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12 COMPLIMENTARY VOLUME 15 PUBLISHED by J. RUSSELL JINISHIAN th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

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What’s Inside: • Latest News from Today’s Premier Marine Artists, Learn What they’re Working on in their Studios right now • Latest Sales & Prices

• Marine Art Exhibitions Across the Country

• Upcoming Auctions

• Book Reviews Just Off the Artists’ Easels. . . Still Wet. . .

Don Demers (b. 1956) The Windward Turn, K-Class Yachts on Long Island Sound, 1907 Oil 24” x 36” $38,000

Neal Hughes (b. 1952) Island Bell Oil 22” x 28” $14,000

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] Just Off the Artists’ Easels. . . Still Wet. . .

A.D. Blake (b. 1951) Light Airs, the Schooners DAUNTLESS, COLUMBIA and SAPPHO Oil 30” x 40” $60,000 Race on Long Island Sound During the Yacht Club Cruise of 1871

Keith Reynolds (b. 1929) Reflections on a Summer Morning Acrylic 16” x 28” $9,500 3 Christopher Blossom Now & Then...

Christopher Blossom (b. 1956) Long Passage, Clippership Challenge, 1851 Painted in 2012 Oil 28 x 36” $38,000

Christopher Blossom (b.1956) December Moonrise Over Main Street, Nantucket c.1842 Painted in 1984 Oil 24” x 36” $45,000 4 News From the Artists his has been an exciting period, as Center) you also become eligible to participate brate its role in the , but to empha- always, in the field of marine art, with in various regional exhibitions. size the importance of the U.S. Navy in today’s Texhibitions, contests, and marine art Fans of marine art on the West Coast will be world. The Society has also organized an exhi- events taking place in venues across the coun- happy to know that the Annual Marine Art bition of artwork related to the war to be dis- try and around the globe. So let’s get right to Exhibition is being held this year for the 20th played at the Buffalo History in the news. We’ll start with the American Society year at the Coos Art Museum in Coos Bay, Buffalo, New York from September 2013 to of Marine Artists (ASMA), whose 15th Oregon from July through September. (Visit January 2014, then at the Connecticut River National Exhibition has been traveling to muse- coosart.org.) Museum in Essex, Connecticut and on to the ums around the country to rave reviews. It Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in contains the , sculpture, scrimshaw In keeping with ASMA’s education mission to Vergennes, Vermont. and prints of 122 members of the Society. “Promote Marine Art and Maritime History” it has undertaken an ambitious project in con- Patrick O’Brien (see back cover) has dedicat- Between its opening in 2011 at the Cornell ed himself to the complex task of recreating Museum of Art and American Culture in junction with the Navy to use the skills of its artist members to help the Navy American naval battles from the American Delray Beach, to its final stop at the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. These Marine kinds of paintings Art Museum in demand thorough under- historic Winona, standing of how massive Minnesota in July ships were rigged and 2013 it will have handled during battle, traveled 6,000 involving meticulous miles to eight research into 1) the spe- , bring- cifics of a particular ing first class engagement, including Marine Art to which ships were pres- places like Mobile, ent, and the time of day, , on to 2) the wind and con- Midland, Texas ditions, 3) how the ships and Stockton, were armed at a particu- California. As lar moment and, 4) when current Society exactly they came togeth- President, Russ er—from what angle and Kramer com- to what end. It’s no won- mented, “What der that more artists don’t you see in these take on this difficult task. exhibitions is an O’Brien was recently unbroken line of honored with the marine artwork National Maritime stretching back Historical Society’s through the centu- Distinguished Service ries. This exhibi- Award at a special dinner tion proves that held at the National the field is as John Whorf (1903-1959) Coming Ashore Watercolor 13” x 17” $15,000 Press Club in vibrant and ener- Along with , Whorf is considered one of America’s greatest watercolorists. Washington, D.C. Original gized as ever, and paintings by artist John will thrive for Barber, Tim Bell and many centuries more.” Amen to that! celebrate the bicentennial of the War of 1812- 1815. The initiative accessed through the Web- Marc Castelli were also on display during that With 530 members representing all 50 states, site: www.ourflagwasstillthere.org, is being evening. Readers of Sea History Magazine the Society continues to prosper and grow. This overseen by Captain Chris Christopher who Spring 2012 issue will have seen a full spread year it named Richard Loud and Lisa Egeli to is heading up the Navy’s 1812 efforts at the on Patrick and his remarkable paintings. Sea its inner circle of “Fellows” of the Society, and U.S. Navy’s Naval Heritage and Heritage History’s summer issue also featured Patrick’s after an extensive portfolio review, admitted 5 Command in Washington, DC. This is a com- of the Coast Guard Cutter Surveyor new signature artist members, these being plicated project that has been a year in the mak- being attacked by the British in a nighttime Nello Lush, Dana Malcolm, Tom Nielsen, ing in conjunction with the ASMA Exhibitions battle during the War of 1812. The painting was Morgan Samuel Price, and John Tayson. Committee Chairman, Charles Raskob specially commissioned from the artist by the Congratulations to all! Robinson. This Web site gives viewers access U.S. Coast Guard. Artists interested in submitting an application to the special video The Naval History of the Patrick also tells me that he was invited to for membership in the Society can visit the War of 1812 Illustrated, which tells the story of speak at the prestigious Society of the Society’s Website: americansocietyofmarine- the war through artwork by Society members Cincinnati in Washington, D.C., founded by artists.com. In addition to meeting with your Paul Garnett, Patrick O’Brien, Jim Griffiths, American Revolutionary War officers, fellow artists once a year at the annual General Henry Egan and others in addition to artwork including , to help pre- Meeting (held last year at Mystic Seaport in supplied by the U.S. Naval Institute, the U.S. serve the history of the . Mystic, Connecticut, and scheduled to be held Naval Academy Museum and the Constitution The officers named their group after the Roman in October 2013 in San Diego, California-- Museum. The video itself is narrated by Society warrior Cincinnati, whom they admired. The home of the San Diego Maritime Museum, artist member Del-Bourree Bach, who lent his city of Cincinnati was actually named by a the HMS Rose aka used in the other skills as a professional opera singer and member of the Society. Today, the Society has “Master and Commander” movie starring voice-over narrator. The Navy sees this presen- a beautiful building along Embassy Row, and Russell Crowe, and the Naval Seals Training tation as a key part of its effort to not only cele- houses a first rate library relating to the Continued on page 6 5 Continued from page 5 Revolutionary War. tious exhibitions schedule like their American which opened at the end of 2012. A little more The United States Coast Guard’s own counterpart, their annual exhibition at the Mall information on the Mary Rose: as the favorite Eagle, formerly SSS Horst Wessel, was promi- Gallery, just down from Buckingham Palace, of King Henry VIII she was the first ship able nent in the Tall Ship parades last year. Based in is the highlight of the marine art world in to fire a broadside, but was sunk on July 19, New , Connecticut, home of the U.S. London each year featuring over 300 paintings 1545 in the Solent while engaged in battle Coast Guard Academy, she sails and trains by ’s premier marine artists. against the French fleet. Her wreck was located cadets in the old fashioned riggers of the sea. This year’s exhibition is schedule to be held in 1970, and pieces of it are on display at the Virginia artist John Barber was commissioned from October 16-27. More information can museum. by Norfolk Festevents to paint her to com- found at rsma-web.co.uk. On another small island, this one in the memorate Virginia Op Sail 2012. Many people The recent issue of British Classic Boat Grenadines, an ambitious project has been don’t know that the U.S. Coast Guard still oper- Magazine had an interesting article entitled undertaken by Dr. Patrick Chevallier to create ates a program for artists to document their Inspired Canvas, where members of the Royal a Web site eventually listing some 3,000 marine service, started by artist George Gray in whose Society and the Wapping Group of Artists artists from the 16th century through the pres- name an award is given each year at the annual were asked to identify artists or marine paint- ent, with plans to ultimately include images of exhibition. Most recently this was won by past ings that have influenced or impressed them. their artwork, and thousands of links to galler- ASMA President Bob Semler, who writes me Among the artists singled out for praise were ies, museums and individuals involved in the that he won the award previously in 1988 and Americans Charles Robert Patterson (1878- marine art scene. Patrick has broken it down by ’89, and here he is 23 years later winning it 1958), and John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), artist, by period, by theme (from battles to again. It just goes to show that good art never Frenchman Eugene Boudin (1824-98), yachting to harbors, etc.) by techniques, medi- gets old. Englishmen Thomas Somerscales (1842-92), um, and particular ships, etc. As Patrick, who John Barber’s painting of the Eagle, “And Our and Edward Seago (1910-74), and contempo- lives on Palm Island in the Grenadines, Flag was Still There,” depicts the ship under rary American marine artist Don Demers. explains, this is not a commercial Web site, but full sail, followed by a replica of the Susan B. While past Society President Geoff Hunt is merely an attempt to use the power of the com- Constant, the original flagship of the English well known for his covers of the Patrick puter to create the Definitive Marine Art Virginia Company, which founded the O’Brian series of seafaring novels, he’s also Resource. Who would undertake such an ambi- Jamestown colony. In the background are visi- been engaged in a number of other projects. His tious task? Well, as Dr. Chevallier himself says, ble the U.S. Enterprise and the U.S.S. New newest book, The Sea Painter’s World (see our “This Web site is a pure private initiative of a York. Both prints - $175; and posters of the book page for details) has just been released. marine artist with a passion for marine paint- painting - $35, are available through www. He tells us that he has just spent five weeks on ings having a kind of Robinson Crusoe-like life opsail2012virginia.com. a painting commissioned by the Mary Rose on a micro-island of the South .” You Trust, a 50 inch painting depicting the moment can check it out by visiting www.artandsea.net Reports from indicate that the Royal or the French version artetmer.com. Society of Marine Artists (RSMA) is continu- of this famous ship’s sinking. The painting ing to flourish. While they don’t have an ambi- itself was reproduced on a 20 ft. panel placed at While there are very few people still alive with the entrance of the new Mary Rose Museum, direct links to the Great Age of Sail, in fact, our

