VOLUME 8 NUMBER 12-13 PUBLISHED by J. RUSSELL JINISHIAN © SPRING/SUMMER 2007 / $12.00 19th, 20th and 21st Century Marine Art VOLUME 6 NUMBER 8 - 9 PUBLISHED by J. RUSSELL JINISHIAN © FALL/WINTER 2006 / $12.00 Special Double Issue ™ An Insider’s Guide to Marine Art for Collectors and Historians What’s Inside: • Latest News from Today’s Premier Marine Artists, Learn What they’re Working on in their Studios right now • Latest Marine Art Sales & Prices • Marine Art Exhibitions Across the Country Bill Muller The French Liner ILE DE FRANCE Arriving in New York Following Her Trans-Atlantic Crossing Oil 22” x 30” $25,000 • Upcoming Auctions from La Havre, 1955 with the Lackawanna Railroad Ferry Boat ELMIRA Departing from Her Hoboken Slip • Book Reviews Wick Ahrens Keith Cardnell James Flood Michael Keane Stanley Meltzoff Marek Sarba Dimetrious Athas Marc Castelli Flick Ford Loretta Krupinski Leonard Mizerek Arthur Shilstone Christopher Atkins Scott Chambers Paul Garnett Richard Dana Kuchta William G. Muller Kathy Spalding John Atwater Terry Culpan William Gilkerson Robert LaGasse Rob Napier Robert Sticker Anthony Blake Steve Cryan James Griffiths Gerald Levey William Oakley Jr. John Stobart Robert Blazek R.B. Dance Robert Grimson Patrick Livingstone Russ Kramer David Thimgan Christopher Blossom William R. Davis Glen Hacker Ian Marshall Roberto Osti Tim Thompson Lou Bonamarte Don Demers James Harrington Nick Mayers Yves Parent Kent Ullberg Willard Bond Louis Dodd Cooper Hart Victor Mays Ed Parker Peter Vincent Peter Bowe William P. Duffy André Harvey Lloyd McCaffery Charles Peterson William Walsh Bernd Braatz Willem Eerland Geoff Hunt Joseph McGurl James Prosek Patricia Warfield Al Bross Carl Evers James Iams John Mecray Randy Puckett Robert Weiss James Buttersworth William Ewen Antonio Jacobsen Jerry Melton Keith Reynolds Bert Wright J. Russell Jinishian Gallery, Inc. 1657 POST ROAD, FAIRFIELD, CT 06824 2159 RT. 129 SOUTH BRISTOL, ME Just up the hill from the Swing Bridge towards Christmas Cove. (203) 259-8753 Look for the leaping fish. August only. 207-644-1102 Specializing in 19th, 20th, and 21st Century Marine and Fishing Art from Europe and America. Accepting artwork on consignment from collectors throughout the year. HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday 10-5 p.m. and by appointment. We invite you to stop by and visit the gallery located just 1 hour from NYC just off I-95 at Exit 21. Visit our website: www.jrusselljinishiangallery.com E-mail: [email protected] Just off the Artist’s Easels...Still Wet... News From the Artists s always, there’s been a tremendous amount and our congratulations goes out to the new artist Len Tantillo. More information on those can of creative activity in the marine art world members: Tom Bluemlein, Ralph Bush, Austin be found at lymeacademy.edu. Prices for the A in the last two quarters, involving a wide Dwyer, Gary Gowans, Paula B. Holtzclaw, workshops range from $250-335. They certainly range of exhibitions, events and projects from Frederick Kubits, Joe McGurl, Kathryn provide excellent opportunity for aspiring marine coast to coast and around the world. So let’s get McMahon, Linda Norton, Bill Sonstrom and artists to learn directly from some of the top artists right to the news. Julie Sutherland. The Society also elevated four working today. While each artist has his area of We’ll begin with the American Society of Marine existing members to the “Fellow” status. They particular emphasis in his class, issues addressed Artists (ASMA), who, under the leadership of are painters John Barber, William R. Davis, will include everything from a discussion of which its new president Ian Marshall, has initiated and Russ Kramer; and well-known scrimshander brushes and knives and easels and paints to use, an ambitious new slate of activities, including Robert Weiss. and how to mix colors, to the basic principles of the Society’s first ever Great Lakes Regional In addition to his new duties as president of the composition and perspective, some will explore Exhibition this summer from June 14 – August 5 Society, Ian has been keeping busy creatively, the use of plein air sketches, and visual memory at the Krasl Art Center on Lake Michigan at St. from making his second trip to the tiny east and even (as in Len Tantillo’s workshop) modern Joseph, Michigan, organized by Carol Shahbaz African island of Lamu to painting the ancient computer techniques of digital modeling and how and underwritten by Chemical they can be used by artists. Bank. The artwork was selected But even though Len is technolog- by Society Fellows Len Mizerek ically savvy, and has been able to and Len Tantillo. More informa- adapt it to artistic ends, as he said tion can be found at krasl.org or by to me recently, “Technology