RECENT SALES at AUCTION and ELSEWHERE

RECENT SALES at AUCTION and ELSEWHERE
$27,679,100 Yuan Dynasty (14th c.)
Blue and White Jar
$259,000 Northwest Coast Indian
Tsimshian Cedar Mask 19th c.
$20,086,024 Canaletto (1697-1768) “The
Bucintoro at the Molo on
Ascension Day”
$240,000 Montague Dawson (1895-1973)
“Decks Awash in the Teeth of a
Gale” Oil
$12,616,000 Andy Warhol “Portrait of
Elizabeth Taylor” Acrylic 40”x40”
$240,000 Ship’s Figurehead of Woman in
Purple from Brig Martha 1850-60
54”
$3,824,000 Andrew Wyeth “Battle Ensign
Southern Island, Maine, 1987”
Tempera
$2,760,000 Martin Johnson Heade
(1819-1904) “Sunny Day on
the Marsh Newburyport” Oil
1871-5
$86,250 Smith and Wesson No. 3 Revolver
$87,750 Gen. George Custer Letter
$86,250 Alfred Bricher “New England
Shoreline” Oil
$85,187 Case of 1989 Romanee Conti
Wine
$78,000 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
First Edition
$216,000 Babe Ruth Signed 1920 Game Bat
$207,225 U.S. Constitution First Printing
1787
$75,000 Tim Thompson “Departure from
Sandy Hook” Oil 36” x 48”
$204,000 Indian Birchbark Canoe Model
with Two Figures
$74,750 Ralph Cahoon “Still Life Therom”
$2,312,000 Julius Le Blanc “Yachting in
the Mediterranean” Oil
$201,250 William Glackens “Rockport, MA,
1936” Oil
$2,144,000 Sanford Robinson Gifford “Fire
Island Beach, 1877” Oil
$198,000 Edward Moran (1829-1901) “A
Packet Ship Backing Sails in
Boston” Oil
$74,400 James E. Buttersworth (18171894) “Squadron of Yachts
Passing the Hook” Oil
$73,500 Gold and Enamel Small Royal
Naval Sword Ship Arethusa 1802
$195,500 Gus Wilson Preening Black Duck
Decoy
$72,000 George M. W. Atkinson (18021884) “Three Masted Ships in
Harbor” Oil 34” x 52”
$1,808,500 Chippendale High Chest
1755-65, 94” h
$192,000 SS Normandie Grand Salon
Mural Panel pair
$71,500 Montague Dawson “The Beautiful
Spindrift” Oil
$1,584,000 Edward Hopper “Squam Light”
Oil
$186,867 Mozart Letter
$63,000 J. Stephen Dews “Britannia
Trouncing Santanita in Torbay” Oil
40” x 60”
$1,949,635 Ludwig von Beethoven
Original Manuscript “Grosse
Fugue in B-flat Major”
$1,052,000 Frederic Church (1816-1900)
“Highlands of the Hudson
River” 1866
$1,000,000 John Lennon’s Handwritten
Lyrics for “All You Need is Love”
$996,000
$879,500
$825,000
$600,000
$478,000
$464,000
$435,400
$402,250
$313,600
Babe Ruth Red Sox/N.Y.
Yankee Sale Contract
Patek Philippe 2499
Wristwatch
Fitz Henry Lane (1806-1866)
“View off Thatcher’s Island
– Bark Eastern Star” Oil
24” x 36”
John Haley Bellamy (18361914) Carved Engraving with
“God is our Refuge and
Strength” Banner 48” L
$180,000 James E. Buttersworth “Clipper
Ship Westward Ho” Oil 29”x36”
$150,000 Robert Salmon (1775-1845) “A
Ship in four Positions in the
Clyde” Oil
$144,000 Anthony Thieme “Evening Light
on the Suwannee River” Oil
$138,000 JFK Rolex Watch Given by
Marilyn Monroe
$127,000 Tiffany Hydrangea Stained Glass
Lamp
HMS Victory Captain Thomas
Hardy Gold Battle of Trafalgar
Medal
$126,000 Jack Gray (1927-1981)
“Canadian Schooner Bluenose at
Sea” Oil
Harry Winston Platinum and
11.66 carat Diamond Ring
$115,500 Napoleon’s Bicorn Hat
$114,000 William Bradford (1827-1892)
“Transatlantic Packet Ships off a
Northern Headland” Oil 24”x36”
$280,000
Cadillac Roadster, 1930
$105,000 Duke of Wellington’s Sword 8 ¾”
$275,000
John Stobart “Portland, the
Bark Halcyon” Oil
$103,500 Ogden Pleissner “Shooting
Turkeys” Watercolor
$270,000
Scrimshawed Sperm Whale
Tooth, 19th c. with Whaling
Scene and Federal Period
House 8” L
$102,000 Barry Bonds 70th Homerun
Baseball
$88,000
$27,500 Stanley Meltzoff “Double Header
Against a Reef” Oil 26” x 36”
$27,300 Joseph Heard (1799-1859) “Bark
Emilia Heading into Liverpool” Oil
23” x 35”
$27,300 Miles and Samuel Walters “Brigs
Mariote and Margaret in the
Mersey, 1829” Oil 27” x 47”
$27,188 U Boat Twin Anti-aircraft Gun
$17,600 Mark Twain Signed Photograph
$10,450 Hires Root Beer Sign 6” x 8”
$17,500 Veeder Ice Cream Scoop
$9,975
William Pierce Stubbs Azariah
Sears Ship Portrait Oil
$9,500
Paul Garnett “Battle of Valcour
Island” Oil 24” x 36”
$9,500
William G. Muller “Cunard Liner
Auriana” Oil 18” x 24”
$9,450
Charles Edward Dixon (18721932) “Three-masted Schooner
Being Towed” 1896 Watercolor
33” x 20”
$17,688 Signed Marlon Brando Photograph
$17,500 Christopher Blossom “Reaching
for Monhegan” Oil 16” x 20”
$17,220 Napoleon’s Campaign Bed
$17,000 Lai Fong (1870-1900) “Four
Masted Barque Wanderer” Oil
24” x 34”
$3,764 Manny Ramirez Red Sox Game
Jersey
$3,500 Anton Otto Fisher “Sailors on a
Raft” Oil 27” x 32”
$3,450 Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat
First Edition
$3,360 Tourist Lounge Leather Seat from
RMS Elizabeth, 1938
$3,200 Ian Marshall “HMS Raleigh
Passing Through the Gaillard Cut”
Watercolor 14” x 21”
$43,125 Thompson Submachine Gun, 1921
$27,000 Popeye the Sailor with Mechanical
Rowboat
$42,550 Copper Grasshopper Weathervane
17” x 41”
$26,352 3 Abstract paintings by Congo the
Chimpanzee (1954-1964)
$16,100 Claude Hugard “Steamer Golden
Gate on Fire” Oil 24” x 39”
$9,400
Gordon Grant “View of Cornwall
Fishing Village, 1940”
$42,000 Charles Lindbergh’s Variable Pitch
Propeller
$26,325 Ebbets Field Turnstile
$16,100 John Haley Bellamy Carved Eagle
With “Don’t Give Up the Ship”
$9,000
Builder’s Half Model of Tugboat
Orion 1905
$16,000 William R. Davis “Fishing at
Daybreak” Oil 16” x 22”
$8,700
Monkey and Coconut Mechanical
Bank
$15,750 Thomas Buttersworth (17681842) HMS Victory Pair
Oil 14” x 17”
$8,500
Thomas Willis (1850-1912) Steam
Ferry Frank and Helen McAvoy
1910 Oil and Silk Thread 20”x36”
$15,600 Robert Salmon (1775-1845)
“Trading Brig Aground off
Tynemouth” Oil 9 ¼” x 8”
$8,400
Scale Model of Steam Yacht
Corsair 56”
$2,880 C.E. Bolles “Yacht Columbia”
Gelatin Silver Print Photo 20”x17”
$8,225
Maltese Falcon Movie Poster
$2,875 Civil War Drum
$15,500 Geoff Hunt “Coming Aboard HMS
Duke William” Oil 18 ¾” x 20 ½”
$7,200
George Howell Gay (1858-1931)
“Seascape with Waves on Rocks”
Watercolor 17” x 27”
$2,730 Log Book for East Indiaman
General Harris, 1816-18
$7,000
Anton Otto Fisher (1882-1962)
“Submarine Emerging From the
Deep” Oil 24” x 36”
$7,000
Clement Drew (1806-1889) “Ship
Passing Minot’s Ledge Light” Oil
20” x 30”
$40,100 King Edward VII Royal Scepter
$26,290 Mauritz F.H. De Hass ‘‘Along the
Coast’’
$39,547 William Henry Harrison 1840
Campaign Jug
$25,300 John Whorf “Fleet at Gloucester”
Oil
$38,837 Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show”
Desk
$25,000 Elisha Taylor Baker (1827-1890)
“Seawanhaka yacht Club Tender”
Oil 12” x 22”
$37,800 Lt. Robert Strickland Thomas
(1787-1853) “HMS Prince
Leaving Portsmouth and Royal
Navy Brig and HMS Victory” Pair
18” x 27” each
$36,883 Titanic Deck Chair
$35,850 Adam West’s Batman Costume
$35,750 Conrad Freitag “Barkentine Lizzie
Merry” Oil
$37,375 Superman Comics Ann Ashcan DC
1939
$35,055 Lock of Napoleon’s Hair
$34,741 Full Suit of Armor, 1580
$60,000 Lloyd McCaffery “Schooner Yacht
America” Scratch-built Ship Model
¾”=1’ 39” L
$33,500 Antonio Jacobsen (1850-1921)
“Bark Onaway with Pilot Boat New
York 1916” Oil 16” x 28”
$60,000 1969 Kentucky Derby Cup
$33,000 J.J. Audubon “Common American
Swan” Hand-colored Engraving
Havell 1838
$33,640 Buffalo Bill Cody Wild West Show
Poster
$33,000 John Hancock’s Vest
$32,000 Leica 1A Luxus Camera 1929
$31,900 Stephen Etnier (1903-1984)
“Drying Sails” Oil 11” x 24”
$22,321 George Washington Signed
$158.82 Bank Check
$21,600 Henry Scott (1911-1966) “Full
Rigger Lake Superior Ahead of
Rival” Oil 24” x 36”
$21,600 William Nagel Scale Model of
Fishing Schooner Rhodora 25”
$21,450 Cigar Store Indian “Princess”
$21,000 HMS Temeraraire Mess Tankard
$21,000 Napoleonic French POW 80-gun
Royal Navy 3rd rate Model 25” L
$20,700 Whale ivory Pie Crimper 19th c.
$20,400 Thomas Buttersworth (1768-1842)
“British Men of War Running
Before a Storm” Oil 17” x 20”
$20,315 Bob Dylan “Free Wheelin’” LP
Record
$20,000 Antonio Jacobsen “Sail/Steam
Yacht Blake, 1899” Oil 22” x 36”
$20,000 Frank Vining Smith (1879-1967)
“Sunlit Sea” Oil 26” x 40”
$20,000 Russ Kramer “The Tacking Duel”
Oil
$20,000 Otto Mulhlenfeld (1871-1907)
“Baltimore Tug Dauntless” Oil
24” x 34”
$30,800 Red Buddy L Toy Tugboat
$19,800 Keith Reynolds “The Boat People,
Hong Kong” Acrylic 21” x 41”
$52,115 Roman First Century Legionnaires
Helmet
$30,000 Joseph Henry Sharp “Windward
Koko Head, Honolulu” Oil 20”x24”
$19,800 Pair of 19th c. English Library
Globes 15” diameter
$52,000 William Bygrave 19th c. “American
Bark Glenwood Leaving Messina,
Italy” Oil 21” x 32”
$29,400 Circle of John Thomas Serres
(1750-1825) “Man-o-War Passing
in the Channel” Oil 30” x 57 ½”
$18,500 Anthony Blake “Schooner Atlantic”
Oil 18” x 24”
$50,400 Nelson’s Silver Snuff Box
$29,000 Frederick Mulhaupt (1871-1938)
“Moving Ice, Gloucester Harbor”
Oil 8” x 10”
$50,000 Clifford Ashley (1881-1947)
“Stove Boat” Oil 30” x 20”
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$44,000 Louis Dodd “Canton, 1845” Oil
32” x 54”
$44,650 RMS Titanic 3rd Class Menu
$60,000 James W. Carmichael (18001868) Shipping Whitby Harbor,
1856 Oil 30” x 42”
$52,580 Walter Trost Richards “View off
the Rhode Island Coast”
Watercolor
William Yorke (1847-1892) att.
