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VOLUME 7 NUMBER 10-11 PUBLISHED by J. RUSSELL JINISHIAN © FALL/WINTER 2006-2007 / $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 , Learn What they’re Working on in their Studios right now • Latest Marine Art Sales & Prices • Marine Art Exhibitions Across the Country

Anthony Blake (detail) U.S. Naval Academy Cruise leaving Newport, Rhode Island, 1865 Oil 36” x 48” $55,000 MACEDONIAN U.S.S. CONSTITUTION • Upcoming Auctions Wick Ahrens Steve Cryan Glen Hacker Lloyd McCaffery Randy Puckett • Reviews Dimetrious Athas R.B. Dance James Harrington Joseph McGurl Keith Reynolds John Atwater William R. Davis Cooper Hart John Mecray Marek Sarba Anthony Blake Don Demers André Harvey Jerry Melton Arthur Shilstone Robert Blazek Louis Dodd Geoff Hunt Kathy Spalding Christopher Blossom William P. Duffy James Iams Leonard Mizerek Robert Sticker Lou Bonamarte Willem Eerland Antonio Jacobsen William G. Muller John Stobart Willard Bond Carl Evers Michael Keane Rob Napier David Thimgan Peter Bowe William Ewen Loretta Krupinski William Oakley Jr. Tim Thompson Bernd Braatz James Flood Richard Dana Kuchta Russ Kramer Kent Ullberg Al Bross Flick Ford Robert LaGasse Roberto Osti Peter Vincent James Buttersworth Paul Garnett Gerald Levey Yves Parent William Walsh Marc Castelli William Gilkerson Patrick Livingstone Ed Parker Patricia Warfield Scott Chambers James Griffiths Ian Marshall Charles Peterson Robert Weiss Terry Culpan Robert Grimson Victor Mays James Prosek 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 Art from Europe and America. Accepting artwork on consignment from collectors throughout the year.

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V i g l ant s usual, this has been a busy period in the given. Among those winners were Len Mizerek of it, making small sketches on sight, taking them

In this dramatic marine with new exhibitions, New York, Ken Wallen of Georgia, Bill Lowe of back to the studio and working them up into larger A projects, and artwork being created all over California, Jeffrey Hull of Oregon. The exhibi- compositions as artists have done for centuries. the globe—so let’s get right to the news. tion coincided with an exhibition of historic photo- “For philosophical and technical reasons, I com- graphs from the ’s 30,000 piece pletely avoid the use of the camera, preferring to

a lk yrie II. We’ll start with the American Society of Marine V Artists, an organization, which, by their own entitled “The ’s View of Oregon’s Maritime rely instead on direct observation, my memory, and description, is “dedicated to the promotion of History.” Founded in 1950, the Coos imagination. The resulting artwork is a synthesis is the 3rd oldest art museum in Oregon, and well of my interaction with a particular aspect of our

$25,000 Marine Art and the free exchange of ideas between artists.” Not a bad mission. They held their annual worth a visit if you are out that way. Information world and my own artistic philosophies.” It seems meeting this year in Cape May, New for on them can be found at www.coosart.org. to be working pretty well for Joe. He had a very just those purposes. The first order of business On the East Coast, based Loretta successful one-man exhibition at the Hammer was to elect a replacement for out-going president Krupinski reports that she has been using histor- Gallery in this fall, with and her challenger selling between $15,000-$75,000. Oil 27” x 43” x 43” Oil 27” Kim Weiland. Watercolorist, author and naval ic photographs of fishing, shipbuilding and steam historian Ian Marshall was tapped for the honor, boating from the mid-19th to early 20th century in William Duffy is another artist who works in this which means we may not see as direct manner. Bill described his V i g l ant roared off to an early lead in 25 knot winds, winds, knot 25 in lead early an to off roared many paintings from Ian over his process recently in an interview term of the next four years as with Charles Raskob Robinson we are used to, but it’s good to in the American Society of Marine know the Society is in good hands. Artists Newsletter. He says he first II a lk yrie

V Among the 35 artists in attendance does two to three inch thumb- were David Bareford, Christine nail pencil sketches to develop a Diehlmann, William Duffy, Jim composition. Then he does more Iams, Willard Bond, Loretta sketches on a toned paper to Krupinski, Richard Moore, establish the values (the lights John Roach, Len Tantillo, Russ and darks) of his . As Kramer, Mike Killelea, and Don he says, “Composition for me is Norris. Ian said it was a great a complex exercise of arranging weekend for exchanging ideas squares and rectangles broken by and shop talk, highlighted by subtle curves and angles and acti- special presentations by painters vated by a graduated system of Russ Kramer and Len Tantillo. warm and cool colors, hopefully fit- If you are a fan of Ian Marshall’s ting into a cohesive whole. It tends own paintings, you can finally to be a geometric for me—even look forward to the publication of the clouds—where I found the his new book on naval , structure of my painting is built entitled Cruisers and ‘La Guerre on geometry.” But then Bill adds de Course’ which is scheduled to other levels. Discussing his palette be published by Mystic Seaport Tim Thompson Schooner Yacht Westward off the Dover Cliffs Oil 22” x 30” $32,000 he says, “My colors go from a cool Museum this upcoming summer. to a warm, to create a feeling of It features text and 50 watercolors by Ian on mid-coast Maine to create a series of 40 paintings light and atmosphere…” He actu- the history of this class of smaller naval vessels for a book to be published by Down East . ally tones his entire canvas with a neutral color, designed for speed and maneuverability which Loretta says, “I have 20 more paintings to go, and slowly building up his shapes, which will later factored into all the world’s modern navies from lots of writing to do with two years until comple- become buildings, boats, buoys, clouds, or the sea. the American Civil War until WWI. tion before I can sleep through the night again!” In fact he says, “If the painting is large, this foun- dation ends up looking nearly monochromatic.” The Society is continuing to expand its educa- While the debate is an ongoing one concerning the He then begins to add his colors on top. Evoking a tional rolex, offering workshops for artists in 2007 place of photography within the context of creating sense of place is very much in Bill’s mind when he in conjunction with two leading East Coast art paintings, Loretta’s approach is pretty straightfor- paints. As he says, “Light, atmosphere, local color schools: The Maine College of Art in , ward. “The shutter clicked on someone’s camera a and texture play major roles, enabling the viewer Maine, June 9-10, instructor Sergio Roffo; hundred years ago: those few seconds on that day to say, yes, this is Nantucket, Cape Cod, , October 20-21, instructor Don Demers. For infor- in their life has now become history—and mine etc.” Of the certain element in Bill’s paintings he

Heavy Weather Start Weather Heavy mation call 207-775-5158 or meca.edu/cs. Lyme to paint.” Translating black and white photographs calls an emotional or spiritual content he says, is seen dropping her jib topsail at the start in preparation for the stormy race ahead. Although ahead. race stormy the for preparation in start the at topsail jib her dropping seen is College of Fine Arts in Lyme, Connecticut, into accurate and pleasing color paintings poses “This is the most difficult for me to articulate. June 9-10, instructor William Duffy; September its own problems for painters. This is compounded Success with regard to a painting will have a life 29-30, instructor Len Tantillo. For information by the desire for historical accuracy in all the beyond itself—it will stir one’s soul.” Anyone who V i g l ant call 860-434-5230 ext. 120. details which may not be clearly visible in the pho- has had the opportunity to view one of Bill’s subtle tograph. Different artists approach the problems and evocative paintings firsthand will know what While Ian says the Society is formulating plans differently. If it involves a vessel, they may refer for its next national exhibition in 2008, a number he is speaking of here. We’re apparently not the th to the ’s plans or an actual three dimensional only ones who feel this way. He was just made a of its members took part in the 13 Annual ship if possible. When Tom Hoyne was Maritime held at Coos Art member of the exclusive “fellows” group of the alive and painting Gloucester fishing schooners, American Society of Marine Artists. Museum in Coos Bay, Oregon, where James he consulted with Charlie Sayle who lived on Magner from South Glastonbury, Connecticut Nantucket, and who had sailed and worked on By contrast, Dimetrious Athas wields his camera received the “Best in Show Award” for his paint- those Gloucester fishing schooners to ensure the freely when he chases the races of classic sailing October 1893 marked the third and final race Cup of America’s series the between the first Nathaniel Herreshoff designed Cup

ing of the New coastline. Grant Sayer yachts as he did when covering the Beetle Cat

th accuracy of his paintings. In Krupinski’s case, of Everett, garnered the “People’s once a year she calls in a group of local maritime Championship off Fort Tabor in Buzzards Bay, Choice Award” with a painting of the Irish coast- historians to look over her work, and critique it for this summer. He then takes that line. The Commissioner of the Port of Coos its historical accuracy. information back to the studio to compose his Bay presented his award to Christine Hanlon paintings. Interestingly enough he likes to paint Some artists, like Joseph McGurl prefer to work

Russ Kramer Friday the 13 of crew the as darken skies the painting Club to once again retain the Cup. Yacht York allowingHerreshoff at the New to watch the helm soon cut her reef points and hoisted even more sail only the challenger blow out two spinnakers on the final leg, from San Rafael, California for her painting of on smooth masonite, so that in the end his work “Decker’s Tug.” Nine awards of merit were also only directly from nature and their observations of has an almost photographic clarity to it. Continued on page 4 3 by the venerable Hodgsons Boat Yard in East Future projects for Don include completion of the of the International Yacht Restoration School Boothbay, Maine. We spent an afternoon with second of three large six foot paintings of the (IYRS) in Newport, Rhode Island and now also Don observing her on her sea trials under sail Great Transatlantic Race between , Vesta in Sausalito, California where it trains future from near and far during Hodgsons annual “Big and Henrietta in 1866. wooden boat builders. John’s own interest in Boat” race. Not only did her Fontaine design classic yachts, and that of co-founder Elizabeth standout, but so did the gigantic spinnaker, distin- You can enjoy his paintings throughout the year Meyer, led IYRS to acquire the country’s oldest guished by giant Campbell Soup kid characters through publisher Amcal’s 2007 calendar of Don’s yacht Coronet in 1995 with the express purpose which decorate it, reflecting the owner’s family paintings, where unfortunately, as Don says, eleven of of bringing her completely back to her original business lineage. the twelve titles are wrong. But the images are there. 1885 glory. (She won the 1887 transatlantic race, October found about 75 of Don’s family and friends Speaking of commissions, we’ve learned that for example.) John had known of Coronet as a at the Kittery, Maine Knights of Columbus, which John Mecray is painting a large of yacht with tremendous history in need of repair since 1980. This past summer he helped engineer had been renamed the “Donderosa” for the occa- twelve meter for guess who? Ted sion of Don’s 50th birthday party. It was a western Turner, her America’s Cup winning skipper who the transfer of the Coronet restoration project to hoedown bash organized to every detail by his proposes to donate it to the New York Yacht West Coast boat builder Jeffrey Rutherford and wife Francesca. Among the cowboys and cowgirls Club’s Newport station. Here’s a case where John Robert McNeil who will complete the restoration present were three of Don’s four brothers, fellow will use information from photographs and plans, over the next several years at the IYRS in Newport artists William Davis, Joe McGurl, Brad Betts in addition to his own firsthand knowledge of her, to the tune of $10-14 million. For those interested and fellow 50th birthday celebrant Chris Blossom. having sailed aboard her many times. John is in what Coronet will look like once completed, Costumes of the night went to Tad “the cow” (lit- another extremely busy artist. In between paint- check John’s Web site johnmecray.com, or www. erally) boy Gillespie and his wife Liz. Quite a pair. ings he’s released his newest print of 1890 iyrs.org. There are three paintings that John has made of over the years. One in profile, The presentations and roasts of the evening were America’s Cup defender published by Coronet topped off by Don’s performance of his own song Cruising World Magazine. He’s designing, writ- one bow view and one stern view. They give you “Turning the big Five-O” (yes his secret ambition ing and assembling photographs for a book on his a really good sense of the elegance and beauty of is to be on American Idol) and Francesca and career, which will accompany a retrospective exhi- this classic yacht in a way that only an artist could her friends “the Gypsy Chicks’” performance of bition to be held in the Mystic Seaport Museum bring alive. Cesca’s song, composed especially for the occa- in 2008. He also spends much of his time as a As readers of previous issues of our quarterly sion, “Dear Old Don,” now available on CD. founder and member of the executive committee might remember, IYRS was a recipient of a Continued on page 14

2006 celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the race to Bermuda. 264 yachts started John Stobart The CITY OF JACKSONVILLE Returning Home to Astor’s Wharf, c.1895 Oil A recently completed Commission 24”x36” off from Newport, Rhode Island. Continued from page 3 However the first Bermuda Race was Of course, for some artists photography is their taken by Michael Kahn will be familiar to “Yachting Award” went to Maine artist Brad a slightly different affair. It started off medium. We had a nice visit from Port Ludlow, readers of the July/August issue of Chesapeake Betts, the “Environmental Wildlife Award” went Brooklyn on May 26, 1906 with just Washington based photographer Mike Berman Home magazine, which ran a feature article on to Peruvian artist Ricardo Figari, the “Thomas three yachts: Frank Maier’s 38 foot this fall. After 25 years of shooting commercial him. When Coastal Living magazine created its M. Hoyne III Award” to Edward Griffith, the Tamerlane, Richard D. Floyd’s 40 foot jobs, he’s decided to turn his camera and trained designer house in Narragansett, Rhode Island “Stobart Foundation Award” to Kim Mueller- eye to marine photography, particularly that of the they chose fourteen of Michael’s photographs to Thym, the “Thomas Wells Award” to Englishman yawl Lila and George Robinson’s 28 foot classic sailing yachts of the West Coast. He’s been decorate it. Other articles on his work appeared Terry Culpan, the “David Thimgan Award” to sloop Gauntlet. Sir Thomas Lipton, the producing black and white-toned gelatin silver last year in Sailing Journal, Fototechnik and Robert Tandecki, the “Museum Purchase Award” America’s Cup challenger donated the prints, which if you had visited the Port Townsend Fotoforum. His book of yachting photographs, to Wisconsin artist Charles Peterson, and the Lipton Cup, an ornate trophy, for the Wooden Boat Show last summer you would have The Spirit of Sailing, has sold over 10,000 copies. “Rudolph J. Schaefer Maritime Heritage Award” to race (this was recently sold at auction, seen on exhibition. Now that digital cameras are It’s no wonder that he was asked to document the Don Demers. Congratulations to all! see our sales results). supplanting film cameras, one of the issues for IYRS classic yacht cruise last summer and the Don has had another extremely busy and suc- professional photographers is whether to Eggemoggin Reach Race in Maine. In April the cessful year, his paintings setting new landmark Blake’s painting depicts the race, not continue to print each photograph by hand or use a Carla Massoni Gallery will introduce his series prices at his one-man exhibition at the J. Russell long after the start, with the three yachts sophisticated digital printer. The art that Edward of photographs in conjunction Jinishian Gallery in Fairfield, Connecticut beating into a fresh breeze through The Weston and Ansel Adams perfected, involved with