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13 VOLUME 16 PUBLISHED by J. RUSSELL JINISHIAN TH COMPLIMENTARY ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

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An Insider’s Guide to for Collectors and Historians

What’s Inside: • Latest News from Today’s Premier Marine Artists • Latest Marine Art Sales and Prices • Insights into the Art Market at Large • Marine Art Exhibitions Across the Country • Upcoming Auctions • Book Reviews Two Distinguished Artists Paint Historic … Being sold to benefit the Egan Maritime Institute in Nantucket,

John Stobart (b. 1929) Nantucket Whalers, Nantucket Harbor, 1835 Oil on Canvas 12”x 20” $125,000

Roy Cross (b.1924) Old Nantucket in the early 1840’s Whaleship Alpha Oil on Canvas 24”x 36” $55,000

Information on purchasing the artwork pictured in the Marine Art News may be obtained by contacting the Publisher, J. Russell Jinishian at (203) 259-8753 or [email protected] News From the Artists s always there are a great many exhi- Coast. In 2013 John Stobart helped kick off Across the Pond the Royal Society of Marine bitions, artistic projects and marine the exhibition with a presentation on his career. Artists, founded just after the Second World goings-on across the country and 2015’s featured artist will be Washington state War, operates its own campaign to identify and Aaround the world to report—so let’s get right resident Frank Gaffney. (www.coosart.org) reward young artists in the field. Their annual to the news. . . . Every year the “Fellows” of the Society get get together is held in conjunction each year The American Society of Marine Artists together and review portfolio submissions with their Annual Exhibition during the month Mall Galleries (ASMA), following its mission “to recognize of artists for new members in the Society. of October held at the , just Buckingham Palace and promote marine art and ” Recently four “Signature Members” were down the street from . since 1978 is engaged in a number of interest- elected: from Indiana, David Tutweiler; from (See our exhibition page for this year’s details) ing exhibitions and programs involving hun- , Kathleen Dunphy; from Denver, We spent time recently visiting a few of the dreds of artists, young and old, from coast to Sherri Farbaugh; and from Florida, Elaine Society’s members in , including coast. In recognition of the fought Hahn. This year the Fellows also selected Myers, who is unusual for many reasons, largely at , on the oceans, rivers, and bays works of art by 102 artists that comprise the including the fact that he is a member of both of the American coast from 1812-1815, the 16th National Exhibition of the American the Royal Society of Marine Artists (where he Society assembled a special exhibition of 25 Society of Marine Artists, which is an online is Past President), and the American Society of entitled 1812 Star Spangled Nation, exhibition only. It can be viewed over the Marine Artists. A native Californian, and sailor which traveled around the country in 2014, course of this year on the Society Web site aboard traditional vessels under the beginning at the History tutelage of master sailor and Museum in Buffalo, New author . Mark York, then the Detroit “dropped the anchor” perma- Public Library in Detroit, nently in , England Michigan, in 1971 when he met the River Museum in , love of his life. Since then CT, at the Lake Champlain he’s become well known Maritime Museum in worldwide for his thoroughly Vergennes, Vermont, and researched and beautiful oils finally in October at the and watercolor paintings of Star Spangled Flag House tall , of which he has a Museum in Baltimore, working knowledge like very Maryland. From the paint- few. In fact, he made over ings in the exhibition view- one hundred detailed draw- ers could learn about some ings that depict every aspect of the most famous sea bat- of sailing a tall for John tles of the American at Harland’s book Seamanship the time. in the Age of , An account of the ship handling of the If you didn’t make it to one Robert Sticker (1922-2011) The Powder Monkey Oil on Canvas 14” x 26” $14,000 of the exhibition venues, sailing man-of-war 1600- you can log on to www.ourflagwasstillthere. 1860 (US Naval Institute org or naval-warof-1812-illustrated.org and at americansocietyofmarineartists.com or Press, 1984). The ultimate go-to reference book see the unique collaboration between the U.S. asma16thnational.org. for any sailor. When Mark moved to Navy and ASMA who provided paintings to According to Society president, Russ Kramer, shore he did not give up time on the water. He illustrate a video entitled “The Naval History of plans for a more traditional 17th annual exhi- helped found Hartland Quay Museum on the the War of 1812 Illustrated,” written by ASMA bition are in the works, but the logistics of West Coast of England. Nearby is the Hartland Treasurer Charlie Robinson and narrated by assembling over 100 paintings for the extended Quay Hotel where part of the original movie ASMA member, painter, and professional opera period that the shows run is complicated and version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure singer Del-Bourree Bach. For the U.S. Navy, time consuming, and takes several years of Island was filmed. Today Mark is active in the War of 1812 marked the beginning of its preparation. We’ll keep you posted on devel- Pilot Gig Racing whose World Championship prominence as the world’s greatest navy, and opments. In the meantime, as an artist based attracts hundreds of racers, all powered by oars for them this video reinforces the importance of organization the important event for members each year on the Scilly Islands off the coast of the Navy’s role in continuing to keep sea lanes is to gather once year at their Annual Meeting Cornwall, England. He practices throughout open and the oceans free even today. to discuss the issues that are important to artists the year to stay in shape and hone his skills for the big races. What’s significant for marine art, of course, is from techniques and mediums to business and that since the art form essentially began as a personal issues, along with getting a chance One special project we learned about that Mark way to document sea battles in the 17th cen- to tour exhibitions together, etc. The 2015 had been involved in was creating paintings tury, it makes sense that when the Navy wanted meeting will be held October 15-18 in historic for a book written by Alan Villiers, entitled , Massachusetts to show people what battles at sea looked like . Joseph Conrad, Master Mariner. The famous in 1812 (since there were no iPhones around), In its effort to reach out to the next generation novelist was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalcz they had to call on the artistic imagination and of marine artists, the Society has announced the Korzeniowski, orphaned at the age of 16 he historical knowledge of marine artists to bring third year of its National Young Marine Artist was sent to , France in 1874 to begin these scenes to life. It was a fine collaboration. Search. For this they accept submissions from a career on the sea. He spent twenty years at Among the painters included were Robert young artists from all around the country, and sea before the publication of his first novel in Sticker, Patrick O’Brien, Steven Lush, Peter announce the winners at their annual meeting. 1895 Lifetime of Adventures at Sea. These were Egeli, and Linda Norton. It’s amazing to see the variety of work being the adventures that would become the basis of Conrad’s most famous seafaring novels: Heart From July 11 through September 26, 2015 the done by these aspiring marine artists. Last year’s winners included a copper sculpture of off Darkness, The Shadow Line, An Outcast of Society, in conjunction with the Port of Coos the Islands, and Typhoon. It turns out that Alan Bay, Oregon, will sponsor the 22nd Annual a fish, a of a young girl reading at the beach, and another of a swimmer, and a paint- Villiers thought so highly of Joseph Conrad Maritime Exhibition at the Coos Art Museum. that in 1934 when he purchased his own tall The Coos exhibition attracts some of the top ing of a destroyer. It’s a great way to encourage young artists to enter the field. ship, the Danish school ship Georg Stage, he marine artists from up and down the West renamed her The Joseph Conrad. He sailed Continued on page 5 3

Yankee II , pulled away from the other J Class on the beat Ranger won followed by Oil on Canvas 40” x 60” $95,000 60” x 40” Canvas on Oil Endeavour I . This oversized, magnificent painting by ’s Leading Marine Artist, makes us deck. Rod Stephens, rover (ready for any urgent job) and without a shirt on, is crouching on the leeward deck leeward the on crouching is on, shirt a without and job) urgent any for (ready rover Stephens, Rod deck. watching the set of the and quadrilateral . to the Vineyard Sounds lightship, rounding over 8 minutes ahead of second placed Endeavour II. pulled out from the race with backstay problems. and feel as if we are right on the course as a part of the spectator fleet. , (J US2), Endeavour I (J K4). Ranger . Just behind him is his wife, Gertrude. Endeavour II , the unsuccessful for the Ranger and Other J-Class Racing from Mattapoisett, 1937 Massachusetts in from Racing J-Classand Other Ranger Yachts Rainbow (J4) and Ranger downwind) Olin Stephens. Crouching next to Olin Ranger . At the right hand background is had won the ’s Cup, the J Class fleet raced together on the York New the on together raced fleet Class J the Cup, America’s the won had Ranger follows astern of 1937 America’s Cup. Harold Vanderbilt is on the wheel of Alongside is his assistant helmsman (skippered Stephens is Zena R. Bliss, the navigator. Arthur Knapp, sail trimmer, is amongst the crew on the windward A.D. Blake (b. 1951) after weeks Two Club Cruise of 1937. The painting depicts a race to Edgartown, not long Ranger after (J5) on port tack has the just crossed ahead of start near Mattapoisett.

4 David Thimgan (1955-2003) Long Day’s Journey, Balclutha, , 1889 Oil on Canvas 18” x 24” $15,000 David Thimgan was the primary contemporary chronicler of West Coast 19th and 20th Century Maritime History. Balclutha is a British-built steel ship of 1682 tons displacements built by Charles Cannel and Company at , in 1886. While under the British flag, she made five voyages to San Francisco for grain: In 1887, 1888, 1889, 1896, and 1897. In 1889 she was transferred to Hawaiian Registry where she operated in the Pacific lumber between the Puget Sound and . In fact, she was the last ship to the flag of the Hawaiian kingdom. In 1985 she was declared a National Historic Landmark. Today she can be visited at the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park on Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, California along with many other historic west coast vessels.

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57,800 miles for two years around the world Museum in , England) was launched become a recognized authority on Napoleonic before selling her. And of course, she now in 1869, the Zetland had saved over five hun- era ships and sea battles, and is often invited survives as one of the centerpieces of the age dred lives at sea. The Zetland is preserved and to speak at conferences on those subjects. As a under the care of the Mystic Seaport Museum undergoing a full restoration. The museum also slight departure, however, last summer, he was in Mystic, Connecticut. includes a painting to celebrate her history by invited by Mystic Seaport Museum to witness Phillip Boville Villiers is well known for his own sea classics, which shows her coming along- and document the re-launching of the world’s Jane Erskine like The Set of the , By Way of Cape Horn, side the in 1854. The painting was last wooden whaleship, the Charles W. Morgan, Marquis of Zetland Cruise of the Conrad, and others. It wasn’t unveiled by the whose after nearly twenty years of restoration. What is until after he died in 1982 that his son Peter direct ancestors ordered the building of the most significant about this is that they did not discovered that Villiers had nearly completed vessel in 1802. You can learn more about the just put her in the water as a static exhibit, but a manuscript on the merchant seaman career of museum and order prints of Boville’s painting sailed her for two weeks up the New England Joseph Conrad. So in 2005 Peter undertook to at the museum Web site redcarlifeboat.org.uk. coast—her 38th voyage (the other 37 taking her complete the manuscript, which he published At our next stop we saw Tim Thompson and around the world in search of the mighty whale in 2006. To add to the great storyline, it turns his wife Sharon who, taking advantage of the from 1841-1925). Very exciting; and what a out that Alan Villiers in 1975, in anticipation that the artistic lifestyle can provide, unique opportunity, inspiration, and firsthand of the publishing of the book, had asked his have moved to a farm on the Southwest Coast reference material for marine artists who paint protégé Mark Myers to make twelve paintings of England where Tim spends twelve hours in traditional sailing vessels. of ships that Joseph Conrad himself had sailed a day his studio producing the highly detailed Geoff was the artist who painted for the in to illustrate Villiers’ manuscript. As Mark and luminescent paintings you see on the pages American edition of the O’Brian novels. But himself says, these paintings in the book are, of this magazine. In fact, we saw this painting it was another Englishman, Paul Wright, who “Rip Van Winkle-like after a slumber of 31 (page 29) in process. These days as you read in painted the covers of the British edition, first years in the bedroom closet.” Great read with our section News from the Art World at Large published in 1969. In fact, Paul went on to paint great paintings by Mark. (See our book page the fact that these paintings were seen being many covers for Dudley Pope and Alexander for more detail.) painted by the artist in his own studio authen- Kent series of Napoleonic era novels. He tells There’s another fascinating small museum ticates them in a way that is becoming increas- us that he’s been contracted to use two of we discovered on the Northeast Coast of ingly important. his paintings for new publications of Dudley England. It houses the oldest lifesaving in In we met up with Geoff Hunt, former Pope’s novels by a German publisher, unions- the world, the Zetland. She was saving lives and President of the Royal Society of Marine verlag.com. in service long before the Battle of Trafalgar, Artists, and best known for his Napoleonic Speaking of Mystic, they held their 35th October 31, 1805, and by the time the famed era series of paintings used for the covers of Annual Mystic International Exhibition last ship Cuttysark (herself now on perma- the American editions published by Norton of Fall. The 36th is scheduled from September nent display as a part of the National Maritime the Patrick O’Brian novels. Geoff has really 21 to December 31 of this year. Each year, a Continued on page 6 5 Continued from page 5 handful of the 200 or so works of art on dis- the cut, ranging in age from twenty to fifty. by the Dutch in search of the play are singled out by distinguished jurors It’s a great story published by Penobscot Bay fur trade. Len has done fascinating original for a variety for awards. The Rudolph J. Press. Russ’ cover painting depicts the crucial research on the Dutch settlements, most nota- Schaefer Maritime Heritage Award went to moment from the 1895 Regatta between the bly , and made more than fifty John Tayson for “Steamer Dock 1920s”; the ’s Cup , and the paintings depicting what the land, buildings, Emerging Artist Award to Ronald Tinney; the Royal Yacht Squadron’s challenger Valkyrie III. and what life was like during that period. His Stobart Foundation Award to Jeff Weaver; In the second race Valkyrie III fouled Defender, research is so extensive and accurate that in the Award to David Bareford; the the leeward boat, just before the start. The race 2012 he was honored by the New Netherland Thomas Wells Award to Richard Loud for his was run, and Valkyrie III won. However, she Institute in New York City. In 2013 Len depiction of the “Coastal Bessie in was subsequently disqualified. This incensed was treated like a king at an exhibition of his Vineyard Haven c.1900”; Museum Purchase her owner Lord Dunraven so that when his paintings at the Westfried Museum in Hoorn Award to William Hansen and the five Awards proposal to “re-race” was rejected, he withdrew the Netherlands. Last summer his fascinating of Excellence went to: Loretta Krupinski; Ian his boat completely, and the final and decid- paintings were on exhibition at the Fenimore Marshall; Victor Mays; Elizabeth Mumford; ing race to determine the winner of the Cup Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York and Jan Pawlowski. Congratulations to all! was sailed by Defender with no opposition. I alongside artwork by . Pretty Artists who want to be considered for this assume the Deer Isle boys did not adhere to the good company Len. year’s exhibition must submit entries by May code of sobriety that night. Anglo/American painter, John Stobart, now 1st. Visit www.mysticseaport.org/gallery for a Russ also used his skills to make in his 84th year appears to be doing anything prospectus. paintings for the cover and the inside text of but slowing down. In fact, this year may In addition to his duties as President of the a fascinating book, Riding the Wild Ocean, have been one of his busiest years ever. The American Society of Marine Artists, Russ the of in an 18 sheer enormity and complexity of his output Kramer’s been a busy painter. His projects Foot , and Other Adventures by Paul is yet to be measured in real historic terms. have included making a painting for the cover S. Krantz, Jr. published by Tate Publishing. Last year’s projects for John included a paint- of a book by Mark Gabrielson entitled Deer It chronicles the author’s small boat voyages ing of the aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Isles, Undefeated America’s Cup. It’s a fasci- from New England to the Dry Tortugas. Bush to benefit the USO. It was consigned by nating book which describes the recruitment of Speaking of fascinating new books, Len the former President and sold at a gala din- Deer Isle, sailors to crew aboard both Cincinnati, Ohio Tantillo, who has spent the best part of his ner in (which raises more the 1895 and 1899 America’s Cup campaigns career researching and documenting early money for the USO than anywhere else in of the New York Yacht Club. Members of the Dutch and English settlements from New York the country) for a cool $1,000,000. Not bad Club actually traveled to Deer Isle in 1895 to City up the Hudson River to Albany, has just John! John also had a fascinating collaboration interview over three hundred prospective crew- written and published a new book entitled with Cincinnati-based miniature room builder men. The characteristics they were looking for Robert Off Edge of New Nederland, which chronicles of a tiny reproduction of a room were “pluck, agility, presence of mind, and the 17th century settling of the areas of New in a maritime museum including miniature fur- sobriety.” About thirty-five men finally made York, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut, and niture, artifacts, rugs, pinnacles, produced four

Louis Dodd (1943-2006) Engagement between USS Constellation and Oil on Panel 24”x 36” $45,000 French L’Insurgent off Nevis and St.Kitts, February 9, 1799

One of six authorized to be built by the Congress in 1794. The USS Constellation became the first to defeat an enemy frigate in battle. By the time she was commissioned on June 26, 1798 the U.S. Congress had given the President the power to seize any French ships that threatened American shipping, in response to repeated French privateering. While not an official declaration of war this became known as the “Quasi War” with France. While sailing alone east of the Island of Nevis, Constellation’s captain Commodore Thomas Truxton spied an unidentified ship of war. It turned out to be the French Frigate L’Insurgent. After a brutal but brief 1 1/4 hour battle the French struck their colors and L’Insurgent was boarded and was brought in to St. Kitts where she was taken into the U.S. Navy. Today the Constellation has been preserved in Baltimore, Maryland near Fells Point where she was built in the Stodder Shipyard.