“Clippership Ocean Herald” Oil
$45,000 Don Demers “Off to the Banks”
Oil 24” x 36”
$60,000 Abraham Jacob Bogdanove
Monhegan Island Scene Oil
$55,000 Mickey and Minnie Mouse on
Motorcycle Toy
$102,000 James e. Buttersworth “Vigilant
vs. Valkyrie II 1885 America’s
Cup” Oil 9 ½” x 12”
$45,410 Haley Lever “Mackerel Fishing
Boats” Oil
$35,000 French Prisoner of War Model
HMS Prince of Wales 26” L
$58,000 Antonio Jacobsen (1850-1927)
“Steamer Concho on East River,
1895” Oil 22” x 36”
$115,000 Nantucket Basket
Patriotic Presentation Sword
Charles Tyler Capt. HMS
Tonnant, Oct. 21, 1805
Buffalo Nickel 1916
$60,725 Alfred Thompson Bricher Newport
Coastal Scene Oil 18” x 39”
$161,000 Marvel Comics #1, 1939
Richard Avedon Beatles
Photos Set of 4
$264,500
$63,000 Sailor’s Woolwork of American
Ship Approaching Lighthouse
c.1840
$166,600 Steven Dews “Battle of Trafalgar”
Oil 40” x 66”
Norman Rockwell “The Song
of Bernadette” Movie Painting
Oil 58” x 28”
Gibson Solid Body Les Paul
style Guitar
$62,374 Wayne Gretzky Rookie Card
$168,000 Model of Armed English Cutter
c.1800 39” L
$136,500 Thomas Luny (1759-1837) “The
Bombardment of Algiers” Oil
48” x 72 ½”
$268,000
$62,500 Napoleonic P.O.W. Bone Model 70
gun ship 11” L
$170,000 Scrimshawed Sperm Whale
Tooth Whaleship Pacific, Edward
Burdett (1805-33) 4 ¾”
$47,000 Sunqua Panorama of Hong Near
Canton, 1832 Watercolor
$49,500 Albert Pinkham Ryder “The
Smugglers Retreat” Oil
$28,800 James Francis Danby (18161875) ‘‘Evening on the Thames’’
Oil 30’’ x 40’’
$48,000 John James Audubon Jer Falcon
Lithograph, Havell
$28,680 Jane Peterson “Boats in
Gloucester Harbor” Oil 18” x 24”
$48,000 Letter Written on Titanic
Stationery, 1912
$28,080 Madonna’s “Blonde Ambition”
Bustier
$18,500 Winston Churchill The Second
World War 6 Volumes
$18,480 George Webster “A 74-gun
Running Past Gibraltar” Oil
25” x 30”
$18,400 Anthony Thieme “View of Rockport
Harbor” Oil
$16,450 Titanic Driftwood Frame
$15,120 William Coates “The Schooners
Guard and Snow Chase off
Elsinore Castle, 1829” Oil
$14,700 Brass Speaking Trumpet from
HMS Victory
$14,700 Builder’s Model of Turret Deck
Steamer Countess Warwick, 1906
70 ½”
$3,150 Royal Navy Ship Sailor’s Woolwork
Picture, 19th c.
$3,120 Silver Plate Wine Cooler from the
SS United States
$2,940 William Lionel Wyllie (1851-1931)
“Battle of Trafalgar” Etching
5 ¾” x 15 ½”
$2,938 Katherine Hepburn Passport
$2,644 Marilyn Monroe Evening Gown
$2,500 Ship’s Telegraph Brass/Bronze 46”
$2,475 William Henry Howe (1846-1929)
Dutch Marine Scene Oil
$2,310 Mid 19th c. Sailor Scrimshaw
Whale’s Tooth HMS Figgard 1847
With Damaged Tip
$7,000
$14,000 Willie Pierce Stubbs (1842-1909)
“Schooner James Rothwell” Oil
22” x 36”
Half Hull Model of American
Schooner yacht 47 ¾”
$6,720
Model of 18th c. Ships Longboat
19 ½” L
$13,800 Emile Gruppe “Summer Morning
Gloucester” Oil
$6,720
Thomas Luny (1759-1837)
“Riding Out the Gale off Ness”
Oil 12 ½” x 16 ½”
$6,500
Flick Ford “Tarpon” Watercolor 44”
$1,800 Currier and Ives Clippership
Sweepstakes Lithograph 21” x 27”
$13,800 Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland First Edition
$6,065
Playboy Magazine 1963
Marilyn Monroe Cover
$1,700 I Want You for the Navy Poster
1917
$13,650 Nicholas Matthew Condy (18181851) “74-gun Meeting in
Plymouth Sound” Oil
11 ½” x 15 ¾”
$5,750
Lake Champlain Scrimshawed
Signal Horn, 19th c.
$1,250 Ebony, Ivory, Brass Quadrant with
case 19 ½”
$5,400
Display Model of Gold Cup Racer
Baby Bootlegger 45”
$1,322 Pair Sailor’s Rope Beckets 19th c.
$5,040
“Jack” Spurling (1870-1933)
“Paddle Steamer Crested Eagle
Running Down the Thames” 1927
Watercolor 14” x 20”
$13,800 Silas Hawkins Engraved Power
Horn, 1776
$13,000 Antonio Jacobsen (1850-1921)
“SS Bermuda 1887” Oil 22” x 36”
$13,000 Sailor’s Valentine 19th c. 10”
$12,600 Flintlock Sea Service Musket
1714-15
$4,800
Confederate Soldiers Blanket
$12,000 Collected Voyages of Capt. James
Cook, 8 Volumes 1785
$4,700
Felt Top Hat Worn on “I Love Lucy”
$12,000 Scale Model of Charles W. Morgan
by Crewmember c.1890 32” L
$4,700
“Star Trek” Pistol Phaser Set Prop
$4,200
T.S. Negus & Co. Stick Barometer,
1865
$4,200
$11,500 Photograph of Orville Wright’s
Kitty Hawk Take Off
$11,275 Civil War Springfield Musket
$12,000 William Callcott Knell “Fishing
Boats off a Dutch Coast, 1865”
Oil 12” x 22”
$18,400 Emile Gruppe “Mending the Nets”
Oil
$10,575 Humphrey Bogart “Casablanca”
Trench Coat
$18,000 Narwhal Tusks from Donald McMillan
$10,500 Carved Narwhal Tusk Cane 47”
$2,100 19th c. Glass Ship’s Decanter
$1,926 Cunard Line Advertising Poster
$1,050 Ships Bell From HMS Anson,
1937
$1,020 Morris Rosenfeld “Racing in Long
Island Sound” Albumen print
11” x 14”
$700
Foot Operated Ship’s Bellows Fog
Horn
$700
Sail Boats in Gathering Storm
Radtke Laukner and Co.
