Envisioning Paul Cuffe

Can you imagine the life of Paul Cuffe?

Ray Shaw, a Westport resident and graphic artist, uses watercolor sketches to help visualize the past. His graphite and loose watercolor ‘storybook’ style challenges the viewer to use their imagination to interpret a given subject.

After Paul was released from prison, he used a shallop to secretly deliver supplies to Nantucket which was being blockaded throughout the War by the British Navy. Pirates stopped him twice and stole his cargo and even his boat one time

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