6 Christopher Blossom (b. 1956) Preparing to Set the Gaff Tops’l on an Eastport Pinky, c. 1850 Oil on Canvas 24” x 40” $40,000 tiny original paintings by John commissioned to something in nature that inspired and nour- paintings and career had helped inspire his own specifically for the room. By “tiny,” I mean ished them. But the question that puzzles me distinguished career. one by two inches, yet still containing John’s today is what happened between the time of It’s fitting that Don was chosen to introduce characteristic brushwork and flare. the caveman who drew hands and animals, the John at his special dinner. Don now in his Greeks who sculpted ideal human forms, the Readers of will also have late fifties has (like John at the same age) craftsmen who painted frescoes, noticed two special collaborations over the last achieved the status as one of America’s Premier and the Damien Hirst’s with a shark in a tank few years, with John, The New York Times Representational painters recognized for his and call it art. Something obviously drove art Store and the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery accomplishments, both in the studio, and in downhill.” To combat this, he’s devoted his in Fairfield, Connecticut, offering readers of plein air painting. In the past year his skills as significant energies and personal resources the Times exclusive access to limited edition a teacher and ability to articulate his aesthetic since 1989 to encourage and support young prints by John. The most recent project is the point of view has taken him to lead sold out artists in painting directly from their subjects, discovery of one hundred previously published workshops from Cape Cod to Apalachicola, to when he established the Stobart Foundation prints of the “Black Ball Packet Leaving New Laguna Beach and Boothbay, Maine. Along providing scholarships to young artists at the York City” that were offered through the Times with other top marine artists, Christopher conclusion of their education, when they most only to one hundred lucky purchasers. But Blossom, Joseph McGurl, and West Fraser, need financial help to get started. In May of more than that, John selected twenty-five of the he exhibited his paintings at museums across 2014 a large exhibition of John’s paintings was actual paint brushes he’s used over the years in the country, including the Leigh Yawkey accompanied by a special dinner at the newly his studio, and these were offered to collectors Woodson Art Museum in Wasau, Wisconsin, renovated (and the country’s oldest artist club) in a frame along with the print. It’s basically the the Haggin Museum in Stockton, California, Salmagundi Club in New York City, where artistic equivalent of Derek Jeeter’s New York the city of Lake Charles, Louisiana, the John was presented with the Club’s Medal Yankees game worn jersey. (Notice a game Museum of the Southwest in Midland, Texas. of Honor worn jersey on our sales pages warn by Lou . The recipients of the award since This skill as a painter and teacher was never Gerhig recently sold for $ 717,000.) What art it was first awarded in 1938 have included Ogden Pleissner more evident than the recent demonstration collector wouldn’t want to own a paint brush, (1905-1983), Ray Ellis Thomas he gave as a part of the Plein Air Painters of for example, that was used by or (1903-2003), (1921-2013), Hoving America exhibition, “Why Outdoors?” held at Michelangelo, or James Buttersworth? (1931-2009) former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This was also the Salmagundi Club, where Don sat before John is equally accomplished in studio painting a celebration of the return of the Salmagundi the easel in front of a rapt audience, and painted and plein air painting. The November/December Galleries to its historic and original glory a from start to finish over the course of 2011 issue of “Wooden Boat Magazine” con- that resulted in it being cited for architectural an afternoon, discussing his thoughts about it, tained a 12-page profile on John and his distinction by the Society of Architectural his techniques, and processes. It’s not everyone accomplishments. And the March 2013 issue of Historians. Under the leadership of the very that can do this while having every brushstroke “Plein Air” magazine explored his lifetime of active Chairman, Tim Newton, the Club scrutinized by a few hundred viewers. It takes plein air painting in great detail, while the Plein opened up an old second floor skylight that a lot of experience and a deep understanding of Air Painters of America Convention also had been closed for over fifty years, and made the process, and trust in your own abilities to presented him with a “Lifetime Achievement the gallery’s lighting and display areas state of do so. If you were unable to be among the two Award” in Monterey, California. In the “Plein the art. In the audience for John’s dinner were hundred in the audience you can watch a video Air” article John expresses his strong views some of the leading figures in the marine art of a similar demonstration on You-tube (The about art being based on the traditional skills of world including, Peter Trippe, the Editor of Art of the Wave with Don Demers). If you’d drawing and painting. As John describes, “the Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine who led a like to watch him create a more complicated point of art is the same today as it was eons ago “fireside chat” with John the next day. John was harbor scene you can visit streamlineartvideo. when someone first made marks on the walls introduced by none other than fellow marine com and view Don Demers: Mastering a and ceilings of caves. They were responding artist Don Demers, who spoke of how John’s Nautical Scene. They are both well worth the Continued on page 19 7 INTERESTING NEWS FROM THE ART WORLD AT LARGE s always, it’s been a fascinating period Despite this success, it was a real to whose strategy pays off in the years ahead. in the art market, with record prices everyone when Christie’s CEO since 2010, The up-and-coming auction house Heritage, being paid for art, issues of authenticity Steven P. Murphy, an industry outsider as for- based in Dallas, Texas, announced that its Aand fraud, and some real surprises, so let’s get mer president of EMI Music/Angel Records gross sales came in this year at $969 million, right to the news. . . . The auction market is and Rodale Press, announced he was stepping representing five straight years of growth. always a good place to take the of down in December to be replaced by Patricia While $31.2 million came from the sale of the art world. The results in this recent period Barbizet, the chief executive of Artémis, comics and comic art (wow!), and $29.7 mil- tell us that the patient is doing rather well. the investment company owned by Francois lion from sport memorabilia (wow, wow!), The privately owned auction house, Christie’s Pinault, who is also the owner of Christie’s. their biggest category is in the rare coin market. led the way worldwide in 2014, racking up At least it appears it was a surprise to almost There they brought in $334 million dollars, $8.4 billion in sales, the most for any art auc- everyone. Barbizet says she looks forward to over 60% of all the coins sold at auction in tion house in history! It’s interesting how the leading “the global team into a new chapter of 2014. (See our Recent Sales pages for some of revenue breaks down. 86 works of art sold innovation and excellence.” While Christie’s the astonishing prices they’re getting.) at more than $10 million each, while online currently does business in 21 countries around sales accounted for $35 million, up 35% from the world and Sotheby’s in 40 countries, both In fact, the 2014 Annual Report for the 2013. Just down the road at Sotheby’s they Christie’s and Sotheby’s see internet sales as a European Fine Art Foundation reported that logged in $6.3 billion in total sales during the key to future growth, but have taken very dif- the overall sale of art and antiques around the same period—18% over the previous year. ferent strategies to achieve success in this area. world rose in the last two years, totaling ±$65.9 “Contemporary” Art (i.e. Modern Art) account- Christie’s has chosen to build its own platforms billion annually, the highest level since 2007. ed for the largest single share of sales; contrib- and infrastructure, and bring in industry experts Total Sales in the United States were estimated uting almost $2 billion to each auction house. on selling luxury goods online. Sotheby’s, on to be about $25 billion, up 25%, while China At Christie’s Contemporary Art auction in the other hand, has decided to simply part- accounted for $15.9 billion. Good sales were November 2014 nearly $852.9 million worth ner with eBay, giving them instant access to not the only news for the auction houses. As of artwork was sold in less than three hours. eBay’s 150 million online buyers. Together, drive for more profit continues, Sotheby’s (a I presume they took the rest of the night off. they propose to grow their “luxury items” sales publicly traded company) stock price has risen Wouldn’t you? category alone to $3 billion by 2020. We’ll see about 70% since 2008. Yet their revenue took

Antonio Jacobsen (1850-1921) Ward Line Steamship Santiago 1887 Oil on Canvas 20” x 36” $25,000 The steamship Santiago was built by John Donaldson in Chester, Pennsylvania in 1879 for New York and Cuba Mail Company known as the Ward Line of New York, to run between New York’s Eastside Piers 15, 16 and 17, now the site of the South Street Seaport Museum, and the Ports of Nassau, Havana and the Mexican Gulf. Between 1883 and 1887 Jacobsen painted six portraits of her, one of which resides in the Museum in Hull, England, and another in the collection of the Mariner’s Museum, Newport News, . This was not unusual as Jacobsen often painted multiple portraits at the request of multiple shareholders or captains. This painting exhibits the classic Jacobsen sea, notable in most of the paintings dated prior to 1900 when he employed studio assistants to help paint in response to increased demand for her portraits. All totaled, lists estimated that he created over 5,000 ship portraits! Yet as the premier chronicler of ships of his day, his paintings are still in demand today.

8 a dive in 2008 and has not yet recovered. Their signers. Even if a work of art expenses in 2013 rose to $597 million from didn’t sell or meet a certain Upcoming Auctions $394 million in 2009, part of an issue that led price level, the seller was still to a very ungenteel fight. It began when hedge- guaranteed a set amount of April 23-24 May 20 June 25-26 fund Third Point LLC, led by well known money. As you can imagine, Decoys American Art Maritime Art activist investor Daniel S. Loeb, invested $56.7 sometimes the auction houses Guyette & Deeter Sothebys Eldreds million to acquire a 5.7% stake in Sotheby’s, won and sometimes they lost. St. Charles, IL New York Dennis, MA making it one of Sotheby’s largest sharehold- When this arrangement didn’t 410-745-0485 508-385-3116 ers. This is not that unusual. Four of Sotheby’s work, it left the auction houses guyetteanddeeter.com May 21 eldreds.com top ten shareholders are also hedge-funds, and exposed. 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Established in who have the wherewithal to April 30 508-228-3942 July 1 1744, Sotheby’s is said to be the oldest listed purchase a painting for more Travel, Atlases, Maps & rafaelosonaauctions.com Fine Furniture & Works company on the New York Stock Exchange. than $20 million. Loeb himself Natural History of Art As you can imagine, things got pretty heated has looked into this, appar- Sothebys May 29 (some marine related) over the course of a year with Loeb writing that London ently, and has said that these American & European Lyon & Turnbull he would wage “Holy Jihad to make sure all 44 20 7293 5000 Edinburgh, Scotland 150 collectors control about Paintings the Sotheby’s infidels were made to know that sothebys.com Skinner 44 (0) 131 557 8844 $16 trillion in assets. So what’s there’s only one true God.” With the other board Boston, MA lyonandturnbull.com happening today is that not members’ interest in the company totaling only May 3 / June 28 617-350-5400 only are the auction houses 1% interest in the company, it was inevitable Maritime Art and skinnerinc.com July 8 offering their own guarantees that they gave in to Loeb. A year in court and Artifacts Sporting Art to some sellers, but they’ve $10 million in legal fees later, Sotheby’s finally Boston Harbor Auctions June 1 Christie’s reached out to buyers and sold Loeb a 9.6% stake (ultimately as much as a Boston, MA Inuit Art South Kensington offered an arrangement where 15% stake) in the company, and gave him three 617-451-7447 Waddingtons buyers can step up before the bostonharborauctions. Toronto, ON, Canada seats on the board. Now it’s a fifteen person July 28-29 auction and guarantee to buy com 416-847-6184 Decoys board. 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For centuries, where it gets really good. If, auction houses made their money by taking a August 16-17 however, the bidding exceeds May 13 June 4 Annual Marine, China percentage from the seller (consigner). Usually the amount that the collector The Sporting Sale American Art Trade & Sporting 10-15%. It worked fine until about fifteen years has essentially promised, he Bonhams Swann Auction ago, when they decided to also start taking a loses the right to purchase the Edinburgh, Scotland New York Northeast Auctions percentage from the buyer—a buyer’s premi- work of art. However, he is 44 131 225 2266 Portsmouth, NH um, if you will. For example, a painting which presented with a percentage June 7 603-433-8400 you were purchasing for $10,000 might, with of the amount (usually 20%) May 14 American Art & northeastauctions.com buyer’s percentage premium, cost you $10,500. of the final selling price which African & Oceanic Art Pennsylvania Years went on with this simple system, yet it exceeded his bid. Sellers Sothebys Impressionists November 3 still didn’t produce the bottom line they were are also being offered what New York Freeman Travel & Exploration looking for. Each year new increased premium is called “enhanced hammer 212-606-7000 Bonham’s levels for buyers were announced by the major prices” (usually between 4-7% sothebys.com 215-563-9275 Knightsbridge, London auction houses—usually being set by one, of the buyer’s premium of high freemanauction.com 44 20 7393 3900 then followed by the others. That led to today end works). Wow, this is not May 19 where, if you buy a work of art at Christie’s, your grandfather’s auction Maps & Atlases, June 24 November 18 you’ll pay a 25% premium for anything up to house! What kind of money Natural History & Color African & Oceanic Art Fine English Furniture, $75,000, 20% premium for $75,001 to$1.5 mil- Plate Books Sothebys Sculpture & Works are we talking about here? Just lion, and a 12% premium on any amount over for the first quarter of 2014 Swann of Art New York 33 1 53 05 53 05 Bonham’s that that you might bid. Works of art, like those Sotheby’s reported nearly $280 212-254-4710 sothebys.com New Bond Street, by Andy Warhol, selling for over $100 mil- million in seller’s and buyer’s swanngalleries.com London lion, the buyer’s premium is not chump change. guarantees. Christie’s, which 44 20 7447 7447 This is where it gets more interesting. is privately held, confirmed to Auction houses now actively compete for both The New York Times they had buyers and sellers. They also compete for about $400 million in guar- antees. started twenty-five years ago collecting was inventory. The is they often end up tak- romantic, but it’s not anymore. It’s become ing more of a percentage from the buyer than What this means is that auction sales are being business. The guarantees are just part of the from the seller! In fact, a seller’s commission fueled by investment mentality that sees the equation.” might be negotiated way down so that an auc- opportunity for quick, fairly painless return. tion house gets first crack at selling a valuable And, if you’re an art lover-investor, the only Brett Grovy, worldwide chairman of the work like a Warhol, for example, before its downside is that you end up owning a work Important Post-War and Contemporary Art rivals do. In 2007, competition between auc- of art. One who has commented on this is Division at Christie’s reported in the The New tion houses became so fierce that they began Philippe Segalot, a private dealer who was York Times, “The mindset and perspective of actually offering “guaranteed results” to con- formerly with Christie’s, who said, “When I these people have changed. It used to be that Continued on page 26 9 RECENT SALES at AUCTION and ELSEWHERE $300,000,000 Paul Gaugin “When Will You $4,800,000 Imperial Chinese ceramic Roman bronze work 1918 $632,500 Bill Mazeroski’s 1960 World Marry? Oil 1892 ducal winepot 5 1/4” h 36”h Series jersey $142,405,000 Francis Bacon (1909-1992) $4,281,000 “A Scout $912,500 1775 of letter from 2nd $567,625 “Batman” #1 1986 comic “Three Studies of Lucien is Loyal”, 1940 oil 39”x27” Continental Congress to book cover art Freud” oil triptych, 1976 Great Britain $4,197,000 Pair of Tang Dynasty $545,000 Ansel Adams (1902-1984) $105,400,000 Andy Warhol “Silver Car ceramic horses 30” long $880,000 Ammi Phillips “Brock Twins” “Winter Sunrise Sierra from Crash (Double Disaster)” double portrait 19th c. Lone Pine, LA” 1941 gelatin 18th Century Chinese hand silk screen and spray paint $4,100,000 silver photograph scroll $875,000 Samuel Robb carved Santa on canvas, 1963 Claus figure 1923 38”h John Lennon’s Ferrari Super Bowl XLVIII 30 sec- $543,750 Alberto Giacometti “Chariot” $4,000,000 330GT 2+2 coupe $100,965,000 ond TV ad painted bronze sculpture 58 Key Piano used in The Star 59.60 carat $3,413,000 $83,187,381 movie “Casablanca” diamond $3,290,000 1913 head nickel $48,240,000 (1881-1973) “Femme Assise Apres $3,290,000 1890 $1,000 “Grand d’une Fenetre” Watermelon” US Treasury bill $47,800,000 Raphael Head of Apostle, chalk drawing 1519 $3,077,000 Wizard of Oz original Cowardly Lion costume $47,400,000 J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) “ from Mr. Avetire” oil $2,300,000 ’s black felt hat 36”x49” $2,270,000 1962 Nobel Prize for $46,085,000 Norman Rockwell (1894- Medicine for DNA scien- 1978) “Saying Grace”, oil tists Crick, Watson and on canvas, 43”x41” Wilkins $45,000,000 Embroidered silk Thangka $2,105,770 Honus Wagner 1909 1st century wall hanging baseball card 84”x132” $2,035,000 Clark Gable’s 1955 $41,505,000 Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) Mercedes Benz 300 SL “The Apples” 1889-90 oil Gullwing 15”x18” $2,000,000 “Like a Rolling $38,000,000 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO Stone” handwritten lyrics, Berlinetta 1965 $33,800,000 Clark Sickle-Leaf carpet $1,997,500 1927-D $20 gold coin 17th c., 44’ long $1,705,000 Frederick Remington $32,645,000 9.75 Carat pear-shaped (1861-1909) “The Story of blue diamond Where the Sun Goes” 1907 oil 27x36 $29,650,095 1954 Mercedes Benz W196R Formula 1 $1,700,000 Diego Giacometti Glass topped console table, Vincent Van Gogh (1853- $27,540,422 birch, doe, fawn 1890) “Mother and Child” 1885 oil 26”x20” $1,685,000 Robert Indiana LOVE sculpture (1848-1903) $26,700,000 118.08 carat white diamond Violin played on the When Will You Marry? Oil, 1892 Patek Philippe 1932 $1,600,000 $24,000,000 Titanic Sold for $300,000,000 “World’s most complicated pocket watch” $1,565,000 Tiffany Western stained $836,500 Muhammad Ali’s boxing $533,000 Edward Weston “2 Shells”, glass table lamp, 1905 26”h gloves, 1964 1927 photograph $20,300,000 Andy Warhol Elizabeth Taylor portrait, oil $1,540,000 Dusenberg 1930 Model J $768,000 Attr. to Youqua c.1840 pair $515,000 Cartier gold, black convertible of panoramic China Trade onyx, enamel and diamond $15,285,000 Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) port paintings 35’x80” each clock 5”x3”x2” “The Thinker” 1906 bronze $1,384,000 Fitz Henry Lane (1804- 28 ⅛”h 1865) “Camden Mountains $767,000 Eider Drake decoy c. 1900 $478,000 Lon Chaney “After from the Graves” oil 1862 Monhegan Island, Maine Midnight” 1927 movieposter $14,300,000 1964 Ferrari 250 LM Norman Rockwell “Girl $767,000 Monhegan, Maine Eider Whole Booke of Psalmes $1,205,000 $471,500 Amos Doolittle (1754-1832) $14,200,000 Choosing Hat” 1931 Drake duck decoy c.1900 1640, first book printed in “Battles of Lexington and Concord” pair of the Americas $1,205,000 Set of 7 signed books from $717,000 Babe Ruth’s 1923 NY George Washington Library Yankees championship Babe Ruth 1914 rookie $13,605,000 Rothschild Prayerbook illu- $450,300 watch card minated manuscript 1505- $1,205,000 Tiffany Wisteria stained 10 glass table lamp c.1901 $717,000 Lou Gehrig 1927-28 $449,000 Pine pheasant weathervane Yankee jersey c.1875 31”h $9,500,000 One Cent Magenta British $1,200,000 Babe Ruth’s 1918 contract Guiana postage stamp $705,000 Mormon $10 gold coin 3 Words from “Lord of the Leica M3 chrome camera $437,000 1856 $1,130,000 1849 Rings” movie $1,000,000 John Stobart “Aircraft $7,893,000 George Bellows (1882- $705,000 Silver one cent coin 1792 $437,000 Tiffany Wisteria table lamp 1925) “Evening ” Carrier George H.W. Bush” $682,229 Horton Smith 1934 Masters c.1905 1911, oil, 30”x38” oil 24” x 36” Tournament Green Jacket N.C.Wyeth (1882-1945) “I Bob Dylan’s 1965 Newport $435,750 $5,625,000 (1861- $965,000 $662,000 Frank Benson (1862-1951) Stood Like a 1909) “Cutting Out Pony Folk Festival electric guitar “Marsher of Long Point” oil Thunderstruck, or As If I Herds”, 1908 oil 27”x40” $956,000 Shoeless Joe Jackson’s had Seen an Apparition” oil $657,000 Mike Eruzione’s 1980 Block of 4 misprinted rookie season bat, 1911 $4,800,000 Olympic hockey jersey and $434,500 1973 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 upside down “Jenny” 1918 $921,000 James Earle Fraser (1876- stick Daytona 24 cent postage stamps 1953) “End of the Trail” 10 $408,000 Vox Guitar played by John “Mt. Washington” oil $161,000 Mozart bars 57-70 musical $102,600 Punch Cigar Store figure Lennon and George 12”x72” sheet, sixth movement, wood late 19th c. 69” high Harrison “Serenade in D” 1773 $231,000 William Shatner’s “Star $102,000 Ogden Pleissner (1905- $402,500 Civil War 5 gallon stone- Trek” pilot rifle $146,200 German WW II Enigma 1983) “Salmon Fishermen” ware butter churn $230,000 Winchester model 1876 Code Book 1944 oil $398,500 James E. Buttersworth lever action pistol $145,000 Hermes crocodile and black $101,575 Shoeless Joe Jackson (1819-1894) “” $227,050 U.S. Model 1883 leather handbag 1915 Cracker Jack card oil 20”x30” Colt Gatling gun $390,000 Race Track Tout tobacco- $223,000 Needlework nist shop figure 6’h Sampler “Adam $387,750 Original Apple-1 computer and Eve”, Boston 1976 1744 $386,000 48 Star U.S. ensign flown $221,000 Robert Salmon of Beach June (1775-1845) 6, 1944 “Shipping off Birkenhead” oil, $377,000 Japanese samurai helmet 24”x43 1/2” 18th c. 10 ⅝” h $214,000 Elmer Crowell $374,500 Yuan/Ming Dynasty cela- carved Plover don vase 12 1/2” $212,500 13 Star American $360,000 Frank Benson (1862-1951) flag “Red Heads in Flight” c.1916 oil $210,000 Coca Cola 1900 wall calendar $343,650 Babe Ruth/Lou Gehrig signed baseball (last sold in $207,000 A.E. Crowell buf- 2005 for $98,000) falo-head drake woodcarving $333,450 Carl Rungius (1869-1959) “Pack Horses on a Trail” $202,200 Jamie Medlin “the 1920 oil Triumphant John Stobart (b. 1929) Freedom at Work, Aircraft Carrier USS George H.W. Bush Return of the Oil on Canvas 24” x 36,” Sold for $1,000,000 $322,000 Bill Mazeroski’s 1960 World J-Class to British British Naval Officer wood- Montague Dawson (1890- Series home run bat – Waters, July 18-21, 2012” $144,000 $100,972 carving 7’ tall 1973) “The Glittering bronzed oil 30”x40” Spindrift Running Before J.H. Dugan 1914-15 base- $310,700 Action Comic Book #1 (DC Sandy Koufax 1963 $143,400 the Wind” $201,650 ball calendar cabinet card 1938) Season game jersey set $100,000 Napoleon I 18k gold snuff $286,800 Action Comics #15 Letter written aboard the box $200,000 Lou Gehrig signed baseball “Superman” cover art, 1931 Titanic $142,500 Pair of Apollo 12 lunar Visalia Stock Saddle Co. $100,000 $286,800 Mickey Mantle’s $11,150 Edward Burdett “Whaleship $141,000 model used scissors $198,000 1930 saddle signing bonus check Pacific” 19th c. scrimshaw Samuel Walters (1811- whale tooth George Boyd (1873-1941) $100,000 $285,000 Series Fantastique Jumeau $138,000 1882) “Packet Ship red-breasted merganser girl doll c.1892 Joseph Leyendecker (1874- Fanchon of the Black Star $194,500 hen decoy $276,000 Rutz Clovis Point prehistor- 1951) “Honeymoon” Line Arriving at Mersey” oil ic obsidian arrowhead, 9 “Saturday Evening Post” $138,000 Nicholaos Sophianos 24”x36” July 17, 1926 cover art map of , 3/4” Bonnie Parker (Bonnie and 1544 $99,450 $277,300 E. Howard & Co. No. 68 $181,229 Montague Dawson (1895- Clyde) 38 caliber pistol with floor standing astronomical 1973 H.R.H The Prince $134,500 1960 6 bullets Phillip’s flying fifteen Gibson electric guitar regulator clock JFK’s rocking chair Coweslip Racing with Royal $97,750 Pair of John Haley Belamy $272,550 Mickey Mantle Topps rook- Yacht Britannia at anchor $126,000 John Armstrong relief carved eagles inscribed $97,750 ie card oil 28”x42” carved Kentucky long rifle “War” and “Peace” $270,000 Philadelphia William and $191,200 Stan Musial’s 2011 World Joseph Whiting Lincoln Specimen of fluorite, barite, $97,750 Mary walnut desk Championship ring $125,000 (1859-1938) sphalerite, and calcite rock Drake decoy $266,500 Mechanical Bank with $178,250 Gold Inlaid Parker A1 5” square coasting child c.1900 Special 16 gauge shotgun Granville Redmond “Rocky Frederick Myrick Ship $96,100 $123,000 Point Laguna” oil $264,000 C.M. Russell (1864-1926) $176,000 Sonja Henie’s 1941 Frances scrimshaw whale- Horse Wrangler bronze Packard tooth c.1829 $93,750 Montague Dawson (1890- c.1930 13 ½”h 1973) “Sunset Glow” oil Bernard Romans Map of Ogden Pleissner 91905- $173,000 $120,750 24”x36” $263,000 “The Attack” Thomas and the Seat of Civil War in 1883) “Quail Shooting” George Woodhall glass America 1775 watercolor 18”x28” $93,000 pipe toma- cameo, 1896 hawk with brass/silver inlay $172,000 Winchester model 1894 $107,550 “Casablanca” movie poster $262,900 “Tales of Suspense” #39 rifle with factory 81”x81” $92,500 German enciphering comic book machine c.1942-44 $165,200 Les Paul Gibson Sunburst $106,250 James E. Buttersworth $253,000 William Wendt (1862-1946) guitar (1817-1894) “Schooner $92,000 Curt Schilling bloody 2004 “Vibrant Coast – Dana Pt., from the New York Yacht world series sock Tiffany geranium motif CA” oil 24”x36” $165,200 Club Racing in the leaded glass table lamp Tiffany Nasturtium stained Narrows” oil 12”x16” $91,125 $252,000 Preacher in the Pulpit 1876 glass chandelier James E. Buttersworth cast iron mechanical bank $164,500 John Wilson Carmichael “Yachts returning from race $106,157 “Swimming Mallard” drake (1799-1868) “Rescue of $89,125 $250,000 3 Saints Russian Orthodox course past breakwater, decoy, c.1870 9”x11” William D’Oyly by the icon 1891 oil 12”x10” Newport, R.I” oil 12 Isabella 1836” oil 17”x24” $86,250 Roberto Clemente bat $236,000 Tiffany stained glass land- 1/4”x18” Montague Dawson (1895- scape window Iron Framed Henry SN 90 $106,157 $87,235 Original Cover Art for $161,000 19730 Eight Meter Yachts rifle “Conan the Barbarian” #4 $234,000 Sanford Gifford (1823-80) in the Solent” oil 28”x42” comic book