Lithograph 1891 12” x 21”
U.S. Lifesaving Service Bronze
Cannon
$650
Ship’s Chronometer Thomas
Mercer, England, Mahogany Box
$4,200
Willem Eerland “SS Statendam
Arriving in New York” Oil 16”x20”
$546
Royal Naval Bicorn Hat and
Epaulettes
$3,900
Jim Griffiths “Bark Port Jackson”
Gouache 12” x 19”
$525
George VI Naval Officer’s Dirk
A. DeSimone “Royal Yacht Squadron
Branwen in Neapolitan Waters”
1909 Watercolor 16” x 24”
$500
Ship’s Bell Bronze 13”h
$84
Advertising Poster for Queen Mary
22 ½” x 35”
$3,780
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$2,310 Ticket to Lord Nelson’s Funeral,
January 9, 1800
Upcoming Marine Art Exhibitions and
Events Around the Globe
ALEC SLOTH:
Sleeping by the Mississippi
20 large-scale, dream-like photographs documenting the strange
life along the Mississippi River from
Minnesota to Venice, Louisiana
Des Moine Art Center Downtown
Des Moine, IA • 515-277-4405
desmoineartcenter.org
Through April 21
AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM:
An Arcadian Vision, Paintings from
the Akron Art Museum
35 works from the turn-of-the-20th
century by William Merritt Chase,
Childe Hassam, George Inness, John
Twachtmann, Julian Aden Weir and
others.
Taft Museum of Art
Cincinnati, OH • 313-241-0343
taftmuseum.org
Through March 12
AMERICAN SOCIETY
OF MARINE ARTISTS
Northeast group exhibition.
Cold Spring Whaling Museum
Cold Spring, NY • 631-367-3418
cshwhalingmuseum.org
April 1 – May 15
AMERICAN SPLENDOR:
Hudson River School Masterworks
from the Permanent Collection
Niagara Falls, Hudson River, Yosemite
Valley are among the natural wonders
that inspired works by Thomas Cole,
Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt,
Sanford Gifford, John Kensett and
others.
Wadsworth Atheneum
Museum of Art
Ed Parker
Hartford, CT • 860-278-2670
June 2 – December 31
AMERICAN WATERCOLORS
AND PASTELS FROM THE
FOGG ART MUSEUM
A rare collection of the finest pastels and watercolors by John Singer
Sargent, Winslow Homer, J.A.M.
Whistler, Edward Hopper and others.
Fogg Art Museum
Harvard University Museums
Cambridge, MA • 617-495-9400
Artmuseums.Harvard.edu
April 8 – June 25
AMERICANA GALLERY
WALK & RECEPTION
Pre-auction discussion of American
furniture and decorative arts.
Skinner
Boston, MA • 617-350-5400
skinnerinc.com
February 17
AMERICANS IN PARIS
The works of James McNeil Whistler,
John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt
and others explore the American artist’s attraction to Paris.
The National Gallery
London, ENGLAND
020-7747-2885 • nationalgallery.org.uk
February 22 – May 21
ANDREW WYETH:
Memory and Magic
A retrospective of seven decades,
surveying the artist’s lifetime
achievements.
High Museum of Art
Atlanta, GA • 404-733-4400
high.org
Through February 26
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA • 215-763-8100
philamuseum.org
March 25 – July 16
ANDREW WYETH: Selections
JAMES WYETH: Portrait of an Artist
N.C. WYETH: Artist and Illustrator
Farnsworth Art Museum
Rockland, ME • 207-596-6457
farnsworthmuseum.org
May 15 – October 15
ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE
NAUTICAL RESEARCH GUILD
Keynote speaker master shipmodeler
and miniaturist Lloyd McCaffrey.
Maritime Museum of San Diego
San Diego, CA
Naut-res-guild.org
October 12 – 15
ANTARCTIC VIEWS BY HURLEY AND
POINTING
Vivid photographs capture the beauty
and hardship of Antarctica during the
Scott and Shackleton expeditions.
Australian National
Maritime Museum
Sydney, AUSTRALIA
61-02-9298-377 • anmm.gov.au
Through April
ANTWERP – AMERICA: The Red Star
Line and the Paintings of Eugeen
Van Mieghem, 1870-1935
Paintings and drawings document
port life and the history of the emigrants who shipped aboard the Red
Star Line from Antwerp to the East
River Piers.
Schermerhorn Row
Long Island Commuter Boat RAGTIME, 1928
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South Street Seaport Museum
New York, NY • 212-748-8690
sourthstreetseaport.org
April – October
ARTISTS AT CONTINENT’S END:
The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony,
1875-1907
Major exhibit of works depicting the
unique coastal beauty of the Monterey
area by the group of artists who settled there between 1875 and 1907.
Crocker Art Museum
Sacramento, CA • 917-264-1179
crockermuseum.org
February 17 – May 21
THE ART OF THE BOAT: Photography
from the Rosenfeld Collection
40 platinum palladium photographic
prints capturing the true spirit of the
maritime experience from the largest
collection of maritime photographs.
Mystic Seaport Museum
Mystic, CT • 860-572-0711
mysticseaport.org
Through October
ARTS OF THE SAILOR
Life at sea revealed through paintings,
engravings, carvings, embroidery and
rope work by 19th century seamen.
The Whaling Museum
Cold Spring Harbor, NY • 631-3673418
chwhalingmuseum.org
Through August
THE AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF
MARINE ARTISTS
National Exhibition
Mosman Art Gallery
Mosman, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Oil on Panel 12” x 30” $6,500
61-2-9978-4042
mosman.nsw.gov.au
Through January 28
BLACK HANDS BLUE SEA:
The Maritime Heritage
of African Americans
Art, artifacts and documents survey the struggle and contributions
of black mariners in building and
defending American democracy.
Mystic Seaport Museum
Mystic, CT • 860-572-0711
mysticseaport.org
Through March 2007
BOAT LOADS OF BEN FRANKLIN
Celebrating the tercentenary birthday
of Ben Franklin.
Independence Seaport Museum
Philadelphia, PA • 215-925-5439
phillyseaport.org
Through 2006
THE BOAT STOPS HERE
Artifacts and more than 30 historical
photographs evoke the early 1900s
along the Chesapeake when steamboats connected remote, rural villages to the greater Chesapeake area.
Chesepeake Bay Maritime Museum
St. Michael’s, MD • 410-745-2916
cbmm.org
Through March 5
CADELL DRY-DOCK:
100 Years Harborside
Celebrating 100 years of Staten
Island’s premier marine company
through photographs, historic documents and models.
The Nobel Maritime Collection
Staten Island, NY • 718-447-5490
Noblemaritime.org
Through early 2006
THE COAST EXPOSED
Photography by National Trust and
Magnum Photos highlight the beauty
and environmental challenges of the
British coastline and human interaction with it.
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich, ENGLAND
44-0-20-8858-4422 • nmm.ac.uk
Through February 12
Mark Myers
The Long Chase, Lord Admiral Nelson Hunting the French Fleet
Under the Command of Admiral Villeneuve in the West Indies, June 1805
CONSTABLE
Impressions of Land, Sea and Sky
100 paintings, drawings and sketches explore the definitive work of John
Constable (1776-1837) one England’s
foremost artists.
National Gallery of Australia
Canberra, AUSTRALIA
61-2-6240-6502 • nga.gov.au
March 3 – June 12
CRABBING IN THE BERING SEA
Photographs from the F/V Rollo
2003-2005
Large format color photographs by
Corey Arnold, a fisherman/photographer capture the risk, adventure
and beauty of king crab fishing in the
Bering Sea.
Nordic Heritage Museum
Seattle, WA • 206-789-5707
nordmuseum.org
Through February 5
CULTURAL REFLECTIONS:
Inuit Art from the Collection of the
Dennos Museum Center
Contemporary prints, drawings, and
sculpture reflect on the life and land
in Nunavat, the newest territory in the
Canadian Arctic.
Rockwell Museum of Western Art
Corning, NY • 607-974-2333
rockwellmuseum.org
Through May 29
Andre Harvey
Racing to the Sea
Bronze 4¾” x 11” x 25½”
Edition of 60
$18,000
DECOYS AND MORE:
Comtemporary Artists Take
Their Cues from Traditional
Decoy Carving
Works of art by invited artists inspired
by the traditional decoy alongside
decoys from the permanent collection.
The Noyes Museum of Art
Oceanville, NJ • 609-652-8848
noyesmuseum.org
May 6 – August 6
DON DEMERS –
MASTER MARINE PAINTER
New paintings of yachting scenes,
schooners and seascapes by one of
the masters of the new generation of
marine painters.
J. Russell Jinishian Gallery
1657 Post Road
Fairfield, CT • 203-259-8753
jrusselljinishiangallery.com
May 20 – June 3
Meet the Artist
Saturday May 20, 5-7pm
EASTERN SHORE’S WORKING
ARTISTS FORUM
Juried art exhibition
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
St. Michael’s, MD • 410-745-2916
cbmm.org
June 23 – 25
ECHOES IN THE ICE
Art and artifacts from artist Rik Van
Glintenkamp’s Antarctic exploration.
Newport Harbor Nautical Museum
Newport Beach, CA • 949-673-7863
nhnm.org
Through February 26
THE END OF THE WATERFRONT
The Hudson River Piers, Circa 1970
24 large format photographs by
Shelley Seccombe documenting the
recreational, cultural and commercial
uses of the Hudson River piers during
the 1970s.
Schermerhorn Gallery
South Street Seaport Museum
New York, NY • 212-748-8690
January – October
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11½” x 21½” Watercolor $5,000
FAREWELL TO THE FULTON FISH
MARKET & ELLERY THOMPSON:
Artist, Author, & Dragger Boat
Fisherman
30 nautical paintings and drawings,
plus writings, photographs and handdrawn maps celebrate the life of
Ellery Thompson (1899-1986), captain of the dragger-boat Eleanor, and
the Fulton Fish Market where he
brought his catch.
Schermerhorn Row
South Street Seaport Museum
New York, NY • 212-748-8690
Spring – Fall 2006
FRENCH IMPRESSIONISM AND
BOSTON: Masterworks from the
Museum of Fine Arts
12 paintings by Claude Monet are
among the 53 masterpieces by
Renoir, Degas, Corot, Manet and John
Singer Sargent, including many seascapes and water scenes.
Norton Museum of Art
West Palm Beach, FL • 516-8325192
norton.org
Through March 5
GAINSBOROUGH TO TURNER:
British Watercolors from the
Spooner Collection
80 works painted between 1750 and
1850 by Thomas Gainsborough, Paul
Sandby, J.R. and Alexander Cozens,
John Constable, John Sell Cotman,
J.M.W. Turner and others depicting
landscapes, seascapes and figurative
images.
Somerset House
London, ENGLAND
somersethouse.org.uk
Through February 12
GIRODET: Romantic Rebel
100 paintings and works on paper
depicting Napoleon’s military triumphs, famous portraits and more
by Anne-Louis Girodet (1767-1824),
prized and rebellious student of
Jacques-Louis David.
Art Institute of Chicago
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SHIPS OF THE SEA
MARITIME MUSEUM
18th and 19th century ship models,
paintings and maritime antiques.
Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum
Savannah, GA • 912-232-1511
shipsofthesea.org
Ongoing
Chicago, IL • 312-443-3600
artic.edu
February 11 – April 30
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY • 212-535-7710
metmuseum.org
May 24 – August 27
Musée des Beaux Arts de Monrtéal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
800-899-6873 • mbam.qc.ca
October 12 – January 21, 2007
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO:
History of History
Dioramas and seascape series photographs by Japan’s leading artist,
juxtaposed against prehistoric to
medieval artwork and artifacts from
the artist’s own collection explore
the relationship between past and
present.
Japan Society Gallery
New York, NY • 212-832-1155
japansociety.org
Through February 19
Sackler Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C. • 202-633-4880
asia.si.edu
April 1 – July 30
THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL AT THE
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY:
Nature and the American Vision
Over 100 paintings from the Society’s
collection of Hudson River paintings in
celebration of the bicentennial of the
New York Historical Society.
New York Historical Society
New York, NY • 212-873-3400
nyhistory.org
Through February 25, 2007
ITTUKIAGATTA
“How it Amazes”
Over 91 Inuit sculptures from the TD
Bank collection, representing the early
years of the development of Inuit art.
The Edmonton Art Gallery
Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
780-422-6223 • edmontonartgallery.
com
Through February 26
JOHN MECRAY
Artist talk and presentatio.
Connecticut River Museum
Essex, CT • 860-767-8269
ctrivermuseum.org
February 12
JON SCHUELER: THE SOUND OF SLEAT
Oils paintings explore an American
abstract expressionist’s fascination
with local scenes and the drama of
the skies over a remote Scottish fishing village on Sleat Sound.
National Gallery of Scotland
Edinburgh, SCOTLAND
44-0-131-623-7126
nationalgalleries.org
Through March 5
SI WATERFRONT PRINT EXHIBITION
Works by over a dozen artists reveal
the ever changing scene and nature
of the Staten Island waterfront.
The Noble Maritime Collection
Staten Island, NY • 718-447-5490
Opens March 18
William G. Muller The Upper Hudson River Steamboat M. MARTIN of the Newburgh Albany Line
Paddles Northbound Passing the Saugerties Lighthouse at Dusk in 1875
other noted 19th century artists.
