VOLUME 11 NUMBER 1-2 PUBLISHED by J. RUSSELL JINISHIAN © SUMMER / FALL 2009 COMPLIMENTARY DOUBLE ISSUE ™ An Insider’s Guide to Marine Art for Collectors and Historians What’s Inside: • Latest News from Today’s Premier Marine Artists, Learn What they’re Working on in their Studios right now • Latest Marine Art Sales & Prices • Marine Art Exhibitions Across the Country • Upcoming Auctions • Book Reviews Just off the Artist’s Easels...Still Wet... Neal Hughes Late Afternoon Off Newport Oil 30” x 40” $12,000 Sergio Roffo Hadley Harbor, Massachusetts Oil 24” x 36” $17,500 Information on purchasing the Artwork pictured in the MARINE ART QUARTERLY may be obtained by contacting the Publisher, J. Russell Jinishian at (203) 259-8753 or [email protected] News From the Artists espite the economic difficulties throughout the all around the world. The NMHS recently held its Lincoln, May 1, 2003 hangs onboard the ship, and his world, this has been and continues to be a peri- awards dinner at the Army and Navy Club on Farragut USS Constitution off Gaeta, Italy 1st August, 1849, Dod of tremendous activity in the field of marine Square in Washington, DC, one block from the White depicting the visit aboard ship of his holiness Pope art, with exhibitions, workshops and projects being held House, where the Master of Ceremonies, Gary Jobson, Pius IX was presented by Tom to John Paul II, and by dedicated marine artists all over the globe. So let’s America’s Cup sailor and TV Personality, presented the now hangs today in the Vatican. It’s nice to know that get right to the news… beginning with the American Society’s Bravo Zulu Award to Admiral Thad W. Allen, high quality marine art is inspiring our world leaders Society of Marine Artists (A.S.M.A.), which wraps Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, and on a regular basis. up its year-long traveling 30th Anniversary Exhibition its Distinguished Service Award to marine artist John “Old Ironsides” is of course an oft painted ship, par- in September at the New Bedford Art Museum in New M. Barber, who has spent a lifetime chronicling the ticularly scenes of her epic battles. But Paul Garnett Bedford, Massachusetts. The exhibition will be on vanishing way of life along the Chesapeake Bay, and reports that he’s taking a different tack in his painting display throughout the summer at the Spartanburg has personally helped raise $5 million for Chesapeake of her. His painting depicts her as she is being launched in Spartanburg, South Carolina. (See Art Museum Bay preservation organizations with his artwork. on October 21, 1798 from the Edmond Hart Shipyard our exhibition page for details, and our book page John’s most recent painting was created for the collec- at the north end of Boston where the Coast Guard sta- for catalogue information.) New Bedford will also be tion of Charles Raskob Robinson, charter member tion is located today. Paul’s view is that the launching - the site of the Society’s annual meet has never being correctly documented. ing, which features a keynote address To make sure he’s doing it right, by well-known author and maritime he has done an incredible amount historian Llewellyn Holland, whose of research, and even built a three family’s shipping business was based dimensional model of all the build- in New Bedford. Ian Marshall, the ings in the shipyard and surrounding Society president, tells me that three neighborhood. One of Paul’s biggest artists were elected to “Fellow” status concerns was to make certain that Joseph this year: William R. Davis, because she came down the ways “stern McGurl and Kim Shaklee. While to,” that he had an accurate depiction Willard Bond, Victor Mays, John of what her stern looked like on that Stobart, and Don Stoltenberg were day. To do that, he sought out Tyrone Fellows elected to a new category: Martin, a former commander of the Emeriti . The 26 Fellows are the ones Constitution and author of a book on who annually review submissions her, The Most Fortunate Ship. He also - from artists who wish to become art dug into the archives in Charlestown, ist members of the Society. This year Massachusetts where the ship and six artists were elected new members. Constitution Museum are today. They are Larry Moore, Steven Lush, There he found a book entitled Super , Katherine Young, David Lussier Frigate, which he said “has the best Jacob Collins and Steve Henderson. documentation of what her stern Congratulations to all! looked like.” Paul even researched the Despite the death of the Society’s William G. Muller Thunderstorm off the Battery, New York City, 1912 12”x17” Oil $9,500 weather on that day, which