Brent Collinsworth (Kentucky), Whaling Scene

Folk art painting on board showing a dispatched whaling crew nabbing a surfaced beast of the sea, with a larger sailing vessel in the background and flanked by peninsulas with scenes on each, signed by the artist l.r.; 17.25" x 17.25" (sight), 21.75" x 21.75" (frame).

Brent Collinsworth has been a dedicated and well respected folk artist for more than twenty years. He has lived his entire life on the family farm in Hazel Green, KY, where he spent his summer days as a boy helping to produce corn, hay, hogs, cattle, and tobacco. Today, he spends his time turning the family farm into a walnut plantation for the future of his three granddaughters and producing works of art which find their way into museums and private collections throughout a wide section of the southeastern United States;

From the collection of Dr. Gerald and Barbara Theisen, Georgetown, KY.
Condition Report: scratch to lower center of painting