Chestertown, Maryland’s First Friday Art last summer. He then traveled to Mt. Carmel, Narrows’. Tamerlane, in the foreground working for hours in the darkroom to completely Walk. www.massoniart.com for information. Utah at the invitation of the control the nuances of the final photograph. Today with sailing master Thomas Day (founder Readers of Wooden Boat magazine, and nearly Foundation for an exhibition with other artists of the Rudder magazine and promoter/ this has been supplanted by processing a digital every other magazine related to sailing will be from around the country, including marine artists photograph through the computer and a digital familiar with the beautiful color photographs Chris Blossom, and West Fraser and top west- founder of the race) in peaked cap at her printer. We had a lively discussion with Mike, his by Benjamin Mendlowitz. Mystic Seaport ern landscape painters Len Chmiel, Bill Anton, helm, is crossing just ahead of Lila with wife and collector Alan Bell over lunch about just Museum is providing an opportunity to see his Jim Morgan where the Best in Show award was Gauntlet further in the background. A where does the artistry lie, and whether there is photographs and hear him speak on March 15. won by an East Coast artist Tim Lawson. The tug, with spectators aboard is just ahead extra value to knowing that the artist printed a (See our events listing.) show was organized by Paul Bingham who had particular photograph by hand when nearly the of the yachts. Lila passed Tamerlane to The 27th Annual International Marine Art purchased the great western painter Maynard take the lead but then her mainmast same results can be achieved using the computer. Dixon’s studio, and actually lives there. Is it only the final product that matters? I suspect Exhibition at the Maritime Gallery at Mystic broke. Tamerlane tried to tow her back that like the debate about the “proper” use of pho- Seaport was held this fall. Awards were selected Don then traveled for his fourth year to the to Brooklyn but the towline parted. A tography as it aids in the creation of a painting, by judges Bruce Johnson, Chief Designer for Laguna Plein Air Invitational in Laguna tug then towed Lila back to the Brooklyn the answer to this question will differ based on Sparkman & Stevens, Jerry Roberts, new Beach, California. In between he held sold-out Yacht Club. Tamerlane set out after who’s involved in the discussion. If you are inter- Executive Director of the Connecticut River workshops in Chatham, Massachusetts and ested in seeing Mike’s photography you can visit Museum, and Samuel Scott Associate Curator Boothbay¸ Maine. In fact, the Boothbay workshop Gauntlet, after a 65 hour delay arrang- his Web site MichaelBermanPhotography.com. of Maritime Art and History at the Peabody Essex was so popular that it was sold out three years ing a new mainmast for Lila. Despite this Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Among ahead! August found him again in Boothbay where delay, Tamerlane crossed the finish line Of course, the toned gelatin-silver photographs the winners of the five“ Awards of Excellence” we caught up with him as he gathered reference in Bermuda 25 hours ahead of Gauntlet, of classic yachts under sail from the annual were John Stewart, Ian Marshall, Antoine material for his newest commission of the brand averaging nearly 5.5 knots. A.D. Blake The First Bermuda Race, May 26, 1906 Oil 24” x 32” $37,500 schooner races in Maine to Antigua Race Week Chapon, Conseulo Hanks and Don Maitz—the new 100 ft. sailing yacht Wind Crest, just launched 4 5 INTERESTING NEWS FROM THE “consider returning more than 20 ancient artifacts its lowest value at that point that they argue were illegally mined from its soil.” and therefore the insurance April 25 Among the pieces, for example, are a two-handed is cheaper, and b) they per- Weapons & Historical Souvenirs Euphronios krater (jug) depicting Hercules in ceive it as an added selling Upcoming Tarjan ART WORLD AT LARGE battle which is said to have been bought by a benefit that can travel with Drouot dealer, Robin Symes, on behalf of the the , as it enters Paris, Whites/Levys at an auction of art owned by billion- the secondary and tertiary Auctions 33-1-53-3030-03 s always, the art world is a dynamic place with Angeles Times newspaper. These are astounding the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas aire Nelson Bunker Hunt, and that the Italians market in years ahead. Just tarjan.com all sorts of fascinating goings on throughout and record breaking numbers for single works Hoving, has estimated that “up to 40% of the say had a “dubious .” The new Greek how this insurance product the year. Some of these have a direct impact of art. They certainly raise the question of the market is comprised of some kind of forgery.” and Roman galleries are scheduled to open at the will all play out in the real April 30 A Met on April 20. It is widely assumed that many market, who knows. It has February 23-25 on collectors of marine art in particular, while potential up side of works of art in the marine Wow! Selling or purchasing a forged work of art Ocean Liner others just shed light on interesting aspects of the . For example, the 294 lots offered in has its own problems, of course, but selling or of Ms. White’s pieces will be on display at that its proponents and its detrac- Americana/European Paintings time. Ms. White’s response to the Italians was not tors. If you would like more Christies art world at large. The recent period has included Christie’s bi-annual maritime sale in July realized buying a stolen work of art has another unique Northeast Auctions Rockefeller Center some astounding developments of interest to all in total $2,751,456. The highest price paid was set of issues. Recently, for example, known at the time of this writing. information on it you can Manchester, NH visit www.aris-corporation.com. 212-636-2000 collectors, including events impacting appraisals, $508,800, a record price for a large painting by like the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) While museums have some kind of leverage, in 603-433-8400 christes.com tax deductions on donated artwork, the authentic- Montague Dawson (1895-1973) of Nelson’s flag- and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) northeastauctions.com these situations as public cultural institutions In another related develop- ity and the rights of ownership. So let’s get right ship “Victory Emerging from the Fog”, way above have been asked by various countries to return they can barter off (like the Met and the MFA May 16 to the action. The easiest way to read the health of the $150-250,000 estimate, but still way below artifacts in their collection that can be proven ment, legislation was passed have done) future considerations for loans, etc., by Congress and signed by February 27 Maritime Pictures the art market is to take a look at what’s happen- just the buyer’s premium alone on a $50 million to have been obtained illegally by either a dealer individual collectors are in a tougher spot. This Marine Pictures ing in the auction market. Sotheby’s for example, purchase at auction. Other marine artists, like or collector. In fact, these museums have struck President Bush in August Maritime Models whole issue has given rise to a brand new product which was attached to the Bonhams Christies just released its results for the first nine months the work of James E. Buttersworth, Antonio deals with the Italian government to return sev- in the insurance business—“Title Insurance” New Bond St., London of 2006, reporting that operating revenues were Jacobsen and Robert Salmon continued to set eral dozen antiquities in exchange for long-term Pension Protection Act and South Kensington, London for works of art. It’s the brainchild and result directly affects some donors 44(0)207-468-8211 44(0)20-7930-6674 $2.18 billion compared to $1.54 billion during the records at marine and Americana auctions at loan agreements and other kinds of cooperation of six years of work by Lawrence Shindell, a same period in 2005. various houses around the world. (See our sales in the future. of works of art to museums. bonhams.com Milwaukee attorney with a specialty in art law, In the past, donors have been results pages for specific sales results in a variety of and Judith L. Pearson, an insurance business May 18 Christie’s has reported that worldwide auction categories.) No matter how you look at it, there’s no The Italian government actually indicted a for- able to give art and artifacts March 2 Sporting Art veteran. In a nutshell, like title insurance for real to museums on paper as a sales for the first six months of 2006 were $2.13 question that the art world at large and the marine art mer curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty American and European Paintings Christies estate which has been around for 100 years, title promised deed of gift in the and Prints billion, up 39% from 2005’s sales. Because the world in particular seems to be stronger than it ever Museum in Los Angeles who stood trial this insurance for art work is intended to supplement King St., London auction market is seasonal, with the big sales has before. fall with an American dealer on the charges of future, but been allowed to Skinner traditional policies written against a loss in the retain the actual works of 44(0)20-7839-9060 held in the spring and fall, auction houses tend conspiring to deal in looted antiquities. event of theft, or damage. As the Journal of the Boston, MA to think about their business in six month incre- While the scale may be different, whether you art in their personal pos- 617-350-5400 Appraisers Association of America describes it, session for long periods of May 23 ments. But no matter how you cut it, these are are a collector who owns a $15,000 marine art There is even the case of an individual major “This indefinite term policy protects the buyer of a skinnerinc.com Exploration, Travel & very positive results. painting or a $50 million work of modern art, the collector, New York collector Shelby White, who, time. These are known as work of art of uncertain provenance in the event of “fractional gifts.” One of Topographical Pictures issues posed by ownership are virtually the same. along with her husband the late Leon Levy (in an ownership dispute.” You can buy a policy many March 6 In July Christie’s launched a program to take Recently a private exhibition for British art deal- addition to antiquities) gave $20 mil- the things that drive it is Bonhams different ways. You can buy it for the life of your that donors are permitted to Asian Decorative and Export Art New Bond St. advantage of what the New York Times described ers was held at the & Albert Museum lion to create the Greek and Roman galleries at ownership, so by law the title insurance passes on Bonhams as, “the biggest buying pool ever,” which includes by Scotland Yard of faked and forged artwork it the Metropolitan Museum and $200 million to deduct only up to 30% of their to your heirs, or if a collector wants to lend a work adjusted gross income for a New Bond St. June 5 not just American hedge fund billionaires and had confiscated over the years. This included a New York University to establish an Institute of of art, he/she can buy it just for the period of time Japanese buyers, but financiers from Asia, program that concerned not only how a work of Ancient Studies. The New York Times recently donation like this. Fractional Historic Americana the artwork is loaned. The company, ARIS Title gifts allow a person whose March 19-20 Russia and India, who are quickly becoming art was faked, but how the resulting documenta- reported that Ms. White has been directly con- Insurance Corporation of New York says that Cowan’s collectors. tion could also be faked. The former director of tacted by the Italian government and asked to income is $200,000/yr. to have Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art Cincinnati, OH what they’ve designed is not just for collectors, but a tax incentive to donate an Including Export Art is for museums, financial institutions, dealers, 513-871-1670 Christie’s Live™ combines audio with real time object they may own that’s Sotheby’s auction houses and even artists. The way it would valued over the $60,000 cap cowanauction.com streaming video to allow users to virtually attend work according to Pearson, is “the owner can ask New York, NY auctions via the computer in many of Christie’s they would otherwise only be 212-606-7414 us to insure a good title, so if they go to sell it, able to deduct in one calen- August 3-5 sales rooms around the world. In addition to the gallery or auctioneer can offer it for sale with sothbeys.com American appealing to the new global market, they also dar year. Donations not only insured title. And if the heirs of a former owner affect collectors, but many Northeast Auctions hope to capture a new segment of collectors who claim the picture, we refund the insured value to March 30-31 Manchester, NH feel more comfortable than ever doing business museums rely on them to the collector and pay all the legal costs.” Pearson build their collections. Americana directly on the computer. In its first three months, said they’ve had a lot of interest particularly from Eldreds August 18-19 thousands of clients from 45 countries registered collectors who own art that was acquired in Europe East Dennis, MA Marine & China Trade to use the service, and bid $6.9 million online. The between 1938 and 1948 that they now want to sell. What the new law says in first big test of the system came at the October essence is that donors are 508-385-3116 Northeast Auctions As it has been widely reported over the last several eldreds.com Portsmouth, NH sale in New York of the Star Trek memora- years, artwork that was looted by the Nazis has required to fully transfer bilia where almost 30% of the lots were purchased been identified; suits have been brought and in ownership and actual posses- online for a total of $1.12 million, with online some cases the artwork has been repatriated to sion of the artwork within ten bidders bidding on 97% of the lots. That’s a pretty its original owners. In fact, it’s become such a big years of their agreement with impressive response to the new concept. business according to the New York Times report- the institution and earlier if The new provision was spearheaded by Republican ed, “the adage that the three “D’s, debt, divorce the donor dies. If not, they will be obligated to Senator Chuck Grassley who chairs the Senate If you’re interested in bidding with Christie’s and death, bring art into the market should now back out of the tax deductions and repay the gov- Finance Committee. His impetus was, “To make Live™ you need to register at www.christies.com have an “R” added for restitution.” About $192 mil- ernment along with a penalty. It’s widely believed sure that money that is deducted for charitable at least two business days before a sale, and you lion worth of art that had been hanging in muse- that the IRS will also issue a new regulation that purposes goes to a charitable purpose and isn’t have to download Christie’s free customized soft- ums for decades was sold recently by its original requires an institution to take physical possession used as a gimmick to avoid the payment of taxes.” ware to facilitate the online bidding process. owners at a single auction. In fact, Christies has a of a partly donated object at some point during Nevertheless, his committee found that “the IRS’s full-time “Director of Restitution”. that period of time. At the present time that is not own investigation of ten categories of donated But the biggest news in the market is not what’s a part of the law. property in 2006 found a low incidence of abuse happening online. The much anticipated fall What does this cost, you ask? Well, it’s more than of gifts of artwork.” One Manhattan lawyer, Ralph sales saw many single works of art selling in the real estate title insurance. As Shendell says, “Each The other interesting twist is that the new law Lerner, who has been assisting clients mak- $30-50 million range. However, the biggest sales work of art must be looked at individually. There also requires donors to take a deduction based ing fractional gifts says, “I will no longer advise have been rung in privately—outside the auction are no deeds of course, so you must research the on the value of the work at the time it was first anyone to make a fractional gift. It’s moronic.” It houses. These include Ronald Lauder paying provenance.” He also notes while there are no given. This is the aspect that museums find most appears that if you have made a fractional gift, or a record $135 million for a single painting by deductibles in real estate title insurance, there disturbing, for it’s often a disincentive for collec- contemplating one, the landscape has changed and Gustav Klimt to display in his