Evening sun and mist off Cape Race Painting

Painting depicts the Cunard Liner RMS Franconia approaching the famous Cape Race Headland, Newfoundland on the 27th July 1927 passing the becalmed Newfoundland Schooner Bluenose. . A celebrated racing ship and fishing vessel, Bluenose under the command of Angus Walters became a provincial icon for Nova Scotia and an important Canadian symbol in the 1930s, serving as a working vessel until she was wrecked in 1946. Nicknamed the "Queen of the North Atlantic," she was later commemorated by a replica, Bluenose II, built in 1963. The painting depicts a typical early summer evening off the Grand Banks, known for it's calm seas and notorious fog banks with the sun breaking through and sparkling on the water.Cape Race was the first point of land encountered for ships crossing the Atlantic during their passage from Europe to New York and North America.