Don Demers (b.1956) Light Beyond the Marsh Oil 26” x 40” $42,000

6 Geoff Hunt (b.1948) French Ship L’UNITE(Later HMS SURPRISE) About to Engage Oil 19” x 24” $17,500 HMS INCONSTANT, April 20, 1796

friend Mike Johnson who’s been circumnavi- the Owner’s Cabin, aboard any ship, anywhere 152 year old Artist Fellowship. They awarded gating the globe for the last 40 years, and who in the world in return for a painting of each of John and his foundation their Medal of Honor. at the age of 70 was one of the younger mem- the vessels he sailed on. Over 31 years Brett That dinner was like the Who’s Who of the bers of the Society of Cape Horners – those made 20 voyages, logging well over 240,000 New York art scene. Representatives of the who had rounded Cape Horn under sail—tells nautical miles. He also was involved in the very Salmagundi Club, National Art Club, and me that while the Society has now disbanded earliest days at Museum, every major New York art institution were in due to lack of membership, 91 year old marine when he, Jacob Isbrandtsen, Peter Stanford attendance. The Artist Fellowship was founded artist Oswald Brett still carries on. A native of and fellow marine artist John Stobart would in 1859 as the “Helpful Society,” specifically to Australia, he remembers the day in December meet in Peter’s office downtown as the Museum assist artists and their families in times of 1945 when legendary Captain Alan Villiers came into being. Brett’s fascinating life has bereavement. In 1925 it was renamed the Artist sailed into harbor aboard the full- been chronicled in an autobiography soon to be Fellowship, Inc., with its mission to assist art- rigged ship Joseph Conrad. In fact, Villiers published by Bruce Stannard’s imprint ists and their families financially in times of ended up becoming a life-long friend. While Maritime Heritage Press. (See our book page emergency or disability. More information can young Brett’s parents wouldn’t let him go to for details) Still vital, Brett sums up his phi- be found at www.artistfellowship.org. sea with Villiers at the age of 14, by the time he losophy this way, “Don’t wait for your ship to While John officially closed his limited edition was 18 he had shipped aboard the freighter come in. Swim out after it.” For more informa- print business in December 2010 after nearly Malaita bound for Papua, New Guinea in the tion on Oswald Brett, Marine Artist visit mari- 40 years of creating some of the most memo- South Pacific. In 1944, he was among the crew timeheritagepress.com. rable marine art prints celebrating the world’s aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth, the Cunard John Stobart, himself now 83 years old, con- maritime history, readers of the New York Liner which ferried hundreds of thousands of tinues to paint actively and use his stature as the Times may have noticed, in fact, how could American soldiers to England and Europe. most celebrated marine artist of our time to you miss it, a full page color promotion by the While in England he reached out to and was help promote interest in traditional art and to New York Times Store for a very special print befriended by England’s Poet Laureate John use his personal success to help support indi- of South Street Seaport, created to help support Masefield, whose poem “Down to the Sea” is a vidual young artists. His Stobart Foundation the National Maritime Historical Society. classic known to all maritimers, and Charles has given nearly $500,000 to young artists at In itself, it was a classic nighttime scene of Pears, one of Britain’s leading marine artists at the moment in their careers when he feels they the time. After the War, Brett settled in New South Street Seaport and the tall ships there need it the most, that is after graduating from as they appeared in the late 19th century. It was York and began his career as a painter. Because school and they are just trying to get their start his ties to the sea still ran deep, in 1971 the a very special edition, offered only through the in their careers. His efforts in this regard were New York Times. John’s old friend, past presi- Columbus Line made him an offer no marine recognized last winter in by the artist could refuse. He could sail at his whim in dent of the National Maritime Historical Continued on page 16

7 INTERESTING NEWS FROM THE ART WORLD AT LARGE he art world at large is always a dynam- that is coming into the market.” Translation: Christie’s avoided this embarrassment by set- ic marketplace, with all sorts of fas- collectors around the globe are seeing art as a tling with the union in 2008, and raising their Tcinating goings on pay to a little over $17 an throughout the year. While hour. Either way, some- some have a direct impact on body has to move all collectors of marine art, oth- the increasingly valuable ers offer insight into aspects artwork. In the mean- of the often mysterious Art time, Sotheby’s has hired Marketplace—these involve temporary non-union art issues of value, ownership, handlers. rights to sell works of art, copyright, art as an invest- In London the other ment, and much more. For premier auction house, a quick gauge of how the Bonhams, which also art market is faring in these owns Butterfields here interesting times, let’s take in the United States, a look at what’s happen- has announced plans to ing in the two major auc- build a new international tion houses, Christie’s and headquarters, which they Sotheby’s. The results may say will contain “the surprise you. In fact, while most advanced sales- they both reported one of rooms in the world.” their best years ever in 2011, Designed by Lifschutz running virtually neck-and- Ian Marshall (b.1933) HMS ARK ROYAL, Watercolor 14”x21” $3,800 Davidson Sandilands, neck, with Sotheby’s bring- Grand Harbor, Malta 1938 it will be built on the site ing in $5.8 billion, and of the company’s cur- Christie’s , $5.7 billion. In From upcoming History of the Aircraft,1912-2012 exhibition featuring 23 rent headquarters, 101 Ian Marshall paintings, to be held at the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation 2012 Christie’s continued New Bond Street. They Washington, D.C., Fall of 2013 (navymemorial.org) the trend logging $6.27 bil- plan to leave the façade lion in sales (up 11% from intact while building, in 2011 which was up 14% from 2010). They sold good place to put their money, plus you can sit stages, three large sales- nearly 700 works of art for over $1,000,000 at your desk today in Beijing, , or Berlin rooms, which will include skyboxes. Wow! Do each, with 49 selling for over $10 million a and learn about artwork for sale, and buy with you think they’ll be vending hotdogs during piece. Private sales (those made directly to virtually the click of a button. It doesn’t hurt auctions, too? The new venue will also have collectors outside the auction room) proceeds that great pieces are coming on the market that new preview galleries and a café. They’ll totaled $1 billion, up 26% in what is obviously have not been on the market for many, many open each new section as it’s completed, and a growing arm of the business. Their single years. As Tobias Meyer, Director of Sotheby’s promise no interruption in their business while highest selling item was abstract painter Mark Contemporary Art Department says, “Great construction is going on. The completion is Rothko’s (1903-1970) “Orange, Red, Yellow” icons make great prices. The market is more scheduled for December 2013. global than ever before.” which brought $86,882,500. Just as we’ve seen the insatiable demand for Sotheby’s did not fare so well in 2012, register- If you had attended any of Sotheby’s auctions fine art and artifacts drive prices up and up, ing only $5.4 billion dollars in consolidated firsthand in New York, or even were walking auction houses have watched their cost of sales, down 7% from 2011, although they did up Bond Street on a given day in London, doing business go up. They have been trying have several notable successes selling 6 of the then you might have seen the International to find a way to balance income and expenses top 10 lots sold anywhere at auction that year, Brother of Teamsters Local 1814 picket- with the basic need for consignments. Without including Norwegian painter ’s ing out front led by James Hoffa, son of the goods, they’re out of business. Their major (1863-1944) “The Scream” which sold for the famous Jimmy Hoffa. What was that all need, on a basic level, is not just to sell items $119.9 million, the highest price ever paid for a about, you ask? Well, Sotheby’s locked out for the highest prices possible, but first to work of art at auction. 42 art handlers in New York City after their obtain these items out of collections. How do contract expired, and talks came to an end. In they do that? Well, they’re constantly monitor- The free spending trend is continuing into this the scheme of the overall business, the $16 an ing the whereabouts of choice pieces, as well as current year with record prices being paid in hour the art handlers get paid really doesn’t the health of key collectors. (It’s rumored that nearly every collectable category from contem- seem like much. However, they do get credit Christie’s even has a bereavement team that’s porary, old master paintings, jewelry, books, for the most imaginative protest in setting up dispatched when a major collector dies.) How decorative arts, memorabilia, etc. (see our a huge inflatable fat cat in front of Sotheby’s do auction houses compete for the consign- Sales Results page for details). What’s driving York Avenue, New York Headquarters, and ment? One way has been to offer guaranteed this, you ask? Well, take a listen to Stephen P. handing out a flyer commenting on Sotheby’s minimum income to the consignors regardless Murphy, the CEO of Christie’s, “While we’re President’s recent doubling of his salary to $6 of what a piece has sold for. A few years ago seeing more investors collecting, there are million which was printed over a version of the major auction houses used this guarantee many more collectors who are increasing their Munch’s 119.9 million dollar “The Scream” as a weapon in the fight to garner top consign- investment in their collections as the explosion and contained the words “It’s enough to make ments, but this practice definitely proved to in the interest in art, fueled by globalization, you scream.” This is certainly a far cry from be a double edged sword which both auction facilitated by the technology that increases the civilized bidding for delicate Chippendale houses found out with a few less than success- access to information and images meets the art chairs going on inside. ful sales where they actually lost money in the