museum the Neue are in fine art insurance. The price depends on the tors to donate. For example, if you’ve got a paint- it is best to consult your lawyer or accountant. Galerie in Manhattan, hedge fund billionaire value of the work of art and the period of time the ing worth $100,000 which in ten years might be Steven A. Cohen buying Dutch artist’s Willem owner wants it covered. worth $1,000,000 when you are ready to actually Also impacting donations has been a new release de Kooning’s “Woman” painting for $137.5 mil- Geoffrey Huband Heart of Oak Oil 22” x 28” $12,500 give it to an institution, but you can only take a tax of guidelines by the IRS known as Notice 206-96 lion, from entertainment magnet David Geffen, ARIS says that even some contemporary artists deduction on the initial $100,000 value, it doesn’t related to their requirements for appraisals for who is also reported to have sold an abstract drip HMS ONWARD, a new 38-gun under the command of Captain Adam Bolitho, engages the French frigate NAUTILUS are buying title insurance for new art that comes provide much of an incentive to commit to donat- donated property. The aforementioned Protection painting by Jackson Pollock for $140 million in in the year 1818 in Alexander Kent’s newest novel, Heart of Oak. out of their studio, a) because the artwork is at ing a work of art now. Act identifies “qualified appraisers and appraisals” an effort to raise cash to reportedly buy the Los Continued on page 26 6 7 RECENT SALES at AUCTION and ELSEWHERE $135,000,000 Gustave Klimt $637,250 Babe Ruth’s 1932 All Star $226,000 Hermann Herzog (1832- $101,200 Bead and Quill Lakota $70,200 Engraved Powder Horn, $40,564 Elvis Presley Custom Made $22,705 Samuel Walters (1811-1882) $10,200 Set of 12 American Legion “Adele Bloch-Bauer I” Jersey 1932) “Fishing in the Indian Hide Tobacco Bag 1772 Leather Jacket “Steamship Manhattan” Oil Commemorative naval 31” x 51” Battle Plates c.1937 $87,936,000 Gustave Klimt $613,974 Paul McCartney’s First Everglades” Oil 16”x14” $101,100 Two Shirts Worn in Final $69,000 Alfred T. Bricher “View of $40,000 Anthony Blake “Venice “Adele Bloch-Bauer II” Guitar, Rex Acoustic $225,500 Hope Villa Dollhouse, 19th c. Scene of “Brokeback Grand Manan Island” Oil c.1900 Looking Across the $22,425 Anthony Thieme (1888- $10,157 Benny Goodman’s Clarinet Grand Canal” Oil 30” x 40” 1954) “Fishing Vessels at $19,670,000 Qing Dynasty Bowl 18th c. $609,600 Ansel Adams “Moonrise $218,000 Early 19th c. Painted Mountain” $66,000 Thomas Buttersworth Anchor” Oil 30” x 30” $9,321 Letter Written Aboard $15,036,736 Ming Dynasty Gilt Bronze Hernandez, New Mexico, Southern Tall Case Clock $100,625 Gustav Stickley 2-Drawer (1768-1842) “Warships in $40,000 Christopher Blossom Titanic Shakyamuni Buddha 1948” Photograph $216,250 Carrie Bethel Painted Work Cabinet the Channel” Oil 10”x12 ½” “Bound Out Seining” $22,000 Jerry Kramer’s Replica Oil 28” x 36” Super Bowl I Ring $9,200 Herman Melville Moby Dick $10,987,488 J.M.W. Turner “The Blue $598,400 Grandma Moses “The Old Woven Basket $96,000 A. Cary Smith (1846-1940) $65,725 Jane Peterson (1876-1965) with Barry Moser Woodcuts Rigi, Lake of Lucerne, 1824” Oaken Bucket” Oil 36”x48” $216,000 Rene Lalique Perfume “Racing Cutter, 1886” “Gloucester Harbor” Oil $40,000 Pair 19th c. Bronze $21,850 Frank Benson “Black Duck Oil 30” x 48” Cannons 52” in the Weeks” Ink Wash $8,990 Pair of 1880 Ice Stakes $9,200,000 Normal Rockwell (1894- $576,000 Model of Starship Bottle, 1939 18”x24” $8,700 Half Hull Model of Ship 1978) “Homecoming” Oil from “Star Trek” 78” $215,000 James Bard (1815-1897) $94,800 Robert Salmon (1775- $65,175 Warren Sheppard “The $38,837 Beatles “Yesterday and $21,800 Frederick Judd Waugh Roanoke 89” 46”x42” $567,625 (1837- “Paddle Steamer Moses 1845) “Schooner in Calm Quiet Sea” Oil 32” x 60” Today” Album (1801-1940) Seascape Oil Seas” Oil 8” x 10” 30” x 40” Tootsie Toy 53N Deluxe $5,840,000 H.C. Mott Ironworks Indian 1926) “Moonlight Iceberg Taylor, 1859” Oil 34” x 54” $62,050 Edward Moran (1829-1901) $38,561 Set of 55 King Kong 1965 $8,100 Copper Weathervane 62” in Mid Atlantic” Oil $204,700 John Lennon “Sgt. Pepper’s” $94,500 Western Stagecoach, “The Morning After Topps Trading Cards $21,600 Builder’s Model of SS Albert Truck Toy c.1800 $5,610,000 Ferrrari 412S 1958 $555,000 Marshall Joseph Smith, Jr. Tunic the Wreck” $38,500 Wulitzer Jukebox #880A Hall c.1914 62” $7,637 Currier & Ives “Yacht (1854-1923) “Lake $94,250 Louis XV- Kingwood $201,250 Rookwood Black Glaze $61,000 James E. Buttersworth $21,600 Titanic Interior First Class Squadron at Newport” 1872 $4,384,000 Andrew Wyeth Pontchartrain Scene” Oil Piano $38,400 SS Normandie 1935 Poster “South Cushing, Maine” Vase, 1900 “Yacht Race in New York Deck Plan $7,340 Unopened 5-cent $37,375 Confederate Civil War Tempura 27”x36” $553,600 Louis XV Silver Tureen, $195,500 Andrew Wyeth “Gable End” $93,260 Leica M3, 1952 Camera Harbor” Oil $21,500 Edison Electric Dictating Bowman Baseball Card 1763 Uniform $4,290,000 Watercolor $93,000 John J. Audubon “Wood $57,867 Jim Brown Game Jersey Machine, 1894 Pack “Daybreak” Oil 26”x45” $542,000 James E. Buttersworth Ibis”, 1854 Havell Edition $37,278 Mickey Mantle Game Bat th $192,000 Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s $57,600 Antonio Jacobsen (1850- $20,315 Al Pacino’s “Godfather” Hat $7,200 13 Annual Bound (1817-1894) “Yacht Orion” $36,450 Winston Churchill Life-size $4,216,000 Pear-Shaped 50.53 Carat Travels, 1726 $92,000 Andrew Wyeth Illustrated 1921) “SS Glencoe, 1850” Volumes of Harper’s Weekly Oil 12”x18” Letter Wax Figure $19,975 Surveyor’s 5 ¼” Compass, 1858-75 Diamond $187,476 Princess Margaret Gold Oil 32” x 60” 1790 $536,800 Patek Philippe 18k Pink Cartier Cigarette Case $92,000 Jack Gray $36,095 Stoneware Ale Bottle, 1675 $3,200,000 Ivan Aivazovsky (1817- $57,500 Mickey Mouse $6,770 1948 Olympic Gold Chronograph “Off Provincetown” $19,500 Alfred Thompson Bricher Games Poster 1900) “The Varangians on $181,900 Stanley Steamer Auto “The Klondike Kid” Poster $35,850 James Dean’s Blue Jeans “Rocky Coastline” Oil the Dneiper” Oil $517,500 1880 $1,000 Bill Model 63, 1911 $90,480 Scrimshawed Harbor Paddle Wheeler New York $34,500 Ship Captain’s Trade Sign $6,500 Jim Griffiths “Yankee $508,800 Montague Dawson Scene Whale’s Tooth, $56,100 $17,925 Marilyn Monroe Letter $2,281,600 Faberge Translucent Mauve $176,500 Ralph Cahoon (1910-82) Marklin Toy Greyhound” Gouache Enameled Silver Clock (1895-1973) “Wings of 1846 6 ½” $32,449 Tommy Brayshaw Carved $17,250 Salesman’s Sample Old “Whaling in a Winder Three Stooges Dawn” Oil $54,625 Gen. Custer Binoculars Trout, Wooden Town Canoe 31’ $6,489 $2,256,000 Queen Anne Wonderland” Oil 26” x 38” $90,000 Gustav Dentzel Carousel Cat Signed Photo Armchair $494,500 Gold 1795 $10 Eagle Coin $172,250 Virgil Williams (1830-1886) $89,625 Marilyn Monroe $54,000 Builder’s Model “SS Conte $32,490 William G. Yorke (1817-88) $19,920 Midnight Red Barbie Doll “Black Star Packett $6,090 Thomas Willis (1850-1925) $2,032,000 Harry Winston $491,400 Shaker Writing Desk “Fishing Near Half Dome, Joe DiMaggio Signed Photo Bianca Mano” 1965 1863” Oil 29” x 36” ” Oil 24” x 36” “American Schooner Yacht, Yellow Diamond Pendant $478,270 Lawrence of Arabia’s $87,815 Early Worcester Ceramic $52,900 Dashiell Hammett The $16,800 Cher’s Black Wig 1904” Oil and Silk Thread Necklace $161,000 Northern Virginia Army Cream Boat, 1752-53 Maltese Falcon First Edition $31,625 Elmer Crowell Preening Compass, Watch, Cigarette $16,800 Eight Day Boxed Marine 22” x 32” Flag, 1863 Sanderling $1,900,000 Oldest Known Wooden Case $87,750 American Hammer Poll $52,706 Charles Schultz “Peanut Chronometer T.S. Negus th $31,625 William Pierce Stubbs $5,265 Pair of Lafayette’s Gloves, Hockey Stick c.1850 $468,095 Amber and Ivory Casket $155,750 Edward Curtis “Portrait of 18 c. Tomahawk Great Pumpkin” Comic Strip 1824 Geronimo” Photograph (1842-1909) “Portrait of $16,100 “Breakfast at Tiffanys” $1,808,000 Tsimshian polychrome Thomas Gelston Turned $86,250 Gen. George Custer $450,500 1905 $51,750 Confederate Torpedo Eliza Pendleton” Oil Movie Poster $5,037 Barry Bond’s Game Glove Wood Mask 7” Head Curlew Carving Decoy Saltillo Serape $49,738 World’s First Movie Camera, $31,200 Double Octagonal 19th c. $15,400 Coca Cola Serving Tray, $1,495,000 1911-D Indian Head Gold $155,350 Buddy Holly’s 14k Gold $84,000 Van Rijn “The $4,800 U.S.S. United States $429,170 Ivan Aivazovsky (1817- Watch 1895 Sailor’s Valentine 26” 1903 Lavatory Signs $5 Half Eagle Coin 1900) “Sailing Ship in Windmill,” 1641 Etching $49,725 Gold Quartz 19th c. Walking $15,080 “J. Hill Capturing a Sperm $1,472,000 Francis A. Silva (1835-86) Stormy Seas” Oil 53” x 63” $144,000 John Steven Dews $82,750 William A. Coulter (1849- $30,800 Hubley Harley Davison $4,600 Wooden Scarecrow with “On the Hudson, Nyack” “Britannia vs. , Cane Parcel Post Motorcycle Toy Whale” After a Painting of Jointed Arms $424,000 John Jay Bellamy 39” Gilt 1936) “Clipper Three W. Page Colored Aquatint, Oil 1894” $49,300 Antonio Jacobsen 9 ¼” Eagle Brothers” Oil 30” x 50” 1835 $4,510 Set of Billiard Balls $1,436,000 Stradivarius Violin 1720 $144,000 Dr. McCoy’s “Star Trek” $80,000 Don Demers “Schooner “American Sail and $29,900 Champion Spark Plug Neon 1870s-80 $407,000 Babe Ruth’s 1940 Lincoln Space Suit Steamship Servia” Oil Shop Sign $14,950 Fiji War Club $1,250,000 Beatles “All You Need is Zephyr Continental Cabriolet Yacht Atlantic” Oil 36”x48” $3,910 Holland America Line Love” Manuscript $138,000 Mickey Mouse “Mad Doctor” $78,200 Joseph Lincoln Canada $48,720 Scrimshaw Whale’s Tooth $29,900 Ross Moffett (1888-1971) $14,400 SS France Scale Model 68” Poster, 1938 $375,750 Ludolf Backhuysen Movie Poster, 1933 with Ship and American Flag “Lobster ” Oil $1,136,000 Fitz Henry Lane (1804- Goose Decoy $14,000 Leonard Mizerek (1631-1708) “Dutch Man- 8 ½” 24” x 30” $3,910 John Montgomery Flags 1865) “Rate’s Chasm, of-War” Oil 22” x 28” $136,200 Bowie Knife 12 ¼’, $78,000 Houdini Advertising Poster “Evening Glow” 35” x 45” “I Want You” 1917 Uncle Michael Price maker Tiffany Studio’s Geometric Boston City Guards Militia Gloucester, Massachusetts $329,600 Double-Gourd Shaped $48,000 $29,250 $13,513 Honus Wagner Baseball Sam Poster $77,000 Titanic Deck Chair Lamp Drum, 1824 1853” Glass Bottle 18th c. 2 5/16” $132,500 Samuel Walters (1811-82) Card “American Packet Ship $76,560 Set of Eight R. Folger $3,055 Mercury Stick Barometer $1,002,267 Martin Waldseemuller $47,570 Peter Monamy “English $29,000 China Trade Painting “Ship $13,200 English Brass 19th c. $325,000 John Stobart “Knoxville” Jamestown” Oil 32” x 48” Nantucket Baskets Thos. Jones, London (1470-1521) Single Sheet Oil 19” x 30” Channel with British Man- Empress Entering Hong Telescope with Tripod 54” Terrestrial Globe Goes Map $132,000 Bobby Short’s Piano $75,400 Sunqua China Trade of-War” Oil Kong” Oil 29” x 39” $2,893 Babyface Nelson 1934 $314,000 Youqua China Trade “View Painting of Bark Carib $12,870 Charles Lindbergh Photograph $1,001,000 James McNeill Whistler of Hongs at Canton” c.1850 $132,000 Lipton Cup Silver Trophy, c.1831 Oil 22” x 27” $47,400 Haley Lever “Gloucester in $28,977 Apollo Astronaut Alan Photograph with Spirit of (1834-1903) “Violet and 1907 40” Winter” Oil 25” x 30” Shepard Letter St. Louis $2,088 Two J. Thoreau & Son Blue Among the Rollers” $288,000 Joe Talirunili (1893-1937) $74,750 Whalebone Merchant Ship Pencils $120,878 Lou Gehrig 1933 Signed $28,000 Lloyd McCaffery “Clipper Oil 7”x10” “The Migration “ Inuit Model 1840-60 $46,800 James Potter American 35” $12,760 Greenland Harpoon Gun, Soapstone Carving Game Bat Horseman’s Saber, 1775-83 Brig Newsboy, 1854” Scale 1850 $1,843 Elvis Presley Sweat Pants $896,000 N.C. Wyeth “Two Boys in $72,800 Halloween Girl Doorstop $120,000 Edgar Alan Poe Ship Model 7”x12”x12 ½” $1,592 Zorro Toy Wristwatch 1957 a Punt” Oil 37” x 26” $281,000 Fitz Henry Lane (1804-65) $72,500 Whale’s Tooth with Erotic $42,500 Giant in Tower Mechanical $12,650 Charles S. Raleigh (1830- “ in a Squall off Daguerreotype Bank $26,888 Secretariat’s Bit and Bridle $832,250 Rhinoceros Horn Libation Scrimshaw 19th c. 6½” 1952) “Tugboat Nellie” Oil $1,290 JFK Campaign Pin ”, 1842 Oil 20”x30” $119,500 William Bradford “Artic $26,450 Majolica Punch Bowl 14” x 22” Vessel 17th/18thc. $72,000 RMS Titanic Lifeboat Name $42,000 James E. Buttersworth $1,155 Indianapolis 500 1912 $273,125 Flash Comics 1st Issue Explorers” Oil (1817-1894) “Fleetwing, th $830,000 A.E. Crowell Black Bellied Board $25,960 California Brewing Co. Glass $12,500 Mid 19 c. Optometrist Sign Program 1940 $117,625 Edward Redfield (1869- 1866” Oil 8” x 10” Sign c.1900 Plover Carved Decoy $72,000 Robert Salmon (1775-1845) $11,500 Flag Flown on Moon $1,020 Copper Masthead Light with $269,500 James E., Buttersworth 1965) “The Lobsterman” $800,000 Blackfoot Quilled Hide “British Armed Sloop in $41,125 Charles Woodbury (1846- $25,520 Builder’s Half Hull Model Fresnel Lens 21” “Atlanta Rounding Bouy” Oil 1940) Sketch for Green $11,352 Arthur Joseph Meadows Shirt Three Positions” Oil Clipper Ship Wild Pigeon, (1843-1907) “Riding Out 8 ½” Oil 12” x 18” $111,250 John Lennon Tinted 20 ¼” x 30 ¾” Wave Oil 48” x 78” 1851 77” $1,000 Hold-to-Light $716,527 Hendrik Willem Mesdag Sunglasses the Gale” Oil 24” x 42” Santa Postcard $240,000 Standing Figure of Abraham Ogden Pleissner “Golden $40,610 Pair of Painted Late 19th c. (1831-1915) “The Fishing $71,875 $23,900 Charles s. Raleigh (1830- $11,352 Ed Sullivan Show Beatles’ Fleet Sailing Out, 1899” Lincoln, 1857 32” $109,250 Jeffery’s American Atlas, Hour” Watercolor Metal Palm Trees 7’h. 1925) “Ship Lucy G. Dow” $298 SS Normandie Perfume 1776 Ticket Bottle Oil 55”x71” $239,120 Mel Ott 1945 Home Jersey $71,700 John J. Audubon Birds of $40,600 Samuel Walters (1811-82) Oil 28” x 48” Oval Shaker Basket $11,155 Howdy Duty Puppet $688,000 Sketch $230,000 Colt Single Action Army $105,300 America First Octavo Edition “Steam Tug United $23,900 Russ Kramer “A Million $120 Decorated Head of “Capri” Oil 18” x 23 ½” Revolver, 1883 $105,000 Carved 5” Jane Chinese Cup (1840-4) Kingdom” Oil 28” x 42” Dollar Breeze” Oil 27”x44” $10,800 Ship’s Bell Sub. USS Triggerfish Buckett 8 9 FOLK Upcoming Marine Art Exhibitions and Photographs depicting how the sea impacts the lives of the inhabitants of the Irish islands of Aran and Blasket. Events Around the Globe Australian National THE ALLURE OF WOODEN BOATS: Monterey Museum of Art BY THE SEA 418-643-2150 • mnba.qc.ca Sydney, Capturing and Preserving Monterey, CA Photographs of yachts, ships, harbors May 24 – September 3 61-02-9298-377 • anmm.gov.au a Moment in Time 831-372-5477 • montereyart.org and seascapes. March 16 – September 30 Presentation by well-known photog- February 10 – April 29 The Mariner’s Museum CLAUDE MONET: rapher Benjamin Mendlowitz of his Newport New, VA Giverny and the North of France EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE: marine photographs. AUSTRALIAN FISHES – Illustrations 757-596-2222 • mariner.org 12 Impressionist paintings of Giverny, The Central American Journey Mystic Seaport Museum by Walter Stackpool Through April 1 villages along the Seine and the coast 60 photographs of Panama and Mystic, CT 52 original paintings of fish peculiar of Normandy. Guatemala taken in 1875 during 860-572-5308 • mysticseaport.org to Australian waters with text. CANALETTO IN ENGLAND: A Naples Museum of Art Eadweard Muybridge’s (1820-1903) March 15 Redcliffe Museum Venetian Artist Abroad (1746-1755) Naples, FL travels for the Pacific Mail Steamship Redcliffe, Qld., AUSTRALIA Over 60 paintings and 800-597-1900 • thephil.org Company. ANDREW WYETH AT 90 (07) 3838-1898 • redcliffe.qld.gov.au produced during Giovanni-Antonio Through May 13 American Art Museum The Through March 4 Canal’s (1697-1768) 10 year sojourn Smithsonian Institute Rockland, ME in England. CLIPPER SHIP – Washington, D.C. 207-596-6457 • farnsworthmuseum.org BLACK HANDS BLUE SEA: Dulwich Picture Gallery Greyhounds of the Sea 202-275-1500 • americanart.si.edu May 20 – October 28 The Maritime Heritage London, ENGLAND Paintings, ship models and vignettes Through April 29 of African Americans 020-8693-5254 bring to life American clipper ships ANDREW WYETHWATERCOLORS Art, artifacts and documents sur- dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk in the splendid age of the 1840s EAST COAST/WEST COAST William P. Duffy Morning Low Tide Oil 12”x 18” $4,000 AND DRAWINGS: vey the struggle and contributions Through April 15 and 50s. AND BEYOND: Colin Campbell Selections from the Marunuma Art of black mariners in building and Australian National Cooper (1858-1937), American Glen Hacker, Richard Dana Kuchta, HUDSON RIVER MUSEUM Large-scale paintings of the natural Park Collection, Japan defending American democracy. CAPTAIN BART HOLMES Maritime Museum Impressionist Robert LaGasse, Stanley Meltzoff, 19TH to the 21ST century American art, environment by one of Britain’s lead- 114 