The Song of Hiawatha 1950). American landscape painters referred to the poem to add an epic dimension to their patriotic celebration of the wonders of the national landscape. Albert Bierstadt presented his sunset piece, "The Departure of Hiawatha," to Longfellow in 1868 when the poet was in England to receive an honorary degree at the University of Cambridge. Other examples include Thomas Moran's "Fiercely the Red Sun Descending, Burned His Way along the Heavens" (1875), held by the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the panoramic waterfalls of "Hiawatha and Minnehaha on their Honeymoon" (1885) by Jerome Thompson (1814 – 1886). Thomas Eakins made
MV Hiawatha The boat was converted from a steam engine to a gasoline engine in 1944. The ship was refurbished in 1983. On July 26, 2000, both "Hiawatha", and the yacht club's slightly newer ferry, "Kwasind", were sunk by vandals. "Kwasind" was refloated, and was back in working order the day of the sinking, while "Hiawatha" required further repair. MV Hiawatha MV "Hiawatha" is a passenger ferry built in 1895 for the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The boat is long, wide, has a depth of , and measures 46 gross tons. Her capacity is 100 passengers. "Hiawatha" was