itself calling 269-980-0271. doesn’t make good art.” You still From July 14 to September 22, the need to take all the elements and Coos Art Museum in Coos Bay, put them together in a meaningful Oregon will feature many of the way to create a visually pleasing Society’s members in their Annual and compelling painting. Maritime Art Exhibition, where Just across the border and slightly the “featured artist” is ASMA to the east in Picton, Ontario is the member Dutch Mostert, Dutch 1897, 6,000 sq. ft. Customs House, born resident of Coos Bay whose which serves as the home of the watercolors of Northwest working Canadian Society of Marine fishing vessels and tugs are well- Artists., founded by artists Jim Griffiths Running Her Easting Down, Tea Clipper SPINDRIFT Rounds the Cape of Good Hope c. 1868 Watercolor 12½” x 19” $4,000 known throughout the country. Harry Heine, John Horton, Ray More information can be found at Warren, Ozzie Shenk and Bo coosart.org or by calling 541-267- Hermanson. Today, the Society 3901. The ASMA Society’s annual is by invitation only. Betty-Ann meeting of members will be held Anderson, Executive Secretary in Santa Barbara, California and Treasurer and Chairman Paul from November 1-5. Richard Moore Fletcher Class Destroyer USS SAUFLEY c. 1950 Watercolor 20” x 29” $5,200 Adamthwaite tells me they’re Next May ASMA will open its 14th looking to broaden their member- National Exhibition at the Chase ship by adding three-dimensional Arab dhows and other watercraft of the region, work and miniature artists, and are using their Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington, to supervising the color proofing of his fifth book th large space to hold regular exhibitions. For more Delaware, which will run through the 4 of July, Cruisers and La Guerre de Course, which and then move to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime information you may reach them at ultramarine. contains fifty original watercolor paintings and ca. Museum, in St. Michaels, Maryland where it accompanying text written by Ian. (It should be opens on July 25. That fine maritime museum is just coming off the press as you read these words. It’s a known fact that our own Library of Congress now under the direction of Stuart Parnes, former See elsewhere in this issue for more information.) is the largest library in the world, containing some director of the Connecticut River Museum in Along the way he’s completed a number of private 128 million publications in 460 languages, occu- Essex Connecticut, and Exhibitions Director for commissions, including one for the son of the pying over 500 miles of shelves. At the core of many years at the Mystic Seaport Museum. commander of submarine USS Pomfret, which the Library of Congress is Thomas Jefferson’s Ian also tells me that the Society is in discussion shows her leaving Midway Island accompanied personal collection of 6,000 volumes which he with the Mystic Seaport Museum to hold a by two Avenger aircraft. Ian was also the featured offered to the nation after the original Library was major retrospective exhibition to commemorate speaker at the Marine Masters Exhibition this destroyed when Washington, D.C. was burned by the Society’s 30th anniversary, which will occur spring at the Mystic Seaport Museum Gallery. the British during the War of 1812. next year in 2008. He’s also been talking with And August 16 will find him speaking on his work Today they receive nearly 20,000 new items each Geoff Hunt, President of the Royal Society of at the Claremont Hotel in Southwest Harbor, day to review for acceptance into the collection. Marine Artists about perhaps holding a joint Maine. ASMA Fellow Charlie Raskob Robinson, with exhibition. One venue they’re discussing is the This summer and fall ASMA has continued to the help of Judith Prowse Roach, head of local Royal Society of Arts in London, which had as pursue its commitment to marine art education history and genealogy at the library, and the wife one of its original members Benjamin Franklin, by sponsoring four workshops—two in conjunc- of ASMA artist member Captain John Charles and where today former U.S. Senator George tion with the Maine College of Art in Portland, Roach USN Retired (well-known for his work Mitchell from Maine serves on the Board of Maine, where in June Sergio Roffo led a highly as an onsite combat artist from Vietnam to the Trustees. This is no arbitrary choice since the successful two-day workshop; and on October 20- Gulf War) recently convinced the Library, which Royal Society of Arts lists as one of its dedicated 21 when Don Demers will lead a two-day class. usually does not accept association journals, to purposes “the promotion of marine art.” What a More information can be found at meca.edu.