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Chesapeake Bay art and Skipjack fine art in particular, in the form of the photograph, is the focus of these pages. This “Skipjack Sunday”photograph and art description is included to assist web search engines, thus it may read a bit peculiar to the casual reader.  

Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks are dwindling rapidly from thousands to a handful. A working Skipjack on the Chesapeake dredging for oysters is indeed a rare site these days.  

 While Skipjack art and paintings are readily available, previously uncirculated fine art collectible Skipjack photographs of archival quality are quite limited. Bill Peterson has just restored, and printed for the first time, Skipjack images he made in the late 1960’s of a Deal Island Skipjack race. These graceful Skipjacks are the last fleet of workboats under sail in the United States and abounded in both Maryland and Virginia waters at the turn of the last century. From the thousands of yesterday to the dozen or so today, the Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks are the last of their kind and worthy of all efforts toward preservation.  Bill has captured the spirit of the Chesapeake watermen in these images, from the deck of the Rosie Parks to the dock at Deal Island, this weekend jaunt from long ago preserved and now presents a glimpse of a time he calls a “Skipjack Sunday.”  

The collection titled “Skipjack Sunday,” is being presented on exhibit at the Reedville Fishermen’s Museum through September. Please come and join us and visit the web site at www.colonyproductions.com/skipjacks.