Cape Horn has always been synonomous with ferrocious weather and violent winds. Sailors approach it with trepidation at even the "summer" season. If the weather isn't bad enough, there is always the threat of icebergs! Here we see a ship under shortened sail, struggling to make in heavy seas and wind. This painting is from the brush of Anton Otto Fischer, one of America' s premier artists of the sea.

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