8 end. But what all the auction houses have been an eBay style doing over the last ten years is restructuring sale, which uses their commissions. Where once they simply p h o t o g r a p h s , Upcoming Auctions took 10% from the seller, now they take a per- d e s c r i p t i o n s , April 24 centage from the seller and a percentage from and provenance June 5 Marine Sale Maritime Art the buyer. And in fact, it’s a tiered percentage provided by the Bonhams Christie’s based on the hammer price. seller who could Knightsbridge, London South Kensington, London be a private col- 44 20 7393 3900 christies.com In February of 2013 Christie’s announced that lector or a dealer. bonhams.com 44 20 7930 6074 it was raising its buyer’s premium (the per- Artnet posts them centage added on to the hammer price that the May 1, October 30 June 5 online in auc- Maritime and Scientific Models buyer must pay) and, surprise of all surprises, tion-style format. Sporting and Wildlife Art in March Sotheby’s announced it was doing Instruments & Objects of Art Christies Once the auction Charles Miller, Ltd the same! However, in the past their premiums South Kensington, London closes, the buyer London 44 20 7930 6074 were identical (fueling a collusion charge in pays a 15% pre- 44 207 806 5530 the 1990s). This time they are slightly differ- mium to Artnet, charlesmillerltd.com ent—with Sotheby’s, not surprisingly, given July 18-19 sellers pay 10%. May 6, 13-16 Marine Art their need for revenue, charging higher pre- The buyer pays Eldred’s miums. It’s a little hard to follow, but here Inuit Art the seller through Waddington East Dennis, Ma we go. . . . Christie’s: 25% premium on bids a Paypal kind of Toronto, 508-385-3116 up to $75,000 (up from $50,000); Sotheby‘s: system, and the 416-504-5700 eldreds.com 25% up to $100,000. Christie’s: 20% premi- deal is done. waddington.ca ums on bids between $75,001-$1,500,000 (up While only a few August 2-4 May 22, October 3 Americana and Folk Art from $50,001-$1,000,000); Sotheby’s: 20% on high end pieces $100,000-$2,000,000; and Christie’s: 12% on American Art Northeast Auctions have sold, a Sotheby’s Manchester, NH any bids over $1,500,001 (up from $1,000,000); Richard Prince New York 603-433-8400 Sotheby’s: 12% over $2,000,001. Wow! What contemporary 212-606-7000 northeastauctions.com does this mean in real money? Well, if you bid painting sold, sothebys.com $75,000 at Christie’s on a work of art you’d for example, for Aug. 3, Sept. 14, Oct. 12, Nov. 30, Dec. 7 actually have to shell out $93,750, or 4.2% $295,000, the May 22, October 30 more than last year to take it home. The Sporting Sale Americana, Fine Art & average sale is in Bonhams Marine Art All this wealth being funneled into art has not the neighborhood , Rafael Osona Auctions been lost on the members of the venerable of $7,000. Bill 44 131 225 2266 Nantucket, MA news program 60 Minutes. Last spring they Fine is Artnet’s bonhams.com 508-228-3942 president. He’s rafaelosonaauctions.com dispatched Morley Safer, himself an amateur May 23 painter, to visit the art fair Art Basel to a veteran of the art world, having American Art August 17-18 interview collectors and dealers. Safer had last Christie’s Marine & China Trade done a piece in 1993 on the Modern Art World, been the publish- Northeast Auctions where we learned that three basketballs in a er of Antiques 212-636-2000 Portsmouth, NH terrarium by artist Jeff Koons was worth in the Magazine for June 4 hundreds of thousands of dollars. . . I seem to many years. October 2 Life on Board Marine Sale have forgotten why. This time he sat down with Artnet is a com- pany based in Maritime Paintings Bonhams well known Los Angeles collector Eli Broad, Bonhams Knightsbridge, London art dealer Larry Gagosian, and director of Los Berlin with New York Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary of Art, a New York Jeffrey Deitch. He looked around at the activ- office. Hans ity of this fair and commented, “The art market Neuendorf, the Artnet purchaser quoted recently in the New sizzles, while the stock market fizzles.” He held company’s CEO, says, “I tend to see online art York Times who said, “My sense is that a lot an interesting interview with Los Angeles art sales as more accessible and transparent than of the sellers are taking a haircut having to dealer Tim Blanch who described three kinds sales in the gallery world.” go through galleries, and so those savings are of collectors: people who 1) buy art because There are a couple of other players in this coming to me.” they “love” it (or as he said it’s “their lifeline”), venue. Art.sy, plans to use a computer pro- The key questions for buyers of any kind of 2) those who buy it on speculation and, 3) the gram to match buyers and sellers and galleries. “super rich” who buy it as a status symbol. art remain, how do you know whether what This one’s got the backing of one of Twitter’s you’re buying is authentic, and how do you Bidding online at live auctions is a service that founders Jack Dorsey. And there’s Artspace. know whether you’re paying a fair price. Oh, most major auction houses now offer and, is com, which has raised $2.5 million from a boy! Those are certainly the $64,000 and, in one way technology is being used to give pur- group of investors, and listed prominent muse- some cases, $64,000,000 questions. As certain chasers easy access to artwork. Direct sellers ums and galleries as partners offering works trends in the art market get hot, and the prices like eBay and Craig’s List have not had much for sale through their Web site. Their aim is continue to rise, the stories of people being luck in the serious art business largely because to sell prints, photographs and some sculpture taken, bamboozled, or just plain robbed con- of the mass marketing products that the artwork by well known and emerging artists ranging tinue to grow. Just take a look at some of what has been mixed in with. A few companies have in price from $200 to $20,000. Among the has surfaced in the last year. addressed this head-on with varying degrees of museums that have signed on are the Neue success. Chief among them is Artnet, an art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art Take a deep breath. . .here we go. The country’s market information company which actually in , the Guggenheim, and the oldest gallery Knoedler was accused of sell- tried online direct sales of art in 1999, sus- . It’s hard to know if this ing fake Mark Rothkos and Diebenkorns pended it several years later, but then got back means they are planning to sell items in their for millions of dollars; a Vero Beach, Florida into the business in 2008. Sotheby’s even tried collection, or products they’re producing based dealer was indicted for selling forged works it in late ‘90s without success. Artnet seems to on their collection. As always, the mantra if of , Vincent van Gogh, and be making a go of it, selling about 6,500 works you are a buyer is “caveat emptor,” and if Jackson Pollock to an L.A. collector; ten thou- of art annually for a total of $12 million. It runs you’re a seller you might take the lead of an sand stolen documents relating to the office of Continued on page 22 9 Recent Sales at Auction and ElsewherE

