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Independence Seaport Museum Events Around the Globe Philadelphia, PA • 215-925-5439 phillyseaport.org ALASKA’S WATCHABLE WHALES – AMERICA: The Red ARTS FOR THE PARKS Lady Denman Maritime Museum Through 2006 Large format photographs of humpback Star Line and the Paintings of Juried exhibition of 100 paintings Huskisson, NSW, AUSTRALIA and killer whales by two well-known Eugeen Van Mieghem, 1870-1935 depicting National Park sites by 02-4441-5671 • ladydenman.asn.au CANALETTO IN ENGLAND: A Venetian Alaska photographers. Paintings and drawings document port America’s leading artists. Through September 4 Artist Abroad (1746-1755) Alaska State Museum life and the history of the emigrants Jackson Lake Lodge Eden Killer Whale Museum Over 60 paintings and drawings Juneau, AK • 907-465-2901 who shipped aboard the Red Star Line Grand Teton National Park, WY Eden, NSW, AUSTRALIA produced during Giovanni-Antonio museums.state.ak.us from Antwerp to the East River Piers. artsfortheparks.com 02-6496-2094 Canal’s (1697-1768) 10 year sojourn Through October 14 Schermerhorn Row 800-553-2787 killerwhalemuseum.com.au in England. South Street Seaport Museum September 16 September 6 – December 2 Yale Center for British Art AMERICAN ARTISTS AND THE LOUVRE New York, NY • 212-748-8690 National Archives of Australia New Haven, CT • 203-432-2800 Featuring ’s “The sourthstreetseaport.org ARTS OF THE SAILOR Camberra, AUSTRALIA ycba.yale.edu Gale,” this is the first ever exhibition Through October Life at sea revealed through paintings, 02-6212-3604 • naa.gov.au October 19 – December 31 devoted to American art. engravings, carvings, embroidery and March – May 2007 th Louvre Museum ART OF THE NATION rope work by 19 century seamen. CELEBRATING THE SEA 1946-2006 , • louvre.fr • 212-367-2646 200 significant works by major inter- The Whaling Museum THE BEAUTY OF THE Royal Society of Marine Artists’ annual Through September 18 national artists establish Britain’s Cold Spring Harbor, NY • 631-367-3418 exhibition featuring paintings and maritime identity. chwhalingmuseum.org BOUNTY OF THE SEA William Davis Schooner Yacht on Vineyard Sound Oil 10” x 16” $9,000 Features large scale works of art. sculptures with historical and con- AMERICAN SPLENDOR: Queens House Through August temporary subjects. Coolidge Center for the Arts New York, NY • 212-748-8690 graphs by Japan’s leading artist, juxta- KARA WALKER AT THE MET: School Masterworks Mall Galleries th Portsmouth, NH • 603-436-6607 Through October posed against prehistoric to medieval After the Deluge from the Permanent Collection Greenwich, ENGLAND AT THE WATER’S EDGE: 19 Century , ENGLAND • 44 (207) 930-6844 July 30 – August 27 artwork and artifacts from the artist’s Post-Hurricane Katrina examination Niagara Falls, Hudson River, Yosemite 44 (0) 30-8858-4422 • nmm.ac.uk Prints from the Jones Collection mallgalleries.org.uk FAREWELL TO THE FULTON FISH own collection explore the relationship of the impact of waterborne disasters Valley are among the natural wonders Opens November 2006 Prints by James McNeill Whistler, October 18 - 29 that inspired works by , Francis Seymour Hayden and others MARKET & ELLERY THOMPSON: between past and present. on black Americans explored through Artist, Author, & Dragger Boat Sackler Gallery American paintings from the Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt, Sanford THE ART OF THE BOAT: document artists’ fascination with all BLACK HANDS BLUE SEA: A CENTURY OF MAINE PRINTS: Fisherman Smithsonian Institution Museum’s collection juxtaposed with Gifford, John Kensett and others. Photography from the aspects of the sea. The Maritime Heritage of 1880-1980 30 nautical paintings and drawings, Washington, D.C. • 202-633-4880 paper cutout silhouettes. Wadsworth Atheneum Rosenfeld Collection The Minneapolis Institute of Art African Americans A variety of techniques of printmak- plus writings, photographs and hand- asia.si.edu Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Art 40 platinum palladium photographic Minneapolis, MN • 888-642-2787 Art, artifacts and documents survey ing in Maine are explored through 75 drawn maps celebrate the life of Through July 30 New York, NY • 212-535-7710 Hartford, CT • 860-278-2670 prints capturing the true spirit of the artmia.org the struggle and contributions of works by Winslow Homer, Rockwell Ellery Thompson (1899-1986), cap- metmuseum.org June 2 – December 31 maritime experience from the largest Through December 1 black mariners in building and Kent, Frank Benson, Fairfield Porter collection of maritime photographs. defending American democracy. tain of the dragger-boat Eleanor, and HOW TO BUY AT AUCTION Through July 30 and others. the Fulton Fish Market where he Informal seminar gives step-by-step AMERICANS IN PARIS, 1860-1900 Mystic Seaport Museum AUSTRALIAN FISHES – Mystic Seaport Museum Portland Museum of Art brought his catch. instructions for new collectors LEONARDO DA VINCI The works of James McNeil Whistler, Mystic, CT • 860-572-0711 Illustrations by Walter Stackpool Mystic, CT • 860-572-0711 Portland, ME • 207-775-6148 Schermerhorn Row Doyle of New York Man, Inventor, Genius , Mary Cassatt mysticseaport.org 52 original paintings of fish peculiar mysticseaport.org portlandmuseum.org South Street Seaport Museum New York, NY Designs, a sketch and actual contrap- and others explore the American Through