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Franz $56,050 Mickey & Minnie Mouse on $39,000 John Haley Bellamy (1836- $28,750 JFK’s Savile Row blazer Joseph campaign tunic motorcycle, toy Tipp & Co. 1914) carved eagle “Don’t Mickey Mouse organ wind- 1916 1930 Give up the Ship” $28,750 er windup toy c.1930 Chippendale carved Neil Armstrong’s 1969 Indian Chief copper weath- $87,500 $55,268 $38,512 Elvis Presley sunglasses mahogany side chair 1765 moon landing check list ervane c.1900 $28,125 William Gay Yorke portrait 17th c. samurai daisho Pair of elephant tusks 7’3” Charles Schulz “” $28,290 $87,500 $54,990 $38,350 of “American ship Weston (sword) tall comic April 25, 1976 origi- Merritt off ” oil nal art $83,000 Maximillian breastplate $53,820 Journal of whaler Golconda 1862 1510-20 1836-9 $37,500 Braid of Willie Nelson’s hair $27,800 Duncan McFarlane (1818- $81,250 Chippendale carved $53,325 Centaur copper weather- $37,486 Derek Jeter 2001 game 1865) “SS Eliza Bonsall” oil mahogany piecrust tilt top vane used World Series bat 23”x36” table c.1770 $53,125 Earthenware fish flask, $37,200 Radicon Gang of Five $27,500 Frank McCarthy “The Dirty $79,936 Charles Napier Hemy 1899-1822 4 1/2” long remote control toy robots Dozen” movie poster (1841-1917) “Hauling in the German WWII MG42 light 53rd Regiment Civil War Jack Spurling (1870-1933) Nets” $52,900 $36,000 $27,370 machine gun flag Australian clipper Thomas Jefferson letter Under Full Sail” oil 14”x20” $79,200 Samuel Walters (1811- Joe Duncan Gleason January 22, 1797 $52,500 $36,000 1882) “Packetship Memphis (1881-1954) “The Beautiful $26,450 High Wheel bike “The RAM $78,880 Markin Battleship George off the Skevies” oil 28”x41 Bay of Avalon” oil Telegram” c. 1892 Washington toy boat c. 1/2” Lai Sung “Clipper Agnes off letter 1824 1909 37” long $36,000 $26,250 William Bradford (1823- ” 1849 $52,500 Boucher $2,500 locomotive Thomas Luny (1759-1839) 1892) “Fishing and $25,960 $78,005 King Kong original movie and passenger train set “HMS Bellerphon out of Icebergs” $35,850 poster Torbay” oil 34”x55” Thomas Chambers (1808- Artillery Target cast iron $25,830 $51,600 Large landscaped carved 1869) “New York Harbor” 17th c. Iranian Illuminated bank, 1877 $35,600 $78,000 ivory tusk oil book 11”x7” The Bund c. $50,400 Steiff Titanic Mourning Bear Thomas Luny (1759-1837) Wayne Gretsky’s 1991-92 1860 China Trade $35,550 $25,243 $77,675 one of only 78 made “The French ’74 Hercule hockey jersey 1st Penobscot Exhibition Surrendering to HMS Mars $50,000 Roker porcelain and nickel J.E. Buttersworth (1817- 1779 hand drawn map $35,500 off Brest, 21st April 1798” $74,750 barber’s chair salesman’s 1894) “New York Yacht oil on canvas Joseph Appleton 6 meter sample 15” Club Race off Sandy Hook” $50,000 Lucy scale 15” American silver tankard Napoleonic POW bone $24,600 Henry Livingston Indian long $35,000 c.1700 $74,500 model 94-gun ship HMS War powder horn $48,875 George Boyd (1873-1941) Boyne 31”x22” $24,150 Chalmers Catawba wine Montague Dawson (1890- goose decoy owned by bitters Sutters old mill glass $74,062 Wyeth Tire advertising sign 1973) “Tall Ship Under Full Gen. George S. Patton $34,100 bottle 22”x18” Sail” oil 36”x24” Rolex 1966 14k wristwatch Felix Ziem (1821-1911) $45,000 Fender Telecaster guitar $24,150 Alfred Thompson Bricher $33,750 “Ship Arriving at ” oil $72,000 U.S. Model 24 pounder 8 and amp, 1952/55 (1837-1908) Coastal scene $44,812 inch cannon mortar Mariano Rivera’s 600th Thomas Buttersworth $24,148 Montague Dawson (1890- $33,000 save home plate $72,000 Set of German armor 1515- (1768-1842) “Battle of 1973) “Summer Skies: Six $44,160 30 Trafalgar” oil Currier & Ives “The Road, Metres in the Solent” oil $24,000 Winter” lithograph, 1853 J.K. Rowling Harry Potter Rudge “kangaroo” high Flash #117 1960 comic $43,750 $32,760 $71,700 and the Philosopher’s wheel bicycle 1885, April Tobacco Tin with Empire book cover art $24,000 Stone first edition 1997 14, 1912 State Building decoration Ty Cobb letter to Stan $71,700 Anthony Thieme (1888- Charles Darwin Origin of Edward Moran (1829-1901) Musial $43,200 $32,500 $23,750 1954) “Dockside” oil the Species first edition “Fishing Boat in a Stormy $70,000 Joseph Heard (1799-1859) 25”x30” 1859 Sea” oil 30 1/2”x48 1/4” “Packet Ship off 1931-5 Dime PCGS M567 Mary Blood Mellen (1819- Samuel Walters *1811- Holyhead” oil 26”x36” $43,125 $31,200 $23,750 F CAC 1886) “Ship at Sail with 1882) “Packet Ship Andrew Set of 4 shadow boxes of Fishing Boat and Schooner” Foster Outbound from N.Y.” $69,000 Thomas Whitcombe (1752- squirrels boxing c.1850 $43,010 oil oil 26”x43” 1824) “A Third $69,000 Sonny Corleone’s Rate Off ” oil 28 $31,070 Michael Jordon’s game $23,500 HMS Warrior Napoleonic Godfather 1941 Lincoln 1/2”x42” worn sneakers era Prisoner of War model, boxwood $68,500 Albert Einstein bible $42,000 Reynolds Beal (1885-1951) $30,000 Edward Potthast (1857- “Ivy League 1927) “Three off Colin Kaepernick’s 2013 James M.Whistler (1834- $22,705 $65,000 Regatta, Poughkeepsie, a Rocky Beach” oil 8”x10” Green Bay Packers jersey 1903) “Quiet Canal” NY, July 1914” 1879-80 $30,000 John Whorf (1903-1959) $22,425 Oscar Peterson perch wall Fellini movie “Southern Cruiser” oil plaque woodcarving Milton Berle’s personal joke $41,825 $64,900 poster 54”x70” file $30,000 Shang Wheeler preening $21,250 Gustav Mahler letter Greek Corinthian bronze wigeon woodcarving Haida tribe bird effigy cere- $41,400 Derek G.M. Gardner (1914- $62,500 helmet 6th c. $21,035 monial rattle 13” long $29,325 Derek G.M. Gardner (1914- 2007) “The Battle of Elmer Crowell bobwhite 2007) “Tea Clipper Camperdown” Tiffany white and green art $40,800 $60,000 quail decoy Thermoplyae Battling the glass vase 6”h 1905 Coca Cola calendar Elements” oil 24”x36” $20,400 Buffalo Bill Cody’s six- James Arness “Gunsmoke” $40,625 Raffaele Corsini (1830- $59,000 shooter pistol Edward Moran (1829-1901) $20,400 Colt 45 $28,800 1880) “Bark Martha Clark, Ian Fleming Moonraker first Wild Bill Cody poster, 1885 Capt. Austin Miller at Ralph Cahoon (1910-1982) $40,625 $28,800 $57,300 edition 1955 Anchor in Constantinople, “Brant Point’ oil 25”x19” Antonio Jacobsen (1850- $28,750 April 12, 1852” oil A.E. Crowell black-bellied 1921) “City of Richmond at Queen Anne walnut high- $40,250 $56,400 plover 1912 Sea, 1879” oil 22”x36” Thomas Birch (1779-1851) boy c.1750 $20,000

12 “Shipping on the East coast full sail)” oil 40”x50” “Fishing on the Grand seaplane toy of America” oil 18 1/8”x27 Banks’ oil 35’x55” Mary Queen of Scots letter Antonio de Simone (1851- 1/4” $12,500 $3,500 1582 $8,400 Pair of Paul Revere silver 1907) “American Steam 6-Gallon ceramic butter spoons Yacht Conqueror in the Bay $19,550 Beatles’ tickets used for hit churn c.1825 $12,000 of ” oil 16”x23 1/2” concert San Francisco, $8,365 Flashlight used on Apollo $19,500 Beatles “Please, Please 1966 12 mission $3,450 Early Production colt 1851 Me” album Navy revolver $12,000 Emile Gruppe (1896-1978) $7,800 Large carved Meerschaum $19,500 Painted cigar stone Indian, “At the Dock, Gloucester, pipe with silver top $3,330 Ernest Hemingway The Old c.1900 78”h MA” Man and the Sea signed Michelin Man tin display $7,700 first edition $18,750 David Cassidy’s 1973 $11,750 13 Star American flag sign jumpsuit Tomasso de Simone (1805- American lage 19th c. JFK’s signed high school $2,680 $11,730 $7,475 1888) “Admiralty Schooner Derek G.M. Gardner (1914- female figurehead 57”h photograph $18,750 of the White Squadron in 2007) “Clipper Montague Dawson (1895- Buffalo Bill’s show jacket the Bay of Naples” oil Battling the $11,730 $7,200 19730 U.S. clipper Elements” oil 24”x36” Double Sailor’s Valentine Karl Lagerfeld sketch for watercolor $6,900 $2,520 “A Present from Barbados” Elizabeth Taylor evening Larry Hagman’s “JR” Dallas 22”x30” $18,750 19th c. dress belt buckle Carved female ship figure- $11,500 Blue Staffordshire 10” Half Hull Model Royal Suzanne Rognon Bernardi head c. 1880 $6,518 $2,419 $18,750 Murray St., New York soup Yacht Britannia 1893 “Story of a Whale Hunt Collection of criminal photo- bowl 42”x11 1/2” 1901-02” $11,162 graphs from Old West Ian Fleming From Russia One Can of Schoenling Petrified dinosaur egg nest Montana $6,000 $2,040 $17,915 With Love 1st edition Bock beer 75 million years old Decorated Shaving Mug $10,800 Double Barbados 19th Boat & Torpedo Charles Dickens letter 1855 Greenpoint Food Service, $5,625 $1,888 $17,500 Sailor’s Valentine “Ever Company stock certificate 1924 $17,500 “Keep Calm and Carry On” Thine” 8”x16” 1889 poster 1939 Attr. To William Stubbs $10,573 Confederate Officer’s 1851 American 19th c. billet head (1842-1909) “The Battle of $5,225 $1,875 1962 Chrysler Imperial 15” Navy revolver $17,500 Mobile Bay” oil Texaco gas pump with toy car $1,380 PT-109 JFK signed 1st edi- globe 54”h Warren Commission Report $5,225 Log of three-masted whal- $10,350 tion $16,618 signed copy Half Hull Model of ing Philetus of $1,367 California Gold Rush walk- America’s Cup Stonington, CT Oct. 1837 – Steiff golden mohair teddy $5,060 $10,300 ing stick Rainbow 1893 37”x12” April 1839 bear 24”h Winchester Firearms “Cock Civil War drum RMS Titanic wood chess- Lifesavers two-sided adver- $4,750 $990 $16,385 $9,600 of the Woods’ poster 1905 board tising sign 10”x12” $946 American Independence Civil War presentation commemorative Liverpool Carved fish market sign Matthew Brady General $4,200 $16,100 $9,400 sword creamware cider jug Robert E. Lee and staff Dominic Serves (1719- $15,640 photograph James Houston Steuben Wooden Ship’s water buck- 1793) “Two British Men-o- $4,200 $812.50 America’s Cup glass sculp- et, British 19th c. War and an Admiralty yacht Model 71G floor $9,000 ture Getting Underway from model hand coffee grinder $625 Larchmont Yacht Club sil- Leghorn 1754” oil 22”x36” 1848 $3,792 Tin Taxi tobacco tip ver trophy bowl $15,500 1942 Wurlitzer model 850 $8,750 Milton Burns (1853-1933) $3,555 Hubley cast iron friendship Peacock juke box $15,000 Mauritz F. De Haas (1832- 1895) “Sunrise hove to off the Coast” oil 24”x39” $15,000 Thomas Buttersworth (1768-1828) “Off the Isle of Wight” oil 20”x24” $14,040 Samuel Crawford Nantucket Basket, c.1850 $13,800 Harold B. Simmons Maine carved eagle stern board c.1960 $13,750 Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls first edition 1940 $13,440 Durham Whiskey bottle embossed with steer 1876- 82 $12,621 Jack Spurling (1871-1933) “Square-rigged Australian Illawara Lying on her Mooring at Sunset” $12,600 Sun Valley sking poster, 1940 $12,500 Antonio Jacobson (1850- 1921) “SS Manhasset at Sea, 1893” oil 22”x36” $12,500 Henry Scott (1911-2005) “Spindrift” (Clipper under James E. Buttersworth (1817-1894) Cornelia and Rounding Buoy 8 1/2, 1874 Oil on Canvas 22 1/2” x 34 1/8,” Sold for $341,000, Bonhams, New York

