Well, those of you who know me well or who have followed my posts for the past 5 years, know that I’m a bit of a storyteller by heart. I suppose every artist is. I married the ‘54 GMC truck into the setting, pretending how it may have looked at Christmas at the Stonington, CT lighthouse in the 50’s, the Baby Boomer era, to which I belong. The light keepers and their families actually lived right here in the dwelling of the lighthouse. For more than 170 years, this modest little stone citadel— a lighthouse tower attached to a dwelling—has stood at the entrance to the harbor of Stonington, Connecticut’s only port facing on the Atlantic. The building is notable among lighthouses of its period for its beautiful stonework and weighty granite lintels above the doorways and windows. When it was built in 1840, it had a nearly flat roof, but it leaked so badly that two years later, local craftsmen were called in to install the gabled roof it has today.

So as promised (continuing series of lighthouses)…the Stonington, CT Lighthouse and Museum.

The approximate framed out size of this watercolor is 19” x 19 1/2”.