American Lighthouse Art
Bodie Lighthouse

Outer Banks, NC

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Beautiful Giclee Watercolors by Sailor/Artist Al LaBanca

Prints for Sale

7 x 9 matted front/back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$21.00*

11 x 14 matted front/back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $35.00*

Custom sizes UP to 18 x 24 - Shipped in tube . . . . . . . . . . . $120.00**

22 x 28 Beautiful Print - Shipped in Tube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$175.00**

Note Cards: 8 cards/envs.    Three (3) Boxes Minimum . . . . $12.00 p/box*

Single boxes of Note Cards may be ordered with your Print order (Postage Free)

Prints signed on request

I will also paint your favorite Lighthouse 

10x14, $1000.     12x16, $1500.     15x20, $2000.     18x24, $2500

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or Call the Artist: Al LaBanca at:   203 655-2831

 

 

* Plus $6.00 S/H         **Plus $15.00 S/H Insured

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You'll love these colorful note cards!

These Collector Note Cards of your favorite lighthouse are so vibrant and bright that you will frame them or only send to special friends.

Ideal Gift!  

Eight (4.25x 5.5) cards and envelopes  in a clear cover gift box.  

Beautiful Giclee Prints

Sample Print Shown with Matting front and back and facts about the light.   Acid free paper and superb reproduction.   Limited printing.    And signed on request.

Ideal Gift!

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Al LaBanca, American Lighthouse Art, Darien, CT 

Tel: 203 655-2831

 

My Guarantee:  Full refund if not satisfied!

Questions or comments? E-mail to: lightson10@aol.com   

Some Facts About The Lighthouse

This is one special place!   Built in 1872, this magnificent lighthouse stands one hundred and sixty-five feet ASL.  She flashes a unique white light: 2.5 seconds on/off and then a 22.5 second eclipse twice each minute. Her light is visible for nineteen miles and her identifying colors are black and white stripes!

This tower is the third attempt to build a lighthouse on Bodie Island.  The first was a poorly built structure that started to lean over and was finally abandoned; the second was simply blown up by Confederate forces to keep it from the Union Army.

However, there were still problems; like flocks of geese smashing into the light and lightening strikes.  These were corrected, but keepers had some problems because the light was so far from civilization, that mothers and children lived in town, near schools while the keeper stood guard at the isolated lighthouse. 

It wasn’t easy being a keeper!

Alfred  LaBanca

Sailor/Artist, Darien, CT