$700,000,000 Orlafur Eliasson $4,400,000 Babe Ruth 1920 N.Y. $425,000 John Stobart “New Public $170,000 Arthur Grover Rider “Dnipropetrovsk Sunrise” Yankee jersey Landing, Cincinnati ’s (1886-1975) “Boats at V sculpture, steel and light Eye, 1867” oil 24”x30” alencia” oil 43”x49” 1912 Oldsmobile five pas 200’ tall $3,300,000 senger touring car $418,250 Bill Buckner’s misplayed $167,300 John Romita cover art for Paul Cezanne “The Card baseball from 1986 World Amazing Spiderman $250,000,000 Leica O-series camera, Players” oil c.1890 $2,774,191 Series comic #49 1923 Pablo Picasso (1881- 1973) Apollo 13 Commander’s Gold Ingot 50.50 oz. $155,000,000 Georgia O’Keefe (1887- $388,375 $166,750 “Le Reve” oil 51”x38” $2,210,500 checklist recovered from S.S. 1986) “Sun Water Maine” Central America $119,900,000 Edvard Munch (1863- 1922 pastel 19”x25” $362,500 George Washington letter 1944)“The Scream” 1895, May 9, 1789 to U.S. William Bradford (1823- “Mt. $166,750 Pastel $2,143,000 House of Representatives 1892) “Sailing Ships Ranier” oil 54”x83” among the Icebergs” oil Mark Rothko (1903-70) 1875 No. S Roosevelt $86,882,500 William Trost Richards $349,600 18”x30” “Orange, Red, Yellow” $1,650,500 dime (1833-1905) “Mackerel 1961 oil 93”x81” Albert Einstein manuscript Cove Jamestown, RI” oil Cheyenne Indian quilled $158,000 $338,500 on “Kaluza’s Theory of … 1894 war shirt Gravity and Electricity” Signed Apple Computer Pagoda |a| Batrois $1,590,000 $324,000 Tiffany Raven’s head founding document large scrimshaw tooth $146,500 matchbox 1899 with scene $1,583,000 Federick Remington “He $143,400 Dracula 1931 movie poster lay where he had been $316,250 Winchester Model 1878 jerked, still as a log” oil lever action rifle $143,400 John Wayne’s “True Grit” 24’x36” Golden Globe award $310,700 Bobby Jones Masters $1,380,973 Meissen gold mounted Green Jacket $132,750 1934 $5,000 Federal Augustus III royal snuff Reserve note Edward Moran (1829- box $300,000 1901) “Summer Morning, $131,770 Sandy Koufax 1966 $1,380,000 1829 S half eagle coin New York Bay 1873” oil Dodgers’ jersey 24”x42 $1,142,500 Colt 1849 engraved pock $126,500 et revolver $298,500 John Goddard Captain “Sailboats on the Beach” Anthony Low Queen Anne oil 8”x10” School Girl Embroidery $1,070,000 mahogany slab table “Farm Scene,” 1807 $122,500 John James Colt Sheriff’s model single “American Flamingo” 1838 General George Custer’s $281,750 $914,500 action army revolver by R. Havell 38 ¼”x25 5/8” Edvard Munch (1863-1944) model 1865 Spenser The Scream Oil 36”x28.9” Carbine rifle $271,748 Jacob Knuff (1638-1681) $117,000 Charles Russell illustrated Sold at auction for $119.9 million “Charles II and James letter $ Pair of China trade cap 902,000 Duke of York on board tain/Chinese merchant Charles Dickens A HMS Triumph” oil $116,500 $75,112,500 Mark Rothko “No.1 portraits Christmas Carol 1843 A. Elmer Crowell Running edition Royal Red and Blue” Albert Bierstadt (1830- $257,250 $794,500 Curlew decoy c.1912 1954 oil 113”x67” 1902) “Seal Rock, $114,000 Caille double slot machine $46,865,105 Francesco Guardi (1712- California” oil on paper $247,250 Marklin Providence paddle c.1900 wheeler toy boat 28”L 1793) “, a View of the $782,500 George Washington’s $114,000 Mickey Mantle 1958 Rialto Bridge, Looking North Sheffield plated wine cooler $242,500 Tiffany “Elaborate Peony” jersey from the Fondamenta del 1916 table lamp 31”h Carbon” oil 47 ¼”x80 ¼” $861,542 Orson Welles “Citizen $113,525 Fossilized great Elephant Kane” Oscar $241,500 18th C. Turkestan door Bird egg $35,906,000 George Stubbs (1724- rug 5’10”x4’4” 1806) “Gimcrack on $718,000 Pancho Villa’s silver saddle $112,100 Lithographs Coca Cola 1903 World Series program metal serving tray 1897 9” Newmarket Heath” oil Boston Red $241,500 $657,250 diameter $10,300,000 Duesenberg Model J Sox uniform 1908 $230,500 Richard Stockton mahog $109,250 American Naval Officer’s coupe $657,250 Triceratops dinosaur skel- any Philadelphia chest on chest c.1760 89”h sword 1841 $9,602,500 Edward Hopper (1862- eton 19’ Frank Benson (1862- 1967) “October on Cape Andrew Wyeth (1917- $228,000 (1817- $109,250 $578,000 1951) “Hunter with Cod” 1946 oil 2009) “Silver Cove” 1937 1900) “Swept to a Rocky Retriever, Hunter with tempera Shore” 1868 oil 12”x15” $8,818,500 Elizabeth Taylor’s 33.19 Decoys” watercolor, 1926 carat diamond gift from (1894- $224,500 Antonio Jacobsen (1850- $566,500 Lou Gehrig farewell Y Richard Burton 1978) “Milkmaid” 1931 oil 1921) “Racing Schooners” $108,169 ankee Stadium speech 30 ½” x 23” 1879 oil 25”x42” $8,000,000 Han Dynasty 575 BC-220 photograph AD jade bear carving Shoeless Joe Jackson $220,990 Montague Dawson (1895- $537,750 Wilt Chamberlain 1962 baseball bat 1973)“The Crescent $108,000 $7,922,500 Moon” oil 40”x50” 100 point game scorer’s of America complete $522,813 Single Copy of Detective sheet set of 435 Comics #27, May 1939 $220,000 1960 Chrysler 300F auto 1838 mobile $104,500 Pair Paul Revere silver $482,500 N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945) serving spoons 1786 $5,682,500 Caneletto (1697-1768) “Lobstering off Black $212,000 James Bard “Sloop James Bard (1815-97) “Venice: A View of the Spruce Ledge” 1939 American Eagle” 1856 oil $98,500 Churches…with Moored “Steamboat Francis $482,000 Chinese bronze bell 11” $179,250 John Wayne’s beret from Skiddy” oil 36”x56” Man’o War, Gondolas and “Green Berets” movie Barges” Oil 23”x37” $458,500 Pair Boston 1678 silver $97,750 Alden Lassell Ripley $175,000 James E. Buttersworth $4,500,000 21’ World’s Fair cups 4 3/8”h “Springers and (1817-94) “Schooner Yachts Pheasants” 1948 oil soda fountain Jousting armor c.1500 $429,454 Dauntless vs. Mohawk” oil 27”x40” 10 $97,750 John H. Twachtman $59,750 George Washington’s sur- $28,000 Barkhouse Bros. & Co. $15,820 Charles Shultz Peanuts (1853-1902) “Gloucester veyor’s compass Kentucky Bourbon bottle comic strip baseball draw- Harbor” oil 6”x8” ing August 3, 1961 $59,750 John J. Audubon $27,500 Hopi Indian Hemis $95,600 Lou Gerhig, 1937 “Common American Kachina doll $15,525 U.S.S. Independence Japanese Tour baseball Swan” Havell edition Birds naval boarding axe 1814 Calamity Jane cabinet cap of America $26,290 photograph 6”x4” $14,400 James Joyce Ulysses Maplewood ladle with Three Stooges 1935 1922 edition $89,900 $59,750 19th c. copper cod fish carved lynx handle c.1780 movie poster $24,750 weathervane $14,400 1777 map of New Jersey Faberge silver and enamel Nicolino Lalyo (1799- $86,250 $59,375 Duckhead duck call Project melted desk clock 3 ½”x3 1/2” 1884) pair of New York $24,250 $13,145 Kinney & Harlow sand paperweight Harbor scenes oil 12”x19” Native American painted $86,250 Ralph Cahoon (1910-82) Keith Hernandez 1986 NY Buffalo robe c.1900 Titanic Dinner menu $24,150 $12,807 $56,250 “King Neptune and two Mets World Series trophy (1871-1951) Tyrannosaurus Rex tooth Mermaids” oil $84,000 $56,250 Painted 19th c. optician “Gloucester Seacoast’ oil $12,650 $55,200 Guy Wiggins “Trinity $24,000 First newspaper printing store sign $81,000 Marllin battleship Church in Winter” 16”x22” of the Bill of Rights $12,000 Lock of Horatio Nelson’s Columbia toy metal boat October 3, 1789 San Antonio Spurs’ hair c. 1900 $54,000 Championship Ring $24,000 Indianapolis 500 1909 HMS Activity bell 60” Slice of Chilean meteorite poster $11,250 $80,663 Glass Flask with George $52,650 William Burpee Navaho Blanket 54”x69” Washington’s portrait Elisha Taylor Baker (1827- $11,000 $80,000 $21,850 (1846-1940) “Maine 1875-1900 c.1840-60 90) “U.S. Steamship Wharf” oil 20”x24” Monticello” oil 24”x30” Man’s wool zoot suit Ogden Pleissner (1905- $78,000 $51,750 1948 Olympic bearer’s 1938-42 83) “The Alder Cover – John Haley Bellamy $9,315 $21,850 torch and ceremonial bowl Nova Scotia” watercolor (1836-1914) carved eagle Andy Warhol John Wayne $77,675 17”x28” with “Don’t give up the Napoleon serigraph 1986 $9,000 Ship” banner 26”l Staffordshire porcelain 24” 2004 Meet the Beatles signed $50,600 figure c.1840 $75,400 William Jennings Bryan/ album 1962 $21,510 Adlai Stevenson camp $8,750 Douglas Fairbanks house $50,000 KGB espionage camera $75,000 Edward Moran (1829- aign button guestbook 1901) “New York Harbor’ John Wayne “True Grit” $47,800 Thomas Luny (1759-1837) Captain Kidd’s piracy trial oil eye patch $21,330 $7,200 “East Indiaman Prince transcript 1701 Mahogany drop leaf table Soviet Astronaut spacesuit William Henry” 1780 oil $74,500 $46,250 Jose Reyes Nantucket c.1750 26”h $6,960 $47,800 “Werewolf of London” $21,010 Bat Materson signed sub- basket with ivory sperm $74,400 “Isle of 1935 movie advertising poena 1880 whale mount Shoals” 1904 oil 4”x8” poster $20,700 Emile Gruppe (1896- $6,710 Ivory dolphin snuff box $72,100 John Ward (1798-1849) $46,000 Ralph Cahoon (1910-82) 1978) “Gloucester Harbor 18th c. “Warship on a Calm Sea” “The Lobster Pound” oil in Winter” oil Killer Kowalski’s velvet oil 14 ½”x22 ½” $5,100 $45,000 Painted carousel tiger $19,500 Hubley Popeye on motor robe $72,000 White Star Line Titanic 1905 50”x72” cycle cast iron toy $3,500 Robert Louis Stevenson return voyage advertising Northwest Indian carved/ Bazooka Bubble Gum Treasure Island first poster 1912 $44,438 $16,730 painted 19thc. canoe Cards 1959 football set edition Clenched Fist ivory and model 37” $71,920 Frank Benson (1862-1951) 1778 Philadelphia powder whalebone walking stick $16,590 $2,070 Entry Pass to opening of “The Fisherman” horn 1830 $43,400 Gettysburg Cemetery Scrimshawed whalebone Basswood moose caller Ernest Hemingway’s first November 18, 1863 $16,240 $1,896 $68,500 yardstick 1819 c.1900 book “Three Stories and $38,837 Lock of ’s Ten Poems” 1923 Antonio Jacobsen “Tug Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat hair $16,100 $960 George K. Kiykha” oil first edition Fragments of flag that $65,725 Superior five-cent Horse inspired “Star Spangled $36,000 Race slot machine Banner” anthem Thoroughbred Horse Frederick John Mulhaupts $35,850 $65,175 Alydar’s saddle (1871-1938) “Glouceester Gill Netters” oil 28”x34’ $35,550 Penobscot Indian 15’ peaked cap $64,350 Confederate light artillery uniform $34,160 Life-size female ship figurehead $63,720 Caleb Albro scrimshaw 7” sperm whale tooth with $33,000 Jimmy Doolittle’s World ship John Coggershall War II battle jacket 1943 and whaling JFK’s golf bag scene $32,863 Abstract Painting by Frank James E. Buttersworth $32,500 $63,250 Sinatra c.1990 (1817-1894) “Yacht Racing in New York $31,070 Hideki Matsui’s 500 Harbor” oil 8x12 home ball $62,738 Hogan PGA gold medal $30,000 Bryan Trottier’s 1981 Stanley Cup final jersey James Edward Buttersworth (1817-1894), Derek Gardner (1914- $60,375 $28,875 Single bottle of 1883 The Ship Coming Out of a Hurricane, c. 1855 2007) “Action between Glenlivet scotch Oil 20” x 30” Macedonian and the Sold at auction for $398,500 United States” oil 30”x50” $28,750 Yogi Berra’s catcher’s mitt 11 LLOYD McCAFFERY The United States Naval Figurehead Collection (1749-1890)