13 Aurora was owned by Cornelius Oil on Canvas 24” x 36” $40,000 36” x 24” Canvas on Oil Winsome . They were all designed and built by Herreshoff. Istalena was owned by George Pynchon and Winsome, by Harry Lippitt. They were a common sight Racing in Long Island Sound, 1907 Long in Racing

Istalena and Istalena

in 1907 and owned by Charles Harkness of New York. There were only three K Class vessels built. Aurora , They were Vanderbilt. seen racing on Long Island Sound during the first decade of the twentieth century. and

Aurora Agawa that was launched Istalena dueling on Long Island Sound in 1907. Aurora to windward receives a nice lift that may help Aurora and Don Demers (b. 1956) A Lift to Windward – K Class Sloop This powerful painting by Don Demers demonstrates why he is considered one of the leaders of today’s genera - tion of Marine Artists. It portrays two K Class , As the vessels beat to windward in a southwest breeze, her make the mark first. Following along behind the 85 ft. sloops is the steam yacht

14 Upcoming Marine Art Exhibitions and Events Around the Globe

ART PRIZE from the real, and to shed light on the CHINA OF THE MOST FASHIONABLE Milton, MA Annual competition and exhibit of art seriousness of this crime pervading SORT: Chinese Export Porcelain in 617-696-1815 • forbeshousemuseum. from around the world spread over 3 the art world. Colonial America org sq. miles in downtown Grand Rapids, The Mariner’s Museum 19th c. export porcelain ceramics from Gibson House Museum MI, where the public votes to choose Newport News, VA China with histories related to Virginia. Boston, MA one of two $200,000 grand prize win- 800-581-7245 • marinersmuseum.org DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts 617-267-6338 • thegibsonhouse.org ners. Through April 26 Museum Gore Place Art Prize Colonial Williamsburg Waltham, MA Grand Rapids, MI BOOTHBAY REGIONAL HISTORICAL Williamsburg, VA 781-894-2798 • goreplace.org artprize.org SOCIETY 757-229-1000 • history.org/history/ Ipwich Museum’s Heard House September 23 – October 11 Paintings and ship models, nautical museums Ipwich, MA instruments, traps and gear as well New permanent exhibit 978-356-2811 • ipwichmuseum.org BASCOVE/BRIDGES: Transporting as ancient artifacts bring to light the Phillips House the Metropolis coastal history of the region. CHINA TRADE TRAIL Salem, MA 32 paintings and drawings celebrat- Boothbay Regional Historical Exotic goods and works of art collect- 978-744-0440 • historicnewengland. ing New York City bridges by widely Society ed by wealthy Boston area merchants org/historic-properties/homes/Phillips- collected contemporary artist Anne Boothbay, ME and preserved in historic homes and house/phillips-house Bascove. 207-633-0820 • boothbayhistorical.org sites around Boston document the Salem Maritime National Historic Noble Maritime Collection Ongoing history of trade with China and the Site Staten Island, NY Far East. Salem, MA 718-447-6490 • noblemaritime.org CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MARINE Ongoing 978-740-1650 • nps.gov/sama Through July 12 ARTISTS Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House Shirley-Eutis House 31st annual exhibition of maritime Gloucester, MA Roxbury, MA B is for BUTTERSWORTH, F is for scenes by members of the CSMA, 978-283-0800 • historicneweng- 617-442-2275 • shirleyeutishouse.org FORGERY including Pat Burstall, John Horton, land.org/historic-properties/homes/ 35 paintings by James E. Buttersworth Peter Rindlishbacher, Ray Warren Beauport/beauport THE COAST & THE SEA: Marine and (1817-1894) from the museum’s col- and others. Cushing House Museum and Maritime Art in America lection, including 16 from the Rudolph Canadian Society of Marine Artists Garden Over 50 of the best marine paintings & Janet Schaefer collection of mari- Picton, ON, CANADA Newburyport, MA from 1750-1940, as well as scrimshaw time paintings, and one fake, encour- 613-476-1177 • ultramarine.ca 978-462-2681 • newburyhist.org and other maritime artifacts from the ages viewers to detect the forged May 2 – through the summer Forbes House Museum New York Historical Society collec- tion document the formative years of United States of American and the vital role the sea had in the country’s development. Portland, ME 207-775-6148 • portlandmuseum.org April 26 The Mattatuck Museum Waterbury, CT 203-753-0381 mattatuckmuseum.org June 6 – September 13 The New York State Museum Albany, NY, 518-478-5877 • nysm.nysed.gov October 24 – February 22, 2016

DIRECTOR’S CUT: Selections from the Maine Art Museum Trail Major works of art from museums around Maine, including works and studio artifacts of Winslow Homer, Monhegan Island, Ogunquit Museum of American Art and artists. Portland Museum of Art Portland, ME May 21 – September 20

FRAGILE WATERS: Photography by Ansel Adams, Ernest H. Brooks II and Dorothy Kerper Monnelly Maritime Museum of San Diego San Diego, CA 619-234-9153 ext. 101 MARINE ART AT THE OCEAN HOUSE asdmaritime.org September 8 – December 17 March 15 through September, 2015 4th Annual Exhibition and Sale of over 30 paintings by the world’s leading marine artists from the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery at the historic Ocean House Resort, America’s #1 Resort Hotel (Travel and Leisure 2014). Watch Hill, RI • 401-584-7000 • oceanhouse.com Continued on next page

15 John Barber (b. 1947) Twilight Calm, Skipjacks Dredging Oysters on the Chesapeake Bay Oil on Canvas 11” x 17” $5,800

FROM SHORE TO SHORE Oklahoma City, OK 011-44-133 264 1920 making, and videos celebrate Nova Celebrating the opening of a brand new 405-236-3100 • okcmoa.com derby-college.ac.uk Scotia’s connection to the sea and wing of the Suffolk County Historical February 13 – May 10 June 26 through September 6 coastline. Society’s museum, originally founded Reading Public Museum Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in 1886, over 50 original paintings Reading, PA A LIFE AQUATIC: Halifax, NS, CANADA ship models and artifacts related to 610-371-5850 Don Frey Retrospective 902-424-5280 the history of Long Island and Long readingpublicmuseum.org series of artgalleryofnovascotia.ca Island Sound, curated in conjunction June 6 – September 7 global shipwrecks and submerged, Ongoing with the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery including a wreck from 1305 BC by in Fairfield, CT, artists include Peter INTERNATIONAL MARITIME acclaimed photographer and videog- MARINE AND FISHING ART Arguimbau, Nicholas Berger, Brec MUSEUM of rapher Don Frey. By the leading artists from America, Morgan, Sergio Roffo, Christopher A remodeled 10-storey warehouse Minnesota Maritime Museum and New Zealand. Paintings, Blossom, and many more. in the harbor of Hamburg German Winona, MN sculpture, ship models and Suffolk County Historical Society houses exhibitions covering 3000 507-474-6626 • mmam,org scrimshaw by Anthony Blake, Riverhead, NY years of mankind’s maritime history, Through April 26 Christopher Blossom, Don Demers, 631-727-2881 • suffolkcountyhistori- replete with navigational instruments, James Griffiths, Ian Marshall, Victor calsociety.org sea charts, and a multitude of arti- LOOKING EAST Mays, John Mecray, , April 19 – September 18 (Wed.-Sat. facts, paintings by well know marine Paintings by 28 members of Plein- Leonard Mizerek, James Prosek, 10:00-4:30) artists, and ship models, including Air Painters of America, including Keith Reynolds, Arthur Shilstone, a Phoenician and a Roman Christopher Blossom, Don Demers, John Stobart, Robert Weiss INGRAINED: The Art of the , to Viking dragon boats, and Joe McGurl, George Strickland and and others. Shipcarver ships to the last of the windjam- others. J. Russell Jinishian Gallery Whimsical carved figureheads and mers with many models made of ivory, Cape Cod Art Museum 1899 Bronson Road ornaments, as well as the tools of amber, silver and gold. Dennis, MA 203-259-8753 woodcaver Edbury Hatch. Internationles Maritimes Museum 508-385-4477 • ccmoa.org jrusselljinishiangallery.com Maine Maritime Museum Hamburg June 2 - August 30 Ongoing Bath, ME Hamburg, 207-443-1316 49(0)40-3009-2300 • immhh.de MAKING THE BEST OF IT: The Spirit MARINE ARTISTS IN WINTER mainemaritimemuseum Ongoing and Work Ethic of Maritime People 125 small winter-themed maritime Through July 6 Photographs and artwork, including paintings by 51 artists of the Maritime JOHN STOBART: An Artistic Journey work by contemporary Maine artists, Gallery at Mystic Seaport, including INTENT TO DECEIVE: Fakes and from Derby Across the Atlantic convey the spirit of Downeasters David Bareford, Neal Hughes, Victor Forgeries in the Art World 25 Paintings from the artist’s earliest working on and near the water. Mays, and others. Masterpieces alongside fakes painted drawings at school to the master- Maine Maritime Museum Maritime Art Gallery by the most notorious forgers of the pieces of marine art that have made June 6 – November 11 Mystic Seaport Museum 20th and 21st centuries, including Han him the most celebrated marine artist Mystic, CT van Meegeren, Eric Hebborn, John, in the world today. MAKING WAVES: Works from the 888-973-2767 • mysticseaport.org Myatt, Mark Landis, and others. Derby Museum and Art Gallery Permanent Collection Through April 19 Oklahoma City Museum Derby College of Art Over 40 historic and contemporary Derby, England paintings, sculpture, folk art, print- 16 MARINE, , agement and research. hero, and traces the history of the IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN ART Maritiem Museum Royal Navy and its influence on every- REFLECTIONS Significant marine-related paintings by Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS day life in Britain. 2015 regional exhibition of recent Matisse, Van Gogh, Monet, Cezanne, 31 90)10 413 2680 • maritiemmu- works by members of the American Renoir, Cassatt, Picasso, Homer, seum.nl Greenwich, ENGLAND Society of Marine Artists. Cole, Bierstadt, Hassam, Glackens, New permanent exhibit 44(0)20 8858 4422 • rmg.co.uk Gadsden Arts Center Singer Sargent and others. New permanent gallery Quincy, FL Minnesota Marine Art Museum MODEL SHIP GALLERY & CARFERRY 850-875-4866 • gadsdenarts.org Winona, MN EXHIBIT OVER LIFE’S WATERS: The Coastal Through June 20 507-474-6626 • mmam,org Scale models, half hulls, quarter- Art Collection of Charles and Irene Through December 31 boards, and dioramas trace the his- Hamm ROYAL SOCIETY OF MARINE tory of Great Lakes sailing ships and 93 works of art depicting American ARTISTS MARINE PAINTINGS BY JOHN freighters. coasts, including New York Annual exhibition of recent works cel- MECRAY Wisconsin Maritime Museum Harbor, Old Mystic, Connecticut, ebrating the sea by members of the 11 paintings by acclaimed yachting Manitowoc, WI Monhegan, Maine and Swampscott, RSMA. artist John Mecray from the collection 920-684-0218 Massachusetts by Thomas Hart Mall Galleries of Reginald H. Fullerton, Jr. on public wisconsinmaritime.org Benson (1889-1975), William Bradford London, ENGLAND exhibition for the first time. Subjects Ongoing (1823-1892), William Partridge Burpee 020 7930 6844 • mallgalleries.org.uk range from the great yachts Westward, (1846-1940), (1882- October 14 – 25 Stormy Weather, and to New MODERN MARINE MASTERS 1971). York Harbor. Sponsored by Redwood EXHIBITIONS Charles and Irene Hamm Gallery SARGENT: Portraits of Artists and Library and Athenaeum and IYRS Original paintings, drawings, sculp- New Britain Museum of Art Friends School of Technology. ture, scrimshaw and ship models by 860-229-0257 • nbmaa.org Over 100 unconventional portraits of Redwood Library and Athenaeum. the finest national and international Opens Fall 2015 friends and contemporaries by John Newport, RI marine artists. Singer Sargent, exploring his relation- 401-847-0292 • redwoodlibrary.org Maritime Art Gallery OVER THERE: Posters from: World ship with Robert Louis Stevenson, March 7 – October 18 Mystic Seaport Museum War I , Auguste Rodin and May 17 – July 19 50 posters commemorate the centen- others in Boston, London, Paris and MARITIME MUSEUM BACKSTAGE nial of the outbreak of WWI used to , and their influence on his art. Matanō, the oldest model ship in NELSON, NAVY & NATION: The encourage enlistment in the armed National Portrait Gallery Western Europe, and the Burgerhout Royal Navy and the British People, services, buy war bonds, conserve London, ENGLAND Panorama triptych, the largest mari- 1688-1815 food, and support the Red Cross. 44 020 7306 0055 • npg.org.uk time painting in the Netherlands, are Historic artworks, paintings, objects, Museum of Fine Arts Boston Through May 25 the centerpieces of an exhibit of art and artifacts from the museum’s col- Boston, MA and objects pursuing the themes of lection chronicles the life of Horatio 617-267-9300 • mfa.org collecting, restoration, collection man- Nelson (1758-1805), legendary British Through June 14

Don Demers (b. 1956) On the Morning , the Benjamin Packard in New York Harbor Oil on Canvas 20” x 30” $36,000

17 SCULPTURE BY THE SEA, AARHUS ture, scrimshaw and ship models by Farge (1835-1910), as well as sea- U.S. MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY A juried show of three kilometers of the finest national and international scapes and ship portraits from the MUSEUM sculptures of various shapes, sizes, marine artists. Chinese and French schools. Ship models, historic and modern materials, and themes, along the Maritime Art Gallery Noble Maritime Collection maritime paintings, historic and mod- shore, in the water, and near the Mystic Seaport Museum Staten Island, NY ern navigational tools and historical forest by artists from more than 20 Mystic, CT 718-447-6490 • noblemaritime.org artifacts. countries. 888-973-2767 • mysticseaport.org Through May 15 U.S. Merchant Marine Academy AROS Aarhus Kunstmuseum September 21 – December 31 Museum Tangkrogen, Aarhus, DENMARK J.M.W. TURNER SET FREE Kings Point, NY 45 40 31 00 01 • sculpturebythesea.dk Over 60 important oil paintings and 516-726-6047 • usmma.edu/museum June 15 – July 15 THE THOMPSON COLLECTION OF watercolors focus on J.M.W. Turner’s Ongoing SHIP MODELS (1775-1851) later and most innovative 6:30AM, ROBERT WEINGARTEN Over 130 historic ship models span- years, 1835-1851. THE WAPPING GROUP OF ARTISTS 5 large-scale, luminous photographs ning 350 years including dockyard The J. Paul Getty Museum Over 100 plein air paintings of a of a single view overlooking Santa models made to scale for the British Lost Angeles, CA variety of scenes along the Thames Monica Bay taken at 6:30am over Royal Navy, and prisoner of war mod- 310-440-7300 • getty.edu from Henley to the Thames Estuary, the course of one year capture the els from the Napoleonic Wars, to Through May 24 including London’s riverfront by 25 ephemeral nature of light and condi- battleships and tugboats, tankers and members of this long-established art- tion. ocean liners. 22ND ANNUAL MARITIME ART ists group. Art Gallery of Ontario EXHIBITION Minster Gallery Salem, MA Toronto, Ontario, CANADA Juried exhibition of recent works Winchester, Hampshire, UK 978-745-9500 • pem.org 877-225-4246 spanning 350 years by today’s finest maritime artists, 44- 1962 877601 • minstergallery.com Through May 31 ago.net with featured artist Frank Gaffney, Oct. 24 - 31 Ongoing American Society of Marine Artist Mall Galleries STRANDBEEST: The Dream member. London, ENGLAND Machines of Theo Jansen THE TRAVELER’S EYE: Scenes of Coos Art Museum 020 7930 6844 • mallgalleries.org.uk The first major exhibition in the U.S. Asia Coos Bay, OR February 2016 of “beach animals” (strandbeest), the Over 100 paintings, woodblock prints, 541-267-3901 • coosart.org legendary kinetic sculptures designed scrolls, archaeological drawings, July 11 – September 26 WIND-SHIPS: Cargo Vessels in the and constructed on the Dutch sea- maps, and photographs bring to light Last Days of Sail coast. over five centuries of trade voyages 27th ANNUAL SCRIMSHAW 19th c. portraits of North American Peabody Essex Museum and tourist trips throughout Asia. WEEKEND ANTIQUE SHOW AND , , , and full- September 19 – January 3, 2016 Sackler Gallery SWAP rigged ships in foreign ports. Smithsonian Institute Organized by noted Scrimshaw The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery TATOOS AND SCRIMSHAW: The Art Washington, DC Authority Stuart M. Frank. This annual St. John’s, NL, CANADA of the Sailor 202-633-1000 • si.edu weekend brings together scrimshaw 709-757-8040 • therooms.ca Images of sailors’ body art, as well as Through May 31 collectors, authorities, enthusiasts, Ongoing sailors’ scrimshaw on whale tooth and historians, and makes to discuss and whale bone depicting women, marine, TREASURES OF SAILOR’S SNUG review issues related to this ancient WOOD ENGRAVINGS of Winslow and scenes. HARBOR sailors’ art, includes a marine antique Homer Maritime Museum of San Diego Paintings, ship models, and artifacts show and swap. Arguably America’s greatest marine San Diego, CA from the Sailor’s Snug Harbor Trust New Bedford Whaling Museum painter, Winslow Homer (1836- Through 2015 Collection on public view for the first New Bedford, MA 1910) was also a prolific Printmaker, time. Included are works by Antonio 508-997-0046 • whalingmuseum.org this exhibition includes his nautical 36TH ANNUAL MYSTIC Jacobsen (1850-1921), James Stuart May 15, 16, 17 scenes, and civil war INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION Blackton (1875-1941), Samuel Finley prints, complemented by Homer paint- Original paintings, drawings, sculp- Morse Badger (1873-1919), John La ings from the museum’s collection. Minnesota Marine Art Museum Winona, MN (507) 474-6626 mmam.org April 15 through August 7