Schmerhorn Row Gallery
South Street Seaport Museum
New York, NY • 212-748-8735
southstreetseaportmuseum.org
Ongoing
KARA WALKER AT THE MET:
After the Deluge
Post-Hurricane Katrina examination
of the impact of waterborne disasters on black Americans explored
through American paintings from the
Museum’s collection juxtaposed with
paper cutout silhouettes.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY • 212-535-7710
metmuseum.org
March 21 – July 30
MARINE AND FISHING ART
By the leading artists from America,
Europe and New Zealand. Paintings,
sculpture, ship models and scrimshaw by Anthony Blake, Christopher
Blossom, Don Demers, Flick Ford,
James Girffiths, Ian Marshall, Victor
Mays, John Mecray, Stanley Meltzoff,
Leonard Mizerek, James Prosek,
Keith Reynolds, Arthur Shilstone, John
Stobart, Robert Weiss and others.
J. Russell Jinishian Gallery
1657 Post Road, Fairfield, CT
203-259-8753
jrusselljinishiangallery.com
Ongoing
MARITIME MODEL EXPO
Radio-controlled models powered by
steam, battery and wind, and a display of highly detailed static models.
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
St.Michael’s, MD • 410-745-2916
cbmm.org
May 20 – 21
A MUCH RECORDED WAR:
The Russo-Japanese War in
History and Imagery
Japanese woodblock prints, photographs
and postcards chronicle the first major
military conflict in the modern age.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA • mfa.org
Through March 28
NANTUCKET WHALING MUSEUM
Newly renovated and expanded in
commemoration of its 75 anniversary. Exhibitions include paintings and
scrimshaw from the collection of the
Nantucket Historical Association, sailors’ valentines, the complete skeleton
of sperm whale, a fully rigged whaleboat and more.
Nantucket Whaling Museum
Nantucket, MA • 508-228-1894
nha.org
Ongoing
PAINTING SUMMER
IN NEW ENGLAND
Paintings spanning the years from
1860 to present depicting summertime New England’s mountains,
villages, seascapes and city life by
Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam John
Singer Sargent, Andrew Wyeth, Frank
Benson, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper
and others.
Peabody Essex Museum
Salem, MA • 978-745-9500
pem.org
April 22 – September 4
MARITIME PAINTINGS AT
SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM
The best maritime paintings in the
museum’s collection featuring works
by James E. Buttersworth, Antonio
Jacobsen, Duncan MacFarlane and
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Oil on Canvas 16” x 20” $8,800
REFLECTIONS ON THE WATER
45 nautical photographs of America’s
Cup action, historical vessels, adventure and travel by noted photographer
Bob Grieser.
The Maritime Museum
of San Diego
San Diego, CA • 619-234-9153
sdmaritime.org
Through April 3
THE RENOIR RETURNS:
A Celebration of Masterworks at
the Phillips Collection
60 of the museums major works are
on view in celebration of the return of
Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Luncheon of
the Boating Party”
The Phillip’s Collection
Washington, D.C. • 202-387-2151
phillipscollection.org
April 15 – July 30
SILK ROAD TO CLIPPER SHIP TRADE,
Changing Markets and East Asian
Ceramics
Explores the important role of foreign
trade on informing new techniques
and styles in Chinese, Japanese and
Korean ceramics.
University of Michigan
Museum of Art
Ann Arbor, MI • 734-764-0395
umma.umich.edu
Through February 12
SOMETHING WAITS BENEATH IT:
Early Works by Andrew Wyeth,
1939-1969
32 rarely seen tempura and watercolor paintings of coastal Maine and
eastern Pennsylvania by a young
Andrew Wyeth.
Delaware Art Museum
Wilmington, DE • 302-571-9590
delart.org
March 29 – July 16
A STORIED LENS:
The Photographic World of Norman
Fortier
75 of the most outstanding blackand-white photographs of the Fortier
Collection, focusing on yachting,
coastlines, landscapes, boat building and fishing fleets from the years
1946-1974
New Bedford Whaling Museum
New Bedford, MA • 508-997-0046
whalingmuseum.org
Through Spring
TREASURES FROM OLANA:
Landscapes, by Frederic Edwin
Church (1826-1900)
18 masterpieces selected from the
250-acre estate of the artist, which
now is itself a National Historical
Landmark.
National Academy Museum
New York, NY • 212-369-4880
nationalacademy.org
February 9 – April 30
Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
portlandmuseum.org
May 20 – September 10
Huntington Library
San Marino, CA • 626-405-2100
huntington.org
October – December
THE VAN BLARENBERGHES
Painters and Miniaturists
Prints and drawings of seascapes and
battle scenes during the 18th century
by the Van Blarenberghe brothers.
Louvre Museum
Paris, FRANCE
33-01-40-20-84-97 /
212-367-2649
louvre.fr
Through April 24
VAN RYPER: A WORLD OF SHIPS
IN MINATURE
Der Scutt Ocean Liner collection of
prized models of great ships
South Street Seaport Museum
New York, NY • 212-748-8600
southstreetseaportmuseum.org
Ongoing
VIKINGS
Carvings, replicas, other artifacts and
treasures reveal the storied history of
the Vikings as warriors, navigators,
explorers, traders and artists.
Australian National
Maritime Museum
Sydney, AUSTRALIA
annm.gov.au
Through June 18
VISIONS OF AMERICA
200 years of American masterpieces
New Britain Museum of
American Art
New Britain, CT • 860-229-0257
nbmaa.org
April 9 – August 27
WILLIAM A. COULTER (1849-1938)
A Master’s Brush With the Sea
The first retrospective exhibition of
the work of the premier West Coast
maritime artist who also chronicled
the great San Francisco earthquake
and fire. The opening coincides with
the 100th anniversary of the great
earthquake.
SALT MOUNTAIN
Invitational exhibition of contemporary works of art from various media
explore the role of the Atlantic Salt
Company at the New York Harbor
waterfront.
The Noble Maritime Collection
Staten Island, NY • 718-447-5490
noblemaritime.org
Opens March 18
2ND INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ART
EXHIBITON AND FESTIVAL
Exhibit, auction, contests and gala
sponsored by the Galveston Historical
Foundation.
Texas Seaport Museum
Galveston, TX • 409-765-7834
tsm-elissa.org
February 3 – 5
San Francisco Maritime National
Historical Park
San Francisco, CA • 415-561-7000
April 18 – October 31
WINSLOW HOMER IN THE NATIONAL
GALLERY
More than 50 oils, watercolors, drawings and prints span the artist’s
career.
National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC • 202-737-4215
nga.gov
Through February 20
THE YACHTING PHOTOGRAPHY OF
WILLARD B. JACKSON
Over 50 photographs taken at
Marblehead, MA capture the beauty
of all types of sailing vessels.