October to Australian waters with text. Through March 2007 September 9 – December 10 artist’s attraction to Paris. New York, NY • 212-748-8690 212-427-4141 ext. 600 tions such as hang gliders and other Through Fall 2006 August 21 flying machines, the cryptex rosewood The Museum of Fine Arts Boston CHIPS OFF THE OLD BLOCK: boxTM, underwater breathing devises Boston, MA • 617-267-9300 Decoy Traditions of FISH BY FLICK FORD ITTUKIAGATTA and more than 60 other large-scale mfa.org Virginia’s Eastern Shore New original watercolors, meticulously “How it Amazes” models bring the extraordinary mind June 25 – September 24 Surveys the distinctive styles of detailed in celebration of his new book Over 91 Inuit sculptures, representing of da Vinci to life. Metropolitan Museum carvings created by former and Fish, 77 Fish of North America. the early years of the development of Museum of Science and Industry New York, NY • metmuseum.org modern masters. J. Russell Jinishian Gallery Inuit art. , IL • 773-684-1414 October 24 – January 28, 2007 Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art Greenwich Workshop Gallery The Montreal Museum of Fine Art msichicago.org Salisbury, MD • 410-742-4988 ANDREW WYETH: Memory and Magic 1657 Post Road, Fairfield, CT Montreal, Quebec, CANADA Through September 4 wardmuseum.org 203-259-8753 514-285-2000 • mbam.qc.ca A retrospective of seven decades, Through November 12 surveying the artist’s lifetime jrusselljinishiangallery.com June 29 – October 22 LORETTA KRUPINSKI Meet the Artist AT THE MAINE achievements. CLIPPER SHIP – Saturday, September 30, 3-6pm JAMIE WYETH’S PAINTINGS LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM Philadelphia Museum of Art Greyhounds of the Sea 14 highly acclaimed oil, watercolor Boat building, ship restoration, fishing Philadelphia, PA • 215-763-8100 Paintings, ship models and vignettes GIRODET: Romantic Rebel and mixed media paintings. and lighthouse life of Rockland and philamuseum.org bring to life the splendid age of the 100 paintings and works on paper Brandywine River Museum St. George Peninsula, Maine from Through July 16 1840s and 50s of the American depicting Napoleon’s military tri- Chadds Ford, PA 1850-1940 are featured in this exhi- clipper ships. umphs, famous portraits and more by brandywinemuseum.org bition of historical paintings by Loretta ANDREW WYETH: Selections Australian National Anne-Louis Girodet (1767-1824), Ongoing Krupinski. JAMES WYETH: Portrait of an Artist Maritime Museum prized and rebellious student of Maine Lighthouse Museum N.C. WYETH: Artist and Illustrator Sydney, AUSTRALIA Jacques-Louis David. JAN MATEUKA: Rockland, ME • 207-594-3301 Farnsworth Art Museum 61-02-9298-377 • anmm.gov.au Metropolitan Museum of Art A Painter’s Eye on Cape Ann mainelighthousemuseum.com Rockland, ME • 207-596-6457 Through June 2007 New York, NY • 212-535-7710 Cape Ann Historical Museum Through September 30 farnsworthmuseum.org metmuseum.org Gloucester, MA • 978-283-0455 Through October 15 THE END OF THE WATERFRONT Through August 27 capeannhistoricalmuseum.org MARINE AND FISHING ART The Hudson River Piers, Circa 1970 Musée des Beaux Arts de Monrtéal Through September 9 By the leading artists from America, ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE 24 large format photographs by Montreal, Quebec, Canada Europe and New Zealand. Paintings, NAUTICAL RESEARCH GUILD Shelley Seccombe documenting the JOHN PRENTISS BENSON 800-899-6873 • mbam.qc.ca sculpture, ship models and scrim- Keynote speaker master shipmodeler recreational, cultural and commercial Exhibition of his paintings October 12 – January 21, 2007 shaw by Anthony Blake, Christopher and miniaturist Lloyd McCaffrey. uses of the Hudson River piers during Maine Maritime Museum Blossom, Don Demers, Flick Ford, Maritime Museum of San Diego the 1970s. HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: Bath, ME • 207-443-1316 James Girffiths, Ian Marshall, Victor San Diego, CA • Naut-res-guild.org Schermerhorn Gallery History of History mainemaritimemuseum.org October 12 – 15 Mays, John Mecray, Stanley Meltzoff, Ed Parker Steamer NELLIE G. c.1900 – On the Boothbay to Squirrel Island Run Oil 25” x 34” $7,500 South Street Seaport Museum Dioramas and seascape series photo- Through October 9 Continued on next page 10 11 Continued from page 11 Leonard Mizerek, James Prosek, Keith Legion of Honor NORTH ATLANTIC SEAS, SCHOONERS SUMMER SEAWEEDS: Wonders Reynolds, Arthur Shilstone, John San Francisco, CA • 415-863-3330 AND FISHERMAN: THOMAS HOYNE’S IN NEW ENGLAND of the Ocean Realm Stobart, Robert Weiss and others. thinker.org/legion PAINTINGS OF THE GRAND BANKS Paintings spanning the years from A series of exquisite J. Russell Jinishian Gallery June 17 – September 17 Comprehensive exhibition includes the 1860 to present depicting summer- photographs, resembling 1657 Post Road, Fairfield, CT North Carolina Museum of Art dramatic paintings, models and draw- time New England’s mountains, vil- Japanese paintings, of 203-259-8753 Raleigh, NC • 919-839-6262 ings by Thomas Hoyne’s (1926-1989), lages, seascapes and city life by marine algae. jrusselljinishiangallery.com ncartmuseum.org the quintessential maritime artist. Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam John The Charleston Museum Ongoing October 15 – January 14, 2007 Ventura County Maritime Museum Singer Sargent, Andrew Wyeth, Frank Charleston, SC Oxnard, CA • 805-984-6260 Benson, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper 843-722-2996 MARITIME PAINTINGS AT SOUTH NANTUCKET WHALING MUSEUM October 5 – March 31, 2007 and others. charlestonmuseum.org STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM Newly renovated and expanded in Mystic Seaport Museum Peabody Essex Museum November 1 – April 30 2007 The best maritime paintings in the commemoration of its 75th anniversary, Mystic, CT Salem, MA • 978-745-9500 • pem.org museum’s collection featuring works including paintings and scrimshaw, Opens Spring 2007 Through September 4 75 TREASURES by James E. Buttersworth, Antonio sailors’ valentines, the complete FOR 75 YEARS: Jacobsen, Duncan MacFarlane and skeleton of sperm whale, a fully rigged NORTH LIGHT AT WILLOWBANK: RAVEN TRAVELLING: The Path of History and Art other noted 19th century artists. whaleboat and more. Discovering the Sea Paintings of Two Centuries of Haida Art Rotating exhibition of ship Schmerhorn Row Gallery Nantucket Whaling Museum John P. Benson Over 200 art objects spanning 200 models, figureheads, South Street Seaport Museum Nantucket, MA • 508-228-1894 Romantic scenes of seascapes and years reveal the importance of the land glasswork paintings and New York, NY • 212-748-8735 nha.org sailing vessels painted at his home in and the waters to the Haida culture. much more celebrates Joe McGurl Lobsterboats off Mt. Desert, Maine Oil 12” x 24” $12,000 southstreetseaportmuseum.org Ongoing Kittery, Maine. Vancouver Art Gallery the 75th Anniversary of Ongoing Vancouver, BC, CANADA Monterey Maritime & Delaware Art Museum 27TH ANNUAL WINSLOW HOMER: Poet of the Sea 604-662-2719 Historical Society. Wilmington, DE • 302-571-9590 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 60 oil and watercolor paintings, span- MEDITERRANEAN WARMTH vanartallery.bc.ca Monterey Maritime and delart.org A juried exhibition of well known and ning Homer’s life, features water as FROM PROVENCE Through September 17 Historical Society March 29 – July 16 up and upcoming masters of marine the central element. 73 paintings, depicting busy Monterey, CA • 831-372-2608 art from around the world. Musee d’Art Americain Giverny harbors, fishing, navigation, THE RENOIR RETURNS: montereyhistory.org/maritime STANLEY MELTZOFF: The Maritime Gallery Giverny, FRANCE shipwrecks, street scenes, rustic A Celebration of Masterworks Through December 31 Deep Sea Fish Painter of Mystic Seaport 33(0) 2 3251-9465 • maag.org settings and interiors, express at the Phillips Collection Retrospective exhibition to celebrate Mystic, CT • 860-572-5388 Through September 19 the relaxed lifestyle of the French 60 of the museums major works SHIPS OF THE SEA the publication of a new book of the mysticseaport.org Mediterranean. are on view in celebration of the MARITIME MUSEUM art of this inventor and master of the September 30 – November 27 WOMEN AND THE SEA Sinebrychoff Art Museum return of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s 18th and 19th century ship models, underwater fish painting genre since Chronicles women’s contributions to Helsinki, FINLAND “Luncheon of the Boating Party” paintings and maritime antiques. 1960. UNION LEAGUE CLUB – seafaring in peacetime and in war, 358 (0) 9-173361 The Phillip’s Collection Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum J. Russell Jinishian Gallery MARINE ART EXHIBITION from the earliest days of sail to cap- sinebrychofftaidemuseo.fi/index.asp Washington, D.C. Savannah, GA • 912-232-1511 1657 Post Road, Fairfield, CT Paintings by leading contemporary tains of racing yachts. September 28 – January 7, 2007 202-387-2151 shipsofthesea.org jrusselljinishiangallery.com marine artists including Anthony Penobscot Marine Museum phillipscollection.org Ongoing 203-259-8753 • Fall 2006 Blake, Christopher Blossom, William Searsport, ME • 207-548-2529 THE MINIATURE SHIPS OF Through July 30 Davis, Don Demers, William Gilkerson, Penobscotmuseum.org AUGUST F. CRABTREE Jim Griffiths, Geoffrey Huband, Loretta SIX STAR LEGACY STORY OF TEXAS NAVY 1836-1845 Through September4 A fleet of miniature Venetian gal- Krupinski, Gerald Levey, Ian Marshall, RIE MUNOZ RETROSPECTIVE The WWII combat diorama art of As told through the paintings of Robert leass, rafts, sidewheelers and Joseph McGurl, Leonard Mizerek, Folkloric watercolor paintings Richard Dana Kuchta. Moak and related ship models and THE YACHTING PHOTOGRAPHY much more, supplemented by William Muller, Ed Parker, Robert and prints depicting daily life The Library artifacts. OF WILLARD B. JACKSON illustrations, photographs and tools. Sticker, John Stobart, Tim Thompson along the Southeast coast of Redding, CT • 203-938-2545 Opens September 1 Over 50 photographs taken at The Mariner’s Museum and others. Alaska span 50 years of Alaska’s October 1 - 30 Working Tall Ship Elissa Marblehead, MA capture the beauty of Newport News, VA Sponsored by the most recognized artist. Ongoing all types of sailing vessels. 