Robert Moak's USS Texas CGN-39

Name/Title

Robert Moak's "USS Texas CGN-39"

Entry/Object ID

2025.1014.98

Description

Large painting done by Robert Moak. Painting is a lithograph print with a printed signature in the bottom right corner of the canvas. Moak crew a small sketch of a boat in bottom left below print, and signed again on bottom right, both in pencil.

Context

USS Texas (CGN-39) was the 3rd ship named USS Texas. She was a Virginia-class nuclear guided-missile cruiser commissioned from September 10, 1977, to July 16, 1993. She entered the nuclear recycling program on October 1, 1999. Peter Fiedler was the first captain of the nuclear cruiser USS Texas (CGN-39) from October 1975 to January 1979. He supervised construction, and took official command on September 10, 1977, when the cruiser was commissioned.

Collection

Collection (Peter B. Fiedler), Historical Collections

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Lithograph

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Planographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Print

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects