FavoriteLeast Favorite Ken Marschall Titanic Painting

[steven p greiner]

Hate to break with the rest of you, but his painting of the Lusitania is my favorite. The bow is just going under, there is a huge starboard list, the funnels are black, a few boats are hanging by one davit. Although there was carnage everywhere at that moment in the sinking, he didn't show a lot in the painting. You just know it is there. Very tasteful, and looks like a photograph.

 

[Martin Owen Cahill]

Steve that painting is known as Death of Innocents andstill stands as one of his best

When I was 7 & 8 I did not have the benefit of Ken Marschalls' fine work, only a grandmother from Belfast with her story of seeing the Titanic before it went to England. With my imagination I read Beesley and Lord and had images in my head. In my early 20s I discovered Marschall and was bowled over to see in colour and print what I had seen in my mind already.

I would love to see him do more Lusitania paintings. I know he was considering the 1910 rogue wave strike when doing work for Exploring the Lusitania.