757-596-2222 • mariner.org James Harrington New Arrival Oil 18” x 24” $5,200 SKETCHED AT SEA J. Russell Jinishian Gallery Alaska State Museum Texas Seaport Museum Peabody Essex Museum Opened May 5 Marine sketchbooks and drawings by Union League Club Juneau, AK • 907-465-2901 Pier 21 No. 8 Salem, MA • 978-745-9500 NELSON’S NAVY Maine Maritime Museum artists, mariners and travelers, New York, NY • 203-259-8753 Through September 23 Galveston, TX • 409-763-1877 pem.org MINNESOTA MARINE MUSEUM 250 objects and artifacts give insight Bath, ME • 207-443-1316 depicting their experience and inspi- jrusselljinishiangallery.com tsm-elissa.org Through November 19 Grand opening of the newest addition into the British during the Opened June 6 ration of the sea. November 1-30 SAVING OUR SHIPS: THE SEA- to the marine art museum family. A late Georgian period as well as Horatio Peabody Essex Museum Nelson’s role. PAINTINGS OF CHARLES ROBERT 13TH ANNUAL state of the art exhibition space con- ONE-MAN SHOW: Salem, MA • 866-745-1876 • pem.org VAN RYPER: National Maritime Museum PATTERSON (1878-1958) MARITIME ART EXHIBIT taining the Burrichter-Kierlin Collection Marine Artist Russ Kramer August 12 – January2008 A WORLD OF SHIPS IN MINATURE Greenwich, ENGLAND Oil paintings, watercolors and litho- Juried exhibition of works by mem- of nearly 100 paintings by artists like Oil paintings of the great yachts Der Scutt Ocean Liner collection of WE ARE ALWAYS 44 (0) 30-8858-4422 • nmm.ac.uk graphs of warships of sail, every bers of the American Society of Marine John Stobart, Jack Gray, Tim Thompson, and greatest yacht races of the SMALL SCALES WAR: prized models of great ships Opens June 2006 kind of 19th century merchant sail- Artist with featured artist Sylvia INTERESTED IN William Muller, James Flood, Louis America’s Cup. Military Models of the World Wars South Street Seaport Museum ing vessel and naval vessels of the Waters. Dodd and others, Leo & Marilyn Smith Museum of Yachting Trench art and government recognition New York, NY • 212-748-8600 HEARING ABOUT NEW IRELAND: 1920s, as well as photographs and Folk Art Collectioon, Henry Bosse Newport, RI • 727-895-6272 models from WWI and WWII are a testa- Coos Art Museum southstreetseaportmuseum.org th Art of the South Pacific ephemera spanning the life of this Coos Bay, OR • 541-267-3901 MARINE ART River 19 Century photo- museumofyachting.org ment to the creative needs of the human Ongoing graphs, and the William A. Thompson, a 100 unique and captivating objects artist and mariner. spirit even during tumultuous times. coosart.org NEWS & EVENTS July 29 – August 27 Heritage Museums & Gardens Mississppi River Dredge. representing 12 art traditions from Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum July 21 – September 23 WILLIAM A. COULTER (1849-1938) FROM YOU Minnesota Marine Museum this most creative and prolific region Sandwich, MA • 508-888-3300 New York, NY A Master’s Brush With the Sea 800 Riverview Drive during late 19th century ON THE RED SEA heritagemuseumsandgardens.org 877-957-7447/212-245-0072 TIDE LINES The first retrospective exhibition of the Winona, MN • 507-474-6626 Saint Louis Art Museum The Photographs of Henry de Through October intrepidmuseum.org Contemporary Staten Island work of the premier West Coast mari- Submit your information to: minnesotamarineart.org St. Louis, MO • stlouis.art.museum Monfreid (1879-1974) New ongoing exhibition Waterfront Prints time artist who also chronicled the great Opening July 27 October 15 – January 7, 2007 Photographs, watercolors, letters and SEA CURTAINS Woodcuts, engravings, etchings, litho- San Francisco earthquake and fire. The Marine Art Quarterly Grand Opening August 20 Musee de Quai Branly more provide both a documentary Fabric art exhibition of an underwater SOMETHING WAITS BENEATH IT : graphs and mezzotints by Christopher opening coincides with the 100th anni- 1657 Post Road Paris, France and esthetic portal into this part of sea garden. Early Works by Andrew Wyeth, Clarke, Richard Sloat, Su-Ling Hung, versary of the great earthquake. Fairfield, CT 06824 MONET IN NORMANDY April 2, 2007 – July 15, 2007 the world. Coos Art Museum 1939-1969 Bill Murphy and others. San Francisco Maritime 60 paintings depicting Claude Monet’s Ethnologisches Museum Musee National de la Marine Coos Bay, OR 32 rarely seen tempura and water- Noble Maritime Collection National Historical Park e-mail: interpretation of the sea, the rivers, com- Staaliche Museen zu Berlin Paris, France 541-267-3901 color paintings of coastal Maine and Staten Island, NY San Francisco, CA [email protected] mercial harbors and resorts of Normandy Berlin, GERMANY 01-53-65-69-69 coosart.org eastern Pennsylvania by a young noblemaritime.org 415-561-7000 as well as its architecture and daily life. August 10, 2007-November 11, 2007 Through October 2 July 21 – September 23 Andrew Wyeth. Through October 1 Through October 31

12 13 Continued from page 5 He held sold out workshops in Boothbay Harbor, ing terminated the standard four-year course.” A fine article in the Maritime Museum’s own pub- THE AGE OF SAIL – Paintings of Geoffrey Huband Maine, Chatham, Massachusetts, on the Dingle John goes on to discuss the virtues of painting lication MARITimes reveals how Foster has now There are perhaps no sea stories captivating and compelling as those involving the massive sailing ships of the 18th and 19th centuries, Peninsula in Ireland, and the Chateau d’Artiste from life, the detriments of painting solely from turned his talents towards ship model building and in the Burgundy province of France. His paint- photographs, and his views of abstract art and its restoration of many of models in the museum’s where hundreds of men spent months and often years afloat in search of honor, glory and adventure. From the simple struggles ings are featured in articles in Fine Art