he said longtime Managing Director, Nancy was a “miserable, cold, rainy day.” To Stiles, the Society is pressing on. It A view toward the west from near the southern tip of Manhattan, showing make sure he got the color of the announced recently that not only is the the new Whitehall Building, the Castle Garden Aquarium and the Municipal Staten sky right. So he’s made a number Library of Congress collecting the Island Ferry slips. The distant Cunard Liner CARPARTHIA is seen going up the of visits to the North End on such organization’s journal, but now the Hudson River, while the 3-masted coal schooner J.E.DUBIGNON shortens sail days to observe the sky and record library at the Metropolitan Museum and passes the sidewheel steamboat ALBERTINA. it, because as he says, “It’s one thing of Art in New York City, named for that hasn’t changed in the last two the former IBM chief executive and passionate marine of the American Society of Marine Artists. It fea- hundred years.” Paul has also been supplementing art collector, Thomas J. Watson, is collecting it as well. tures the skipjack Lorraine Rose sailing the down the his painting income by answering the demand for In addition to his duties as president of A.S.M.A., Chesapeake past Hooper Island and Hooper Island demonstrations to art societies in the Boston area, Ian Marshall has been active in many other arenas. Light on the eastern shore of Maryland. He recently where he says he makes $250 for 1 ½ hours work. Not Thirty-four paintings from his fifth book Cruisers completed another commission for Washington, DC quite “Boston Legal” rates—but not too shabby. Paul and La Guerre de Course (see our book pages) collector Phil Mudd of the ferryboat Governor Nice also reports that he got a call from Andrew Buckley, were on display, along with photographs and models plying the Chesapeake before the bridges were built. who is producing a film on the Columbia Rediviva, from the Navy’s collection, through July at the Naval The basis was a photograph Phil took with a Brownie which was, in 1790, the first American flag ship to War College in Newport, Rhode Island. The college, Instamatic camera in the 1950s at the age of 13 years sail around the world, and who wants to use Paul’s through Professor John Hattendorf, commissioned old. Fifty years later he found the photograph and painting of the ship in the film. You can also see Paul’s Ian to paint Admiral Ernest King hoisting his flag took it to John, who made an incredible painting of painting of the ill-fated Pandora, which tracked down as Commander of the Atlantic Fleet in the spring it. Phil says of his collecting, that he loves having the mutineers from the HMS Bounty, on the cover of of 1941aboard the USS Augusta in Narragansett “paintings that have a story.” My guess is that he’s not William H. White new Napoleonic era novel When Bay, Rhode Island. Admiral King went on to become alone in that. Fortune Frowns. the Navy’s Chief of Staff during World War II. The Speaking of the U.S. Naval Institute, their journal The Constitution Museum’s Harrie Slotvick opening was attended by many admirals, along with Proceedings recently published an article on the naval recently contacted us for permission to use Bob Maryann Peers, the provost of the Newport Naval paintings of Tom Freeman which have hung in the West Sticker’s dramatic painting “Gun Deck Aft,” depicting Base. Ian said he’s “never been to an opening with so Wing of the White House since 1986. In fact, just two the hot and heavy action on the canon deck aboard many well-informed people who wanted to come up weeks before the inauguration of President Barack an American frigate in the midst of battle. He plans and talk about ships.” Obama, Tom delivered his 51st painting there—this to blow Bob’s painting up to nearly 30 ft. long so Readers of Sea History magazine, journal of the one depicting the aircraft carrier USS. Hornet and that the figures in it will be life size, and use it as National Maritime Historical Society (NMHS) Doolittle’s Raiders in 1942. In honor of the new a backdrop for an exhibit. As Harrie said of Bob’s (nmhs.com) will see an article in the fall issue by Ian President’s Chicago roots, Tom’s currently working on work, “It’s so historically well done. So accurate it on Tramp Steamers, accompanied by reproductions of a painting of USS Chicago (CA-136). In addition to fits the museum’s story and message perfectly.” Bob, an twenty paintings Ian has produced recently of these the White House, Tom’s painting of President George ex-World War II PBY pilot, has recently completed a funky freelance freighters which populate harbors W.