Opening Shots
Oct 08, 2019
1 minute
—Steve Knauth
aarten Platje has frozen a moment in America’s maritime history in his dramatic work “Opening Shots, USS vs. HMS .” It shows the War of 1812 sea battle in the open Atlantic her nickname, Old Ironsides. “It’s the early stage of the battle,” Platje says, “just before the ships were close enough to exchange broadsides.”
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