watercolors and drawings span- Mystic Seaport Museum COLLECTION Sydney, AUSTRALIA 50 oil paintings from the New York, Roberto Osti, James Prosek, Arthur focusing on the Hudson River Vallery. ing artists. ning three decades of everyday life in Mystic, CT • 860-572-0711 Ocean Liners: grand liner models from 61-02-9298-377 • anmm.gov.au San Diego and Santa Barbara eras. Shilstone, Kent Ullberg and others. Hudson River Museum Victoria Cushing, Maine. mysticseaport.org the 19th to the 21st century. Through June Laguna Art Museum J. Russell Jinishian Gallery Yonkers, NY Bath, England Cincinnati Art Museum Through March Warships: historical battles and tech- Laguna Beach, CA 1657 Post Road, Fairfield, CT 914-963-4500 • hrm.org (0)1225-477233 • victoriagal.org.uk Cincinnati, OH nological advances in warships are CONTEMPORARY 949-494-8971 • lagunaartmuseum.org 203-259-8753 Ongoing March 31 – June 7 513-639-2995 BONNARD, MATISSE explored through miniature models. ARCTIC EXPRESSIONS: February 25 – June 3 jrusselljinishiangallery.com cincinnatiartmuseum.org AND THE MEDITERRANEAN Noble Maritime Museum Inuit Prints from the Kresge Art February 10 – 11 Only, 10 am-5 pm IN MARINE ART LOUVRE ATLANTA: Kings as Through May 6 200 oil paintings, watercolors, draw- Staten Island, NY •noblemaritime.org Museum Collection ENCOMPASSING THE GLOBE: The late 19TH century impressionist Collectors ings, , postcards, and let- Ongoing Small ivory and bone and and the World in the 16TH FREDERIC CHURCH, WINSLOW style in marine art is explored through Masterworks by Raphael, Rembrandt, ANTARCTIC VIEWS ters, investigate the close friendship over 20 prints dating from the earli- and 17TH Centuries HOMER AND THOMAS MORAN: the works of George Bellows, Eugene Velasquez and others as well sculp- BY HURLEY AND PONTING between these two French artists CHRISTOPHER PRATT est Inuit artistic endeavors to the 300 paintings, sculptures, objects of Tourism and the American Boudin, Childe Hassam, Winslow tures and antiquities from the private Shackleton’s Endurance expedition and the influence their art had on 50 large-scale paintings of boats, present. art, maps, books and manuscripts Landscape Homer, Claude Monet and others. collections of Louis XIV and Louis XVI (1914-1917) and Scott’s Terra Nova each other. seascapes, landscapes and figures. Kresge Art Museum from Africa, China, India, Southeast 130 paintings, drawings and oil Minnesota Marine Museum from the Louvre museum. expedition (1910-1911) are brilliantly Vittoriano Museum Musée National des East Lansing, MI Asia, Japan and Brazil reveal the rich sketches of the Atlantic Coast and New Winona, MN • 507-474-6626 High Museum documented in the photographs by Rome, ITALY Beaux-arts du Québec 517-355-7631 • artmuseum.msu.edu legacy of the Portuguese commercial England to the western wilderness. minnesotamarineart.org Atlanta, GA • 404-733-4400 Frank Hurley and Herbert Ponting. Through February 27 Québec City, PQ, Canada Through March 18 empire. Tampa Museum of Art Through February high.org Eden Killer Whale Museum Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Tampa, FL Through September 2, 2007 Eden, NSW, AUSTRALIA National Museum of African Art 813-274-8130 • tampagov.net IMPRESSIONS: 02-6496-3604 Smithsonian Institute Through April 1 Americans in France: 1860-1930 MAINE PRINT PROJECT: killerwhalemuseum.comau Washington, D.C. Paintings by pre-impressionists, Celebrating 200 Years Through February 25 202-633-4880 • asia.si.edu GEORGE FRENCH ANGAS (1822-1886) impressionists and post-impres- of in Maine National Archives of Australia June 23 – September 16 South Australia Illustrated sionists, including works by Childe Imprints of Maine; 1900-1950 Camberra, AUSTRALIA 30 watercolors and lithographs by Hassam, Mary Cassatt, William 40 prints by , Frank 02-6212-3604 • naa.gov.au ESKIMO AND INUIT CARVINGS: a 19th century artist/traveler who Glackens, and others. Weston Benson, Carroll Thayer Berry March 2 – July 2 Collecting Art from the Arctic documented the untamed beauty of Naples Museum of Art and others covers Maine’s printmak- Tamworth Regional Gallery Stone and animal bone carvings by South Australia. Naples, FL ing in the first 50 years of the 20th Tamworth, NSW, AUSTRALIA Canadian and Alaskan artists from Riddoch Art Gallery 800-597-1900 • thephil.org century. (61)(2) 6755-4459 the Arctic. Mount Gambier, South Australia Through May 13 Farnsworth Art Museum July 7 – August 26 The Field Museum artgallery.sa.gov.au Rockland, ME • 207-596-6457 Pine River Heritage Museum , IL Through February 11 IMPRINTS OF MAINE: 1900-1950 maineprintproject.org Petrie, Qld., AUSTRALIA 312-922-9410 • fieldmuseum.org The Maine landscape is expressively Through March 24 (07) 3285-7213 • Prsc.qld.gov.au Through June 17 HELL BENT FOR THE SOUTH POLE recreated in 40 fine art prints by September 1 – November 28 Paintings, scrimshaw, photographs, Rockwell Kent, Carroll Thayer Berry, Jonathan Fisher: FARAWAY PLACES: engravings and prints from 1820 to Frank Weston Benson and others. Pioneer Painter and Printmaker ART OF THE NATION OUTLANDISH SIGHTS: the present reflect on artists’ ven- The Farnsworth Art Museum The earliest works in the series of 200 significant oil paintings by inter- Travels on Paper, 1300-1700 tures into Antarctic waters. Rockland, ME the Maine Print Project are a series of nationally recognized artists establish 75 works on paper from the 15TH to Tasmanian Museum of Art Gallery 207-596-6457 masterful woodblock prints of birds, Britain’s maritime identity. early 18TH centuries survey the evolu- Hobart, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA farnsworthmuseum.org reptiles, insects and mammals dating Queens House tion of European travel from religious 61-3-6211-4177 • tmag.tas.gov.aug Through April 1 from the 1830s. National Maritime Museum pilgrimages, to trade to exploration. Recently opened Farnsworth Art Museum Greenwich, ENGLAND The JOURNEYS: Mapping the Earth and Through May 15 44 (0) 30-8858-4422 • nmm.ac.uk Washington, D.C. HMS SURPRISE Mind in Chinese Art Through Sept. 2 202-737-4215 • nga.gov Formerly HMS Rose, this fully rigged 70 works of art dating from the 11th MARINE AND FISHING ART May 6 – September 16 179 ft., 24-gun frigate used in the to 21st century explore journeys on By the leading artists from America, ARTISTS AT CONTINENT’S END movie Master and Commander: The Far land, sea and those imagined. Europe and New Zealand. Paintings, The Monterey Peninsula FISH AND FISHING Side of the World is open to the public. Metropolitan Museum Art , ship models and scrim- 70 works depicting the unique coastal ’s largest exhibition and Maritime Museum of San Diego New York, NY • metmuseum.org shaw by Anthony Blake, Christopher beauty of Northern California by the sale of over 70 new paintings and San Diego, CA February 10 – August 26 Blossom, Don Demers, Flick Ford, group of artists who settled there sculptures by the nation’s premier 619-234-9153 • sdmaritime.com James Girffiths, Ian Marshall, Victor Steve Cryan Put Down the Joe and Batten Down the Hatches: Watercolor 21”x 28” $4,500 fishing artists. Peter Bowe, Flick Ford, between 1875 and 1907. New Haven Tug RED STAR Heading Out with the Pilot Ongoing KURT JACKSON: River Avon Series Mays, John Mecray, Stanley Meltzoff, Continued on next page 10 11 Continued from page 11 Leonard Mizerek, James Prosek, The National Museum of Art whaleboat and more. the Hudson River School. the foremost British naïve painter. Keith Reynolds, Arthur Shilstone, John Architecture and Design Nantucket Whaling Museum Bucerius Kunst Form Tate St. Ives Stobart, Robert Weiss and others. Oslo, NORWAY Nantucket, MA • 508-228-1894 Hamburg, St. Ives, Cornwall, ENGLAND J. Russell Jinishian Gallery 47-21-98-20-0 • nasionalmuseet.no nha.org 49(0)40/36-09-96-0 44-1736-79226 • tate.org.uk 1657 Post Road, Fairfield, CT February 15 – May 20 Ongoing buceriuskunstforum.de February 3 – May 13 203-259-8753 The Minneapolis Institute of Art February 24 – May 28 jrusselljinishiangallery.com Minneapolis, MN NATURE AND THE AMERICAN SAMUEL COLT: ARMS, ART Ongoing 888-642-2787 • artsmia.org VISION: The Hudson River School at 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN AND INVENTION June 24 – September 2 the New York Historical Society MARINE ART—The Luminists The life of Samuel Colt is investi- MARITIME PAINTINGS AT SOUTH The Statens Museum for Kunst 100 famous paintings by Thomas Water, atmosphere and light are gated through 170 firearms, paint- STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM Copenhagen, DENMARK Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, Albert exalted in the marine paintings of ings, sculptures, photographs, prints The best maritime paintings in the 3374-8394 • smk.dk Bierstadt and others. William Bradford, John Kensett, and medals. museum’s collection featuring works William Bircher, James Buttersworth, Durham Western Heritage Museum by James E. Buttersworth, Antonio Fitz Henry Lane, Albert Bierstadt and Omaha, NE Jacobsen, Duncan MacFarlane and others. 402-444-5071 • dwhm.org other noted 19th century artists. Minnesota Marine Art Museum May 12 – August 12 Schermerhorn Row Gallery Winona, MN • 507-474-6626 South Street Seaport Museum minnesotamarineart.org SARGENT’S VENICE William Oakley Jr. U.S.S. NASHVILLE, 1897-1921 Scratch built ship model scale 1:100 encased 8” x 13” x 36” $25,000 New York, NY • 212-748-8735 Opening July 28 Nearly 70 oil and watercolor paintings by John Singer Sargent during his southstreetseaportmuseum.org Marine sketchbooks and drawings the 250-acre estate of the artist, Museum of Fine Arts visits to Venice between 1880-1882 Ongoing NUVISAVIK: by artists, mariners and travelers, which now is itself a National Historical Springfield, MA and 1900-1913. The Place Where We Weave: depicting their experience and inspi- Landmark. 800-625-7738 Adelson Galleries MARITIME POWER – War Journalism Inuit Tapestries from Artic Canada ration at sea. Princeton University Art Gallery springfieldmuseums.org TH New York, NY • 212-439-6000 in the 17 Century Woven tapestries and drawings by the Princeton, NJ • 609-258-3788 Through October 21 adelsongalleries.com Peabody Essex Museum Paintings and drawings by Willem craftswomen of Baffin Island depict Salem, MA • 866-745-1876 princetonartmuseum.org Through March van de Velde the Elder (1611-1693) the rich cultural life of the Inuit. pem.org Through June 10 WHERE RIVERS JOIN THE SEA: Museo Correr and Willem van de Velde the Younger McCord Museum of Through January 6, 2008 Photographs by Robert Adams and Venice, ITLAY (1633-1707) document the dramatic Canadian History TH Marcos Zimmerman 041-5225625 • Venetia.it 28 ANNUAL MODERN MARINE naval battles between the Netherlands Montreal, PQ, CANADA Dramatic photographs of the Columbia May – July STANLEY MELTZOFF: MASTERS EXHIBITION and England. 512-398-7100 Deep Sea Painter Paintings, sculpture, scrimshaw and ship River meeting the northern Pacific and Rijsmuseum Amsterdam Schiphol mccord-museum.qc.ca Retrospective exhibition to celebrate models by contemporary marine artists. the Rio de la Plata emptying into the Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS Through March 25 THE SEAS, SCHOONERS AND FISHERMAN: THOMAS HOYNE’S the life and publication of a new book Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport southern Atlantic by two master pho- rijsmuseum.nl of the art of this developer and master Mystic, CT tographers. Through February 27 OIL SKETCHES BY WILLIAM LIONEL PAINTINGS OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC Comprehensive exhibition includes the of the underwater fish painting genre 860-572-5300 • mysticseaport.org The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston WYLLIE, 1851-1931 since 1960. April 28 - June 17 Houston, TX MATERIAL JOURNEYS: Collecting 24 never-before-shown oil sketches dramatic paintings, models and draw- ings by Thomas Hoyne (1926-1989), J. Russell Jinishian Gallery 713-639-7300 • mfah.org African and Oceanic Art, 1945-2000 Ed Parker The First Boat Shoe Oil 14” x 17” $4,500 by Britain’s premier marine artist of 1657 Post Road, Fairfield, CT THE 29TH ANNUAL USS CONSITUTION Through February 19 Selections from the Genevieve the late 19th and early 20th centuries. the quintessential maritime artist. Ventura County Maritime Museum 203-259-8753 MUSEUM SHIP MODEL SHOW McMillan Collection October 6 – January 20, 2008 New York Historical Society Queens House jrusselljinishiangallery.com USS Constitution Museum WOMEN AND THE SEA Over 100 sculptures, models, textiles, MONET IN NORMANDY New York, NY National Maritime Museum Oxnard, CA • 805-984-6260 Through March 31 Spring 2007 Boston, MA • 617-426-1812 Chronicles women’s contributions to musical instruments, etc. 60 paintings depicting Claude Monet’s 212-873-3400 • nyhistory.org Greenwich, ENGLAND ussconstitutionmuseum.org seafaring in peacetime and in war, Museum of Fine Arts interpretation of the sea, the rivers, Through February 25 44 (0) 30-8858-4422 • nmm.ac.uk The Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport STORY OF TEXAS NAVY 1836-1845 February 5 – March 10 from the earliest days of sail to cap- Boston, MA commercial harbors and resorts of Through March As told through the paintings of Robert tains of racing yachts. 617-267-9300 • mfa.org Normandy as well as its architecture N.C. WYETH: Selected Works Mystic, CT • mysticseaport.org Opens May 26 Moak and related ship models and USMC COMBAT ART GALLERY Independence Seaport Museum March 20 – July 25 and daily life. The Farnsworth Art Museum PIRATES OF THE PACIFIC artifacts. A new museum housing 8,000 works Philadelphia, PA The Cleveland Museum Rockland, ME The exploits of Chinese pirates and SEAWEEDS: Opens September 1 of fine art by over 350 Marine and phillyseaport.org MEET THE AUTHOR SERIES Cleveland, OH 207-596-6457 • farnsworthmuseum.org William Dampier, a notorious outlaw, Working Tall Ship Elissa civilian artists depicting the Marines Opened late 2006 Mystic Seaport Museum 888-262-0033 • clevelandart.org February 4 – April 22 are uncovered through artifacts and Wonders of the Ocean Realm A series of exquisite photographs, Ongoing in action overseas. Mystic, CT February 18 – May 20 pictures. Texas Seaport Museum National Museum of WORLD PORT NEW YORK 860-572-5308 • mysticseaport.org THE NELSON TOUCH Maritime Museum of San Diego resembling Japanese paintings, of marine algae. Pier 21 No. 8 the Marine Corps A broad spectrum survey of the Tim and Pauline Carr THE REVISITED: Pinhole Artwork, photographs and letters San Diego, CA Galveston, TX • 409-763-1877 Triangle, VA impact of New York’s seaport on the Antarctic Oasis: Under the Spell of Photography by Willie Anne Wright explore the stellar career of Admiral 619-234-9153 • sdmaritime.org The Charleston Museum Charleston, SC • 843-722-2996 tsm-elissa.org 800-397-7585 • usmcmuseum.org city, the region and the country. The South Georgia. of the South Original photographs of the full scale Horatio Nelson in celebration of the Through October 2007 Opened November 2006 largest exhibition ever mounted by replica of the USS Monitor. Trafalgar bi-centennial. charlestonmuseum.org Georgia Museum and the only per- TITANIC the museum. The Mariner’s Museum The Mariner’s Museum Through April 30 manent residents give a spectacular SAILORS’ DELIGHT The Artifact Exhibition VIVIDLY TRUE TO NATURE: Schermerhorn Row slide show of the remote islands of Newport New, VA Newport News, VA Otto Dix, Watercolors and SHIP MODELS: Sponsored by the RMS Titanic Inc., Harrison Bird Brown (1831-1915) South Street Seaport Museum Antarctica. 