Thea Painting A Rowboat 8” x 8”

During the summer of 1889, a Norwegian immigrant named Thea Foss was at home in her houseboat with her three children while her husband was away working on a carpentry job. To bring in extra money, Thea bought a rowboat and repaired it to resell to a fisherman. With the money she earned, she bought more boats and rented them out for use in Commencement Bay.

Her husband, Andrew, returned after the completion of his project and the two realized that her boat rental business was more profitable than his construction work, so the two established what would become Foss Maritime, one of the largest maritime services companies in the west.

Thea painted the boats green and white, the same colors Foss uses today.

Artist: Tom Crestodina

There will be 500 signed, numbered prints in this limited edition