Marine artist Seth Arca Whipple is the subject of an article in chapter two of Artists of Michigan from the Nineteenth Century: A Sesquicentennial Exhibition Commemorating Michigan Statehood 1837-1987. The Guest Curator of the Exhibition J. Gray Sweeney (1987) authored the article on Seth Arca Whipple.

Detroit's Seth Arca Whipple (1855-1902) was a noted Lakes marine artist. See one of his paintings in George's art collection.