757-596-2222 • mariner.org Through March Gouaches The Evolution of Ship Design this exhibit features 275 recovered 40 paintings depicting maritime and New York, NY March 21 Through April 1 100 provocative major works by anti- 40 full-hull ship models from 15th C. artifacts displayed in authentically rural scenes from the Atlantic to the southstreetseaportmuseum.org NEW IRELAND: war artist Otto Dix (1891-1969), mas- Margaret Andersen Rosenfeld ironclads to N.G. Herreshoff’s recreated corridors, cabins and cafes. Mediterranean, the Alps to the White Opens Spring 2007 On Land and Seas: Women in the MYTHIC CREATUES: Art of the South Pacific ter of the Neue Sachlichkeit move- Hart Nautical Gallery The Royal Museum Mountains. Rosenfeld Collection .A unique Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids 100 unique and captivating objects ment in Germany. M.I.T Museum Victoria, BC, CANADA THE YACHTING PHOTOGRAPHY interpretation of the Rosenfeld pho- Sculptures, paintings, textiles, masks, representing 12 art traditions from Bucerius Kunst Forum Cambridge, MA 888-447-7977 • royalbcmuseum.bc.ca Portland, ME • 207-775-6148 OF WILLARD B. JACKSON tographs from a women’s studies helmets and other objects, as well this most creative and prolific region Hamburg, GERMANY portlandmuseum.org Over 50 photographs taken at th 617-253-4444 • mitmuseum.edu April 14 – October 14 scholar and daughter-in-law of the as fossils and specimens pursue the during late 19 century 49(0)40/36-09-96-0 March 10 – September 9 Marblehead, MA capture the beauty myth and uncover the realities of Musée de Quai Branly Ongoing photographer. buceriuskunstforum.de TITANIC of all types of sailing vessels. April 25 extraordinary land and sea creatures. Paris, France June 16 – September 9 WATERCOLOR BLUES Peabody Essex Museum American Museum of Natural History April 2 – July 15 THE SILK ROAD AND BEYOND: Art and artifacts related to this Nathaniel Philbrick Travel, Trade and Transformation storied ship. Through seascapes and landscapes Salem, MA • 978-745-9500 • pem.org : Story of Courage, New York, NY Ethnologisches Museum ST. BARBE MUSEUM & ART GALLERY the beauty and versatility of the color Through May 20 212-769-5100 • amnh.org Staaliche Museen zu Berlin Textiles, pottery, and other commodi- Minnesota Marin Art Museum Community and War by an award- A museum of the history and art of the ties, as well as over 100 works of art Winona, MN blue is explored. winning author. May 2007 – January 2008 Berlin, GERMANY Solent shores. August 10 - November 11 trace the development, migration and February 28 – June 30 May 9 Lymington, ENGLAND influence of Asian culture on the West. WE ARE ALWAYS INTERESTED IN HEARING NANTUCKET WHALING MUSEUM (0)1590-676969 • stbarbe-museum.org Newly renovated and expanded in THE NEW WORLD The Art Institute of Chicago TREASURES FROM OLANA: ABOUT MARINE ART NEWS & EVENTS FROM YOU A MIRROR OF NATURE: Ongoing Chicago, IL • 312-443-3600 commemoration of its 75 anniversary, The Invention of American Painting Landscapes, by Frederic Edwin Submit your information to: Marine Art Quarterly Nordic , 1840-1910 artic.edu Church (1826-1900) Over 100 masterworks by Edvard including paintings and scrimshaw, 60 paintings of American natural won- ST. IVES ALL AROUND e-mail: 1657 Post Road sailors’ valentines, the complete skel- ders, including Niagara Falls, Hudson Through June 30 18 masterworks and small scale studies [email protected] Fairfield, CT 06824 Munch and other Scandinavian artists The naïve oil paintings and pen and ink SKETCHED AT SEA of other masterworks selected from reveal a distinct Nordic identity. eton of sperm whale, a fully rigged River and Valley, by artists of drawings of St. Ives by Bryan Pearce, 12 13 Continued from page 5 ne of the characteristics of art is that while an artist’s approach to and handling of a subject may change, the tremendous gift from collector Bill Coombs of matter includes all manner of liners and steel navy If you’ve been to the USS Pearl Harbor Visitor’s essence of what makes his or her work unique remains the same. Below are two paintings created 18 years seven miniature models by master modeler Lloyd surface ships, from the Queen Mary II (where his Center you’ve seen Roach’s work firsthand. In apartO by Royal Society of Marine Artists President Geoff Hunt, internationally known for his paintings for the McCaffery and eleven by Donald McNarry. They paintings hang in the Commodore’s lounge) to fact, how could you miss it? In 1979 a group of were the centerpiece of a recent dinner hosted by the Normandie, the United States and the Titanic, Pearl Harbor survivors commissioned him to paint covers of the Patrick O’Brian series of Napoleonic Era Sea Stories. IYRS at Carnegie Abbey in Portsmouth, Rhode including warships like the USS Texas, Alabama, the USS Arizona 52 ft. long 16 ½ ft. high for the Island, which also featured a talk by Michael Maine and Arkansas, the next step of rendering 40th anniversary of the attack. Crocodile Dundee Wall of American Marine Model Gallery as a those ships in three dimensions is not such a would have said, “Now that’s a painting!” He was part of a lecture series, which included a presenta- far stretch. He’s currently working on a six-foot also actively involved in the design of the Navy tion on the Rosenfeld Photographic Collection plank-on-frame model of the USS Oklahoma. When Memorial in Washington, D.C. in Mystic Seaport by Mary Anne Stets. finished that will be quite a conversation piece for Another artist who’s created a large body of work Lloyd himself, was the featured speaker at the the collector who’s commissioned it from Jim. We over the last 20 years related to ships of the U.S. annual meeting of the Nautical Research Guild know that Jim won’t have the problem of some Navy is Jim Griffiths. His particular areas of in California this fall, discussing his approach modelers who do a great job in the construction of emphasis are from 1898 to 1909 involving the and techniques, which he also outlines in his book, a model and then struggle with the final paint job. Spanish American War and the Great White Ships in Miniature, that has just gone into a sec- Commander Carl H. Burkhart of the U.S. Coast Fleet and from 1940 to the present. In 1989 he was ond printing. John Mecray tells us that while the Guard Academy, class of 1962, reports that com- commissioned to do the portrait of the carrier USS old Aquidneck Mill building at IYRS—which will missioned paintings and of military vessels Abraham Lincoln, and in 2000 the U.S. Postal include a library and permanent display of Lloyd’s Service asked him to do a series of paintings and actions will decorate the walls of the new th models, featuring his large-scale cut away model reading room at the cadet library at the U.S. Coast made into stamps to commemorate the 100 anni- of Coronet—is under restoration, plans are afoot Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. versary of the U.S. Service. Today his to display the models for several months in New The subjects will include the action on D-Day, the subjects range from the Enterprise York City, perhaps at , and to off Vietnam in 1968 and the battle of Guadalcanal U.S. Coast Guard tall ship Eagle, a 44-ft. Coast have Lloyd speak about his work in Newport next Guard cutter, Buoy Tenders, action from Vietnam, in 1942, to the USS Oregon and the Great White summer. Currently under construction in Lloyd’s and the Coast Guard’s involvement in drug inter- Fleet in 1896. He uses a combination of watercolor miniature shipyard is a dockyard style model of the diction and the events of 9-11. The artists involved and gouache (opaque watercolor). His paintings 100-gun Britannia of 1682. Lloyd’s are Mike Koloski, George Eisenberg, Dean range in size from 10”x15” to 21”x27” and in price building her at a scale of 16’=1” so that the final Mosher, Tony Falcone and Bob Semler, past from $2,700 to $6,500. model will measure 14 ½”. He says that this model president of the American Society of Marine Artists Of course the U.S. isn’t the only place where artists is “the most complicated, involved and significant who’s already delivered one of his paintings of the are painting the modern navy. Recently members project I’ve ever undertaken.” Wow! If Lloyd says Eagle. If you’re interested in learning more about of the Royal Society of Marine Artists were that it must be some model! He said it is scheduled the project you can find it at www.uscga1962.org. invited to paint at the Devonport Royal Naval Geoff Hunt Under Fire Off Manhattan, August 17, 1776 Oil 18” x 27” Painted 2006 $15,500 for completion sometime in mid-2007. Dockyard, which houses among other things The story of the building of the actual ship is inter- Many people know that it was British artist a nuclear submarine facility. Society president he morning after their unpleasant night encounter with American fire- Manhattan Island and on the western shore, and suffered casualties and esting. It was designed by Sir Phineas Pitt II who Norman Wilkinson who, during World War I, Geoff Hunt says, “We arrived at the long deep Tships, H.M. ships ROSE (foreground) and PHOENIX, together with damage. PHEONIX had her longboat, towing astern laden with an anchor presented a model of his design to King Charles helped develop the camouflage scheme for ships jetty where the only resident at the time was the the small tenders TRYAL and SHULDHAM, retired at some speed down cable, sunk by one lucky shot. The ships are pictured in the vicinity of what II. (That model is now in the collection of the U.S. to help confuse the enemy and disguise ships HMS Ocean, a ship familiar to some of us who the Hudson, urged on by a strong north-easterly breeze. All along the way is now West 14th Street; ahead is the relative safety of the open harbor at sea. What many people don’t know is that attended the International .” Geoff Naval Academy.) Charles rejected Pitt’s design, they came under fire from numerous Revolutionary batteries located on and the main British fleet anchorage off Staten Island. which Lloyd, in conjunction with Frank Fox, the American marine artist John Charles Roach of course is best known for his paintings of 18th world’s leading authority on 17th century English was actually hired in the late 1970’s by the U.S. century British and American naval ships like warships, conjectures was because while its broad Navy to literally redesign ships to make them look those he did for the covers of the Patrick O’Brian and shallow hull was fine for the current fighting “more warlike.” The son of a naval architect, John novels, and now for the covers of the Napoleonic against the Dutch, Charles wanted a deeper, more studied art in Frankfurt, Germany and later naval novels of Julian Stockwin. Geoff is also narrow design to be ready when he went to war at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris before the president of the Society. He reports that their against the French, which he knew was only a enlisting in the navy. He became the Navy’s first annual exhibition held on the Mall each year matter of time. So Pitt redesigned the ship but did combat artist in the Vietnam War and the Navy’s was very successful. Their main initiative as a not construct another model. As a result, Lloyd’s leading combat artist all the way through the Society is to involve and encourage young people forthcoming model will be the only model we know first Gulf War. The U.S. Navy has had artists in to become interested in marine art. To do so they of Britannia as she was actually built. His model combat since World War II thanks to the urging of have established two prizes for young artists ages will be cut away on the port side to reveal all the artist Griffith Bailey Coale with the backing of 16-25 which they are promoting to yacht clubs and intricacies of her design and construction. Admiral Chester Nimitz. In the late 70’s Roach art colleges. The winner gets to exhibit at their was recruited by the ship design branch of the annual exhibition and receives a small check. Lloyd Warren, President of Nautical Research Naval Sea Systems Command, whose concern They are looking for, Geoff says, “innovations on Guild told us that they had over 100 marine his- was that the U.S. ships didn’t look as “warlike” the marine theme.” The project is sponsored by torians and ship modelers in attendance at their as the Soviet ships. Roach’s designs and thoughts the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights which, meeting. In addition to Lloyd McCaffery’s presenta- appeared as an article along with Herbert Meier as its name indicates, dates back several hundred tion, Dr. Clayton Feldman, former owner of Ships in U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings and the Naval years. Although its name is a hangover from the in Scale magazine, gave a seminar on building Engineer’s Journal. Using his artist’s sense of old trade guild days, today they are a company that a model of a colonial American schooner. Roger design and proportion he demonstrated how the supports technical maritime research and mari- Cole spoke on 18th century prisons and English lines of a ship, from its sheer to its tumblehome, time related educational charities. Prisoner of War models and Don Preul spoke plus the intervals between structures and a ship’s on how to access the resources of the National silhouette could convey “fierceness” as opposed to Geoff said that he’s now working on a painting Archives for information on modern naval vessels. something neutral or even clumsy. In an interview that by an odd series of circumstances involves the actual Admiral Horatio Nelson as well as the Lloyd said that they are also engaged in a total in the current ASMA News he says, “Ninety-five percent of the time a warship is not involved in fictional character Captain Jack Aubrey (from revamp of their extensive Web site designed to O’Brian’s books) at a moment in time when Nelson add in nautical research. It’s a great resource for actual hostilities. During that time it is a passive weapon…an effective warship design is meant to was changing ships in San Fiorenzo Bay in answers to a whole variety of nautical questions. Corsica, switching from the Agamemnon to a ship Try it at www.naut.res.guild.org. persuade the viewer. A warship is a political tool, and its greatest weapon is to persuade effectively. known as the Captain, but in the Bay at the same time was the ship the , the prototype of the Also in California this December the Ventura Aesthetic concerns reinforce the persuasiveness Unité HMS , and S , the prototype of Jack’s County Maritime Museum hosted its annual of a warship, thereby adding credibility to national Surprise peedy favorite ship . They say life imitates art, or ship model sale, which features members of the policy.” Obviously the Navy thinks that he’s on Sophie is it the other way around in this case? Maritime Museum Ship Model Guild on hand to something there, but who would have ever every weekend, discussing and demonstrating the thought that art and wartime national policy would In London, pastel artist John Groves has recently fine art of model making. Speaking of models, for converge so succinctly. Can you hear us Donald completed a commission of the reenactment of an artist like Jim Flood, whose favorite subject Rumsfeld/Robert Gates? Nelson’s historic funeral procession down the Geoff Hunt Clipper Ship GREAT REPUBLIC in New York Harbor Oil 20” x 30” Painted 1988 $19,500 Continued on page 16 14 15 140th anniversary this year—although I swear they size and complexity command $450,000 with ease It’s interesting to note that if you had purchased didn’t look that old! now, a far cry from the prices of his first exhibition John’s limited edition print of “Cincinnati Moonlight at the Kennedy Galleries in 1964 which were in the from the Public Landing” when it first was released John made two paintings especially to celebrate the $10-$15,000 range. in 1982 for $400 and kept it in mint condition, today anniversary: one “The View from Mt. Adams, 1875” Fortunately for those without that kind of where- its value would be $4,500, while the 1973 print of and the other “Looking at the Public Landing, Up “South Street, New York by Gas Light” which origi- the Hill, Cincinnati, 1875.” John’s other major proj- withal, all three of John’s most recent paint- ings, including “View Along the Grone Lrei in nally sold for $200 is now trading for $6,500. Many ect recently has been another moonlight depiction of the 180 plus prints John has made over the last of the sidewheeler “City of Jacksonville Returning Brussels” have recently been published as limited edition prints, ranging in price from $275 ($1,275 thirty years, most originally selling in the $300-500 to Astor’s Wharf” in the city of the same name in range, are now regularly trading for $2,000 and up. 1895. It shows the wharf, the Astor building and remarqued) for the 12”x18” view of Brussels, to $350 for the two 14”x22” Cincinnati images Collectors must keep in mind, however, that these the Tampa and Key West Railroad swing bridge top retail prices on the secondary market are for built by Henry Flagler. As John remarks in his ($1,350 remarqued) and $600 for the 18”x27” reproduction of his Jacksonville painting ($1,600 prints that are in exactly the same condition as they notes about the painting, “Though the landmarks were the day that they were printed. As those who depicted in my view of Astor’s wharf survived the remarqued). These are available by calling 800- 243-4260. watch the Antiques Road Show regularly know, great fire of 1901, they no longer exist, having where in real estate it’s location, location, loca- been torn down and replaced.” So once again John Sandy tells us that while John spends all winter tion, with art and artifacts it’s condition, condition, used his artist’s eye and brush to bring to life what hunkered down painting, they’ll be hosting a grand condition. Whether it’s a piece of furniture, china, a Florida’s largest 19th century city looked like along opening of the new Kensington Stobart Gallery gun, a painting or a print, things that have the most its busy waterfronts. This painting was painted by on King Street in Charleston, South Carolina value are the ones that exist untouched in their John as a private commission. His paintings of this in April. most original condition. Continued on next page

