The Caine Mutiny - Paul Wright RSMA

Original oil on canvas signed lower left. 

Canvas size 24 x 36 inches.

The Caine Mutiny is a 1952 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk. The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard two destroyer-minesweepers in the Pacific Theater in World War II. Among its themes, it deals with the moral and ethical decisions made at sea by ship captains and other officers.

The mutiny of the title is legalistic, not violent, and takes place during Typhoon Cobra, in December 1944., here depicted in Paul Wright's dramatic painting.

Paul writes: "The Caine Mutiny is taken from the famous book and film with Humpthrey Bogarde  and Fred Macmurrey which I illustrated the cover for about a million years ago. Unlike the film the ship portrayed in the book was a flush deck 4 stacker common in the U.S Navy in the 1st war and used in WW 2 when they were short of modern ships."

A larger photo is available on request.