While Lloyd envisions the entire collection to comprise of up to 60 carvings, to date he has completed 27, which include figure- heads from some of America’s most storied warships: The U.S.S. Constitution, 1797, 32-gun frigate Essex, 1799, 44-gun frigate President, 1800, 36-gun frigate Confederacy, 1778 and the 74-gun ship of the line Independence, 1814. These 27 are currently on display at the U.S. Naval Academy Museum in Annapolis, Maryland, which is tremendously excited about this unique approach to docu- menting its history. In order to painstakingly re-create these unique American symbols, McCaffery has used every available historical resource, including original ships’ plans, paintings of the period, notes kept by build- ers and spectators, and close study of each individual ship carver’s style. Ideally this collection will be acquired in its entirety by a collector or group of collectors at its current stage, to allow Lloyd to continue his important work. Eventually the Collection could be donated or put on extended loan to a public museum for generations of the future to marvel at and enjoy. For more information on Lloyd McCaffery’s United States Naval Figurehead Collection, visit: www.facebook.com/ usnamuseum?group_id=0; or contact the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery at 203-259-8753, or [email protected].

Figurehead From 74-Gun Ship of the Line America, 1782, Commanded by Boxwood Actual Size Scale: 1:48 project of this scope could only be executed by an artist of extraordinary ability and experience. Fittingly, after 50 years ofA building some of the most remarkable ship models ever con- structed, the world’s finest miniaturist has decided to employ all his considerable skills to re-create the history of the U.S. Navy as conveyed through the symbolic figureheads fashioned to decorate its vessels from the earliest Colonial Period through to the late 19th century. Although the original imposing figureheads often measured 10 feet or more in height, McCaffery has chosen to reproduce them all in the traditional Dockyard Model Scale of ¼” = 1’ or 1/48 of Hercules Figurehead From life size. Lloyd specially selected to carve them only from wild box- Ship of the Line USS OHIO, 1820 wood which produces a natural tawny yellow color that is pleasing First ship launched from Brooklyn Navy Yard to the eye and has a dense grain that can allow him to carve almost Original figurehead on display in Stony Brook, New York microscopic detail. Boxwood 2” High (Actual Size) Scale: 1:48

12 Upcoming Marine Art Exhibitions and Events Around the Globe AMERICAN CHRONICLES: ART OF A NATION BRITISH RAID ON ESSEX DAVID THIMGAN The Art of Norman Over 200 paintings narrate the his- Paintings, artifacts, maps, diora- RETROSPECTIVE 1955- Rockwell tory of Great Britain as a maritime mas, and a mural tell the story of 2003 50 original paintings and 323 nation. the single largest American loss of A presentation of the works of Saturday Evening Post covers, The Queen’s House the War of 1812. one of America’s premier marine sketches and photographs celebrate , ENGLAND Connecticut River Museum artists who specialized in recreat- 50 years of Norman Rockwell’s 44(0)20 8858 4922 • rmg.co.uk Essex, CT ing historic West Coast and Pacific observations of American life. Ongoing 860-767-8269 ctrivermuseum.org Ocean maritime subjects. Cyrstal Bridges Museum of Ongoing San Diego Maritime Museum American Art San Diego, CA Bentonville, AR • 479-418-5700 619-234-9153 • sdmaritime.org crystalbridges.org Through April 2013 Through May 27 EDMISTON GALLERY OF AMERICAN LEGACY: MARINE ART Our National Parks Exhibits showcasing the rich mari- 100 original paintings by mem- time tradition of New Zealand. bers of Plein-Air Painters of Voyager New Zealand Maritime America depicting 37 national Museum parks from the Atlantic to the Auckland, NEW ZEALAND Pacific and the Mexican to the 64 9 373 0800 Canadian borders. maritimemuseum.co.nz Dane G. Hansen Memorial Ongoing Museum Logan. KS • 785-689-4846 ETERNAL SUMMER: The hansenmuseum.org Art of Edward Henry April 5 – June 16 Potthast Michelson Museum of Art 90 impressionist oil paintings, Marshall, TX • 903-935-9480 Marine Art at the Ocean House pastels, watercolors and prints of michelsonmuseum.org Americans at the beach, as well as July 14 – September 22 May 25 - August 31, 2013 Europen harbor views, Over 30 Paintings by the World’s Leading Marine Artists and portraits by Edward Henry AMERICAN WILDLIFE ART from the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery Potthast (1857-1927). Five centuries of paintings, at Historic Ocean House Resort in Watch Hill, Rhode Island. Cincinnati Art Museum sculptures and stamps trace For more information and directions, Cincinnati, OH • 513-721-2787 the history of wildlife art with visit oceanhouseri.com or jrusselljinishiangallery.com cincinnatiartmuseum.org works by Mark Cateby, John June 18 – September 8 James Audubon to , Robert Bateman and FISH, SILK, TEA, BAMBOO: Kent Ullberg. THE ART OF THE SHIP CALIFORNIA DREAMING: Cultivating an Image of Allentown Art Museum MODEL: Collections of Plein-Air Painting from China Allentown, PA • 610-432-4333 the Past – Present – and San Francisco to San Delicate paintings for export of allentownartmuseum.org Future Diego motifs Westerners associated with September 29 – December 29 Models representing New Bedford A sizable exhibition of paint- China, including marine related yachting, American whaleboats, ings from the formative years of works on paper and other objects. ROYAL SOCIETY OF Arctic small craft, whaling vessels California by the MARINE ARTISTS from the Age of Sail, and vintage founders of the movement. Salem, MA • 978-745-9500 Nearly 300 new paintings and half hulls. Santa Barbara Museum of Art pem.org sculptures by some of Britain’s New Bedford Whaling Museum Santa Barbara, CA Through September 15 best contemporary marine artists. whalingmuseum.org 805-963-4364 • sbma.net Mall Galleries Through February 2014 Through June 16 FROM COLONY TO London, ENGLAND NATION: 200 Years of 44 020 7930 6844 ASMA 15TH NATIONAL COAST GUARD ART American Painting at mallgalleries.org.uk EXHIBTION COLLECTION the New York Historical October 16 – October 27 Juried exhibition of about 100 Paintings from the U.S. Coast Society new works of art by members of Guard Collection illustrate the Masterworks in the New York ARCTIC VISIONS: “Away the American Society of Marine activities of the Coast Guard. Historical Society Collection, then Floats the Ice- Artists. Salmagundi Club from 1720-1917, including marine island” Coos Art Museum New York, NY and maritime paintings, colonial, Paintings by William Bradford Coos Bay, OR • 541-267-3900 212-255-7740 • salmagundi.org works inspired by the War of 1812 (1823-1892), photographs by John coosart.org May 26 – June 14 by , Benjamin West, Dunmore based on the folio spon- March 22 – May 18 Coos Art Museum Thomas Buttersworth, John Singer sored by Queen Victoria, Minnesota Marine Art Museum Coos Bay, OR Sargent, and others. New Bedford Whaling Museum Winona, MN • 866-940-6626 541-267-3901 • coosart.org New York Historical Society New Bedford, MA • 508-997-0046 minnesotamarineart.org August 3 – October 5 New York, NY• 212-873-3400 whalingmuseum.org June 30 – July 28 nyhistory.org April 26 – Summer 2014 May 31 – September 8 13 Continued on next page William R. Davis (b.1952) Last Leg of the Race Off Nantucket Oil 24” x 48” $55,000