Peabody Essex Museum
Salem, MA • 978-745-9500
pem.org
May 20 – November19
YIN AND YANG
Elements of Chinese Gardens
Photographs by Marta Morse focus
on rocks, plants and water, the three
elements of the gardens of Beijing,
Shanghai and Hongzhou.
Hudson Museum
The University of Maine
Orono, ME • 207-581-1901
umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum
Through June 25
WE ARE ALWAYS
INTERESTED IN
HEARING ABOUT MARINE ART
NEWS & EVENTS FROM YOU
Submit your information to:
Lloyd McCaffery
U.S.S. CONSTITUTION 1798
Scale 8’=1” 5½”h x 6”d x 25”l
Completely cutaway port side, fitted with her starboard battery and
original Hercules figurehead. Apple, Boxwood and Holly. $48,000
Marine Art Quarterly
1657 Post Road
Fairfield, CT 06824
This model shows many construction details for the first time. For example, how her diagonal riders (braces) were fitted:
butted against the keelson below and the berth deck beams above to prevent the hull from “hogging”.
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VESTA
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FLEETWING
The racing was serious. At the helm of
HENRIETTA was Samuel “Bully” Samuels, the
most feared schooner captains of the sea era.
FLEETWING lost nine men overboard during a
mid-ocean storm; six of them perished.
Remarkably, after 3,000 miles of intense sailing all three yachts finished within hours of
each other. On December 26 at 3:46pm
HENRIETTA was the first to pass the Needles,
Yorkers were following the race closely via news
from passing ships, and the wagering was
reported to be fierce.
End of Day One — The Great Transatlantic Race, 1866
A hearty celebration followed, and the stage
had been set for the round-the-world races
over a century later. Demers’ extraordinary
painting transports us hundreds of miles to
sea to experience the majesty of these three
great vessels underway as if we were sailing
alongside them.
followed by FLEETWING at 1:00am and the ill
fated VESTA, whose local English pilot (one
Edward Webb by name) had taken them in the
wrong direction, allowing FLEETWING to pass
her nearly in sight of the finish.
Oil on Canvas 34” x 60” $80,000
Most collectors only get to see a work of art once the artist has completed it. Here is a rare look a
painting in various stages as Don Demers brings his concept to the canvas and arranges its composition,
coloration, lighting and atmosphere for the greatest effect. This painting and 20 others will be on
view during “Marine Masterworks by Don Demers”, a one–man exhibition of the artist’s most recent
marine paintings to be held at the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery from May 20-June 3, 2006. For more
information and to preview the exhibition call 203-259-8753 or visit jrusselljinishiangallery.com.
were all two masted schooners measuring
approximately 105 feet on deck. It was a winner
take all —$30,000 plus bragging rights. On the
morning of December 16, 1866 starting gun
was sounded and the vessels weighed anchor
(the starting method of the period) in the New
York Narrows off Sandy Hook. Next stop –
Cowes, the Isle of Wight, England. At the end of
the first day the vessels had logged nearly 300
miles and were still insight of each other as
Demers’ evocative painting depicts. By day two
FLEETWING had a twenty-mile lead on
HENRIETTA and a forty-mile lead on Vesta. New
HENRIETTA
The progress of a painting
Although today’s trans-ocean racing is still considered a relatively new sport, it was simply
unheard of in the 19th century. And yet, at a
dinner held at the Union Club in New York City
on October 26, 1866 three well-known yachtsmen entered into a lively discussion that resulted
in the very first Trans-Atlantic Challenge. The
contenders: Pierre Lorillard’s shallow draft center
boarder VESTA, George and Franklin Osgood’s
keel boat FLEETWING and another keel boat
HENRIETTA owned by New York Herald founder
James Gordon Bennett but sailed regularly by
his son who was at dinner that night. The vessels
Don Demers
DON DEMERS
visitors each week. For more information contact
stdavidhallcardiff.co.uk.
Friends of the 18th century Royal Navy will be pleased
to note the publication of the prints based on the
paintings of Geoffrey Huband who paints the book
covers for Alexander Kent’s Bolitho series; “Form
Line of Battle,”, “Avenger,” “To Glory we Steer,”
“Super War,” “A Passage to Mutiny,” and “With all
Dispatch.” They’ve been published as prints 14 ½” x
20” in a limited edition of 300 each for $125. They’re
available through McBooks Press Inc. in Ithaca, New
York at 888-266-5711 or mcbooks.com.
David Thimgan (1955 - 2003)
Schooner SACRAMENTO in the Siuslaw River
Oil on Canvas 12” x 21” $12,500
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Forbes Family Collection, and the Eastern
Yacht Club in Marblehead, Massachusetts where
he is particularly impressed by their model of the
schooner yacht Fortuna, designed by naval architect and painter A. Cary Smith. The model is built
by Gustof Grahn, who describes himself on the
plaque on the model as, “maker of every part.”
The care and feeding of ship models constructed
mostly of wood and other organic materials is an
on-going process. Between the damage that sunlight can do to a model, whether it’s in a case or not,
the physical jostling of elbows or cats if it’s not in a
case, the simple disintegration over time, or changes in humidity causing swelling and shrinking
mean that models need a little extra care, like placing a small glass of water in the case with it or near
it during the dry winter months; or making certain
that they don’t sit in the direct sunlight day after day
for a prolonged period of time. Getting a model
repaired if it suffers damage is a trickier issue.
Although most regions of the country have ship
modeler clubs, which you can search out through
your local library or chamber of commerce, another
source would be the Nautical Research Guild’s own
Web site which is naut-res-guild.org.
Connecticut ship modeler Bill Oakley’s model of
the S.S. Emden and the U.S.S. Nashville were
recently on display at the J. Russell Jinishian
Gallery in Fairfield, Connecticut as a part of an
exhibition of 50 watercolor paintings by Ian
Marshall, focusing on the history of a special class
of naval ships known as cruisers. Built at the beginning of the Civil War, they were smaller than battleships, quick and maneuverable, and used mostly to
hunt down and strike merchant vessels. Bill’s model
of the Emden measured 55” and took him over 10
years to complete. It includes such detail as using
200 number 80 fly hooks, each drilled in to hold the
ring hoops on the stacks of the Emden. Bill’s model
of the Emden is available for $42,000. Some people
would say that’s the price of a new car. But others
would say, if you buy a car that took ten years to
build, you’d pay an awful lot more than that. Plus his
model gets great miles to the gallon!
The cruiser paintings by Ian Marshall were
accompanied by Ian’s detailed description of each.
