Who was the artist who created an etching or woodblock print entitled
"Becalmed In the Sargasso Sea" which depicts sailors pushing horses
off the ship and into the seaweed clogged water?

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Clarification of Question by ruu4ic-ga on 22 Sep 2002 09:57 PDT

This picture was the one that elicited the words to the Jim Morrison
(of 'The Doors') poem 'Horse Latitudes.'  It depicts a horse in the
forground gasping for air as it tries to swim in the seaweed clogged
water.  In the background is a wood sailing ship with sailors forseing
another horse off the 'plank' and into the water.  I saw a print of it
in  the 1950's and, at that time, it was a woodcut of some note.

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Request for Question Clarification by juggler-ga on 23 Sep 2002 21:58 PDT

What are your memories of the style of the artwork? Realistic?
Abstract? Was your impression that this was an old artwork? Or was it
produced in the modern era?

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Clarification of Question by ruu4ic-ga on 24 Sep 2002 02:56 PDT

The work was very realistic ... and the artist was very skilled!  It's
a difficult piece to discribe but very dramatic.  The expression of
fear in the horse already in the water is intense.... nostrils
dialated, wild eyed as it struggles to swim in the seaweed.  I'm not
totally sure it was a woodcut but my impression is that it was an old
work.  The book I saw it in may have been one of my mothers college
books (she is 87 years old now and graduated from University of
California Berkeley in the 1930's) it may also have been in an old
dictionary or research book of some kind ... I just can't remember. 
It was a full page print and was not printed on the back.  I frankly
can't remember if there were any other prints in the book.

I wasn't able to find such an etching or woodblock print in a quick google search.

The work was very realistic ... and the artist was very skilled!  It's
a difficult piece to discribe but very dramatic.  The expression of
fear in the horse already in the water is intense.... nostrils
dialated, wild eyed as it struggles to swim in the seaweed.  I'm not
totally sure it was a woodcut but my impression is that it was an old
work.  The book I saw it in may have been one of my mothers college
books (she is 87 years old now and graduated from University of
California Berkeley in the 1930's) it may also have been in an old
dictionary or research book of some kind ... I just can't remember. 
It was a full page print and was not printed on the back.  I frankly
can't remember if there were any other prints in the book.