Robert Sticker The Whaleship WANDERER in Pursuit Oil 28” x 36” $18,500

Continued from page 14 for the Port of London Authority. and Commander, is planning to finance the making artists at the weakest point in their educational of a sequel in the next few years. That’s something chain to stay the course.” I think that makes his What’s fine painter Chris Blossom been up to look forward to! view pretty clear. to, you ask? Well, as he says, “I lead a boring life.” Well, I guess if you count leading a sold We received an interesting long letter from John About two hundred of John’s friends showed up at out workshop at the Lyme College of Arts last Stobart written on the plane on the way to the New York Yacht Club recently at a surprise summer, traveling by horse to paint in Wind his exhibition in Cincinnati recently. The letter dinner—a surprise to John that is—honoring River Mountains with fellow artist Matt Smith, was accompanied by an article from the October him for his lifetime achievement in and participating in the Gene Autry Museum show, issue of Smithsonian Magazine about the past encouragement of young artists. The evening was the Maynard Dixon Foundation exhibition and president of the Royal Academy of Artists orchestrated by John’s long time business man- several miniature shows throughout the West as and England’s leading sporting artist Sir Alfred ager Sandy Heaphy, who brought together collec- well as being considered by your fellow artists as Munnings. The article began with an account tors and pals from all over the country for the occa- one of the best painters in the country—marine of Munnings’ speech to members of the Royal sion, including Walter Cronkite, Peter Stanford or otherwise—then you’ve just written a new Academy in 1949 when Munnings, deep into his Chairman Emeritus of the National Maritime definition for “boring.” Of course, he’s also on the cups, went on a rant against modern art and art- Historical Society, Maritime historian Elliot water as much as possible throughout the year. ists, which, because it was broadcast on the BBC, Lumbard, Florida collector John Godfrey and “Research” he calls it. We saw him out sailing created a storm of controversy and prompted hun- marine artists Os Brett, Paul Garnett and Len his 21-ft. sloop Grace during the second week of dreds of letters, phone calls, cables, cartoons, etc. Mizerek. Also in attendance were Joyce Nelson, December! I wonder, was that can of Budweiser a John, a young art student at the time, told me that chairman of the Ventura County Maritime Len Tantillo View of Casteel Island 1645 Oil 20” x 30” $17,000 research tool? he “clearly recalled hearing this speech on their Museum, Malcolm Henderson, John’s partner bakelite wireless, with the BBC its only channel!” in the Atlantic Gallery in Georgetown for many bout this painting the artist says, “ The earliest maps of recreated plans of a bark built in America in 1640. Using The Hudson River at Albany has a tide differential of as Chris and I rode up together to Don Demers’s Sitting behind Munnings that night, according to year, and Don Holden, former editor of American AAlbany, New York, provide us with clear and relatively this data, I was able to build an accurate three dimensional much as 6 feet. birthday bash this fall. Along the way we listened to John, was the Royal Academy’s newest member Artists who literally met John on the train as John accurate record of the 17th century Dutch colony of Rens- digital model of a 30 ton colonial bark. Patrick O’Brian’s novel The Far Side of the World as Winston Churchill. John’s own views on modern was coming down from Canada to try his luck in “In terms of specific history, my painting is intended to selaerswyck. In addition to the settlement, I have for many “View of Casteel Island, 1645, depicts one of two farms represent the farm of Adrian Vanderdonck and the bark read by our late friend, English actor Patrick Tull art while more cogent than Munnings, are quite New York for the very first time. Holden looked years been interested in the variety of vessels in use by the for the books on tape series. Patrick did a great located in the vicinity of the present day Port of Albany. of Arent Van Curler. Both of these men were prominent similar. In his letter to me he says, “It was a bit at his work on the train, sent him directly into Dutch on the upper Hudson River. The terms found in court job of capturing the accents, drama and nuances horrifying to hear about the Pollock sale (one of the Kennedy Galleries who immediately signed At that time there were at least 5 skipper-owned barks in and active leaders in the community. Vanderdonck in of O’Brian’s writing. And if you’ve been unable to abstract artist Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings sold him up for his a one-man show. The evening was documents and correspondence of that time are often mis- the community. Casteel Island, which is also called ‘Castle later years was closely associated with the political de- leading. Sloop, yacht, yawl, bark and ketch have very dif- get into reading O’Brian’s books, you might find for $140 million) days ago and realize the ongoing emceed by John’s long time friend David Phillips. Island,’ was made up of a narrow strip of land about 1/3 velopment of Manhattan. Van Curler was an adventurous listening to them extremely enjoyable and reward- forces of modern art still executing a diabolical We had dinner with the “Cincinnati contingent”: ferent meanings over the course of 300 years of history. mile in length bounded on the east side by the Hudson trader and farmer who lived many miles north of Albany ing. More good news for O’Brian fans is that rumor toll. It still exacts a catastrophic effect on the art Dr. Jack McDonough and his wife Barbara, “In the winter of 2005, I spent several days at the River and on the west by the Normanskill Creek. Today, the on the fringe of Mohawk territory. He knew the language has it that Australian actor Russell Crowe, who culture, whatever is left; and makes nonsense of and Stuart and Barbara Stuphin, owners of Scheepvart Museum in Amsterdam to study Dutch barks island has merged with the shore. Offloading small craft of the Iroquois and gained their trust making him a played Captain Jack Aubrey in the movie Master all of our efforts to find a method of encouraging Clossens Art Gallery which celebrated their of the 17th century. To my amazement, I found a set of was often accomplished by beaching vessels at high tide. valuable asset to the Dutch and later the English.” 16 Continued from page 17 What does this mean for limited edition prints? color in the print must be printed separately and in His mother Joyce Blake was an acclaimed water- Well, the ultimate collector’s print is one that has the proper sequence, and in exactly the right loca- colorist, who published four books of her floral virtually never been opened, is still in its original tion. So a ten color serigraph, for example, would watercolors, while his father Brian painted land- 2006 marked the passing of two of the world’s premier sleeve and been under a bed or in a drawer since have to be lined up perfectly, then the color hand scapes and seascapes in watercolors and pastels. the day it was issued. (Knowing this, many savvy printed ten times for each print to be completed. So His three children are all active artists, exhibiting collectors actually purchase two prints at the same for example, an edition of 100 ten-color prints actu- and selling in New Zealand. marine artists. Below are their last paintings... time, one to lay away and the other to frame and ally represents 1,000 individual printings by a For a small country, New Zealand has not only enjoy.) While we say frame and enjoy, the key word master printer. That’s when everything goes perfectly. produced many world class sailors, but also many is enjoy. Once a print has been framed, exposed to Keith tells us that he’s had the original study paint- marine artists, including a unique husband and the elements and light, it’s no longer considered ings for his popular series of turn-of-the-century wife team Ron and Joan Druett. While Ron’s Stanley to be in its original mint condition. How can this yachts serigraphs in his studio tucked away for paintings are well-known in New Zealand, Joan’s be? You ask. Well, take the example of the postage the last 20 years. He is now bringing them into seafaring novels, including her most recent Wiki stamp. The most sought after postage stamps are the marketplace for the collector who’d like to be Coffin mystery series has made her one of the most Meltzoff those that are in their original sleeve, never been able to say that he owns the original hand painted popular writers of that genre in the world. Their moistened or stuck on an envelope even though image for the subsequent serigraph run. They work converges on the covers of Joan’s novels they can look exactly the same as those that have range in size from 16”x26” and 20”x30” and price which of course feature Ron’s fine paintings. The been. These markets are driven simply by collec- from $5,900 to $7,600. More information can be newest novel from Joan in the series published by tor preference. Just as record albums that have had by calling 203-259-8753. St. Martin’s Minotaur, which includes A Watery never been played are more desirable, or a car While marine art is a traditional art form which Grave and Shark Island, is entitled Run Afoul. It with 2 miles as opposed to a car with 20,000 miles features the mystery that takes place when the on it. The same applies to prints. When framing most people consider to be directly descended from the Dutch marine painters of the 17th century, real life Wilkes Expedition of 1838 finds itself in your limited edition print, or any artwork for that Rio de Janeiro. matter, it’s best to always make sure you use today’s marine artists are always looking for new archival materials. Archival materials mean glass ways to approach their subject matter, and for new Another artist involved in yachting and the newest that filters out the ultraviolet rays and a matting methods and materials. Visitors to any boat show digital technology is Phil Uhl, based in Honolulu, and backing that contain no acid, as well as mak- on the East Coast over the last 20 years will be Hawaii. This year Phil was asked by Roy Disney ing sure the image paper is not glued down in any familiar with the vivid, colorful and excitingly to act as a coordinating producer for the Morning 1917-2006 way. This will ensure that your artwork suffers as painted yachting scenes of Willard Bond. After Light Project which is attempting to assemble little environmental damage as possible, and that many years of painting in watercolor, over the last the youngest crew ever to compete in the 100 year you may be able to enjoy it for many years to come eight years Willard has turned to painting only in old Transpacific yacht race from the mainland to without excess deterioration. oil paint on everything from canvas to 8 ft. hollow Hawaii. Over 500 young sailors applied, fifteen of core doors with great dramatic effect. Recently he which were eventually chosen for the team and From the Chesapeake, John Barber tells us he’s tells us, however, that he’s discovered a brand new began their training in January on the Transpac authorized the Annapolis Marine Art Gallery to and exciting material that allows him to paint water- 52. Roy Disney has more than a passing inter- release one new limited edition print of his paint- colors on canvas for the very first time. He’s returned est in this race, having won it aboard his yacht ings each year. This year’s print is entitled “Crab to the excitement and atmosphere of his early Pyewacket many times. Phil is helping to produce Potting”, showing a commercial blue crabbing watercolors, this time with the added benefit for col- a documentary film of the crew’s entire story to be Stanley Meltzoff Five Blue Fin Tuna and 5000 Bunker Oil 21 ” x 25 ” $42,500 boat off a wharf in the Chesapeake. In the size of released in 2008, sort of a sailor’s reality TV show. lectors that there’s no need for them to be framed “Illusions of a Fish Painter”- A 220 page book chronicaling Mr. Meltzoff’s distinguished career in Illustration 12”x22” it’s available for $100 or $275, remarqued, under glass, which as anyone whose house or office Transpac sailors will undoubtedly remember Phil’s and Fine Art is scheduled for publication in summer 2007. by calling 800-410-0727. Although it features the has any windows knows, can often create so much Emmy Award winning PBS documentary “White on His Paintings will be included in the exhibition Fish and Fishing February 10-11, 2007 classic wooden Chesapeake Bay deadrise boat reflection it’s hard to see the actual painting. Water” in 1984. Two of Phil’s digital images were Hilary Ann, and captures a moment seen all over selected to be exhibited at the 56 Annual Artists See our Exhibitions page for details. the Bay, John says, “It was actually painted from Another artist who’s made yachting, in particular of Hawaii exhibition at the Honolulu Academy my Boston looking at Gwynn’s Island just classic yachting, one of the primary subjects of his of Arts this year, while two of his mixed media east of the Narrow’s Bridge.” paintings is New Zealand’s own Anthony Blake, images were chosen for inclusion in HGTV’s popu- better known as A.D. Blake, his artistic moniker. lar Designer Challenge series in Honolulu. These days John has not only been continuing to This fall Tony and his wife Fiona traveled to Italy paint the working watermen of the Chesapeake, in his capacity as Chairman of the Classic Yacht Anyone who attended the opening of “Things Louis but he’s been traveling and painting and accepting Association of New Zealand to attend a classic That I Love” at the Museum of Fine Art in commissions of all sorts. For example, recently yacht regatta on the Italian Riviera, racing on Boston, featuring Bill Koch’s astounding collec- he completed a commission of the golf course 95 ft. gaff rig Mariquita and photographing and tion of marine and non-marine paintings, sculp- and club house of the Country Club of Virginia in ture, models, etc. will have seen two sailing videos Dodd th sketching the race from various chase boats. As an Richmond to commemorate the club’s 100 anni- active trustee of a charitable trust that’s involved made by Phil, which were shown continuously next versary which takes place in 2008. in acquiring and restoring historically significant to a replica of the America’s Cup trophy during the With all the emphasis in the print market these boats from New Zealand’s maritime history he was exhibition. Visitors to the Museum of Natural days on giclées, the sophisticated new technology instrumental in helping purchase the 60 ft. Logan History at the Smithsonian will see one of Phil’s which allows high quality prints to be made with yacht Thelma and getting her back to New Zealand, images, “Prewash,” on exhibit through March special computer printers, there are still artists where she originated. After the race they traveled of 2007, which also appears in the 2006 issue employing more traditional made-by-hand meth- to the Cinque Terre, the famous coastal villages of Nature’s Best Photography magazine. More ods. One such artist is Keith Reynolds. He’s been linked by a single walking path, and on to Rome, information on Phil’s unusual work can be found working with master printers in America and Florence and Venice, sketching and painting the at www.uhlart.com. Japan for the past 25 years to produce hand whole way. Those of you who may have missed Bill Koch’s printed serigraphs using the silk screen process. Readers of American Art Collector will have exhibit in Boston, may have caught the exhibition The difference between these and a limited edition seen an article on Tony’s paintings in the June of his maritime collection entitled “Upon the Sea” print made from a painting is that the resulting at the Society For the Four Arts in Palm Beach. issue. His painting of the “Schooner Atlantic at 1943-2006 serigraphs are actually considered original works the Start of the Transatlantic Race,” when she set Koch is a direct descent of Captain James of art in and of themselves. How is this done? Well, her record, in 1905 was also used for the cover of Lawrence, whose dying words aboard his ship the Keith first paints an original painting on board the New Patient Notebook at the Massey Cancer Chesapeake as she was defeated by the British frig- with, as he says, “an emphasis on color, composi- ate Shannon in 1813 outside of Boston Harbor, Louis Dodd USS MONITOR Protecting the Steam Frigate USS MINNESOTA from Attack by Oil 36” x 56” Center Library. When not painting back at home, CSS VIRGINIA aka MERRIMACK at the Battle of HAMPTON Roads, March 9, 1862 tion and simplicity of detail” to be used by the Tony can be found behind the wheel of a classic “Don’t give up the Ship” still inspire sailors today. master printer under Keith’s direction. These are a Koch’s collection includes, of course, paintings of gaff rig yacht Waitangi, which he regularly makes guide for the subtle blending of colors in each that battle by artists like Thomas Whitcombe Louis’ largest painting ever, painted on commission for the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, Minnesota. available to both adults and kids through a variety A retrospective exhibition of Louis Dodd’s paintings is scheduled in 2008 at the United States Naval Adademy Museum. print. While a giclée print is a time consuming of charities. (1752/60-1824), as well as others by the likes of process, where because of the density of color dots Fritz Henry Lane, James Buttersworth, or dpi (dots per square inch), which can range up Many people don’t know that in addition to being Frederick Remington, , and to 2,500, a giclée print can literally take a half a day from a line of great sailors—his brother was Claude Monet as well as artifacts, including mod- or more, depending on its size, to be printed by a internationally renowned yachtsman Sir Peter els and half models that represent every vessel printer, a serigraph is even more demanding. Every Blake—Anthony also comes from a line of artists. raced in the America’s Cup series since 1851, like 18 Continued on page 24 19 Noteworthy New Books

