Vtg 1981 Jacques Cousteau Signed Lithograph The Calypso Robert M. Creevy Art 195/500 Detroit River Detroit MI

Vtg 1981 Jacques Cousteau Signed Lithograph The Calypso Robert M. Creevy Art 195/500 Detroit River Detroit MI

This piece of historic Detroit art, not to mention Jacques Cousteau, is from our large collection of vintage Great Lakes art.

1980 : Jacques Cousteau Docks in Detroit:
On Sept. 30, 1980, French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau arrived in Detroit on his research trip, Calypso, where 5,000 people greeted him at Hart Plaza. Cousteau had just returned from Lake Superior where he was filming a series for the National Film Board of Canada. He told reporters that he was baffled by the lack of life in the lakes.

Please note in the lower left hand corner there is a sketch of Cousteau with the Renaissance Center in the background. Copyright 1981 195/500. Above the Calypso, in the left corner is the sketch of the Great Lakes.

In the lower right hand corner is Robert M. Creevy signature above the lithograph signature.

The content of this piece is tremendously detailed:
After 46 years sailing all seas and oceans of the world, Calypso has become the symbol of Cousteau’s adventures. With Calypso in 1951, Captain Cousteau found a ship that would let him realize his vision: to use his inventions as a pioneer in unveiling the continental shelf. Calypso was transformed by Cousteau from top to bottom into an oceanographic vessel. So it is only right that, in her retirement, she should tell the story of her magnificent history, inseparable from that of Captain Cousteau.

I was able to locate a newspaper article from the Ann Arbor News dated October 1, 1980 written by Robert Lelievre. It is about Cousteau and Mayor Coleman Young giving Cousteau a Key to the City. A fantastic article about the meaning of the trip through Cousteau's eyes.

"He said (Cousteau) the result of his nearly three week labor on the Great Lakes will be three television programs about the relationship that exists among the region's people, nature, history and the highway of penetration (the St. Lawrence Seaway) used by early explorers to penetrate the continent.

This lithograph is framed in a stunning wood frame approx 1". It does have a few minor condition issues that would vanish with some fine wood polish.

Truly a piece of wonderful Great Lakes history.

Please see the photos to complete the description.

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