Connoisseur self-perpetuating marketing machine. In essence, collection. It certainly makes sense that he is of everyday life afloat on the world’s great oceans in all sorts of weather, to the epic tales of battles at sea that tested the skills and magazine April issue, and the August issue of Arts he is a believer in the kind of fundamental aca- able to transfer his knowledge and understanding courage of even the most seasoned sailor, these tales never disappoint in the retelling. Today, Alexander Kent’s 10 novels following and Antiques magazine. He’s been invited to paint demic training that he received. He writes that he of vessels from one medium to another. But his the Royal Navy career of one Richard Bolitho exploring all the tragedies and triumphs of this unique period in history. Alongside with the Plein Air Artists of America in Laguna, is considering a updated version of his comments, reflections on the differences between painting Kent’s words, painter Geoffrey Huband has created dramatic images for the covers of these compelling novels. California in October. And August will find him which we will look forward to. As many people and ship model building are interesting. He says, painting with leading artists from the West in know, he has put his money where his mouth “…every painting I do, all I can see are the faults. Utah at the site of well-known western artist is by sponsoring scholarships for young artists, Most of the paintings have been a love/hate rela- ’s studio, which will be followed by and producing a series of television programs in tionship. You start off with an inspiration and it’s an exhibition there sponsored by the Thunderbird which he paints outdoors from life. Entitled John all going to be fantastic, and then it all goes wrong, Foundation. A calendar of his paintings was pub- Stobart’s Worldscapes, they have just been released and it’s aggravating. With modeling you may get a lished by Am Cal—the 2007 version should be in in the DVD format this year. There are actually two. few frustrations, but it’s not the same heartache I bookstores soon, while two new limited edition One is Simplifying Outdoor Painting available for had with painting. With modeling you have some- STAND INTO DANGER giclée prints on canvas were published by the $19.95, and a 2-DVD set John Stobart’s Worldscapes thing definite in front of you. When you’re trying to Greenwich Workshop. One is “Off the Windswept #1 available for $39.95 by calling 978-921-0761. conjure something up in your mind, it’s different.” 1774 … His Britannic Majesty’s Coast” in an edition of 50, measuring 28”x42” at The moral of the story here, I think, is that no mat- twenty-eight-gun frigate DESTINY, $950. The other is “End of Day One: The Great One of the institutions John has helped to support ter how easy an artist makes it look in the finished Transatlantic Race, 1866” also in an edition of 50, with the proceeds from the sale of his paintings, product, the struggle to get from a blank canvas or with Lieutenant Richard Bolitho measuring 25”x44” at $1,250. To order call 800-243- prints, books and videos is the Lyme Academy of paper, or chunk of wood or clay to a finished work aboard, closes with the 4260 or greenwichfinearts.com. Paintings from his Art in Lyme, Connecticut, which as many people of art is a tremendously difficult one fraught with brigantine HELOISE in the Atlantic, workshop in France will be exhibited, along with know as the summer home of many of the fine, peril and uncertainty. Painter Don Demers is fond en route to the Caribbean. those of young marine artist Brad Betts at the Art turn-of-the-century American Impressionist art- of quoting our old friend, now deceased, Frank of Sea Gallery in Thomaston, Maine this summer. ists, like John Twachtman, Theodore Robinson, Wagner who described painting as a process of June found him surrounded by collectors and Childe Hassam, and Guy Wiggins, both father “starting with an perfectly white canvas which friends, and 15 of his newest paintings at a one-man and son. We were invited to speak right down the has nothing inherently wrong with it, and going to exhibition at the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery in street recently at the Lyme Art Association in work on it with all the potential of ending up with a Oil 20” x 28” $12,500 Fairfield, Connecticut. Most of the paintings were conjunction with their summer marine art exhibit, picture that has nothing inherently right with it.” large, from 20”x30” to 34”x60”, ranging in subject which had been organized by painters Yves Parent One artist who transferred his skills the other way, matter from the Eastern Yacht Club Cruise in and Bill Hanson. It’s a fine organization and fine from making ship models to painting was New A devotee of Montague Dawson, Boothbay, Maine and the Fastnet Race of 1931, to gallery space operated by and for the over 800 artist Orleans native Joe Wilhelm. When Joe died two Huband is drawn to the period Schooner crossing the Atlantic in 1928, and the members. The director Bob Potter left a lucrative Nina years ago he left behind a number of paintings dynamic painting of schooner yacht on her career in television and film to take on the chal- between 1700-1800, “a period I Atlantic he made during the last years of his life of his record setting transatlantic crossing in 1905. The lenges of running it, while his wife Jeanne Potter