The Art of Piracy: Pirates in Modern Culture

The Art of Piracy: Pirates in Modern Culture
The Art of Piracy: Pirates in Modern Culture

The Art of Piracy: Pirates in Modern Culture examined the role of art in shaping the popular and iconic images associated with 17th and 18th-century pirates in and around the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic seaboard. The exhibition featured original paintings from current, award-winning artists such as Don Maitz, Rick Reeves, and Alberto DeLama, plus original and reproduction works from famed 19th and early 20th-century artists. Also included were early illustrations that led to the original Tampa Bay Buccaneers logo, original sketches of early Gasparilla parade floats, and decorative invitations and dance cards from the first two decades of Tampa’s Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla, founders of the Gasparilla festival, which began in 1904.