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    An Artist Drawn to the Late Light

    Dec 07, 2021 1 minute
     —Carly Sisson

    he sun is setting in this piece titled “Saybrook Point Light-house” as two schooners make their way through Long Island Sound, taking advantage of the last bits of daylight. For maritime artist Loretta Krupinski Bailey, this scene is not a, the oldest existing auxiliary knockabout fishing schooner in North America. “Anyone who’s been on sailboats can always remember one of the best sails they’ve ever had,” Bailey recalls. “It was beautiful, and we happened to arrive at the lighthouse around sunset.” Bailey, who paints from her own photographs, was carrying her camera on the sail and started taking pictures as they approached what is officially known as Lynde Point Lighthouse in Saybrook, Connecticut.

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