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GEORGIA O’KEEFE AND The Dennos Museum Center JOY OF THE PEOPLE: THE LEGACY OF ANSEL ADAMS: The Traverse City, MI • 231-995-1055 Wang Shenpeng’s pain- CURRIER & IVES: Hawai’i Pictures dennosmuseum.org ting of “Regatta on Shaping the American Paintings by Georgia O’Keefe, and Ongoing Dragon Lake” Spirit candid photographs capturing the A handscroll painting of the Lithographs of 19th century essence of Hawaii’s natural beauty JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL “Dragon Boat Festival,” a longs- American life and culture, includ- by Ansel Adams. WHISTLER: The Thames tanding, raucous rowing competi- ing scenes of events, country and Honolulu Museum of Art Set tion and regatta in China. city life, ships and trains, hunting Honolulu, HI • 808-532-8700 The complete set of on National Palace Museum and fishing and other activities. honolulumuseum.org rice paper entitled “A Series of Taipei, TAIWAN Biggs Museum of Art August 18 – January 12, 2014 Sixteen Etchings of the Thames” 866-2-2881-2021 (x 2683) Dover, DE • 302-674-2111 by Whistler. npm.gov.tw biggsmuseum.org HISTORIC PERSPECTIVES Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Through June 25 July 5 – October 27 OF CAPE COD: Works by Montgomery, AL South Cape Artists 334-240-4333 • mmfa.org LA FLORIDA MARINE ART GALLERY 20 paintings and sculptures depict- August 31 – October 20 Paintings and illustrations by A full range of world class mari- ing historical Cape Cod , Winslow Homer, time art, including paintings, ship Cahoon Museum of American Art JAMIE WYETH, Theodore de Bry, Herman Herzog, carvings, scrimshaw, ship models Cotuit, MA • 508-428-7581 and , Frederick and folk art. cahoonmuseum.org MONHEGAN Frieske celebrate the fifth centen- Penobscot Marine Museum July 19 – August 18 Oil paintings, watercolors and nial of Juan Ponce de Leon’s arriv- Searsport, ME • 207-548-2529 sketchbooks explore the fascina- al on Florida’s East Coast. penobscotmarinemuseum.org INDUSTRIAL SUBLIME tion Monhegan Island held for The Cummer Museum of Art & Ongoing Modernisme and the both Rockwell Kent and Jamie Gardens Transformation of New Wyeth. Jacksonville, FL • 904-356-6857 THE MARINE ART York’s Rivers 1900-1940 Brandywine River Museum cummer.org MUSEUM OF USHUAIA 60 paintings of working harbors, Chadds Ford, PA • 610-388-2700 Through – October 6 Showcasing the most significant bridges, ocean liners in port by brandywinemuseum.org marine art in Argentina from 1889 Robert Henri, John Sloan, Georgia June 15 – November 17 THE LAST OF THE TALL to the present. O’Keefe, George Ault, Edward SHIPS The Marine Art Museum of Hopper, and Preston Dickenson. JOHN SINGER SARGENT Photographs by acclaimed author Ushuaia Museum WATERCOLORS and photographer Alan Villiers Ushuaia, Terra del Fuego, Yonkers, NY A major exhibition of more than 90 commemorate the last years of ARGENTINA • 0201 437-481 914-963-4550 • hrm.org watercolor paintings, some marine merchant sailing vessels from1928- museoartushuaia.com.ar October 12 – January 7, 2014 related, of , , Greece, 1933. Ongoing , Syria and Palestine. , INUIT GALLERY Museum of Fine Art Cornwall MARINE AND SPORTING Contemporary Inuit art from 1950 Boston, MA • 617-267-9300 Falmouth, UK ART to the present, including over 1,000 mfa.org 44 01326 313388 By the leading artists from America, stonecut, stencil, lithograph, etch- October 13 – January 20, 2014 nmmc.co.uk Europe and New Zealand. Sculpture, ings, , and chine-collé Through July 18 ship models scrimshaw and paint- prints, sculptures and artifacts. ings, by A.D. Blake, Christopher 14 Blossom, Don Demers, Flick Ford, 150 YEARS ON James Griffiths, Ian Marshall, MINNESOTA’S Victor Mays, John Mecray, Stanley WATERS: Meltzoff, Leonard Mizerek, James Paintings from Prosek, Keith Reynolds, Arthur the Minnesota Shilstone, John Stobart, Robert Historical Society Weiss and others. Art Collection J. Russell Jinishian Gallery Historical paintings from 1657 Post Road, Fairfield, CT mid 1800s to contem- 203-259-8753 porary abstract works jrusselljinishiangallery.com reveal the influence Ongoing regional bodies of water have had on artistic MARINE MUSEUM OF endeavors over the past THE GREAT LAKES 150 years. Minnesota A collection of over 4000 artifacts Marine Art Museum Salman Rashidi (b.1954) Drying Sail: Whaling Bark OCEAN ROVER and works of art, including Winona, MN in New Bedford Harbor paintings by marine artists Grant 866-940-6626 Scrimshaw on Fossil Walrus 7 ½” x 3 ½” x 1 ¼” $5,200 Macdonald, Nicholas Henderson, minnesotamarineart.org Peter Rindlinsbacher and others. Through May 23 Marine Museum of the Great Lakes 150 YEARS ON Kingston, ON, CANADA PAINTINGS AT THE 613-542-2261 • marmuseum.ca MARSH-BILLINGS- PIRATES: Ship to Shore 30TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION Ongoing ROCKFELLER NATIONAL 19 pirate paintings by Don Maitz Canadian Society of marine HISTORICAL PARK Door County Maritime Museum artists. MODEL SHIP GALLERY & A large selection of marine paint- Sturgeon Bay, WI Picton, ON, CANADA CARFERRY EXHIBITS ings by notable historical artists, 920-743-5958 613-476-1177 • ultramarine.ca The history of Great Lakes sailing including Harry Chase, Thomas dcmm.org May 4 - September 30 and freighting conveyed through a Cole, William Bradford, Sanford Through March 2, 2014 display of scale models, half-hull Gifford, John F. Kensett, Edward 34th ANNUAL models and quarterboards. Moran, James C. Nicoll and oth- SCRIMSHAW: The INTERNATIONAL MARINE Wisconsin Maritime Museum ers. Art and Craft of the ART EXHIBTION Manitowoc, WI • 866-724-2354 The Mansion American Whaler Paintings, drawings, sculpture, wisconsin maritime.org Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Tools, games, gifts and toys made scrimshaw and models by the Ongoing National Historical Park of whale bone and teeth carved by world’s leading contemporary Woodstock, VT • 802-457-3365 sailors during the Golden Age of marine artists. A MUCH RECORDED WAR: Through October 31 American whaling. The Maritime Art Gallery NAVIGATING FREEDOM: Bowers Museum Mystic Seaport Museum The War of 1812 on the PAINTINGS OF Santa Ana, CA • 714-567-3600 Mystic, CT • 860-572-5388 Chesapeake HOLLAND’S GLORY bowers.org mysticseaport.org Artwork, rare artifacts and Paintings, , ports, coast- Through July 7 September 14 – December 31 stories explore the impact of the al scenes, sea battles, and storms War of 1812 on the people of the from the 17th to the 21st century SCRIMSHAW: Shipboard TREASURES OF Chesapeake Bay. trace the history of the Netherlands Art of the Whalers SAILOR’S SNUG HARBOR Cheasapeake Bay Maritime as a seagoing power, and the pro- A new, permanent exhibit of the Paintings, ship models, and arti- Museum gression of art, and maritime art in finest and most curious scrimshaw facts from the Sailor’s Snug Harbor St. Michaels, MD • 410-745-2916 particular, through the ages. pieces from the world’s largest Trust Collection on public view for cbmm.org The Scheepvaart Museum collection of scrimshaw, includ- the first time. Included are works May 11 - Spring 2015 Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS ing works by English, Scottish, by Antonio Jacobsen, James Stuart 31 (0)2 052 32 222 Azorean, Cape Verdean, American, Blackton, Samuel Finley Morse NORMAN ROCKWELL hetscheepvaartmuseu.nl Continental European, Eskimos, Badger, John La Farge. MUSEUM Ongoing Pacific Islanders, and Japanese Noble Maritime Collection Wendell Minor’s America: 25 artists. Staten Island, NY Year’s of Children’s Book Art THE PANORAMIC RIVER: New Bedford Whaling Museum 718-447-6490 • noblemaritime.org Striking and historically accurate The Hudson and the New Bedford, MA To 2015 illustrations bring to life books Thames Ongoing such as Buzz Aldrin’s Look to the 19th century panoramic paintings TURNER AND THE SEA Stars. of the Hudson River in New York THAT FLAUNTING RAG! A major exhibition surveying Norman Rockwell Museum and the Thames River in England Maine’s Maritime War J.M.W. Turner’s fascination with Stockbridge, MA • 413-298-4100 by British and American artists Against the Confederacy the sea from his formative years in nrm.org who painted both, including Robert Ship models and artifacts detail the late 1790s to his experimental November 9 - May 24, 2014 Havell, Jr. , , Jasper Maine’s maritime efforts to defeat works at the end of his life. The Cropsey, and John Kensett. the Confederate States during the exhibit juxtaposes Turner’s works Hudson River Museum Civil War. with major works by noted British, IMPRESSIONIST FESTIVAL Yonkers, NY Maine Maritime Museum American and European artists. A festival across Normandy with 914-963-4550 • hrm.org Bath, ME • 207-443-1316 National Maritime Museum water as its central theme in Caen, Through May 19 mainemaritimemuseum.org Greenwich, ENGLAND Giverny, Honfleur, , May 3 – December 1 rmg.co.uk Louviers, and Rouen. November – April 2014 Normandie-impressionniste.eu

