Rocketts Landing Sprints '07

The fourth annual Rocketts Landing Sprints poster art was designed in the style of 1920s European regatta posters using a simple three-color scheme. In addition to the period dress of the figures, I chose to add the Virginia Boat Club "V.B.C." red pennant and original Virginia state capitol building to make the artwork relevant to Richmond, home of the Virginia Boat Club since 1876. I have been associated with the VBC for three years and also have an early family connection to Rocketts Landing: in 1781 my gggggg-grandfather, Thomas Payne, and his men helped haul seized British munitions from Rocketts Landing up Shockoe Hill after Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown.