The Tilghman Watermen’s Museum will open for the season on Saturday, May 13. The museum will be open on weekends from 10 am – 3 pm, and also by appointment by calling 410-886-2930.
The museum is honored to have as its new main exhibit the George S. Webb collection of art featuring Tilghman watermen. The collection includes portraits by Nancy Tankersley, an award-winning artist, of six watermen including Johnny Kinnamon, Willie Roe, Stanley Larrimore, Wade Murphy, and Maynard Lowery, along with a portrait of and paintings by Bill Cummings, a waterman and a self-taught artist.
Portraits of Johnny Kinnamon and Stanley Larrimore by Nancy Tankersley
We are grateful to the Webb family for their donation of this collection to the Tilghman Watermen’s Museum in honor of George S. Webb.
Admission to the museum is free; donations are accepted.
For more information contact the museum at [email protected].
The Tilghman Watermen’s Museum celebrates, documents, preserves, and shares the history, traditions, heritage, and culture of Tilghman Island.
Laura Goldsborough says
Interesting have heard my grandmother mention this place before think she may have been from around there all her siblings still were she married and moved to marion md. The one man favors my great uncle James Lewis a bit mabe a waterman look I think Kinnelon. my grandmother’s parents was Fulton and grace lewis any related info?
Rural Life Museum of Trappe MD says
Way to go Tilghman Watermen’s Museum!