THE WORLD OF SHIPS IN MINIATURE An illustrated lecture on the process, technique and aesthetic of creat- ing miniature ship models by Lloyd McCaffery, foremost authority on min- iature ship model building and wood carving. New Bedford Whaling Museum New Bedford, MA 508-997-0046 • whalingmuseum.org May 7

WWII: A Local Artist’s Perspective Watercolors of Normandy and Germany depicting the war experi- ence of Henry Jay MacMillan (1908- 1991), U.S. soldier, who served in the 62nd Engineer Topographic Company of the XIX Corps during World War II. Cape Fear Museum Wilmington, NC 910-798-4370 • capefearmuesum. com Through April 25 Betsey Rice (b. 1947) Sea and Urchin in Kelp Bed Stoneware 32” x 17” x 9” $5,000

18 Steven Dews (b.1949) The China Tea Clipper in the Moonlight Oil on Canvas 24” x 36” $65,000 The 280’ iron-hulled fully-rigged clipper ship Blackadder was launched from London, England on February 1, 1870 into the Far East tea trade and later wool trade between Australia and London until she was wrecked at Bahia in 1905. Best known for his dramatic action-packed scenes of classic yachting which have realized record prices for a living artist at auction ($274,640 in 2012). Steven Dews shows his ability to capture the brilliance of the moonlight reflection on the sea.

Continued from page 7 price of admission. Well, there is no price of His painting of a Maine lobsterboat “Skirting the sub. admission. But they’re well worth viewing. the ” was featured on the cover of the We recently attended another World Premier February 2015 Soundings magazine, inside In the late spring of 2014 Don held his first Exhibition. This one in Annapolis, Maryland also included paintings of Maine by Robert one man exhibition of his marine paintings at the U.S. Naval Academy Museum. “U.S. Dance, Loretta Krupinski, Ian Marshall, and in over five years at the J. Russell Jinishian Navy Ships of War 1898-1991,” an exhibition Christopher Blossom. Look for a full length Gallery in Fairfield, Connecticut. A door- of forty stunning watercolors/gouache paint- article on Don later this year in an upcoming busting crowd was on hand as the paintings ings by -based artist Jim Griffiths issue of Plein Air Magazine. And if you’d like were first dissected by Don for the audience depicting a history of the U.S. Navy and its to hear Don talk about his artwork to other art- via slides of them as he described why he vessels from the Spanish American War in ists, catch his recent 40 minute radio interview placed a certain figure here or a highlight there 1898 to the First Gulf War in 1991. (For those on the program “Artists Helping Artists” avail- to direct the viewer’s eye. This was followed wondering, gouache is a water-based medium able on Blogtalk Radio (www.blogtalkradio/ by a true unveiling of the original paintings, akin to watercolor. The only difference is that artistshelpingartists) which had been carefully covered in fabric until watercolor is transparent. Gouache is opaque, that moment, adding a little artistic drama and What’s Chris Blossom been up to these days? more like a specialized poster paint. It’s used accompanied by spontaneous applause from Well, he’s just completed a fascinating commis- a lot by illustrators and artists doing extreme the appreciative crowd. It was a wonderful eve- sion of the capture of U-505, the only German detailed work because they can go over and ning and a true celebration of the most recent submarine taken by the United States during refine what they first laid down, which you accomplishments by one of America’s leading World War II, and the first ship captured by the can’t do with transparent watercolors.) Jim, artists working today in any category. Navy since the War of 1812. She was taken on a of Amherst College and the Los West Africa Other projects of Don Demers have included the surface on June 4, 1944 off Angeles College of Art, has been well known participation in the “Masters of the American in the Atlantic and towed into Bermuda where around the country for 35 years for his evoca- West” 2015 exhibition held at the Autry her crew was interned and her codebooks tive paintings of clipper ships on the high Museum in Los Angeles, California, along and enigma machines removed. In 1954 she in the manner of his artistic mentor Carl Evers. Museum of Science and with fellow marine painter Christopher was donated to the But his secret passion has always been steel Industry Chicago Blossom; the publication of two new limited in , where she is now on ships of the U.S. Navy, which for the past twen- edition giclée prints by Greenwich Workshop display as a national memorial to the 55,000 ty years he has painted primarily for himself, “Working Through the Fog” and “Nantucket U.S. sailors who died at sea during WW II. and literally stored them unframed in a flat file Hunt and Kill Twilight” (for information visit www.green- You can read all about it in by in his studio. This exhibition changed all that. Theodore Savor Clear the Decks wichworkshop.com); an offering of a lim- , and (1951) The U.S. Naval Academy Museum, which has Daniel ited edition giclée on canvas “Shipping off by the capturing squadron’s commander undergone an extensive refit, primarily displays V. Gallery the Battery, New York” by the The New York . Chris painted his account of the its permanent collection of naval paintings, Times Store (visit www.nytimes.com/Store). capture for the son of the EXO of the Destroyer artifacts and the world famous Rogers Ship escort Jenks which was credited with capturing Model Collection, the premier collection of

19 original 18th century ship models in the world. appeared in 1991; and a large painting which housed for many years. Past the canon from However, it recently built a small gallery for Jim calls “Instrument of Policy” depicting the the HMS Confiance from the battle of Lake changing exhibitions lasting three months in nuclear aircraft career USS Harry S. Truman Champlain September 11, 1814. Then to the duration. At the opening, Jim took a rapt audi- in 2004, nearly 1100 ft. long and a 4 ¼ acre Chase-Lloyd House, where Edward Lloyd’s ence through the gallery painting by painting, flight deck. Today it carries 6250 men and youngest daughter married Francis Scott Key, displaying his own encyclopedic knowledge women and patrols the world. A symbol of U.S. author of the “Star Spangled Banner,” and of U.S. Naval history. The exhibition began naval might. While it’s true that most of Jim’s who graduated from St. John’s College right with the Great White Fleet, including the sec- military paintings had not been seen, in 2000 he down the street. Also on the street is a historic ond Maine built in 1901 after the first Maine was commissioned by the U.S. Postal Service Maryland State House with many items rel- blew up in Havana Harbor to start the Spanish to create paintings for the booklet of stamps evant to historic Annapolis on display; and St. American War in February 1898, to the USS they published to celebrate the 100th anniver- Ann’s Episcopal Church, where Key attended New Jersey on the eve of World War in 1916. sary of the U.S. Submarine Service. One of services. You can get information on the tour There were a great many ships of World War these paintings of a Gato Class submarine and just up the street from City Dock, or down the II: amphibious assault ship Eldorado in camou- a book of stamps is included in the exhibition. street from Annapolis Yacht Club at the his- flage, 1944; the air craft carrier USS Yorktown Annapolis Foundation Although it ended in June, it may reappear at a toric (Annapolis.org). as she appeared in 1945; and a depiction of the museum again. We will keep you posted. But it Take a walk by the City Dock, advance to the Battle of Savo Bay, a night battle so ferocious United still can be viewed online in its entirety, com- Naval Academy where you will find the and fierce that sailors referred to it as “a bar- States Sailing Hall of Fame plete with lengthy descriptions of each painting now housed in room brawl”; and the escort carrier USS Block and ship at jrusselljinishiangallery.com. a small house, but with ambitious plans to Island on May 29, 1944 which, while tracking expand along the waterfront with the help of a U-boat in the Atlantic, was hit by three tor- The City of Annapolis in conjunction with the sailing’s greatest promoter, Annapolis resident, pedoes and sunk—with Jim’s father aboard. As U.S. Naval Academy has actually set up a few Gary Jobson. If anybody can make it happen, Jim told it, every year on the anniversary of the exhibitions and a ten stop walking tour through- he can. Visit nfhof.org for more information ship’s sinking, his father would sit quietly with out historic downtown Annapolis all related to about their programs and future plans. a drink looking at the table before him on which the War of 1812 and the U.S. Navy (visit www. You’ll also want to stop by the Annapolis he had placed an oil soaked dollar bill that had watermarkjourney.com). It begins in Mahan Marine Art Gallery, which among its gen- been in his pocket that day. What’s significant Hall where the U.S. Navy trophy flag collection eral maritime offerings is a retail source for about the dates in Jim’s paintings is that he is on view. The collection was begun by an Act limited edition prints by Chesapeake Bay boat painted ships exactly as they were configured of Congress in 1814, it now houses more than painter, John Morton Barber whose newest on a specific month, day and year of their 600 American and captured foreign flags. The edition print, “Moonrise Over Annapolis” is a career. Guns were constantly being changed, tour then takes you through town; past the HMS nighttime view of downtown Annapolis from rigs changed, etc. All this information Jim cap- Macedonian monument, which includes a fig- atop the Maryland end looking down Main tures and distills into his paintings. Without an urehead of Alexander the Great off the HMS Street toward the City Dock and Spa Creek in artist like Jim, many of these ships would exist Macedonian. (The Macedonian was defeated the distance. Visible in the scene are some of only as photographs stuck in the pages of books by the USS United States under the command Annapolis’s recognizable landmarks: the dome about the history of the Navy, and not brought of Stephen Decatur, Jr. on October 25, 1812, of the State House, the Naval Academy Field to life in vivid color to enjoy and appreciate and and was later commissioned into the U.S. House, St. Mary’s Church, and Chesapeake admire along with the men and women who Navy as the USS Macedonian.) Past the U.S. Bay Bridge. The print is available on paper, served on them. Naval Academy museum, which in addition to its magnificent collection, houses the famous 12”x22” in an edition of 500 for $160; or a The exhibition also included portraits of newer “Don’t Give Up the Ship” battle flag flown dur- 14”x26” print on canvas in an edition of 50 for ships are including, USS America as she ing the battle of , September 10, 1813 $675 at annapolismarineart.com. appeared in 1980; the SS Tripoli a helicopter by Commodore Oliver Perry aboard Another East Coast stop for art lovers is assault carrier which did two tours in the USS Niagara. On to what was formerly the the Brandywine River Museum of Art in and saw action in the First Gulf War; and the Joseph Nicholson home in which the original Chaddsford, Pennsylvania where you’ll see amphibious assault career USS Tarawaa as she manuscript for the “Star Spangled Banner” was panoramic views of the Brandywine River and

Robert Dance (b. 1934) Winnipesaukee Morning, Lake Winnipesaukee, NH Alkyd on Panel 15” x 36” $17,500

20 Richard Loud (b. 1945) America’s Cup 1886, vs. in New York Bay Oil on Canvas 24” x 36” $32,000

countryside, permanent exhibitions featuring formerly on display at the U.S. Naval Academy ago for us to appreciate and admire today and paintings by three generations of Wyeths, Museum. With 31 completed and 11 more into the future. Readers of the May 2014 issue N.C., Andrew, and Jamie, as well as paintings planned, these remarkable, one to three inch of Wooden Boat Magazine will have seen a fine by other well known illustrators of the late 19th high boxwood wood carvings are of some of article on of Lloyd’s figurehead work. and 20th centuries like , Harvey the most famous and infamous U.S. Naval fig- Lloyd’s 2 ½ foot model of the lavishly deco- Dunn, and Rockwell Kent. You can even ureheads, from ships like the America (1749) rated Royal Barge built for King George II’s take small bus tours from the museum to the right through to the 74-gun ship USS Alabama second son Prince Frederick in 1731 is a good studios of both N.C. and Andrew Wyeth now (1864), are among the 44 gun ships of the line. example of a combination of his ship modeling designated as National Historic Landmarks. One figurehead with a fascinating story is that and carving skills. It was designed by William For more information visit www.brandywine- of Andrew Jackson for the USS Constitution. Kent, the eminent architect and museum.org. In 1834, during a refit, the full-scale, life-size furniture designer in the early 18th century. figurehead carving of Jackson was carved Down in another historic seaport, Galveston, Lloyd’s model was included in a special exhibi- and mounted on the ship. Because there was Texas, where the tall ship lives, they’re tion honoring Kent, William Kent-Designing so much political ill-will against Jackson in reorganizing the Texas Seaport Museum, in Georgian Britain at The Bard Graduate Boston, before the ship could be launched particular their exhibition of the Republic of Center Gallery in New York City in late 2013, Whig sympathizers broke into the shipyard and Texas Navy celebrating their own Battle of then to the Victoria and Albert Museum in literally decapitated the figurehead. A new head Campeche. This battle took place in late April/ London. (See our book pages for details on the was carved by another carver and placed on the early May of 1843 as a part of Texas’s fight 700 page catalog.) Karen Rosenberg wrote figurehead. The whereabouts of the original to gain independence from Mexico. It was so in the The New York Times, “The exhibition head was not discovered until 2010, and its historic that it is engraved on the cylinder of should thrill Anglophiles as least as much as the rediscovery in a box in upstate New York was every Colt 1851 Naval revolver. The exhibition return of Downton Abbey.” For Lloyd and for covered by The New York Times and History includes a cannon from Naval ship Brutus and collectors of McCaffery’s works this is another Detectives television show. a number of models of Texas Navy ships, and validation of the museum quality nature of as of late last year a painting by Alan Soukup, Lloyd has carved the original Jackson figure- what he’s been producing for nearly forty years. “The Texas Navy flagship Sloop-of-War Austin head with the replacement one, and a tiny one- Out in Minnesota the Minnesota Marine Art commanded by Commodore Edwin Ward inch version of the original head separated to Museum, built in 2006 from the ground up on Moore, and the Mexican steam paddle warship show us what it looked like. Just the research the banks of the River in Winona, Montezuma.” Museum Director Schaumberg needed to create these historic woodcarvings, continues to grow in stature. The backbone reports that the painting brings the battle to life most of which were destroyed long ago, took of the museum is the collection of Mary and “offers quality of movement and action many years. Lloyd tells me that he would not Burrichter and Robert Kierlin, which contin- not afforded by the ship models.” Information carve a figurehead based only on speculation ues to grow and add to the museum’s offerings in on the Texas seaport museum can be found at of what it looked like. He wants hard evidence, six main areas: traditional Marine Art, Hudson tsm-elissa.org. so he went to the original draughts of the ships, River School and Luminism, , writings by the ship carvers, and even studied Visitors to the maritime museum in Erie, , and Modern/Contemporary art related the style of the carvers, in particular one of the Pennsylvania, home of the sailing replica of to water. The astonishing variety of artists leading woodcarvers of the day, William Rush Perry’s flagship Niagara, can view a fascinat- you’ll be able to see at the museum include (1756-1833). This is an example of the unique ing collection of carvings of U.S. Naval figure- James Buttersworth, Antoine Roux, and ability of an artist to reach back into history heads by master miniaturist Lloyd McCaffery William Cooke, Robert Salmon, William and bring to life objects from hundreds of years

21 Bradford, Simon de Vlieger, (a granddaddy to a very impressive collection of early Dutch the symposium Randy made it available for of traditional marine artists), Thomas Cole, and German marine paintings, the museum also half that price providing that purchasers wrote , John Kensett, Thomas has a fine collection of contemporary marine a check for the other half as a donation to the Moran, Francis Silva, Claude Monet, Berthe artists including David Thimgan, Tom Hoyne, Whale Trust, Maui. Another example of a Morisot, , Pierre Auguste John Stobart, and a collection of ship models marine artist really passionate about the subject Renoir, Vincent Van Gogh, Winslow by Ed Marple. In fact, they have Marple’s ship of his work. Homer, Andrew Wyeth, , modeling studio completely intact. They’re On the big island of , scrimshander Ansel Adams, Wassily Kandinsky, Maurice still continuing to add to their collection: most turned oil painter, Bob Weiss continued to Prendergast, Piet Mondrian, John Stobart, recently a watercolor by American Society of develop his reputation throughout the islands. Tim Thompson, Louis Dodd, Paul Garnett, Marine Artists member Louis Gadal, a sailor He had a one-man exhibition of 52 paintings at Keith Reynolds and many more. Wow! For standing on the rail of a tall rigged ship look- the Wailoa Arts and Cultural Center in Hilo, their changing exhibitions see our exhibition ing wistfully out to sea. They have a variety of Hawaii. Subject matter included the flora and pages for the most exhibitions or visit interesting programs and exhibitions through- fauna, the landscapes and , the birds, mmam.org. out the year. More information can be found at and even the industrial and old plantation build- cimmvc.org, or on our exhibition pages. In America it has always been the case that pri- ings in Hawaii. So it seems that Bob is off and vate collectors and their collections have driven California is also home to sculptor Randy flying on his new career. the development of museums, whether they Puckett who for forty years with singleminded If you find yourself in Hawaii at the Kauai Mini have been private foundations like Isabella devotion has been researching and sculpting Golf and Botanical Gardens you will come Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the whales and marine mammals, from tabletop across signs throughout the Botanical Gardens Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, or large versions to the gigantic life-size breaching used to educate visitors on Hawaiian island national institutions like the humpback bronze seen in front of the corporate evolution and culture. On one of them you’ll of Art supported by the Mellon family. Today offices of the Pacific Life Corporation in see a reproduction of Cooper Hart’s water- collectors across the country have continued in Newport Beach, California. Recently Randy color “Captain Cook Arriving at Kealakekua that tradition in all areas of art, from Western traveled to Maui, Hawaii to participate in the Bay, Hawaii in 1778,” showing Cook arriving and Wildlife to photography and ceramics. Whale Tales a symposium on whale research near the harbor with native craft coming out to Thanks to places like the Minnesota Museum of global-wide, and a fundraiser for whale great him. Another case of an artist bringing Marine Art, our maritime heritage art and histo- research in Hawaii. Speakers were a National to life a significant moment in the history of ry are continuing to be preserved and displayed Geographic photographer Flip Nicklun, sperm maritime culture. for people to appreciate and understand it. whale expert Dr. Harold Whitehead, and Linblad’s Ralph Lee Speaking of the recreating of the maritime his- Out west in Ventura, California the Channel expedition photographer Hopkins tory of the Pacific, how’s this for an adventure? Islands Maritime Museum, which started . Randy had several whale sculptures Anthony (A.D.) Blake and his wife Fiona with the collection of Harry and Joyce on display, including his first new piece in four recently sailed an 80 foot catamaran to . Nelson, moved after twenty years to a new and years entitled “Joy” a pair of humpback whales In the course of the cruise they visited Robert expanded space right on the harbor in Oxnard, celebrating life in that beautiful blue patina Louis Stevenson’s house in Apia, , the entrance to the Channel Islands. In addition that Randy’s work has become so well known for, in a limited edition of 350 for $2,250. At where Stevenson lived for the last six years

