42° North

$50.00 USD

Handmade lithograph featuring a sailboat. Limited and numbered edition signed by artist. The miniature image in this fine art edition is 1 11/32 in. x 1 printed in black ink on hand-torn piece of German etching paper measuring 2 9/16 in. x 2 in. Categories: Al Young, Boats and ships, Lithograph, Maritime
Product No.: 3.00.0195.010

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- Item can ship by Friday, 19 March, 2010

42°N

by Al Young

The two-color image consists of black ink printed over a beige flat on German etching paper

Print documentation is provided online for collectors.

Behind the Scenes

Away beyond the dark brink of a watery world, the nimble fingers of an unseen wind draw filmy threads from the blue-gray sea and weave them into billows piling upward toward the sun. And in the swelling margin of the gathering blackness round, a solitary sail plies its way across the wind. It leans there stretched like hope across a chasm, bending, straining, reaching homeward with its soul. And as the crackle snapping of the canvas echoes heart beats in the spray, by the perils churning round it is borne safely on its way.

42°N was featured in the May-June 2001 issue of The Storybook Home. In an article entitled “Images of Childhood and Home,” Al Young talks about some of the significant aspects of the image. For example:

In one sense, its subject is sailing, yet in a much more meaningful way the story it tells is all about home and sanctuary, about yearning to make it home, and about the consummate straining that goes into the effort to get home.

The complete article is available in the May-June 2001 issue of The Storybook Home.