favorite subjects, freighters from the 1950s and regard as the peak achievement paintings ranged in price from $4,200 for a 9”x12” to left her job at the Corcoran Art Gallery in ‘60s of the United Fruit, Standard Fruit, the in the combination of function $80,000. Nearly all were sold out by the time the show Washington, DC to become the director of the Lykes Lines—mostly in and around the harbor opened. Don reminded us at the opening that the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport. So between and beauty in ships…” of . These were recently purchased most expensive painting in his first one-man show in them they‘ve obviously “cornered the art market” by current members of the shipping community 1988 was $6,800. While that show too was a sell out, in southeastern Connecticut. during one weekend through an auction set up by he’s certainly come a long way. Speaking of cornering the market, there’s not Carleen Lyden Kluss of Morgan Marketing and U.S.S. CONSTITUTION vs Communications, which serves the commercial Recently we got a long letter from John Stobart, better place to accomplish that of course than HMS GUERRIERE maritime industry (morganmarketcomm.com), at who’s been another extremely busy artist. He took on an island. We were in Bermuda recently, the the conference of the Connecticut Maritime the first quarter of this year to finish a major paint- birthplace of Stephen Card, well-known painter of August 19, 1812 … In one of the decisive ing of Jacksonville, Florida, interrupting only to ocean liners, whose huge paintings painted on alu- Association, an annual gathering of ship own- ers, brokers, and port authorities from around battles of the , the flagship of fly up to Barnstable, Massachusetts to speak to a minum grace many of the public spaces aboard the the world. In fact, the relocation of many shipping the upstate American Navy soundly de- nice crowd at the Sturges Library. This fall will new Queen Mary II. It is also the adopted home of company headquarters out of the famed Whitehall find him in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Closson’s Art British painter Deryck Foster whose friendship feated the 38 gun British frigate in only 90 building in lower to Connecticut has Gallery, where he’ll be one of the featured artists with Shorty Trimingham flourished during the minutes off the coast of Nova Scotia. Here resulted in the Connecticut Maritime Association as they celebrate their 140th anniversary on the 1974 Newport to Bermuda ocean race and resulted the GUERRIERE’s mizzenmast has just been becoming one of the largest in the industry. The weekend of November 3-4. On November 9 “The in a regular display of Foster’s work over the years silent auction was held during the conference with shot away. Art of John Stobart,” an exhibition of 15 paintings at Trimingham’s Department Store in downtown the proceeds going to benefit the North American borrowed back from collectors for the occasion Hamilton. With Trimingham’s now sadly closed, Oil 24” x 36” $19,000 Maritime Ministry Association (NAMMA). 19 of will open at the Artworks Gallery at the Ohio many of Foster’s paintings depicting important the 20 paintings offered were sold. So it was a win, Center for History, Art and Technology. It runs moments and vessels from the history of Bermuda win, win all around—ship owners got paintings by through December 22. John tells me that he last like Sea Venture, whose shipwreck resulted in the a top marine artist of a subject depiction not often published his “Art Commentary” some 15 years establishment of the first colony on the island, to painted. NAMMA received money in its coffers to ago, in which he discussed his own experiences as Bermuda sloops, the privateer EXPERIMENT, and support its fine activities, and Joe Wilhelm’s son a student and relayed his own views as a mature the elegant liner Queen of Bermuda are out now Steve got a new roof on his house, which had been MAN OF WAR painter as to what an art education should consist on display at the Bermuda Maritime Museum in off for six months, courtesy of Hurricane Katrina. of. Here is what his own consisted of: “In my four the Commissioner’s House as a part of the Bank years at England’s Derby College of Art I drew of Bermuda Foundation’s collection of marine The March 2006 issue of Maine Boats Homes and 1817 … His Britannic Majesty’s sev- cubes, spears and cones from every conceivable art. This is a must see museum for marine art Harbors featured another article about an artist enty-four-gun man-of-war ATHENA angle ad infinitum. Before from the model lovers during a visit to Bermuda. There are eight who uses the skills of one career to enhance anoth- unleashes its starboard batteries on students had to do two years anatomy by which buildings in addition to Commissioner’s House er, and who concentrates on iron and steel liners, slavers in the Caribbean as it passes time we could draw a complete skeleton from any full of art and artifacts which tell the fascinating freighters and naval vessels from the 19th and 20th position. We then added underlying muscles and maritime history of Bermuda: her role in world centuries. We’re speaking of course of Scotsman the severely damaged and sinking then the main muscles and knew their names. wide trade, international conflicts and tourism Ian Marshall, a trained architect who, along with frigate, HMS AUDACITY. We drew from the antique