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TIM O’BRIEN: THE TITANIC FOR SMITHSONIAN

April 30, 2012

Tim O’Brien created this painting in honor of the 100th year anniversary of the tragic sinking of the Titanic. “Smithsonian Magazine asked me to illustrate the Titanic and how it stays vivid in our minds and imagination,” says Tim. “It's an historical anomaly that makes a sure thing seem less so, that nothing is assured and that nature wins out in the end.”

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“The wonderful AD at Smithsonian asked me to capture the way this ship is so considered and discussed 100 years later.  To do this I worked on an old idea of mine: ships escaping a frame.”

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Realism, Oil on panel, Collection of the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators, NY

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