Sailing Day - Camden, Maine

Carroll Thayer Berry

This black and pale teal colored blockprint by Carroll Thayer Berry is of the harbor in Camden, Maine, a fishing village and tourist attraction in Knox County, Maine. It is also home to sport fishing charter and summer pleasure crafts.

The harbor is filled with what appear to be Grand Banks fishing Schooners, which include a gaff topsail and a fisherman's staysail. In the winter these could be sailed as a two-masted fishing schooner, without the topmasts and upper sails.

Berry was born and raised in New Gloucester, ME and settled in Chicago after WWI, where he met his wife, author/illustrator Janet Laura Scott who also designed Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls. During the Depression, Berry and his wife left Chicago and moved back to New England, where they bought a house in Wiscasset, Maine and then to Rockport, Maine where he worked for the rest of his life. He worked primarily in wood-engraving, woodcut and linocut. His later work focused on 'dynamic symmetry' that promoted geometric proportions.