life sized plaster cast of through a great variety of art and artifacts and his brother, was responsible for designing and Venus de Milo and other famous sculptures. Two actual vessels. View Bermuda Maritime Museum building most of the public buildings in Botswana years of painting models and two years of draw- site at www.bmm.bm. in Southern Africa. Ian than traveled the world as Continued on page 16 14 Oil 20” x 28” $12,500 the British after there was a huge massacre in person in a certain position, move them twenty create a small village scene, but in the end had to Schenectady to reexamine the fortifications of the yards ahead, as if they’ve run that distance, then use the power of their imaginations to translate that town). He then employed a computer program push a button and “Poser” will show you all the into a final picture. As he says, in his view paintings known as “Rhino” to draw in the computer the movements in between, like the famous really are inventions. He said, “Reality doesn’t look specifics of the architectural and landscape features Muybridge photographs and Terragin which is like any painting. A painting just feels like reality.” to then create a virtual three dimensional view of used for modeling seas, distant landscapes, atmo- Schenectady in the 17th century, which he could spheric elements in the skies. He said these programs In the it’s never to late to go to school cat- manipulate to look at from any angle. He literally are so sensitive you can actually manipulate the egory, you wonder what well-known marine artist set himself up to walk through the streets until he haze and photo-degeneration of the color spectrum Christopher Blossom has been up to. In addition found an interesting perspective to paint just as if because of the degrading light in the atmosphere. to being the only marine artist invited to partici- he were walking through them today. The painting His feeling is that these programs give artists pate year after year in two of the biggest art shows wound up being a night scene, and he actually could tremendous tools to work from, and will really in the west, the Prix de West held in Oklahoma light it by moonllight exactly the way he wanted influence painters well into the future. But like City each year and the annual exhibition at the using another program. everything else, it has taken an artist who under- Gene Autry Museum outside Los Angeles. Chris enrolled as a student in Len’s class this spring. Len recently used the same principle to complete a stands these needs to interpret the technology to be used for artistic purposes. Like all highly creative people, he’s always looking commission for the Metropolitan Museum of for new ways to approach the problems of seeing Art who wanted him to paint what a Dutch tenant He put this to the test firsthand recently during his and making a painting. So Len’s students got a real farmhouse would have looked like in the 17th cen- workshop in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Where some treat, having two highly skilled professional artists tury. They plan to create an exhibit using some artists will take the students outdoors and have to observe in the same class. pieces of the farmhouse which they actually have, them paint from life or reference material, Len augmented by Len’s painting. He’s developed this showed up with a kit for each student consisting of The Greenwich Workshop in Shelton, Connecticut technique so thoroughly that he was asked to a large flat reflective surface on which was placed recently published a new giclée on canvas of speak about it at the National Conference of an amorphously cut organic shape of cardboard, Chris’s painting “U.S. Frigate Congress of the American Archeologists who are looking for new not very thick, and then seven blocks shaped from California Coast” in a limited edition of only 75. It ways to use what their findings tell them. Len actu- pyramidal to square. He asked these students to depicts the flagship of the California fleet during ally uses four programs: Rhino; Maya, which he arrange all these pieces as each of them wanted to. the War with Mexico. It contains all of the subtlety says is a great rendering program used in movies He then photographed each one from above, gave and strength we’ve come to associate with Chris’s like Master and Commander and The Perfect Storm; them architectural and some landscape detail and paintings. The print measures 18”x24” and sells Poser, which is the study of the movements of created a printout for each student from which they for $595. To order call 800-243-4260, or visit people and animals, where you can actually set a could make a painting. In essence what they did was greenwichfinearts.com. Continued on next page

Joseph Wilhelm (1923-2002) Tug DALZELLINE in the Hudson River Oil 16” x 23” $5,000

