Known for his ship portrait paintings, Joe Selby was born in Mobile,
Alabama, and settled in Miami, Florida. He was an
African-American painter whose subjects were the ships and yachts that
docked at the Miami city pier between 1921 and 1959.
As a
twelve-year old deck hand, he had lost a leg in a shipboard accident,
but during the 1930s, his love of marine activity led him to join a
steamer out of Mobile.
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Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who i (showing 500 of 1593 characters). |
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