It’s a Laguna Beach wall with a storied history, a whale of a tail in Wyland’s journey to become one of the world’s greatest marine artists. Now, a new chapter is being painted onto the massive canvas ...

The painting in a key room in the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy was as striking as it was massive: Jesus, his arms outstretched, hovered over a lifeboat packed with grateful sailors, lost at sea.