Continued from page 14 an architect on behalf of the United Nations, along exhibition on Patterson’s work being held at the From the use of 17th century Camera Obscuras and the way observing and painting in all the famous Heritage Museum on Cape Cod this summer. various “perspective” machines to the develop- and not so famous ports of the world. Over the ment of the still and video camera of the late 19th Maine Boats Homes and Harbors is where you can last 30+ years he has created over 400 paintings, th also find the regular column “In the Lee of the and early 20 centuries, and now the computer, and authored and illustrated 5 volumes, mostly Boathouse” by Peter Spectre well known for his the artist has always been in the vanguard of on ships, but one on Flying Boats. It’s interest - “On the Waterfront” column for many years in adapting technology in innovative ways. ing to hear his reflections on the difficulties of WoodenBoat magazine. It’s chock full of fascinat- painting, and in his case working in watercolor. For artists today, the ample wealth of information ing information and well worth the price of the that the computer provides, such as reference He always starts his painting by soaking his sheet magazine by itself. of watercolor paper in the bath tub, then taping it material on ships, harbors, individuals, etc., can down to a board and allowing it to dry. (Look first If you’ve ever visited Monhegan Island you will simply open up new subject matter. Some artists when bathing in the Marshall household.) While have walked by the summer studio of the National use the computer to manipulate color and objects he’s actually painting, he works quickly. He says, Academy painter Don Stone. It’s interesting to through various software programs like “Photo “For these paintings of historical subjects, much listen to him describe his philosophy and tech- Shop” to augment their research with the camera. the greater time is not on the paper. It is in think- niques. Don says, “I make a lot of thumbnail Painter Len Tantillo has been pioneering his own ing, reading and looking at photographs. The ship sketches before starting the actually painting. The unique methods. His interest continues to be in is quite a complicated object. One misconception painting, I have found from experience, will be no recreating the Dutch Colonial history of the New is that it will look the same from angle to angle, better than the thumbnail. So it’s important to get York area, from Albany down the Hudson River, no matter how far you are from it.” But he says, it right.” He says, “When it comes to making the including New York Bay and Long Island Sound. painting I do not draw the image and then color “You must always take into account that an object In the past, when Len has made detailed recreations it in. I work directly from the beginning with the flattens out as one moves away from it. Heat, light, of, let’s say, the waterfront in Albany, he’s worked brush. As I add paint I use the brush to follow the sound, all the behaviors of the elements come to with a model builder to literally build three dimen- contour of the subject matter, for instance, the play,” says Ian. He wants his paintings to reflect sional cardboard models of a section of town he’s shape of a wave.” Although he paints right on the experience of observing a ship while at sea. He looking at in order to assure the accuracy of his site, like many artists he avails himself of modern says, “You get an effect quickly, a passing effect. final work. Incredibly, he says his whole approach technologies to gather and retain information. In The next time you look at the ship she’s swung changed when he first saw the movie Shrek! He’s his view “a photograph is to inform not to copy. I‘ve into mooring, the light has changed. And it’s that now, after about a year and a half of experimenting, often thought how envious my predecessors would glimpse that stays in the mind.” In fact, many art- taught himself how to employ the same computer be to see me use my video camera to film a wave ists tell us that it’s that single, brief moment that technology used to make that animated movie to breaking on a rocky coast, and then play it back on often forms the kernel of an idea that becomes the make what he calls “digital” or “virtual” models on a monitor, still frame by still frame to study each basis for a very complex painting. the computer. It’s a pretty fascinating process he second of motion!” The fine article on Ian was written by Robert began when he was asked to make a painting of Lloyd Webb, the author of the recently published Through the years artists have always been looking Schenectady, New York. Using the computer, he was Paul Garnett Eagle of the Sea – U.S.S. CONSTITUTION off the Coast of La Gabriel South America, September 29, 1799 Oil 24” x 36” $9,500 book Sailor–Painter, the Uncommon Life of Charles for an edge regardless of their era to help them able to take the current city plan of Schenectady, In the summer of 1799, the Constitution took aboard her second commander since her launching, Silas Talbot. In this painting, I have elected not to show the ship in one of her famous encounters with Robert Patterson. See our book page for details, translate what they’re seeing in the real or imag- and overlay it on a map drawn by British engineer enemy ships but rather to let the viewer see her in her full sailing glory. She was off the coast of South America at the time, patrolling for French shipping. In the painting, her famous yellow-ochre and our exhibition page for more details on the ined world into a believable, artistic creation. William Rohmer in 1690 (who was assigned by gun stripe, as well as her original ornate stern and hammock netting in the waist, are clearly seen. I also had hoped that particular view I had chosen to paint would give each person a sense of her 16 grace, great beauty, some feel of her original appearance as well as her legendary speed under sail. Paul Garnett