Thomas Wells

Thomas Wells (American) (1916-2004)

Thomas Wells was born in 1916.  He graduated from Yale with an art degree in 1942 and joined the Navy.  After the war, he became a technical illustrator for the Naval Underwater Weapons Systems Command.  He started painting full time in 1972 and has had several very successful one-man shows.

Wells sailed on Passat as a hand in 1939 and his painting shows her leaving Copenhagen for Australia.  He also recorded the voyage with a movie camera showing the rough passage around Cape Horn.

AMERICAN SCHOONERS ZACA AND T. VEGA

MOSHULU

PASSAT ON THE DAY OF DEPARTURE 1939