Ancestry, sense of space, and an artist's eye for water and sky have led Lizbeth Maxson-McGee to a new calling in her artistic career, with a focus on submarine art. In the early months of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln established the Ironclad Board to choose designs of ironclad ships to respond to the Confederate ironclad, CSS Virginia. Of the first three types of iron-plated vessels designed, one of these, the 'Galena' was built by the Maxson & Fish Shipyard in Mystic, Connecticut. Co-owner of the shipyard was William Ellery Maxson, Liz's great-great...more
