Kenneth Denton Shoesmith was a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and of the British Society of Poster Designers. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Paris Salon and at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool in addition to one-man shows in Belfast and Liverpool. His work today is known and appreciated by only a few, yet his maritime art perfectly captures the romance and adventure of ocean liner travel in the 1920's and 1930's. Much of his work was for Royal Mail Lines although other shipping companies of the day employed his skills, including Canadian Pacific Railways, Blue Funnel, Union Castle and Anchor Line. The pinnacle of his career was the collection of murals for Cunard White Star's "Queen Mary" whose maiden voy...