15 David Thimgan (1955 - 2003) Cippers and at Pagoda Anchorage, Foochow China c.1895 Oil 20” x 30” $22,500 Continued from page 7 Society and founder of South Street Seaport, page) under the new editorship of Jean Hood. found on warther.org. Peter Stanford came to the fore, signing 500 of From September 2013 to February 2014, Fans of extreme miniature ship models built at the special Wavertree editions, which included Lloyd’s incredible gold leafed 3 ft. model of the scale of 1:100 and smaller will be able to an actual piece of wood from the taffrail of the “Prince Frederick’s Barge” will be on display in see hundreds of them on display at the Annual Wavertree. Where was such a piece found, you an exhibition “William Kent, 1688-1748, Meeting of the Society of Miniature Ship might ask? Well it turns out Peter had a piece on Designing Georgian Britain” at the Bard Collectors on May 25 in Kassell, Germany his mantel that had been given to him during the Graduate Center in New York City. In March and Saturday September 28 at the Columbia Wavertree’s restoration many years ago by one 2014 the exhibition travels to London’s Yacht Club on Lake Drive in Chicago. The of the shipwrights. He and his wife Norma gen- Victoria and Albert Museum through July. Society’s aim is to “acquaint the public with the erously donated it for the cause. It was a May 1, 2012 marked the groundbreaking of an educational aspects of this hobby and the joy of remarkable project that highlighted John, the incredible new 10,000 sq. ft. Shipmodel collecting, wargaming, and building miniature South Street Seaport and the National Maritime Museum in Dover, Ohio. It was specifically ships and dioramas that had its origins in train- Historical Society for the tens of millions of designed to house and display the “History of ing naval officers in battle tactics and ship loyal New York Times readers around the the Sailing Ship from 3,000 B.C. to the Present identification.” Extreme miniature models have world. While the print was available for $895 Day.” It represents an ambitious project by fifth their own following because they tend to be framed, the magnificent original painting sold generation carver, David Warther, the grand- inexpensive, and also even a significant collec- for $475,000. son of Ernest Mooney Warther, whose own tion of them doesn’t take up a lot of space. For Readers of the November/December 2011 edi- museum of train woodcarvings is just down the more information on the event visit smsc-home. tion of Wooden Boat Magazine also had a road. What makes David’s work particularly org, or email: ulrichrudofsky@urudofsky@ chance to read a ten-page article on John and unique is that each part of his models, from the gmail.com. his work. He sure shows no signs of slowing carved figureheads to the delicate rigging itself The Chesapeake Bay, and particularly the down. This spring found him engaged in special are made of ivory. Now 53 years old, David unique watermen, “fishermen of the Bay” have paintings to help support a foundation on the made his first at the age of six. been the subjects of watercolorist Marc Castelli Isle of Shoals off New Hampshire’s coast. He Since he started his History of Sailing Ships for many years. He spends about one hundred wrote me with great excitement this winter project, he’s completed 80 ivory models. His days a year out on the water, working up close about an article that appeared in the Wall Street lifetime goal is to complete 100. For the past and personal with these watermen to document Journal about the classic sea novel Two Years three years he’s focused only on medieval era their life. Seventeen of his paintings have Before the Mast, written in 1840 by Richard ships. The will house this incred- recently been given by Diane Simison to the Henry Dana, Jr. He said, “Seeing this opens up ible collection along with David’s 12’x12’ Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum a Pandora’s Box for me, and I’m overflowing workshop, where visitors can watch the artist at Permanent Collection to help educate people with ideas.” Look out world. Who knows work. No models will be for sale. They are about the lives of the watermen. Marc was also what’s next from this energetic artist. destined for permanent display at the museum. on hand to document the last commercial oys- There’s some exciting news for fans of the As David said, his goal is really to present “an tering down in the Upper Chesapeake Bay, world’s premier miniature ship model maker educational and artistic exhibit for visitors to where he says, “due to state mismanagement, Lloyd McCaffery. Lloyd wrote a fascinating enjoy while they learn about the history of sail- overly ambitious oyster restoration, and lack of four-page article for the Summer 2012 issue of ing ships.” Warther’s creations are truly a mar- contingency plans, the freshwater floods killed Sea History Magazine on his unique Naval vel, taking the rustic Prisoner of War models off 90% of the oysters left in the Upper Bay. “I Figurehead Collection, and a ten page article on created during the by sailors never thought I would live to see the end of his technique and his philosophy for the English to a whole new level of elegance and refine- oystering in the Upper Bay. It was a sad day.” publication Shipwright 2013 (see our book ment. More information on the project can be Marc has also been involved in a program spon- 16 sored by Nautica, called “Ocean to Ocean,” Marine Artists (zeeschilders.com), Willem these artists have something else in common. visiting waterfront communities to interview Eerland today runs a busy ferry company, yet That is, they share an incredible passion for scientists and historians on the state of the still finds time to pursue his primary passion, their subject matter. In fact, there may not be Bay. painting the many ships that have passed another large international group of artists that through some of the busiest shipping lanes in Two of Marc’s Naval paintings recently found are driven to their subject matter with the same the world. While each year he publishes a cal- their way into the U.S. Navy Yard Collection. intense personal connection to it. And lucky for endar of his paintings, this year he published One of them hangs in the Captain’s Mess us, this has created an unprecedented quantity Seaworthy IV containing some 200 paintings of aboard the Guided Missile Cruiser USS Lake of top quality marine art for collectors and con- his. See our book page for details. Champlain. Marc said that for the project he noisseurs, many of whom are driven by the was given a full tour of the Philadelphia Navy In Germany, Jochen Sachse has been using same passionate love of the subject matter as Yard, including the USS Forrestal, which he his love of ships in combination with his degree the artists are. described as “like walking around a maritime in commercial engineering since 1962 to pro- Florida based artist Jim Flood is certainly an set to “Full Metal Jacket.” The yard was full of duce highly detailed gouache (opaque water- artist who falls into that category. In fact, his old buildings, and inactive warships, cruise color) paintings of the rugged ships like tankers love for his subject matter, elegant cruise liners ships, and logistic ships. Marc’s creative meth- and container ships built for companies like of the early 20th century, inspires him to dress od is to take hundreds of photographs of his P&O Nedlloyd and Columbia, along with cruise each day as a turn-of-the-century gentleman, subjects and then to bring them together to cre- ships like the Sea Cloud, Lion and others. Most complete with a silk cravat, stickpin, watch fob, ate vibrant, unusually composed watercolors of of his paintings are commissioned by the ship and jaunty naval officer’s cap. It comes as no ships and men at work. owners themselves. Jochen has also done a lot surprise that he was invited to participate in one of work for the German Navy, often being Working ships were the subject of Dennis of the most significant and poignant maritime asked to review the blueprints alone to render Lyall’s latest commission from the U.S. Postal events of the year, the reenacted voyage to and what the ship might look like at sea before it is Service for the set of four stamps commemorat- commemoration of the sinking of the RMS even built. In looking at his highly detailed, ing the U.S. Merchant Marine. These paint- Titanic, on April 15, 2012, 100 years to the day very convincing gouache paintings you can see ings include a Clippership, a Liberty Ship, an after she slipped under the waves forever. Jim the influences of his self-confessed heroes: auxiliary Transitional Steamer, and a modern was invited to sail aboard the 680 ft. long Liner English painter Jack Spurling, French painter day container ship. It must be true that most Balmoral, as she departed Southampton just as Marin-Marie, and particularly American Carl artists who create paintings for stamps toil in the Titanic did one hundred years ago. But Jim G. Evers. anonymity, for Dennis tells me that this is the wasn’t just along for the ride. He set up his 38th group of U.S. stamps he’s designed. Yet, as As we’re continuing to monitor the growth of easel in the lobby of the ship and for the next of now, he’s failed to become a household Marine Art around the world, one thing is evi- six days, created a painting of the Titanic’s name. dent, regardless of whether an artist is based in sinking as they banged their way at 20 knots Auckland or Antwerp, Buenos Aires or through rough to arrive right at the site of The Netherlands continues to produce its Boston, in addition to exhibiting a high level of the Titanic in time for a moving memorial ser- share of marine painters, reflecting that life understanding the difficult technical aspects of vice held at exactly 2:00a.m,, 100 years to the there is intimately connected to the sea. In addi- their craft, and the complexities of manmade minute of the sinking. Jim was even able to tion to the artists of the Dutch Society of objects on a constantly shifting surface, all incorporate something extraordinary into the Continued on next page

John Stobart (b.1929) San Francisco Moon, Gold Rush Harbor, 1851 Oil 30” x 50” $450,000