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Gerald Levey East River Shipping 1955 Watercolor14” x 22” $1,975 Lord Nelson & Victory, Robert Weiss, Moran Tug, WILLIAM C. MOORE and Liner, SS AMERICAN FLYER scrimshaw on antique sperm whale tooth, 51/2” x 31/2” x 11/2” Don demers Square-rigger HOTSPUR Braced Around by the Brooklyn Bridge, c.1890 Oil 18” x 24” $28,0000 23 Continued from page 18 his own 1992 winner America3. If you weren’t able Of course nothing quite brings a scene to life like a a coral reef in the lobby. More of his work can be The two sides of watercolorist to make it to the exhibition, a new book Maritime 170 ft. long . We’re speaking of course of one found at huntsstudios.com.main.htm. Jim Griffiths Maverick: The Collection of William I. Koch of the 94 murals of whales and marine mammals th th was published this year. (See our book page for details) that Hawaiian-based artist Wyland has painted on One of the world’s most celebrated wildlife sculp- Late 19 -early 20 century deep water the sides of buildings around the world since 1981. tors, Swedish born Kent Ullberg, just received Nothing quite makes the heart race like graphic his newest honor from the Art Museum of South clipperships and ships of the modern steel navy. depictions of battle scenes featuring the massive Eventually they will all suffer the fate that the one in New London, Connecticut, painted in 1993, Texas who named their new gallery the Kent sailing ships of the 18th and 19th centuries. A Ullberg Gallery. It was designed by famed Mexican few artists have continued to devote themselves has, and hopefully they will all enjoy the same remedy. After watching the mural begin to fade and architect Ricardo Legoretta to accompany the to the incredible research and knowledge of the original Phillip Johnson building. As Bill Ott, operation of these vessels that it takes to create the paint peel, two local residents, Norm Johnson, a commercial painter, and David Bishop, a techni- Director of the museum said, “Kent is an impor- accurate and compelling portraits of them. Though tant part of South Texas (where he now lives) cul- I have mentioned Geoff Hunt and his work for cal illustrator for the Navy, decided to do something about it. With Wyland’s permission they gathered ture. He’s recognized for his dedication to wildlife the covers of the Patrick O’Brian Napoleonic issues not only in his highly acclaimed sculptures, era novels, fellow Englishman Geoffrey Huband a group of volunteers, got paint donated and went to work restoring the mural. The result, accord- but also as a supporter of conservation efforts.” continues to paint dramatic scenes for the covers The gallery will allow the museum to broaden its of the Alexander Kent novels, which now number ing to Gino Beltran, creative director of Wyland Worldwide, is “a fantastic job. They’ve kept as close focus to include Western and wildlife art. Its 24 ft. 28. His depiction of HMS Onward for the cover of to the original as possible without Wyland actually high ceiling already features a special installation the newest Kent novel Heart of Oak can be found Jim Griffiths On Yankee Station 15” x 27” $6,000 being there to do it.” The group is now involved piece created by glass artist Dale Chihuly. For elsewhere in this volume. Here in the States more information on the museum itself and its Aircraft carrier ENTERPRISE (CVN-65) lauches aircraft in the Patrick O’Brien (the painter) has just completed in raising money to ensure the mural’s continued Tonkin Gulf March 1968 on her third combat tour in Vietnam. maintenance. As Mr. Johnson said, “I can’t save a permanent collection of 1,100 works of art visit two paintings of the Battle of Chesapeake Bay, artmuseumofsouthtexas.org. where twenty-four ships of the American-allied whale, but I can save a wall.” Congratulations guys. The British clipper ship LIGHTING was undoubtedly one of the That’s real hands-on care for the arts. Wyland’s French fleet kept the British fleet from entering Kent of course is known for his larger-than- most remarkable wooden vessels ever built. Built in 1854, she original goal was to paint 100 murals around the Chesapeake Bay on September 5, 1781, thereby life public sculptures which grace public plazas was the first of four world-famed extreme clippers built by preventing the resupply of General Cornwallis at world. With six more to go, he’s currently negoti- from Stockholm to Washington, D.C., Beijing ating with the Chinese government to paint one to London and private collections like those of Donald McKay at his East Boston, Mass. Shipyard. James Ba- Yorktown, which ultimately led to his surrender to ines & Co. of Liverpool, England had her built to be part of their George Washington. on or near the Great Wall to coincide with the Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, and actors Olympic Games in 2008 in Beijing. Jack Nicholson and Robert Wagner. His lat- “Blackball Line” of Australian passenger packets. Like all McKay Paul Garnett reports that he’s completed a paint- clippers LIGHTNING had one great quality: tremendous speed in If you were out on Cape Cod this summer and est, which took eight months to complete, is a ing for the cover of William White’s new novel monumental bronze of a leaping blue marlin, 18 hard winds. Twice she made 24-hour runs at an average of 18 Men of War (Broadside Press), which features looked up in the sky and thought you saw a whale knots, covering 436 and 430 miles. Her run home in 1854 from flying by, don’t be alarmed. It wasn’t the wine you ft. high, 3,000 pounds of bronze set up on a 15-ft. a 60 ft. U.S. Navy galley chasing two British Melbourne to Liverpool in 63 days is a record. She’s shown here had for dinner; it was a Cessna 402 operated by high pedestal at Chubb Cay, a new multimillion schooners across Chesapeake Bay during the dollar marina in the Bahamas. Just getting it running hard in a nasty nighttime gale. Even with such strong Revolutionary War. Paul tells us he’s been commis- Cape Air sporting frolicking humpback whales which artist Jürek had painted on her. The project there was an adventure. The sculpture had to be winds the captain has all topsails up, but reefed. sioned to create paintings for covers of ten books Jim Griffiths On Company Business 19” x 25” $6,000 was sponsored by the International Fund for shipped from its foundry in Loveland, Colorado to featuring the fictional renegade British command- Ft. Lauderdale where it was loaded on to a World er Showell Styles to be published by Heritage Animal Welfare, whose president Fred O’Regan said, “Cape Cod has a proud whaling tradition War II LST landing craft and taken to the Bahamas Books. He’s also completed a large painting for the for installation. all Sherlock Holmes at heart.” But, hey, with the a work of genius, a benchmark in Canadian lit- In addition to its permanent collection of the North Carolina Maritime Museum of the pirate that’s been replaced by a very active whale watch- payoff being sales like three 19th century teeth sell- erature.” Wow! There’ll be no talking to him now. Leo and Marilyn Smith folk art and the Henry Blackbeard’s ship Queen Anne’s Revenge which, ing fleet.” He wants to use this plane to carry a Newport, Rhode Island was the site this past ing last year for $182,250, $193,000 and $303,000, You’ll have to have your people call his people. Bosse photographs of the construction along the in May 1718, blockaded the city of Charleston, message in opposition to the continued hunting summer for an exhibition of work on a much everyone will want a Deerslayer hat or Calabash Bill said he’s already received many inquiries and upper Mississippi in the late 19th and early 20th South Carolina and took its officials hostage. His of whales. smaller scale. Specifically scrimshaw measured pipe. The attendees heard presentations by mari- requests for interviews. In fact, he’s meeting with century, this fall they opened a fascinating exhi- in inches done on antique whale’s teeth and fos- th painting depicts the city fathers in their skivvies You can’t talk about whale art without discussing time antiques dealer Andy Jacobson, Peabody a big Hollywood star who wants to purchase the bition exploring 19 century impressionist style silized mammoth walrus and elephant tusks. The being traded for the medicine that Blackbeard the sculptures of Randy Puckett who this year Essex Museum Curator Dan Finamore and a movie rights to his book. in marine art through the paintings of artists occasion was the 5th Annual National Scrimshaw demanded. The museum has been assembling a celebrated his 60th birthday, 29th wedding anni- panel discussion that included Ron Bourgeault like George Bellows, Eugene Boudin, Childe Competition, pretty much the only one of its kind Hollywood’s not the only one interested in Bill’s permanent exhibit of Blackbeard’s exploits as diver versary and 29th year of sculpting whales with a of Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, New Hassam, Winslow Homer and Claude Monet. that we know of, run again this year by Barbara resourceful mind. He tells us that a crew from the Dave Morse continues to bring up cannons from blast at his studio in Salinas, California. Very Hampshire and Maine marine antiques dealer Not too shabby a group of artists. Future plans Cullen of Newport Scrimshanders. She enlisted television show “Survivor” came by to see him Blackbeard’s vessel. These are just a few examples few artists have devoted themselves so single- John Rinaldi. A fascinating presentation was include an exhibit this winter of art and artifacts artist John Mecray and Martin Hillsgrove from recently as they prepare for their next series to of how we rely on artists to bring these important mindedly to investigating every aspect of their made by Frank and his associate Donald Ridley related to the Titanic from Jim Flood’s dramatic the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport to take place in the West Indies, which they want historic moments to life for us. subject matter as Randy has in his carvings and who are credited with devising the first scientific painting “Titanic Sunrise”, which depicts her on review the entries, which came from fourteen to reflect its rich history of piracy. Bill has more castings of whales and marine mammals, along method to analyze the surface characteristics of the morning of April 11, 1912 on her way to her Paul also tells us that Warner Brothers has just states and as far away as Siberia and Sweden. As knowledge of what Pirates and their vessels looked the way aligning himself with many of the premier scrimshaw. Anyone may take advantage of their final passenger pickup in Queenstown, and an released a new special edition 2-DVD set of the Barbara said, “the judges were hard pressed to find like than anyone else in the world. While they were scientists and research organizations in the field. forensic techniques and submit a piece of scrim- actual deck chair from the Titanic; plus an exhibit 1961 MGM version of the Mutiny on the Bounty, just one winner in each category.” But the final there, they saw Bill’s daughter Anna’s designs for th Discussions are underway currently for a possible shaw for their analysis by contacting them at 508- of 19 century luminist marine artists like William starring Marlon Brando and Trevor . winners included Gerry Dupont (nautical), David possible costuming for the series, and they hired book on Randy’s work on the exhibition tour to 997-0046 or at whalingmuseum.org. There is no Bradford, John Kensett, James Buttersworth, He said they cleaned the original 65 minute Smith (wildlife and portrait), Texas artist Linda her on the spot! It seems that Bill’s raising his own benefit the Whale Trust. More information can be charge for this service except for the postage to get Fitz Henry Lane and Albert Bierstadt; and way Panavision negatives and brightened the color Karst-Stone (color wildlife), and Jon Johnson merry band of pirates. found at whaletrust.com. the piece back and forth. That’s a real service the down the line art related to the America’s Cup. For so that Paul says of the final film, “You’ve never from Sweden, who won best in show for his sami- museum provides. Contact them for information From Nova Scotia our trail leads to Winona, more specific information check their Web site seen anything like it.” The second DVD in the In conjunction with the Puckett celebration we style native knife made of reindeer antler and on next year’s Scrimshaw Collector’s Weekend. Minnesota and the new Minnesota Art Museum, minnesotamarineart.org. Or pay them a visit when set features unseen footage of the building of the heard from fellow sculptor Bill Hunt, who recalled Damascus steel. For notices of next year’s show try which museum supporters Mary Burrichter and you’re in Winona. replica of HMS Bounty used in the film, her voyage that he and Randy met in 1980 when Randy was scrimshanders.com From Newport we travel further east to Nova Bob Kierlin tell me opened to great fanfare last sum- One permanent centerpiece for the museum will to St. Petersburg (now her homeport) and her “still carving whales out of redwood 4x4”s, and Scotia and visit with the granddaddy of modern mer, and is receiving about 150 visitors a day. That is On a sad note, we acknowledge the recent passing be the largest, and also the final painting com- time at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York. It also they were both invited to show their work at an All scrimshanders, William Gilkerson, who for the fantastic. What’s the connection to Nova Scotia? Well, of fine scrimshander Ron Patterson who won pleted by British artist Louis Dodd before he includes a long interview with Paul, who was the Whale Art Show at the Bruised Reade Gallery in past several years has turned his considerable they commissioned Murray Stevens of Lunenburg, a number of awards over the years at the Mystic tragically and suddenly passed away in the late ship’s carpenter, about her construction and cur- Monterey, California. Randy went on to pursue talents to the writing of fiction and painting mari- seventh generation Nova Scotian boat designer, International. summer. It was specially commissioned by the rent restoration in Boothbay, Maine. The DVD is his career, and Bill, a marine biologist who was time history, in particular Pirates. It looks like his builder and sailmaker, to build a replica of the 19 ft. museum, and depicts the Battle of Hampton Roads available at Blockbuster. For $19.95 it sounds like doing thermal effect research at King Harbor in Scrimshaw collectors and scholars gathered efforts have paid off in spades. As we write he’s tall 1,200 lb. stainless steel schooner weathervane he March 9, 1862, better known as the Battle of the a good buy for your library. Redondo Beach, and who served as a naturalist again last summer at the New Bedford Whaling on his way to Ottawa to receive the Canadian originally created in 1983 for the top of the Canadian Monitor vs. the Merrimack. Of particular interest at the Cabrio Museum Whale Program went Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts for Governor General’s Award for Literature, the World Trade Center Tower in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Paul is a real movie buff, and has literally thou- to the museum was the pivotal role of the Union on to paint and sculpt full time also. Bill’s work a weekend organized by the Senior Curator and equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize in America for It’s a landmark that can be seen from nearly