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A stunning catalog to an exhibition that Brilliant watercolor portraits of 75 wild specific ship types in the collection is the first to explore J.M.W. Turner’s freshwater species from South America, of the National Maritime Museum in Sorolla and America lifelong preoccupation with the sea, and Africa, Asia, and Australia by naturalist Greenwich, England. Blanca Pons Sorolla and Mark A Roglán places the artist in the context of the fish painter Flick Ford, with descrip- Ediciones el Viso America traditional marine painters Willem de tive text, anecdotes, and directions on Scantlings of Royal Navy Hardcover ISBN: 9786078310012 van de Velde the Younger and Claude- how to create natural habitats for the Ships, 1719-1805 340 p $47.13 To order: amazon.com Joseph Vernet, as well as a discussion of sustainability of each species. 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25 Jim Griffiths (b. 1947) Instrument of Policy, CVN-75 USS Harry S. Truman, Persian Gulf, December, 2004 Gouache 19 1/2” x 31” $10,000 The painting depicts the USN nuclear aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) running in the Persian Gulf in December, 2004. With Carrier Air Wing 3 aboard, the ship launched thousands of combat missions over Iraq as well as maritime security ops before being relieved in March, 2005. The USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), also known as ‘HST’ within the Navy, was launched in September, 1996 and commissioned in July, 1998. She is the eighth Nimitz- class carrier and is named after the 33rd president. With a length just shy of 1,100 ft. and a 4 1/2 acre flight deck, she can accommodate some 80 aircraft; with a combat load Truman can carry some 6,250 crew members. She has deployed all over the world and has provided air support from the 2nd Iraq war to the cur- rent day with operations supporting our troops in Afghanistan. The extraordinary amount of minute historically accurate detail incorporated into this painting is what distinguishes the artist as one of the finest painters of modern Naval ves- sels working today.

Continued from page 9 collectors rarely plotted the value of their art the As Michael Moses, whose company Beautiful What else can you do with paintings worth $50 same way they do their homes or stock portfo- Asset Advisors tracks the art market and helped million or $100 million? Well, if you’re Steven lios. But more and more people are looking at set up the Moses Index, says, “The price is not A. Cohen, owner of SAC Capital Advisors their collections in the same terms as their other the price because the guarantor has bought it who agreed to pay fines of $1.8 billion to settle assets. Art has become an international com- and gotten a discount and there’s no longer any an insider trading case, you can sell some of modity because the values are so high, and so transparency in the market.” your Contemporary Art collection (He made are the returns.” Just who are these people who are driving the $88 million at one auction), and buy a Picasso Stephen Winn What’s the real math here? Well, for example, prices of art so high, helping to create this from casino owner for $155 a painting by British painter Francis Bacon financial art “other world”? Well, according to million. Just another day at the office. (1909-1992) “Three Studies for a Portrait of Moses and his Mei Moses Art Index, “There Or if you’re Mark Dreier, a Manhattan law- John Edwards,” painted in 1984, recently sold are over 2,000 billionaires worldwide. If they yer, who prosecutors call the “Houdini of at Christie’s for $80.8 million. The owner, are putting together an art collection for 10-15% Impersonation and False Documents” (now Pierre Chin, a Taiwanese billionaire, had pri- of their assets, they can invest at least $600 serving twenty years in Federal prison), you vately bought it in 2004 for $15 million. It million in art. If they’re buying at Sotheby’s used artwork as security for hundreds of mil- had previously sold at auction in 2001 for $4.4 for their collection, they’ll reach for over $100 lions of dollars of fake promissory notes to million. When it sold at Christie’s it had a guar- million. That’s not unusual given their rela- hedge funds. anteed buyer at $80 million. tive wealth.” Why such high prices for Post- All this exchange of money and assets has War and Contemporary Art, like Pollock and This might be called a “win-win.” But not to an raised some regulatory issues, particularly in Warhol? Well listen to David Kusin, former investor like Loeb who wrote in a public letter New York where annual art sales are estimated Metropolitan Museum of Art curator, now to Sotheby’s Chief Executive Officer William to be about $8 billion a year. The last time any running Kusin & Company in Dallas, a con- F. Ruprecht, “It’s been Sotheby’s who’s most changes were made to any regulations regard- sulting firm specializing in the economics of the aggressively competed on margin, often by ing auctions or galleries was two decades ago. art market. “Hedge-fund managers aren’t inter- rebating all the seller’s commission and in cer- Many people are raising a call for more regula- ested in 19th century American. People who tain instances much of the buyer’s premium to tion for what has been a very opaque industry. buy American paintings are solid, rational peo- consigner’s of contested works.” This system James R. Hedges IV, New York collector ple with lots of money and good taste. They’re has Loeb pushing his own agenda at Sotheby’s. and financier said, “The art world feels like not buying as an investment. Contemporary Art We’ll keep you posted. the private equity market of the 80s and the is so popular with a set of very rich, newly rich hedge funds of the 90s. It’s got practically no One of the concerns in this area is what happens collectors they can hang anything they want oversight or regulation.” What does he mean if a seller who’s guaranteed a certain price, and in Manhattan co-ops or in Aspen, and nobody by that? Well, there’s a forty-two year old law is also guaranteed to receive a percentage of can say that’s ugly because Contemporary Art on the books that said that all galleries in New anything in excess of that (the enhanced ham- has not been subjected to sustained critical York must have posted prices.—but just look mer price), can then either (himself or through appraisal. No markers of good or bad taste have for them the next time you visit a gallery in the a third party) simply bid’s his price up above been laid down. It’s a safe place to park your city. There have been nine bills submitted to the the guarantee? This means that there’s room for money. And if you leave the price tag dangling Legislature in Albany to ban what’s known as a lot of manipulation in the market at auction. from the frame, so much the better.” Chandelier Bidding, where an auctioneer, just Continued on page 28 26 Continued from page 19

of his life until his death at the age of 40. His in Fairfield, Connecticut. Check our website has been researching and painting the moments books, The Wrecker and the Ebbtide were writ- for details www.jrusselljinishiangallery.com. from HMS Bounty’s 1789 circumnavigation ten there. This most beautiful house is now Speaking of big boats, Dimetrious Athas tells based on the scrupulous log kept by Captain a museum. Tony tells me that he has made us that he attended the annual Labor Day William Bligh, including his incredible 3,100 a painting of the house, and plans to make a Parade of Sail in Gloucester, Massachusetts mile voyage in a small open boat to find safe companion painting of Stevenson departing Timor holds each year. Dimetrious was a guest landing on the island of . Bligh even- San Francisco aboard a schooner on his way to aboard the 35 foot Speedwell built in 1921, tually made his way to England where the Samoa as a Literary/Maritime set. Down under Pandora which led the parade, complete with bagpipers Navy dispatched the to search for Tony himself sails a 59 foot gaffed rigged cut- on board. The traditional sailing vessels taking the mutineers, several of whom had stayed ter Thelma, built in 1897, and he’s also the Past part in the parade and the subsequent race for in and had not sailed to the safety of Chairman of the New Zealand Classic Yacht Pitcairn Island the Esperanto Cup, were American Eagle who the uncharted with Fletcher Association. Of course he is best known for won the race, The Spirit of Massachusetts, Christian. The men were captured and placed his painterly and dramatic depictions of yachts Summer Wind, Liberty Clipper, , in a cage on Pandora’s deck which became of yesteryear. Big boat sailor, trained engineer, Pandora Estrela, schooner Adventure. Dimetrious has known as “Pandora’s Box.” , herself, he really has a multilevel understanding of been documenting gatherings of document- was wrecked on a reef off the coast of Australia. the complexities of the relationships between ing schooners like this for many years in his The mutineers were freed from the box only wind and sea, and boat and sail. Art crisp, almost photographic style. Among the by the efforts of the sympathetic crewmen, not lovers will know this because his painting vessels anchored in the harbor that day was the under orders of the captain who’d have just as of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company Bounty replica which went to the bottom during soon let them drown. was chosen to be on the cover of Herreshoff of Hurricane Sandy, killing her popular captain New Bedford, Massachusetts was one of the Bristol, and members of the New York Yacht and several members of the crew, including ports that the fully restored wooden whaleship Club will know his painting of the club’s first the great-granddaughter of Fletcher Christian Charles W. Morgan stopped this summer on Regatta, as it was selected to be made into a who lead the mutineers back in1789. her historic two week cruise. New Bedford print to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Whaling Museum commissioned Arthur Yacht Club. 2016 will find him with a one-man For the past twenty years, one of the original Moniz to paint the Morgan as she appeared exhibition at the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery carpenters aboard that replica, Paul Garnett in New Bedford accompanied by the schooner Continued on page 34

Patrick O’Brien (b. 1960) USS Constitution vs. HMS Cyane and HMS Levant Oil on Canvas 24” x 36” $12,500 On the hunt for British warships in the near , the USS Constitution encountered the British sloops-of-war Cyane and Levant on February 20, 1815. Although the War of 1812 had been officially over for a few days, neither side had yet learned of the treaty. The combined broadside gunnery of the two British vessels was about equal to Constitution’s, but the American cannons had a longer range than the British cannonades. The battle began as the sun was going down. After about five hours of furious gunfire and careful maneuvering, Constitution had captured the British vessels, marking the last naval battle of the War of 1812. O’Brien’s action-packed painting depicts the opening salvos of the battle. Constitution and Levant trade broadsides, while Cyane in the background attempts to sail into action. 27 Rob Wadleigh (b. 1948) Buzzard’s Bay 15, Scale Model 26” x 23”H x 9”W Scale: 3/4” $16,000 Basswood Hull, Applewood Frame, Swiss Pearwood Toe Rails/Combing, Applewood Cockpit Sole, Maplewood Spars, Nickel Chromium , Lemonwood Tiller and Crutch, Cherrywood Case and Base, Brass Hardware

Continued from page 22 to get the action in the room going, begins by they catch him? Well, over the course of two of evidence against this defendant.” One of pretending to spot bids when he’s really just years an undercover FBI agent met with Crespo Bautista’s lawyers said she was acting as an pointing at the light fixtures. It turns out it’s to arrange to purchase what was being sold as “agent” for Mrs. Marcos. And in fact, there perfectly legal.—As long as the auctioneer an “original” lithograph. Then they executed a is really a question about who owns the four stops faking it just before the item’s reserve search warrant for his gallery where they found paintings, the Philippine government or the price is met! To date, no changes have been packages of reproductions and practiced fake Marcos family. They were also never reported made to the law and not everyone believes that Chagall signatures. Crespo plead guilty to one stolen by Mrs. Marcos. Wow! regulation will do the rick. Listen to Jonathan count of the twelve count indictment. You can’t Here’s one. Kevin Sutherland, a pastor in Brown, professor at NYU’s Institute of Fine make this stuff up. Florida, was convicted of knowingly sell- Arts says, “Is there any reason to believe that How about Vilma Bautista, former aide ing forged paintings by popular modern artist regulating will be any more effective than regu- to Imelda Marcos. In the mid-1980s, four Damien Hirst that had been purchased from lating the financial market has been. Many of Impressionist paintings, among them a Claude one Byron Grace, a California lawyer who the players are identical.” Monet, disappeared from Mrs. Marcos’ Upper turned out to really be named Vincent Lopreto, What also happens when works of art become East Side townhouse. It turns out that Bautista who himself had previously been convicted so highly valued? Questions of authenticity, had taken them and kept them for twenty-five of art fraud. Grace/Lopreto agreed to testify forgery, and theft become important, and some years, until 2009 when she was running short against Sutherland in exchange for a lighter of the stories and goings on are truly astonish- of cash and sold one of them, Monet’s Water sentence in his own case. Help me Jesus! ing. Lilies, to a hedge fund manager in Switzerland This issue is not just confined to the U.S. In for $32 million. Although Bautista apparently Take for example the case of David J. Crespo, China, a painting attributed to Qi Baishi cre- admits selling the paintings, she never sent owner of Brandon Art Gallery in Madison, ated in 1946 recently sold for an astounding any money to Mrs. Marcos, or reported the Connecticut until the government accused him $65.4 million. But the artwork was never deliv- sale on her own income tax statements. One of selling Marc Chagall “lithographs” that he ered, and the bidder never paid when doubts of the prosecutors, Ted Starishevsky said in had simply cut out of a book as “original” hand emerged as to its authenticity. How hot is the his closing argument, “There’s an avalanche signed stone lithographs by Chagall. How did Chinese market? Well, in the last few years five

28 of the top selling artists’ highest prices paid at out that even that also involves honor, or lack pursued in the courts. auction in the world were Chinese artists. These of it. Recently the president of the Modigliani What about if you’re a really good forger of, are artists that virtually noone in the West has Institute (named for the Italian painter Amedeo say, Renoir paintings? You’d get caught for ever heard of. The Chinese Association of Modigliani, 1884-1920) was taken to court selling these paintings to a criminal art ring in Auctioneers found that half of the sales of and charged with knowingly authenticating 2007 and spend three years in jail. You’d come artwork in China never got completed because fake work. With Modigliani paintings selling out, what are you going to do for a living? the buyer failed to pay what was owed. As in the millions of dollars, there’s a lot at stake Well, if your name is Guy Ribes you get a call Zhang Yanua, chairwoman of the Association here. In fact, so much that a French scholar from French director Gilles Bourdos who is says, “It has something to do with the general working on a survey of Modigliani’s work, doing a film about the life of Renior, and needs environment in China. As you know, China which would by inference authenticate real some paintings by Renoir to show in the film. is still trying to build the rule of law in this Modiglianis and dismiss fake ones, gave up a Renoir paintings are intellectual property and country.” What makes it difficult is that by law part of his project after receiving anonymous copyrighted images, and can’t be just shown in in China auction houses in China are relieved death threats. It’s gotten so bad with the Keith another art form without permission and some of any responsibility of a work of art that turns Haring Foundation that nine collectors are arrangements with artist’s estates. For example, out to be fake. With Christie’s becoming the suing because ninety paintings supposedly by the film on the life of Picasso, Surviving first international auction house to be given Haring were declared counterfeit without close Picasso, in 1996, staring Anthony Hopkins, a license in 2013 to operate independently inspection or due diligence in any transparent wasn’t permitted to use images of paintings or in China, and Sotheby’s partnering with the way, costing those collectors some $40 million even quote anything that Picasso had painted Chinese auction house Beijing GeHua Art in potential profit. or said or wrote. So what went on in Director Company in 2012, means their getting closer How’s this story? Martha Fuqua bought a Bourdos’s mind? “We’re not hiring Ribes to scrutiny as to the issues of authenticity. painting in a West Virginia flea market in late make fake paintings,” he said. But he did. He Collecting art is so popular in China that 2007 for $7.00 and stuck it in a plastic trash put Ribes in a studio to create “Renoir” paint- there are more than 20 programs on Chinese bag. It was an on a napkin that said ings and had him supervise the actor Michel Television offering “Tips on Collecting.” The Renoir. In 2012 she decided to sell it at auc- Bouquet, who played Renoir, to mimic Renoir Chinese even have their own term for owners tion. It was expected to bring about $75,000. painting at his easel. Close ups of the hands or investors who drive the price of a particular The auction was postponed after the Baltimore painting “Renoirs” were really Ribes’s. Ribes artist up at auction to protect their own inter- Museum of Art stepped forward and said the is now collaborating on a book about his life est. They call it “stir frying.” As for Qi Baishi, painting had been stolen from them in 1951, with French writer Jean-Baptiste Pérétié, who Arnold Chang, who was head of the Chinese and the insurer, The Fireman’s Fund, had paid said, “The same thing that led to his conviction painting division at Sotheby’s for ten years, is the Museum $2,500 on their claim. It turned is what he is being paid legally to do.” quoted as saying, “There’s no doubt that there out to be a small painting called “On the Shore Of course, the big art movie in the last year was are far more works ascribed to Qi Baishi in the of the Seine,” painted by Renoir in 1879 at a The Monuments Men based on a book by Robert market than he could have possibly painted, French riverside restaurant—right on the spot – Edsel and Bret Witter, starring an all star cast: even in an assembly line of assistants—which for his mistress. Fuqua denied having any idea George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, he supposedly had.” According to Kou Qin, the painting might be a Renoir. “As I’m not an John Goodman, and Cate Blanchett, among director of the auction house China Guardian art historian, appraiser, collector, or dealer, I others. It’s about a group of scholars who, in regarding the fakes and non-payment by bid- lack the expertise to identify the Renoir paint- real life known as the Monuments Fine Arts ders, “Lack of honor is a problem faced by the ing’s authenticity.” However, it turns out that Program, were sent to Europe to find and whole of Chinese society.” Fuqua’s eighty year old mother was an artist save important pieces of art before they could who specialized in reproducing paintings from So how do you authenticate a work of art? be destroyed by Hitler. It’s a fascinating true Renoir and other French Impressionists. And Well, you can collect living artists. That’s fairly story of historians who become soldiers and Fuqua’s brother told a newspaper that “the easy. If you want to know if they created it, help uncover the Western world’s greatest art painting had been in the family for 50 or 60 you can simply ask them. You can collect the treasures. Over 16,000 works of art which years. All I know is that my sister did not just work of artists who are no longer alive; you had been looted by Hitler and stashed in loca- go and buy it at a flea market.” Today he claims check the provenance – the history of who’s tions, including one abandoned mine. As real he never said that, and that it “must have been owned the artwork, and when. And/or you go Monument man, Frank Stokes, then Curator of someone else using his name.” This is being to an expert, a scholar in the field. Yet, it turns ’s Fogg Museum, said to