The watercolors were completed over the last three
years and are scheduled with the text to be published sometime in the next year, as Ian’s sixth
book. The opening was attended by long-time fans
of Ian’s work, and can still be viewed in its entirety
at jrusselljinishiangallery.com. Ian’s terrific watercolors bring between $3,200 and $3,800, depending
on their size.
Ian’s painting of the Chelyuskin is featured on the
cover of a new book on the story of the incredible
tragedy and rescue of the Chelyuskin by Ron
Davies, curator at the Air and Space Museum of
the Smithsonian Institute, with Yuri Salnikov
and contains paintings and drawings by Mike
Machat. It tells the story of the Soviet ship
Chelyuskin in the summer of 1933, which was
endeavoring to find a sea route to the Far East
through the Arctic Ocean and Bering Strait. It
was frozen in the ice in sight of open water and
pushed back two hundred miles to the desolate
Siberian Chukotka Peninsula where the ship
was crushed and sunk. Miraculously all 104 scientists and crew under their leader Otto Schmidt
were dramatically rescued by a combination of
Soviet and American pilots. Davies tells the full
story of the rescues and the men who were
involved, who were acclaimed as the first Soviet
heroes and celebrated on a series of Russian postage stamps released in 1935, and again in 1984.
(See our book page for more details)
As many people know, Ian and other artists who
engage in such thorough, first-hand historic
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research become themselves international authorities on their subject matter. Ian recently traveled
to London to attend the Naval Historian’s
Conference at the University of London. He said
he had time to visit the National Maritime
Museum, which of course was celebrating the
200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar with
all their Trafalgar paintings on display, along with
a fully animated three-dimensional mock up of the
battle itself. The entire year, known as “Sea
Britain”, and particularly October 21, the anniversary of the actual battle, was a huge event in
Britain, and for the marine artists in England.
However, it was an American, Paul Garnett,
whose painting of the H.M.S. Victory was used for
the official invitation for the dinner, celebrating
the bi-centennial anniversary of the battle, which
was held aboard the H.M.S. Warrior in Portsmouth,
England. If you were in England at that time you
may have also visited the annual exhibition of
members of the Royal Society of Marine Artists
held on the Pall Mall each year. This year it was
opened by Sir Jonathan Band KCB, Commanderin-Chief of the British Fleet, shortly to be appointed
the First Sea Lord. President Geoff Hunt reported
that while 2004’s exhibition set a new sales record,
2005 sales were up 33% over 2004. That’s certainly
a good sign. Awards at the exhibition were given to
Richard Price, who received the Charles Pierce
Award in memory of the first president of the
Society. The St. Comfort Mill Watercolor Award
went to Trevor Chamberlain. The Conway Press
Maritime Preservation Sail Award to Mark Myers.
They also elected a new full member, Peter Martin
Swann, and two associate members, Bruce
Mulcahy and Keith Noble.
Geoff tells us also that an exhibition of Society
members work will be held in Cardiff at St.
David’s Hall from Saturday February 26 to Sunday
March 26. The Hall attracts some ten thousand
$500; “Sunset View of Thames River in London,
1895” an edition of 350, 14” x 20” for $400; and
“A View of Venice from the Academia Bridge” an
edition of 350, 12” x 16” for $350. (To order call
203-243-4260) John continues to travel and paint
actively. We got a nice note from Dr. Jack
McDonough in Cincinnati a long time friend
and collector of John’s paintings, who said that
John stayed with Barbara and him during a
recent visit for a show in Cincinnati. Jack
reports that the original painting of Portland
sold during that show for $275,000. During his
stay John was describing one of his new paintings
of San Francisco during the gold rush days. He
made Jack a little 2” x 2” sketch of it on a post-it
note. A similar size drawing as a remarque on a
print would add $1,000 to the value of the print,
so that post-it note is something to save and
frame. John’s also working on another view of
his famous night scene of Maiden Lane in New
York City.
While the two Geoffs, Huband and Hunt, have both
become known for their paintings for the covers of
the Alexander Kent novels and Patrick O’Brian
novels respectively, many people don’t know that it
was another Englishman, Paul Wright whose
paintings were used on the covers of the first and
earliest editions of both of these writers books. In
fact, Paul was recently commissioned by leading
New Zealand maritime writer Joan Druett’s
publisher St. Martin’s Press to complete paintings for her two newest novels, A Watery Grave and
Shark Island. Joan said of Paul’s paintings, “They’re
great. It was terrific to find an artist who understood what he was picturing.” Many people also
know that Joan’s husband Ron is a respected
marine artist in his own right.
Many members of the Royal Society of Marine
Artists are also members of the Wapping Group.
They paint regularly along the shores of the
Thames River. Their work is featured in a new
publication on the group. (see our book page for
more details) They’ll be holding an exhibition of
their paintings between 12th and 18th of February
at the east gallery on the Mall in London.
English born, but America’s adopted maritime son,
John Stobart announced last fall the publication
of his three new prints; one of Portland, Maine
featuring “The bark Halcyon Towing out Past the
Custom’s House” an edition of 550, 18” x 27” for
RSMA member Rowena White is joining the
Everest Max Expedition which will take six months
to travel from the lowest point on earth, the Dead
Sea, to the highest point, the top of Mt. Everest.
Traveling by bicycle and on foot Rowena will be
along as official artist, documenting the trip. Now
that’s a hearty artist.
The kind of documentation that Rowena White is
doing has been at the very heart of marine art
since its very beginning in the 17th century in
Holland and later in England where Dutch artists
the Van de Velde father and son team were in fact
hired by King George to document battles with the
Dutch. Van de Velde, the elder made literally
thousands of drawings of ships engaged in battles,
which in addition to being fascinating drawings
are also our only actual record of what many of
those vessels looked like. Today Rear Admiral
Boissier, Director General of Naval Bases in
England has invited members of the Royal Society
to actively visit the bases at Portsmouth,
Plymouth and Faslane because he is “interested
in insuring the present day daily life of the bases
are recorded by artists.”
Well, it’s official. The answer to that question
that’s been keeping everyone awake all night has
been finally been answered by the BBC in London.
They ran a contest to determine the “Most Popular
Painting in Britain” on the daily “Today” radio
show. While contenders include Vincent Van
Gogh’s “Sunflowers” and John Constable’s “Hay
Wain,” the winner far and away garnering 27% of
the vote was, yes, you guessed it, a marine painting, believe it or not, J.M.W. Turner’s “The
Fighting Temeraire Towed to Her Last Berth to be
Broken Up, 1838”. That puts a new twist on reality
TV, but it would be an interesting question to see
what the most popular painting is in the United
States. Something with Elvis in it, I would guess.
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Stanley Meltzoff
Tarpon at Carvel Rock, St. Thomas
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Oil on Panel 32” x 48” $38,500