” on the island of Samoa, b