Keith Reynolds (b. 1929) Lobstahs! Acrylic on Canvas 20” x 54” $10,500

29 President Roosevelt about the importance of $500 million dollars. Even today no one knows another way. In the The New York Times she the program, “What are we fighting for if not who stole them or where the paintings are, but said, “We were at odds with the rest of the art to save culture.” The Monument Program was the FBI now believes that mobsters, not art world, but I think we’re in a new era now. The little known before this movie. Incredibly, these thieves, stole them. In fact, one reputed mob ideals of his work are timeless and they resonate art curators were also responsible for locating boss was given a polygraph test and failed when deeply. There’s a quality of great art throughout and uncovering the largest secret stash of Nazi he was asked if he knew the whereabouts of the centuries.” gold, which eventually led to the bankruptcy of the paintings. The FBI actually believes they Some great news for Rockwell fans is that the Nazi regime! might be in the area of Philadelphia. Using the after two years of cataloging and digitizing tactic that enabled them to locate and capture Of course, it wasn’t just the Nazi regime that some 20,000 black and white photographs from Boston mobster Whitey Bulger, the FBI is has taken other people’s artwork from indi- Rockwell’s personal archive are available to be using social media to reach out to people, ask- viduals and museums. Just last year, the son viewed online at www.nrm.org under “View ing for information. The museum itself has of Hildebrand Gurlitt, an art dealer who was the Collections.” These include many reference offered a $5,000,000 reward for a tip leading to known to have worked with the Nazis, was photos Rockwell used for his enduring portraits recovery. If you have any information, contact discovered to have had 1,300 works of art of people, including him working alongside special agent Richard Lauriers at the Boston in his Munich apartment, Hildebrand Gurlitt, subjects like John Wayne, Ann Margaret, and FBI agency. who died in 1956, was among a handful of art U.S. presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, and dealers who was actually commissioned by the What else can you do with art? Well when John F. Kennedy. Nazis to “cleanse” museums and private collec- British painter Lucien Freud, grandson of More news for Rockwell fans is that movie tions of “degenerate art.” Those were works by Sigmund, died in 2011 his estate faced a huge director Lucas has announced plans to build the great Impressionist masters. It’s complicated. inheritance tax. But it was able to take advan- Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago There are many people who are still alive who tage of a special provision in British law which in 2018 to house his collection. How large is can remember and prove original ownership allows British authors, artists and collectors his collection? Well, David , public rela- of the artwork. But under German civil law to donate cultural artifacts to pay inheritance tions director for the Museum says, “If we restitution claims have to be filed within thirty tax. So they paid their inheritance tax with a only used his (Lucas’s) art we could rotate an years of a theft. The statute of limitations on any couple of paintings by Corot, Degas, and a few exhibit every six months for nine years and items that had been seized by the Nazis would sculptures. have expired in the mid-1970s. Worldwide never repeat a piece of art.” Wow! While the In the States, a new business has seen collectors governments, including the United States, are museum will include film and animation in use artwork as collateral for loans, real estate pushing Germany to return artworks, despite addition to paintings, its theme will be the art purchases and other things. The advantages the law, to the rightful owners. of storytelling—something at which Rockwell’s to this are that loans can usually be closed in art excelled. Lucas’s collection includes Of course, taking art from museums is not less than thirty days, you can retain ownership, many iconic Rockwell paintings housed at always a basis of morality. Take the case of and even have your artwork continue to hang his Skywalker Ranch. In fact, Lucas cites Romanian Radu Dogaru, a member of a gang in your home. Most lenders will lend up to Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post covers as that stole seven paintings from the Kunsthal 50% of the appraised value of the artwork. As inspiration of the themes of his earliest stories. museum in Rotterdam in 2012. Paintings Suzanne Gyorgy, Global Head of Citibank’s You can now view Lucas’s and Spielberg’s included a Picasso, Monet, a Matisse, and Art Advisor Finance Group said, “There’s Rockwell collection on line at americanart. Paul Gauguin, each worth millions of dol- definitely been a surge of people using art as si.edu/exhibitions/online/tellingstories. lars. Dogaru and his boys were suspected by collateral for loans.” the cops, but just before the sting operation The sale of Rockwell’s painting “Saving Grace” One guy who may want to take advantage of this to expose them, the undercover cop posing for over $46 million last year has put his is Jeffery Gonano of the Family Fire Sprinkler as a buyer was sniffed out by Dogaru and the artwork in a whole new price category, right business in Pennsylvania. He purchased a raffle Monet Van Gogh Warhol paintings, which he had claimed to have in his alongside , , and . ticket for $138 on the National Association possession, suddenly mysteriously disappeared. That’s all the news for this issue! for the Safeguard of Tyre UNESCO Heritage Dogaru told the court that he thought he was site. 50,000 tickets were sold, and as the stealing fakes. He then blamed it all on the winner Gonano received a 1914 painting by museum, saying that security was very lax. Lax Pablo Picasso, “Man in the Opera Hat” worth it may have been, for it took Dogaru and his $1,000,000. The 25 year-old, who received a cohorts all of a minute and a half to walk off call from the organizers in Paris saying he had with the paintings. The first thing they did after won, said of the call, “I didn’t believe it. I’m stealing the paintings was to drive into going to try to keep it. . .but I probably wouldn’t and meet with a mobster known as “George the keep it in my house.” Thief” to whom they tried, unsuccessfully, to sell the paintings. Then they ended up stuffing With an Andy Warhol painting recently sell- the art into some pillowcases and driving them ing for over $100 million, you may want to to Romania where they hid them in a suitcase know who is the next Warhol in the market? at Dogaru’s mother’s sister’s house. His mother Well, it turns out none other than Norman says that she had burned the paintings with Rockwell. In fact, Rockwell was Warhol’s small stuff used to heat the house. Then she favorite artist. Rockwell himself was excited said they were “taken away” by a “mysterious in 1952 to sell his painting “Town Meeting” to man.” No one knows the fate of the paintings. the Metropolitan Museum of Art for $100. Yet, upon searching Mrs. Dogaru’s stove ashes In December 2013 one of Rockwell’s paint- prosecutors say that they’ve found remnants of ings, “Saying Grace,” sold at Sotheby’s for $46 canvas, paint, and stretchers, etc. As the chief million. Today, collectors of Rockwell’s paint- prosecutor in the case said, “As a citizen of the ings include movie moguls Steven Spielberg world I want to believe that the paintings still and George Lucas, calling Rockwell “a great exist.” Despite the lack of a “body,” Dogaru and storyteller.” Elizabeth Goldberg, head of his gang were eventually tried and convicted by American Art at Sotheby’s said, “In some ways a Romanian court. Norman Rockwell is to American painting what Warhol is to Contemporary Art. You walk in The largest single property theft ever in the a room, you know immediately who the artist history of the United States was 13 paintings is. They’re images that people connect with that were stolen in March of 1990 from the instantly.” Laurie Norton Moffatt, Director of True Blue, Blue Whale Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston Robert Lagasse the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Honduran Mahogany 12” x 9” x 23” $2,800 estimated to be worth in the neighborhood of Massachusetts for the last 28 years put it

30 Sporting Art News Al Barnes was recently featured in Anglers Journal Magazine, in which he is profiled as the finest Flats painter in the market and universally recognized as the leader in this of Sporting Art. In the past year, Al has been bestowed with many great honors in addition to his many previous awards. Al has just recently had one of his Flats paintings accepted into the American Museum Of Fly Fishing Permanent Collection - a rare honor indeed – which puts him in company with many of Sporting Art’s Legends. Additionally, The Harvey Weil Foundation of Corpus Christi, TX (an organization supporting ongoing sportsman conservation efforts) presented Al with the distinguished ‘Living Legend’ Award. Al was recognized for his 40+ years of constant and active conservation support for organizations such as The Billfish Foundation, The Bonefish & Tarpon Trust, The International Game Fish Association, Coastal Conservation Association, Ducks Unlimited and countless other smaller, regional organizations. Stanley Meltzoff’s artwork traveled widely in 2014, with more events com- ing in 2015 & 2016. 2014 events started in March at the Museum of Florida History in Tallahassee, Florida, - an exhibition on the history of sport fishing and the impact - both culturally and economically – it has had on the great state. Noted author and angling historian Mike Rivkin was on hand for the opening to give a presentation about Florida big game fishing, its history and Arthur Shilstone (b. 1922) A Perfect Day Watercolor 18” x 24” $7,800 impact on the state and also present on Meltzoff’s work. Just a week later (March 20-23), Meltzoff’s work was featured at the 29th Annual Palm Beach As 2015 marks Arthur Shilstone’s 92nd year and more than 70 years as a International Boat Show - THE boat show of boat shows in Florida. The professional artist, there is no better way to celebrate this milestone than Bell Museum at the University of Minnesota will host a Meltzoff exhibition with the release of the book: Arthur Shilstone – A Lifetime Of Drawing in this coming summer, followed immediately after in the fall at the Coastal & Painting written by Fred Polhemus. The book is a fascinating look at the Discovery Museum on Hilton Head Island, SC. 2016 continues with a busy distinguished career Shilstone has led as both a commercial illustrator and schedule with a spring exhibition at The Neville Museum in , WI, today’s foremost Sporting Art watercolorist. The story starts with the earliest then moving immediately to The Museum Of The Earth in Ithaca, NY, start- years of Shilstone having to endure the aftermath and hardships of the Great ing in May, through October 2016. Depression, then goes on to chronicle his experience in WWII as part of The Ghost Army and The Korean Conflict as an illustrator during the Pacific With all of these recent exhibitions featuring Stanley’s work, paintings have Airlift and Evacuation. The story continues on to his illustration career, work- started to emerge more so in the market place and make themselves available ing for more than 36 national magazines, and countless companies through- for the collecting public. Some have been in private collections for decades, out the world, and finally culminates with extensive coverage of his 35-year only now becoming available for purchase. Case and point is a recent sale career in the Sporting Art field. The book includes 184 color images and text through Heritage Auctions, in which one of Stanley’s Sci-Fi Illustration accompanying each chapter of his career. works from 1954 – cover artwork for a book titled I Am Legend by Richard Matheson fetched a price of $37,500 – a significant strike price for illustra- For every sportsperson or sporting art enthusiast who has ever marveled at tion work! And two sporting works were included in the September 2014 the work of this internationally acclaimed watercolorist, the book offers a Jackson Hole Art Auction in WY, with an upland game scene recognizing a unique insight as to how this painter rose to the position as today’s premier strike price of $42,000 and a Blue work featured in Sports Illustrated Sporting Art watercolorist. Collectors and admirers of Mr. Shilstone’s work fetching well over $52,000. will develop a much broader view of the artist and the extent of his career. Collectors will have an opportunity to see artwork they have never seen Nick Mayer continues to be one of the busiest artists in the industry. One before, experience Shilstone’s paintings and those within their own col- of Nick’s prints of an Atlantic Salmon raised $2,200 at this year’s annual lection on a different level, and gain an understanding for and appreciation Atlantic Salmon Federation Dinner & Auction in New York City. Nick’s work of just how significant the contributions have been that this man has made was also featured in the 2015 gala Save The Bay exhibition in Providence, RI, throughout his distinguished and celebrated life. (see page 28) an event that raises money for the ongoing maintenance and preservation of Narragansett Bay, one of the richest and most diverse bodies of water on the East Coast. This year Nautica Inc. has licensed 12 of Mayer’s vividly detailed watercolor illustrations of Sporting Art at fish. The theme of the tees and swimwear line is “The Fish of ”. At the time of this writing, 6 tee- shirt designs have been created by Nautica, each incorporating Nick’s images of fish. The shirts will be sold domestically in Macy’s, Lord & Taylor, Belk and other large and Orvis Sandanona in Millbrook, NY in collaboration with small US retailers. Distribution will J. Russell Jinishian Gallery in Fairfield, CT present an also span across the globe includ- ongoing Exhibition and Sale featuring 50 new paint- ing China, Mexico, Australia, Korea, ings from today’s premier Sporting Artists and is open Russia, and South America. Sooner to the public. For exhibition information: jrusselljinishi- or later, we will all be proudly wear- Harley Bartlett (b. 1959) Sunday Afternoon ing Nick Mayer artwork! angallery.com and orvis.com/sandanona Oil on Canvas 30” x 40” $9,000

31 Mike Stidham spent this past year visiting many Roger Blum spent last summer Upcoming Sporting Art of his favorite fishing locations, both fishing exploring the northern woods and painting. Mike spent time in Jackson Hole, or Maine and the hallowed Exhibitions and Events WY, fishing and studying the masters of paint- waters of the Farmington River Sporting Art News ing and wildlife art – Rungius, Aspevig, and in Connecticut to gather refer- Christensen, to name just a few. Mike has been ence material and inspiration for ON FLY IN THE SALT: AMERICAN Millbrook, NY greatly influenced by these landscape painters several future works and com- SALTWATER FLY FISHING FROM 845-677-9701 and others and they have all influenced how Mike missions. Many of the works as THE SURF TO THE FLATS orvis.com/sandanona approaches his execution. After all, to use Mike’s a result of this trip were featured This multifaceted traveling and September 19-20 words, “underwater landscapes are landscapes in the 2014 Timberdoodle Club online exhibition will showcase nonetheless, just with different rules as it pertains art exhibition in Temple, NH. and chronicle the history of SPORTING & MARINE ART to light and motion.” These external influences Roger makes a concerted effort American saltwater fly fishing EXHIBITION from its early European roots to Mott & Chace - Sothebys its current popularity. International Realty American Museum of Fly Fishing Watch Hill, RI Manchester, VT 401-315-0808 802-362-3300 • amff.com mottandchace.com Ongoing Through December 31

THE ORVIS GAME FAIR AND CONTEMPORARY SPORTING ART COUNTRY SPORTING WEEKEND MASTERS The Sportsman’s Palette exhibi- Featuring over 150 original tion will be on full display dur- paintings and sculptures by ing the two-day event and will leading artists. continue through the year with J. Russell Jinishian Gallery Nick Mayer (b. 1971) Yellowfin Tuna Watercolor on Panel 16” x 37” $7,700 50 paintings on display from Fairfield, CT have allowed Mike to redefine his techniques as a to travel the country – to get today’s premier Sporting Artists. 203-259-8753 painter. Stidham’s latest works have been featured away from the confines of his Orvis Sandanona Shooting jrusselljinishiangallery.com at the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery and at the Orvis studio - in search of material that Grounds Ongoing Sandanona Sportsman’s Palette Exhibition and he feels will be the foundations Sale. Along with fellow artists Arthur Shilstone, of great works. Roger feels it is Al Barnes, and Stanley Meltzoff, one of Mike’s good for him to visit and explore Mark Susinno’s work will be featured in a presti- paintings was recently accepted into the American a broad cross-section of the US to gather refer- gious exhibition this fall – The Western Visions: Museum of Fly Fishing’s Permanent Collection ence material and experience these places first- Wild 100 Show & Sale at the National Museum Of and will be on display in a major exhibition on salt- hand, in order to get a real sense of the location. Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, WY, which will open water fly fishing slated for 2015 - 2016, presented It is then that much easier to convey the mood, September 18, 2015. Additionally, Mark’s paint- by the Museum, in several locations throughout atmosphere and setting in a particular work. ing – ‘Beset On All Sides’ – featuring Chinook the US. Salmon, Rainbow Trout, Dolly Varden Trout and Arctic Grayling – won the prestigious ‘Marilyn Newmark Award For Realistic Painting’ in the 2014 Art & The Animal Show, the annual juried show of The Society Of Animal Artists in Parker, CO. The painting will be included in a travel- ing exhibition to numer- ous museums in the US during 2015. This past year, Mark’s work was also featured at The Bennington Center For The Arts in Bennington, VT, and the American Wildlife Art exhibition at the Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, PA. Mark’s works here were part of the same show in which several of Meltzoff’s works were exhibited. Fred Polhemus Sporting Art Specialist sportingartnews@ gmail.com Al Barnes (b. 1937) Meeting at the Point Oil on Canvas 24” x 36” $10,000 32 New Release Arthur Shilstone A L i f e t i m e O f D r a w i n g & P a i n t i n g

ust released, the only comprehensive book on the 70-year career of today’s premier sporting art watercolorist. Well- known to readers of Grays Sporting Journal, Sports Af ield, OutdoorJ Life, Sporting Classics and Virginia Sportsman, his il- lustrations have been featured in Life magazine, Smithsonian, National Geographic, Gourmet, Sports Illustrated, and many other publications. Written by Fred Polhemus, the nation’s foremost authority on Shilstone’s work, with forward by William Sisson, Editor- in-Chief, Angler’s Journal magazine, this book traces the artist’s fascinating career from the shores of D-Day to an internation- ally acclaimed artist.

