On the Lusitania (2019) Drawing by Edwin Loftus

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On May 7, 1915, The Great War had been underway for a year when the Lusitania, a British Ocean Liner was struck by a single torpedo fired by a German U-boat. Its unexpectedly rapid sinking was claimed by Germany to be the effect of munitions in its hold exploding. The British claimed a second, unjustified, torpedo was fired. (The Germans were right.)
On May 7, 1915, The Great War had been underway for a year when the Lusitania, a British Ocean Liner was struck by a single torpedo fired by a German U-boat. Its unexpectedly rapid sinking was claimed by Germany to be the effect of munitions in its hold exploding. The British claimed a second, unjustified, torpedo was fired. (The Germans were right.)
The passengers and crew were mostly awake at breakfast and felt the torpedo as a brief shudder. The captain ordered 'lifeboat stations' promptly as the ship began gradually sinking at the bow. A second explosion hastened the sinking to 18 minutes, start to finish and caused the ship to list to starboard which rendered half of the lifeboats unusable.
They were poorly prepared for this in spite of the loss of the Titanic three years earlier. They had performed no lifeboat drills and inadequate numbers of crew were deployed to assist the passengers. Also, they were using a new design of lifejacket and half of the passengers put them on upside down. In the water, this held them head down and slightly hastened their deaths. The ship carried 1,962 passengers and crew. 1,201 perished, (3 of injuries). Most died of hypothermia or drowning and some of crushing and explosive injuries. No one that did not make it to a lifeboat survived.
This was not the Arctic Circle as in the case of the Titanic's high death toll. But due to the danger of the U-Boat, the British Admiralty ordered the, HMS Juno, back to safety in port after it set out to attempt a rescue.
Survivors reported on the heart-rending cacophony of screams from the decks as the ship slid bow first under the water. Life boats did turn back and boats were launched from the Irish coast, but none reached the not-drowned passengers in time.
This image is based on descriptions of the chaos on deck as the ship slid into the water.

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Edwin Loftus is an American painter and draftsman born in 1951. His interest in art began at the age of 4 when he decided to draw something real rather than working from his imagination.  As a child[...]

Edwin Loftus is an American painter and draftsman born in 1951. His interest in art began at the age of 4 when he decided to draw something real rather than working from his imagination. 

As a child he excelled at drawing and as a teenager he began to experiment with oil painting. In college, he took courses in art and art history and realized that true art had nothing to do with the quality of the drawing or painting, but that it had to have the ambition to push the boundaries and expand the visual experience. 

He also studied philosophy, psychology and history and quickly realized that it was just another art establishment trying to defend its elitist industry and reward system. Their skills were almost non-existent, they knew nothing about psychology, perception or stimulus response, and they were extensions of the belief system that made communism, fascism and other forms of totalitarianism such destructive forces in the world. They literally believe that art shouldn't be available to ordinary human beings, but only to an elite "sophisticated" enough to understand it. 

Edwin Loftus realized that the emperors of art had no clothes, but they were still the emperors. Gifted in art, he worked hard to acquire this skill. So he found other ways to make a living and sold a few artworks from time to time. For sixty years, many people enjoyed his works and some collected them. 

Today, Edwin Loftus is retired. Even if he sold all his paintings for the price he asked, "artist" would be the lowest paid job he ever had... but that's the way it is.  It won't matter to him after he dies. He just hopes that some people will like what he does enough to enjoy it in the future. 

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