Oil on linen, 29" x 44" Captain Charlie Barr helms COLUMBIA during the stormy third, and decisive, America's Cup race against SHAMROCK, October 20, 1899. On board is designer Nat Herreshoff, syndicate head C. Oliver Iselin and his wife Hope, the first American woman to sail on a Cup defender. She is shown with her Eastman-Kodak box camera; her wonderful photo albums capturing the action on board, which inspired this painting, are preserved in the archives of the Mystic Seaport Museum. This painting was sold into private collection.

THE AMERICA'S CUP WILL REMAIN HERE; Columbia Makes it Three Straight from Shamrock. WON BY OVER SIX MINUTES

NEWPORT, R.I., Oct. 20. -- The cup is safe, and Columbia is the gem of the ocean. The yachting supremacy of the United States is just where it was before the formidable Shamrock was turned out of the brain of Will Fife of Fairlie, and there is a place for another challenger as soon as one can be found who will undertake the task of “lifting” the cup....