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ABOUT THE PUBLISHER J. Russell Jinishian, a graduate of Cornell Univesity, is internationally recognized as America’s leading authority on contemporary marine art. The former long time Director of the Marine Art Gallery at Mystic Seaport Museum, his writings have appeared in Sailing, Sea History, American Artist, Art New England and other publications. For many years he was the Art Critic for the Connecticut Post and a Contributing Editor of Nautical World Magazine, where his popular column on marine art appeared regularly. He sits on the advisory board of the National Maritime Historical Society, and is a member of the New York Yacht Club. He is the author of Bound for Blue Water, considered the definitive Guide to Contemporary Marine Art. He currently operates the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery, specializing in 19th, 20th, and 21st Century Marine and Sporting Art and continues Visit us at to lecture nationally on marine art and collecting. He may be reached at 1899 Bronson Road, Fairfield, CT 06824. Phone: 203-259-8753 Fax: J. Russell Jinishian Gallery 203-259-8761, or e-mail: [email protected]. 1899 Bronson Road Fairfield, CT 06824 Marine Art News designed by Alane Gianetti | Books & Events edited by Peach Pair www.jrusselljinishiangallery.com

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Tim Thompson (b. 1951) 74-Gun Ship Rimini at Venice, 1811 Oil on Canvas 20” x 40” $35,000

Continued from page 23 assigning the scrimshaw previously attributed The Convention on International Trade and to 19th century Nantucket whaleman Edward Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Ernestina and a Cape Verdean whaleboat with Burdett (one recently sold for $198,000) to an Flora, or CITES, is an agreement signed the distinctive Whaling Museum dome and unidentified British scrimshander known as the by more than 170 countries in 1990. The New Bedford State Pier in the background. Britannia Engraver. Stuart Frank then gave a Endangered Species Act, which supposedly The painting was auctioned off to benefit the scholarly lecture on Burdett, followed by dealer exempts antique ivory items, (those more than Museum. Andrew Jacobson’s recap of the market for 100 years old), and the African Elephant The New Bedford Whaling Museum also antique scrimshaw at auction over the last year, Conservation Act, passed in 1989, overseen houses one of the most fascinating works of and a presentation by contemporary Australian by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department, marine art ever. It’s a painting 8 ½ feet high scrimshander Gary Tonkin. Visit whalingmu- although each is enforced differently in individ- and an astonishing 1,275 feet long! Entitled seum.org for event info. ual states. In fact, New York State, Connecticut, “Whaling Voyage ‘Round the World.” It was One of the hot topics at the weekend was and Florida are in the process of passing its painted in 1845 by Benjamin Russell and President Obama’s Executive Order #13648 own version of an ivory ban. What are we talk- Caleb Purrington. Russell had spent three combating wildlife trafficking, which is osten- ing about here in terms of overall quantity of years at sea aboard the whaling ship Kutusoff sibly designed to protect endangered wildlife, illegal ivory? Well, in 2011 (the latest year that in all the oceans of the world, sketching every- particularly African elephants and rhinocer- CITES had data available)it is estimated that thing he saw. Upon returning to New Bedford oses. He has established an advisory coun- 25,000 African elephants were killed for their he hired Purrington, a house painter, to help sel to develop a national strategy on illegal ivory. And with a 60% shrinking of the African him paint this huge work, which was mounted ivory trade. That sounds like a good idea. elephant population from 322,000 in 2002 to on vertical rollers and literally unrolled slowly The Executive Order’s to accomplish about 100,000 in 2011, this represents a sig- before viewers—the first moving picture, if this, however, is to simply ban all trade of nificant percentage. Ivory is seized by the U.S. you will—so they could relive the voyage. all ivory, period. This would certainly nega- government (sometimes as it’s being imported, Russell and Purrington traveled with their tively impact legitimate collectors of legitimate sometimes as it’s being sold), and then stashed Commerce City, Colorado panoramic show to theaters around the country antique scrimshaw, not to mention scrimshand- in a warehouse in , where paying viewers sat enraptured for hours ers. In fact, one dealer, Andrew Jacobson has where in November of 2013 six tons of not as the “Voyage” took place. Today, the can- founded a new association called the Antique just raw ivory, but including decorative fine vas is being completely restored—a two year Scrimshaw Collectors Association (ASCA). art ivory carvings were ground to dust. Then project thanks to the National Endowment He said, “Our primary objective is to retain the the dust itself was returned to the warehouse. of the Humanities and the Stockman Family current regulations that allow the legal trade Sounds like the government at work to me. A Foundations. So in 2017 the question will be, of antique scrimshaw and objects of cultural small group of protesters outside the warehouse Sex and the City which will you choose to sit down and watch importance. We fully support the suppression of included none other than star, Kristen Davis International Fund –“ The Bachelor” or “Whaling Voyage ‘Round illegal trade in protected species.” Everyone in actress , an for Animal Welfare Kristin the World”? the business seems to agree. The auction house , and Bauer van Straten True Blood Christie’s says, “In selling historic cultural , actress in the The 26th Annual Scrimshaw Weekend and vampire television series. Whaling Symposium was also held at the New objects that incorporate ivory we are careful to Bedford Whaling Museum in May. Organized abide all the global and local laws. Designed Of course, all the poaching is being driven by by the Museum’s senior curator Stuart M. to protect elephants our specialists carry out money. A kilo of raw elephant ivory can bring Frank, author of Ingenious Contrivances, (see stringent due diligence in the provenance of all $3,000 in countries where any cash goes an Visit us at our book page for details). The three-day event such objects. . . .” Sotheby’s says, “Sotheby’s awful long way. Will destroying six tons of J. Russell Jinishian Gallery kicked off with a Nautical Antiques Show held deplores the illegal slaughter of endangered ivory effectively lessen the trade? One school in the museum’s spacious lobby. Friday eve- wildlife and is proud of the company’s past and of thought says don’t destroy it; put it back in 1899 Bronson Road ning featured a presentation on the scrimshaw ongoing support of elephants under conserva- the market and drive the price so low that there Fairfield, CT 06824 collection in the Peabody Essex Museum by tion charities.” won’t be any incentive for poaching. www.jrusselljinishiangallery.com James Vaccorino. On Saturday scrimshaw his- Currently there are three major agreements For those wishing to purchase or sell scrim- torian Paul Vardeman presented his case for and laws that guide the trafficking of ivory. shaw, what are the laws currently? To contact

34 Continued from page 23 officials at U.S. Fish and Wildlife means get- try to attract 65% of its visitors and support- in existence, and the Shelburne Hotel and the ting a slightly different interpretation each time. ers from the local community, and to build its Warner Theater. Has made prints of this image But in essence, no whale ivory after the enact- Endowment to $630 million so that the bulk of available which can be found at jamesaflood. ment of the Endangered Species Act in 1973, its funding in the future will come from it and com. Jim tells me he was also commissioned can be legally bought or sold, except those not from admissions or donations which tend to by a Chinese naval architect to do a painting registered by certain dealers with the Federal become more difficult in lean economic times. of the HMS Renown, the last battle cruiser, Government. In 1973 each piece registered and How important is a successful museum to the a World War I vintage ship, which also saw affixed with a number at the passage of that law. city or town in which it exists? Well, in 2013 action in World War II. It appears there was a Today, no whale ivory can be sold across state the Metropolitan Museum of Art released a large Chinese contingent on board the Renown lines. Period. If a whale washes up on the coast study it had commissioned on its impact on the during World War II. Jim’s also been commis- of Nantucket or the coast of California, dead, New York economy. It estimates that visitors to sioned to make a model of the HMS Repulse to its ivory can’t be touched. A certified research the museum spent some $401 million just dur- accompany the painting. facility like the Monterey Aquarium or the ing the major spring and summer season. It’s Over Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut must If you happen to visit the brand new resort interesting to note that of its visitors 48% came Yonder Key Bahamas be called and the carcass disposed of, usually in the , you’ll also get a from overseas, 31% came from states outside buried. This is also true of dead elephants. Their chance to see a large section of Jim’s colorful the tri-state area, but a strong 21% came from ivory can’t be touched. Of course, as noted paintings which they purchased in the form of the tri-state area of New York, Connecticut, and scrimshaw expert Stuart Frank noted, “It’s not 25 oversized giclée prints on canvas to decorate New Jersey. Its benefit to the City and State as if whales were killed for ivory at any time, their main villa. Visit at overyonderkey.com. of New York from visitors was $40.1 million, yesterday or today. Whale teeth and skeletal Ever wonder how artists do it? Well, one according to the museum’s study. That’s not bone were strictly, and exclusively byproducts Tim Jenison, a video hardware/software chicken feed. But of course, you could only buy of a commercial hunt long gone. While the cir- production inventor in Texas, wondered this one Van Gogh painting with that amount. So it cumstances surrounding antique scrimshaw are about , the great 17th cen- is all relative. indeed very different from those developments tury Dutch artist. His paintings so captivated in animals which are still being slaughtered for How does a museum that is starting up fund Jenison that he couldn’t believe that any human the ivory and horn which are generally endan- itself and acquire artwork for its collection? could have created the perfect, surreal light in gered as a result.” This will all be sorted out Well, if you’re , the child of Vermeer’s paintings. Jenison never painted a in time. If the Executive Order goes through Walmart founder Sam Walton, you take some day in his life, but he spent the next several the trade of all ivory, even your great grand- of your $33 billion fortune and build the years figuring out Vermeer’s technique so he mother’s bracelet that has been in the family Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in could recreate Vermeer’s painting “The Music for almost 200 years, or a piano with ivory keys Bentonville, Arkansas and fill it with artwork Lesson.” He figured that some kind of opti- will be completely banned. That doesn’t seem that you own. When you’re looking for new cal assistance was used by Vermeer. It’s long a particularly sensible solution to the problem. artwork, you send the museum’s President and thought by many that the artist used a “camera a curator on the road for a year with a Sam’s One museum that has a huge collection of obscura” to project an image of an actual scene Club card in one hand and GPS in the other, to ivory objects is the Peabody Essex Museum on to a wall or canvas. Jenison thought okay, literally visit the studios of 1,000 artists in all in Salem, Massachusetts. It combines the but that would not account for Vermeer’s ability 50 states, a score the artists using an Olympic collection of the Peabody Museum established to capture the light the way that he did. One day type scoring system, with points being awarded in 1799 and the 1821Essex Institute. It boasts, (while taking a bath), Jenison realized that if he for artistic “engagement,” “virtuosity,” and among other things, a huge collection of Asian put a at a certain angle above the canvas “appeal” of the artwork. art, maritime art, American art, Oceanic and he could reflect a scene in a way that allowed African art – totaling some 1.8 million pieces! How is the museum doing, you ask? Well, it’s him to capture all of its detail. So what did he As well as twenty-two buildings and a complete drawn more than a million visitors since it do to paint the “Music Lesson”? Well, he took Qing Dynasty Chinese merchant’s house which opened in 2011. It’s made Bentonville—popu- 213 days to build an exact replica of the room was literally flown from China to Salem and lation 38,000 (smaller than the weekly atten- – furniture, windows, etc. – in Vermeer’s paint- reassembled. From June to September 2014 dance at the in New ing, and another 130 days to make the painting. they hosted a comprehensive exhibition on the York)—a worldwide destination. He found that being Vermeer was very tedious. In fact, he said he might have simply given up if work of J.M.W. Turner (1775-1861), in par- Don Bacigalupi, the museum’s president, said ticular his fascination with the sea. Arguably there wasn’t a film crew there recording every of his extraordinary journey, “You see a lot of brush stroke. He said, “It was so getting old. England’s greatest artist, the largest collection work that starts to look the same, a lot of artists of Turner’s work is held at the Tate Gallery It was kind of a full time job.” Hey, and you who have a career locally but aren’t going to be thought artists had it easy. Did you say film in London. Turner was so infatuated with the able to make the jump. And then every once in sea, he dressed like a sailor, and his neighbors crew? Yes I did. This whole wacky quest was a while you find an artist who blows you away, Tim’s Vermeer actually called him “Captain.” Mr. Turner, a made into a feature movie, was who you just can’t believe, and it makes all the Sony Pictures new film biography was released on Turner this released by and made under the miles worth it.” For him, excitement came in Penn year at the Cannes Film Festival, directed by direction of the well known magicians Las Vegas from an artist who mixed Latino and Teller. It’s a fascinating story of an artistic Mike Leigh and starring Timothy Spall in a street culture with art historical references, stellar performance. obsession and of one of the great technical “Think Henry Moore meets a piñata,” he said. painters of all time. Another testament to how The Peabody Essex is currently undergoing a Another historic waterfront, known as the gam- powerful an affect a work of art can have on a massive building project to display even more bling Mecca, Atlantic City, New Jersey as it person. of their collections than they currently are able appeared in the was painted by Florida Patrick Frost to. Now considered to be one of the top Art We were contacted recently by , artist, Jim Flood. His depiction shows the Carl Evers museums in the entire United States, under a fan of the work of maritime artist 180 foot schooner yacht Atlantic (which set (1907-2000) who asked whether he could pro- the leadership of Dan L. Monroe since 1993, the Transatlantic speed record in 1905 with they have been turning the traditional model duce a limited edition of 25 “art guitars” with famous racing skipper Charlie Barr at the an image of one of Carl’s paintings on it. of how cultural institutions are funded on its helm—a record which wasn’t broken until head. Most museums rely on three main sourc- Picture Eric Clapton in concert wailing on a 1980). Sailing past unusual and ornate build- Carl Evers guitar. You can’t make this stuff up. es of financial support: 1) income they earn ings of the time, including the Madison Hotel, from admissions; 2) retail income from their Brighton Hotel, known for its famous Brighton Other interesting naval projects are in the store and restaurants, etc.; and 3) endowment Punch, the Claridge Hotel built in 1930, and works, including Fighting Warships of World income; and annual contributions, which sup- still the tallest hotel in town; the Marlborough- War II, a collaboration between Paul Kennedy, ply the largest part of the income. Annual atten- Blenheim Hotel, a large scale hotel built of a Yale University renowned scholar of British dance at the Peabody Essex is about 250,000 reinforced concrete under the supervision of sea power and, Ian Marshall, past president people, 65% of whom in the past came from Thomas Edison, Bossart’s Dennis Hotel, still of the American Society of Marine Artists out of town. Recently the museum decided to and illustrator of four books on naval history.

3528 James E. Buttersworth (1817-1894) American 3-Decker off Belem Castle Oil on Canvas 12” x 16” $75,000 This is one of a remarkable pair of paintings (Also see back cover) that have come down through the family directly from the personal collection of Rudolph J. Schaefer Jr., author of J. E. Buttersworth, 19th Century Marine Painter (originally published in 1975; revised and updated in 2009, Mystic Seaport), and noted worldwide authority on the paintings of J. E. Buttersworth.

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Fighting Warships of World War II combines the Watermen’s Caucus. He spread his artist North who is writing a book on these Bay Log Kennedy’s narrative with 60 watercolor paint- wings even further across the Bay with the canoes and has asked Marc to be the project’s ings by Ian to be published sometime in 2016 replica of the Colonial schooner Sultana, built art and photo editor. It will be the first book to be accompanied by an exhibition of Ian’s in Chestertown, Maryland. He chronicled written on these fascinating boats since M.V. paintings. We will keep you posted. the building in 1400 pen and ink drawings Brewington’s Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes From Larry Gotch in Newport, Rhode Island from beginning to end. These will be displayed and Bug Eyes, published in 1937. Marc is also we learned of a fascinating trove of . in the halls of the new Sultana Organization an automobile buff, having painted the winners Concours d’Elegance St. Michael’s, 16,000 works of art owned by the US Army, building. He’s also crewed nearly twenty-four of the in Maryland created by everyone from Norman Rockwell to years aboard Chesapeake Bay log canoe Jade for the last seven years. He also John C. Hitler, are currently housed in a warehouse in D, built in 1931 for ancestors of recently traveled to Texas for a Ferrari event. Fairfax County, Virginia. The Army Historical Foundation is attempting to raise $175 million to build the National Museum of the U.S. Army in Fort Belvoir, Virginia to open in 2018. Being that the Los Angeles just trad- ed hands for $2 billion, an art loving patriot might be able to kick in the $40 mil- lion the Foundation is lack- ing to make this museum a reality. Talk about missions, water- colorist Marc Castelli has taken it as his mission to educate people about and advocate for personal lives of the Chesapeake Bay’s watermen with his art and photography. Not only does he paint the watermen in action, but he’s out with them several days a week throughout the year. In fact, his painting of power dredg- ing in a blizzard was cho- sen as the 2014 poster for Nicholas Berger (b. 1949) Backing Down, Hudson River Between Piers 10 & 9, New York Oil on Panel 29” x 43” $16,500 36 Oil on Canvas 31” x 50” $135,000 50” x 31” Canvas on Oil Britannia

the study and portrayal of the great yachts that were built and raced at the turn and into the early part of the 20th century. No painter has done more to keep this golden era of yachting alive today. of School IYRS the and Yachting of Museum the found helping included also have contributions His Technology and in Newport, Rhode Island where the restoration of America’s oldest yacht topby collected avidly are paintings stunning his that wonder no is It underway. currently is Coronet yachtsman around the world like Ted Turner and Gary Jobson. and

Britannia on the downwind is shown with all canvas set, cast - set, canvas all with shown is Westward John Mecray (b. 1937) Westward In this dramatic painting the great Herreshoff Schooner Herreshoff great the painting dramatic this In ing a huge shadow from her backlit sails as she leads King George V’s leg of a race in the Solent in 1925. Launched in 1910 in Bristol, Rhode Island, the thebefore years the in racing yacht followed that crowds American huge the by admired much was Westward built outbreak of WWI - and the end of the big class. At 160’ LOA she was built to challenge formidable Europe’s racing yachts which she did magnificently with legendary helm, winning 174 captain races over four decades. Since Charlie 1979 artist John Mecray has devoted Barr himself to at the

37 America’s Leading Gallery of Marine & Sporting Art

James E. Buttersworth (1817-1894) Leading Around the Mark Oil on Canvas 12” x 16” $160,000

Visit our website to view current artwork by the world’s leading artists : www.jrusselljinishiangallery.com Wick Ahrens Keith Cardnell West Fraser Michael Keane Leonard Mizerek Taf Schaefer Peter Arguimbau Marc Castelli Paul Garnett Russ Kramer Brechin Morgan Arthur Shilstone Robin Armstrong Scott Chambers William Gilkerson Loretta Krupinski William G. Muller Robert Sticker Dimetrious Athas Frederic C. Cozzens Frances Golden Richard Dana Kuchta Elizabeth Mumford Mike Stidham John Atwater Roy Cross Thomas N. Graves Robert Lagasse Rob Napier John Stobart Al Barnes Steve Cryan James Griffiths Gerald Levey Ed Parker Mark Susinno Harley Bartlett Robert B. Dance Robert Grimson Dale Lind Ogden Pleisner Len Tantillo Nicholas Berger William R. Davis Glen Hacker Patrick Livingstone Randy Puckett David Thimgan A.D. Blake Montague Dawson Curtis Hanson Richard Loud Patrick O’Brien Tim Thompson Robert Blazek Jeff Demarest Eldridge Hardie Dennis Lyall James Prosek Kent Ullberg Christopher Blossom Don Demers James Harrington Ian Marshall Randy Puckett Mark Vosburgh Roger Blum Steven Dews Cooper Hart Nick Mayer Salman Rashidi Rob Wadleigh Lou Bonamarte Louis Dodd Thomas Hoyne Victor Mays Don Ray William Walsh Willard Bond William P. Duffy Neal Hughes Lloyd McCaffery Keith Reynolds Andrew S. Walton Peter Bowe Willem Eerland Geoff Hunt Joseph McGurl Betsey Rice Patricia Warfield Bernd Braatz Carl Evers James Iams John Mecray Sergio Roffo Robert Weiss James E. Buttersworth William Ewen Antonio Jacobsen Jerry Melton James Roszel Joseph Wilhelm Stephen Card James Flood Michael Kahn Stanley Meltzoff Marek Sarba Paul Wright J. Russell Jinishian Gallery, Inc. 1899 bronson road, FAIRFIELD, CT 06824 (203) 259-8753 www.jrusselljinishiangallery.com E-mail: [email protected]

Specializing in 19th, 20th, and 21st Century Marine and Sporting Art Since 1997 Accepting artwork on consignment from collectors throughout the year. HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday 11-5 p.m. and by appointment We invite you to stop by and visit the gallery located just 1 hour from NYC just off I-95 at Exit 21.

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