any sands of original movie scores in his collection. steam frigate Minnesota in the battle. She had run has evolved to include over 70 limited edition Director of the Scrimshaw Forensics Laboratory, his recent novel Pirates Passage. Here’s what the spot in town. Mr. Stevens was so taken with what Tel-Arc has commissioned Paul to do a cover for aground, forcing the Monitor to station herself to bronzes featuring some whales, but mostly marine Stuart Frank. (The next stop for Stuart: CSI New panel of judges had to say about Bill’s novel: they were doing in Minnesota that he came out of its new CD of music from Master and Commander. protect her. The painting depicts that moment. They’ll be recording it with a full orchestra in wildlife, including birds, turtles and other aquatic Bedford, I guess.) The attendees came from as far “Steeped in wit, philosophy and mystic ambiguity, retirement to create a special, similar but distinctive Cincinnati, Ohio this winter and are flying Paul creatures. Visitors to the Sheraton in Waikiki, away as California and Texas to share informa- William Gilkerson’s Pirates Passage takes a maver- weathervane which sits proudly atop the new build- The museum has also recently acquired a paint- and his wife Barbara out for the recording ses- Hawaii will have seen Bill and his wife Rebecca’s tion in their quest to determine authorship and ick approach to history. It’s a challenging children’s ing at the Minnesota Art Museum. They say on a clear ing done just one year after the battle, which also sion. Not bad, Paul. collaborative metal/glass sculpture of sea turtles on authenticity of scrimshaw. As Stuart says, “We are novel with a dangerous edge. Pirate’s Passage is day you can see it all the way from Wisconsin. features the Minnesota in the action. Continued on page 27 24 25 Continued from page 7 for the very first time. The IRS has identified a 15 Speaking of authenticity, there are two great painting of abstract drips, on the back of which hour national certified course held by the National new stories involving the paintings of Jackson Canadian art restorer Peter Paul Biro found a Association of Professional Appraisers known Pollock (1912-1956). For readers not familiar fingerprint that matches one on a paint can in as the Uniform Standards of Professional with Pollock’s work, they are the famous “drip and Pollock’s Long Island studio, now a museum. It Appraisal Practice, as outlining acceptable splash” paintings that he developed in the late turns out that Horton has already turned down $9 guidelines for proper appraisals relating to non- 1940’s. These are the paintings that often prompt million for the painting from an Arab sheik. But cash charitable donations and decedent estate tax the reaction, “Hey, my kid could do that!” Obviously there are many people, including Tom Hoving returns. What this means is that appraisers, auc- now, as the result of Geffen’s $140 million sale, and early Pollock collector Ben Heller, who say tioneers and dealers who do appraisals are going these have become some of the most valuable it’s not a Pollock. Horton, now 83 years old, is ada- to have to follow these standards, and if a donation paintings in the world. But authenticating them is mant that she will not sell her painting for any less is challenged by the IRS, the donation and tax obviously very tricky, and there have been commit- than $50 million. A colorful character, when asked deduction could be in jeopardy if the appraisal tees involved in doing so for many years. Recently, if that does not happen she said, “Before I let them was not properly done. For more information on however a physics professor at the University of take advantage of me I’ll burn that son of a bitch.” these standards and on this course you can con- Oregon named Richard B. Taylor, decided to Her colorfulness and the whole story caught the tact www.professionalappraisers.org, or call the apply his computer analysis technique to fourteen attention of Don Hewitt the former Executive National Association of Professional Appraisers at paintings that were discovered in 2003 by Alex Producer of “60 Minutes” who co-produced a Keith Reynolds Rhodes Harbor, Greece Acrylic 15” x42” $17,500 800-698-9833. Matter among the possessions in the estate of his movie with Harry Moses which opened in late parents Herbert and Mercedes who were artists November in New York City entitled Who the Continued from page 25 Another area of art donation in the process of and personal friends of Jackson Pollock. Taylor #$&% is Jackson Pollock. It follows Horton and The painting of the frigate class of sailing ships, awareness of the physics of wave formation—droop- projects like a Power Point presentation, or creat- being remedied is the disparity between the said that, despite the seemingly random nature the painting’s fascinating story. But even how the whose speed and capability prompted Nelson in ing foregrounds which make boats look like their ing a battlefield simulation program. According amount a collector can deduct for a donation and of Pollock’s drip paintings, they exhibit remark- story came to Moses’ attention is controversial. 1798 to write in his diary, “! Were I were climbing a hill in the painting—lack of attention to to Daniel Grant, the author of The Business of the amount an artist can deduct for the same ably consistent patterns that he could quantify. He was approached by Tod Volpe an art dealer to die this moment want of frigates would be found appropriate scale from one object to another in the Being an Artist published by Alworth, in a recent donation. Senator Pete Domenci of New Mexico Although they were marked clearly by Herbert who had spent time in prison in the late 1990’s for engraved upon my heart,” as he chased the French same painting—failure to correct perspective dis- article in the Wall Street Journal passed on to who is spearheading new legislation in this area Matter as Pollock paintings in a package, Taylor defrauding celebrities, including Jack Nicholson fleet (eventually catching them at anchor and tortions when using models or photographs—people us by one of America’s foremost watercolorists, says, “The current tax code treats artists unfairly. who published an article in the British scientific and Barbara Streisand. Volpe’s idea was to make defeating them at the famous Battle of the Nile), just plain out of scale, mast out of perpendicular himself a combat veteran of World War II, Arthur If an artist wants to donate his or her work to journal Nature said that his computer analysis a ten hour documentary series about corruption in is the subject of a detailed article by painter Alan with the ship’s deck—wind direction as indicated Shilstone, “the military uses artists to make a museum, under a current code the only tax of their paintings discovered “significant differ- the art world, something he knew a little bit about. Vernon published in the fall issue of the Nautical by sail trim inconsistent with sea direction—lack recruiting posters, maps, military training soft- deduction available would be for the cost of the art ence between their patterns and those of known But once Don Hewitt met Horton her story was the Research Journal. In it he discusses in detail var- of compositional variety or interest—and finally— ware, also for combat art.” In fact, the Army has supplies. If the collector wants to donate that same Jackson Pollock paintings.” This has obviously set one they decided to tell. As Moses said in the New ious elements which go into the preparation and over articulation of detail sometimes can sacrifice 15,000 works of art in its collection, dating back piece to the same museum, the collector would off a real firestorm in the modern art world. But as York Times, “It became really a story about class in execution of his painting. He begins by discussing the illusion of movement and depth.” Hey, to World War I where eight artists in the Corps receive a deduction equal to the fair market value Taylor himself said, “My pattern analysis shouldn’t America. It’s a story of the art world looking down “setting the scene,” of which he says, “Positioning nobody ever said making a marine painting was of Engineers were assigned to record the Allied of the art.” Section 208 of his Tax Reconciliation be taken in isolation, but should be integrated its collective nose at this woman with an eighth Bill passed the Senate and is now in Committee. with all the known facts, including provenance, grade education.” It follows Horton’s campaign to of the horizon is critical to the whole composition easy! For a complete list you can visit their Web Forces activities in France. During the World War It would equalize the amount so that an artist can visual inspection and material analysis.” With get the painting legitimized through her appear- of a picture.” Adding, “An error in positioning the site americansocietyofmarineartists.com or II the Corps had an official war art unit comprised also deduct the fair market value of his/her own 24 paintings and 8 drawings in the group, there ances on the Montel Williams Show (alongside a ship’s hull relative to the horizon also means that email them at [email protected] and ask to of 42 artists, 23 on active duty and 19 civilians. In artwork if he/she donates it. That seems only fair. is obviously a lot of dough at stake. But even the boy who was trapped in an arcade game at a Piggly the ship will seem to be sitting on rather than in see the July issue of the ASMA News. fact, every branch of the military has its own art While it’s fairly clear what happens to an art dealer Pollock “experts” disagree on their authenticity. Wiggly store), the Tonight Show and the David the sea.” Under “research” Vernon remarks, “If an Of course everyone, artists and collectors alike, collection. The Coast Guard has 2,000 pieces, the who does not keep his end of the bargain, what Alan Landau, author of a 1989 book on Pollock Letterman Show, accompanied by her painting artist aims to show a ship at a particular moment wants to know what makes a great painting— Air Force 9,000, the Navy 15,000 and the Marine happens if a purchaser backs out of a deal? Well, and one of the world’s leading authorities on his and two bodyguards. Told in a “60 Minutes’” style, in history, it must be positive in his research. marine or not. The fact is there really is no for- Corps 7,000. The Marines just opened their own there is an interesting suit in the Los Angeles work says that the paintings are authentic, while it sounds like a must see movie to me. As they say, Port or harbor shown must reflect the appropriate mula. There is no one perfect marine painting that museum to showcase its collection in Triangle, courts right now, that has been filed by art broker Eugene V. Thaw, well known art dealer and for- you just can’t make this stuff up. period. When assembling information, one must sets the absolute standard. Not that artists from Virginia. Its Web site is usmcmuseum.org. There ACQUIRE d’Arte against rock group Guns and mer member of the Pollock Foundation’s own always be aware of the modifications to a ship dur- the very beginning haven’t tried, from the develop- you can see the paintings of artists who went on Roses singer Axel Rose, claiming that Mr. Rose authentication board completely disagrees. ing its lifetime.” He goes on to discuss proportion to become some of America’s greatest illustrators, agreed to buy an Andy Warhol portrait of John ment of the principle of the “golden section” used and perspective. He reminds artists that, “Taking during the Renaissance to create a harmonious including Staff Sgt. Tom Lovell, Staff Sgt. John Lennon for $2.36 million but only paid $1.21 The question of what’s an authentic Pollock and the height of a ship’s hull from waterline to main Clymer who painted the battle of the USS Wasp vs. million. According to ACQUIRE d’Arte Rose didn’t the Antiques Road Show bargain hunter fever relationship within the rectangular canvas, to the deck, gunwale and multiplying by respectively six, development of perspective machines which made the HMS Reindeer, , pay the balance because, “the painting wasn’t coincide in a fantastic story which begins with a eight and five will provide the heights of fore, main Donald Moss, Frank Schonover and Howard worth the price he had agreed to pay.” The broker purchase for $5 at a San Bernadino, California it easier to translate the real world to a flat surface. and mizzen mast.” He also discusses his choice It’s an ongoing struggle and debate for that matter, Terping among many others. is suing for $1.15 million in damages. It will be thrift shop in the early 1990’s by retired truck driver of paints, brushes and actual working method, interesting to see how it plays out. Ms. Teri Horton. It’s a large “dinner table” sized with every artist adding his or her own personal As Grant notes, “The military art students have by William Gilkerson including observations like, “water acts like a mir- touch to the argument. Most artists will tell you 66 days to learn what civilian students may take ror, therefore the basic color of the sea will be that its continuing development day by day throughout four years to learn, but unlike civilian ABOUT THE PUBLISHER of the sky.” And, “so that the artist does not lose their career as they learn more and see differently. graduates, a job is waiting for military graduates his way through the rigging, it helps to paint it in Take the case of great American artist James the next day.” Marine Staff Sgt. Michael Fay says, J. Russell Jinishian is internationally rec- much the same order that the prototype might have McNeill Whistler, who was taken to court by a “I’m clearing 50K a year with full medical benefits been rigged by starting with the standing rigging ognized as America’s leading authority on For Insider Information leading English of the day, John Ruskin, and a retirement package. The Marine Corps holds of forestays, backstays and ratlines followed by the who objected to what he perceived as the slap dash art in much higher favor than the civilian world.” contemporary marine art. The former long You Can’t Get Anywhere Else, running rigging.” time Director of the Marine Art Gallery nature of Whistler’s painting. When confronted by Not surprisingly the Army currently has com- Subscribe To: It’s interesting to compare Vernon’s approach with Ruskin’s lawyer who had asked him how long it bat artists in Iraq, including Corporal Annette at Mystic Seaport Museum, his writings the guidelines published recently by the jury com- took him to make a particular painting, Whistler have appeared in Sailing, Sea History, Spurgeon, who after three years as a member of mittee of the American Society of Marine Artists replied, “A few days.” Ruskin’s lawyer said, “You th American Artist, Art New England and the 55 Combat Camera Unit taking battle scene ™ which is responsible for the Annual Portfolio Review expect my client to pay £2,000 for a few days work?” photographs, was sent to Iraq along with her art other publications. For many years he to determine what artists will be selected to be artist Whistler’s answer was very succinct, “No, for a supplies and her rifle (which she had to fire on was the Art Critic for the Connecticut members of the Society. They list twenty-nine items lifetime of work.” occasion). Along the way her Humvee was hit by a Post and a Contributing Editor of Nautical World Magazine, for artists to pay attention to in their paintings, Of course, leave it to the U.S. Navy to cut through roadside bomb and on another occasion she fell out where his popular column on marine art appeared regularly. He Annual subscription is $25 (U.S.) $35 along with twenty-eight specific problem areas. the bull and boil the making of an artist down to of her vehicle. Hers is not the life of your typical While for artists this can be a guide for what to has served as a juror for many exhibitions, including three times (foreign) for 4 issues (published quarterly). a manageable, measurable number. How does 66 artist. But as she observed, “Artists are a dime a avoid, for a collector it may be also a helpful guide days sound? That’s the length of training the Army dozen, not everyone can be a Marine.” for the Arts for the Parks Exhibition, sponsored by the National Send check or money order made payable to : for what to seek in a painting. Some of the problems Parks Service. He is the author of Bound for Blue Water, con- gives in the arts before a person is deemed to be an Here’s a little known military fact that was relayed Marine Art Quarterly they identify include “erratic light sources which “official” Army artist. Training takes place at the sidered the definitive Guide to Contemporary Marine Art. He produce contradictory shadow; transition from sea to me by Lt. Colonel W. Arthur Gagne USMC 1657 Post Road Defense Information School in Fort Meade, currently operates the J. 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