17 Continued from page 17 painting. He was approached by Ron Warwick, owner of Macys, and even R.J. Sawyer, a win- leading marine artists, Don has also become the Commodore of the Queen Mary II who had dow cleaner aboard ship. It’s available as a recognized for his prowess as a plein air painter with him a rock coated with rusted metal that limited edition 20”x30” print for $250. (setting up his easel and painting directly from had been retrieved from the site of the Titanic It’s interesting to note that while the artist may nature), which often finds him painting out- wreck. Jim scraped the rust off, crushed it up not have witnessed a historic event, by using doors literally from sunrise to sunset. This year and mixed it into the red paint he used to paint the powerful artist imagination, that every great he was invited along with a handful of top plein the waterline in his painting. The painting was writer or painter possesses, he is still able to air painters by the Catalina Island Conservancy sold at auction aboard ship at $14,400. The capture the spirit of the moment completely as for a week of painting that wild, rugged island entire voyage and ceremony were filmed by if he had been there. It’s a remarkable talent that off the California coast under the leadership of National Geographic Society. Jim called the an artist like Don Demers has spent 30 plus Roy Rose, the grandnephew of famed 19th voyage “simply incredible.” He said one of the years honing. century painter Guy Rose (1867-1925). In highlights was the stop in Queenstown, now October, Don joined fellow marine artists and called Cobh, Ireland, where the Titanic origi- Don recently showcased his skills in a daylong plein air painters of note Christopher Blossom, nally stopped to pick up passengers. Jim said painting demonstration sponsored by the William R. Davis, and Joe McGurl along with there were thousands of people lining the quay Salmagundi Club, and filmed by American Eric Rhodes, publisher of Fine Art Connoisseur when they arrived. When they stepped off the Artist magazine as he created a terrific painting and Plein Air magazines for a Plein Air Artists ship, people were hugging and kissing passen- of one of the seemingly simplest, yet decep- of America painting week along the Maine gers. Of course, Jim in his period dress really tively complicated scenes to paint, that of surf coast whose rugged beauty has inspired artists stood out. As one of the Irish papers said, crashing on the shore, all the while describing from Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865) and “There is something very powerful about ships his methods and approaches as he worked. It’s Winslow Homer (1836-1910) to Andrew arriving from the sea.” a fascinating 90 minute DVD entitled Marine Wyeth (1917-2009). See our exhibition pages Painting, Art of the Wave and is available for for information on the impressive Plein Air But Jim was not the only artist involved in this $29.95 at interweavestore.com. remembrance. From New York City Ken Painters of America exhibition which is tour- Marschall, whose paintings in the book Over the years Don has evolved to become a ing American museums throughout 2013. TITANIC: An Illustrated History, Hyperion, gifted teacher much in demand for workshops Don also has identified several books for aspir- 1998, have become a classic, voyaged to the around the country. Over the last year a handful ing marine painters that he believes are most sight aboard the Azamara Journey, not painting, of lucky aspiring painters were able to take helpful. He recommends two by Harry but lecturing about the Titanic’s voyage. workshops with him across the country from Ballinger—Painting Surf and Sea and Painting Scottsdale, Arizona to Chatham, Cape Cod, Boats and Harbors. He also likes One of the most complex and moving tributes Massachusetts. The August 2012 American to the Titanic is a gigantic painting by Polish Painting by Birge Harrison, a technical guide Artist’s new magazine for working artists with insights into thinking about the meaning born, former Merchant Mariner, Mark Sarba, “Workshop” contains an article on Don’s marine who endeavored to paint full length portraits on beyond the painting. He also points students art and his role in teaching marine art to others. towards Robert Henri’s classic The Art Spirit. the grand staircase of 57 actual passengers and Even if you can’t get into his perpetually sold crew who lost their lives aboard the ill-fated out sessions, you can purchase his teaching Occasionally, serendipity works in an artist’s Titanic. The 38”x48” oil painting comes com- DVD, The Outdoor Studio, which is a taping of favor. As luck would have it, among the visitors plete with a key, short biography about each a day long workshop with students on the coast to our painting weekend person depicted from Thomas Andrew, the of Maine. It’s available from jrusselljinishian- in Newport, Rhode Island was, aboard his managing director of Harland and Woolf, the gallery.com. beautiful little schooner, Harvey Howalt, shipyard that built the Titanic to Isidor Straus, whose success in the chemical business has In addition to his stature as one of the world’s

John Mecray (b.1937) Schooner Brilliant powering to Windward, 1932 Oil 23” x 48” $135,000

18 Carl Evers (1907-2000) Shrimper Fleet at Sunset Acrylic 22” x 42” $28,000

allowed him to pursue his interest in yachts and depiction of 1871 First Defense of the America’s Minnesotamarineart.org yachting through his ownership, at one time or Cup for a French collector, a 10 ft. turn-of-the- In addition to exhibiting art and artifacts, muse- another, of the Alden Company, Hodgdon century yachting scene mural painted on Dacron ums play no small role in helping to bring Yachts, and what is currently the site of one of sail cloth for a house in Maine, and a piece of a together experts to educate people and discuss the biggest ship yards in Newport. Each year he 50 ft. mural sponsored by the State of various issues. For 24 years the New Bedford sails his 137 ft. schooner Islandia from Newport Connecticut Public Art Program in New Whaling Museum in New Bedford, to his house in Jamaica. This year two artists London, CT. Massachusetts has been holding its Annual were invited to join him for a leg. From Pacific coast artist Cooper Hart tells us that the Scrimshaw Weekend in May. Their extensive Newport to Bermuda Don Demers and Harvey American Bird Conservancy has asked him permanent collection of scrimshaw is chroni- went for an old fashioned rollercoaster ride. 25 for permission to use his painting of “Captain cled in Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously ft. seas all the way, which as Don said, “Will Cook Arriving in Kealakekau Bay, Hawaii” for Carved: Scrimshaw at the New Bedford make you pay attention when you’re on watch.” an upcoming documentary film on Hawaiian Whaling Museum by Dr. Stuart Frank, which On the leg from Bermuda to Jamaica Brec birds. He also relayed the news that a longtime includes over 700 detailed photographs. (See Morgan was invited along. Brec has got plenty fixture in the Hawaiian Island marine art gallery our book page for details.) Each year attendees of sea beneath his keel being the 259th person scene, the Shipstore Gallery which represented hear from the experts like Hon. Paul G. to circumnavigate the globe alone, which he Cooper Hart, Ray Massey and many others has Vanderman, the keynote speaker; Ken Brown, accomplished between 1998 and 2001 in his 27 gone out of business with the owner apparently Ron Cardoza, Chuck Deluca, Andrew ft. Pacific Seacraft sloop Otter. Brec’s run to disappearing in the dark of night, leaving behind Jacobsen and Dr. Stuart Frank among others Jamaica with Harvey was a lot smoother: 9 a trail of unpaid artists and consignees. Perhaps on a variety of topics related to the art form. days, 20 knot winds, reaching all the way. Both a casualty in the downtick of the economy, but Information on the scheduled speakers can be artists have already produced a number of see our Interesting Art News section for more found at whalingmuseum.org. sketches based on their two completely differ- on the economy’s effect on the art business. ent trips. A number of very interesting paintings What do middle aged scrimshanders do after emerged from these voyages. Where’s the most contested art competition in they move permanently to Hawaii? Why, Bob the country this year? You guessed it. Grand Weiss continues to work on special commis- Another gathering of marine artists took place Rapids, Michigan, where ArtPrize 2013 is sions and projects. (One of the beautiful things at the 33rd Annual Mystic International now in its fifth year. ArtPrize is a unique con- about a scrimshander’s workshop working on Marine Art Exhibition at Mystic Seaport in cept that has artwork shown in 192 different 5”-6” pieces of ivory is that it’s easily portable.) Mystic, Connecticut. The judges Jay Picotte, offices, schools, parks, etc. throughout the city. He entered the multi Island “Schaefer Portrait curator of the Museum of Yachting in Newport, Visitors acting as the judges vote on their favor- Challenge,” open to artists in all media with top Rhode Island, and Jeff Cooley, Director of the ites. The artist whose work is voted as the prize of $15,000. While he did not win top Cooley Gallery in Old Lyme, selected thirteen “favorite” receives a check for $250,000! While prize, his moving portrait of his wife’s parents artists to receive awards. Among the winners the artwork is as varied as the venues, past win- on walrus tusk was the only piece of scrimshaw were: the Rudolph J. Schafer Maritime Heritage ners have included Rand Ortner, Brooklyn, accepted into the 47-artist show and garnered Award to Victor Mays; the Stobart Foundation New York for his marine piece “Open Water great praise in all the reviews of it. In fact, the Award to H. Gray Park IV, the Yachting Award #24.” If you’re visiting Grand Rapids, or want Hawaii Tribune Herald came out to Bob’s stu- to Gary Bowans; the Thomas Hoyne Award to to know how to enter, visit artprize.org. dio to profile him. The exhibit was on view at the best painting depicting the fishing industry the First Hawaiian Bank Center in Honolulu, Also in the Midwest, Mary Burrichter and to Jeff Weaver; the Museum Purchase Award to sponsored by the Honolulu Museum of Art. Lark Larsen; the David Thimgan Award for Bob Kierlin continue to help the collection of West Coast painting to Steve Mayo; Marine the Minnesota Marine Art Museum increase Who’s got the most paintings on display at one Environmental Wildlife Award to Terry Miller; in stature. In addition to its hundreds of paint- time around the country? I think you’d have a and six Awards of Excellence to De-Bourree ings by marine artists like James Buttersworth, hard time beating Don Maitz, who specializes Bach, Robert Firehouse and Ian Hansen, and Antonio Jacobsen, Montague Dawson, Don in action packed paintings of pirates and other sculptors Charles Kenney, Robert Lagasse Demers, and Louis Dodd, in recent years fantastic and mythological creatures. He tells and Walfun Liney. Congratulations to all! they’ve added paintings by Vincent Van Gogh, me that he has 89 paintings displayed right now Claude Monet, and recently Paul Cezanne’s in museums around the country. Where you 2011’s Yachting Award winner Russ Kramer 1881 painting “La Riviere.” Located right on ask? Well, if you’re visiting the Cornell reports that in addition to his duties as president the banks of the River in Winona, Museum of Art and American Culture in Del of the ASMA, he’s found time to complete a it is well worth a visit. See our exhibition sched- Ray Beach, Florida anytime this year, you’ll number of interesting projects, including a ule for their current and upcoming exhibitions. see 46 pirate paintings, and 20 fantasy works by 19 Continued on page 23 Noteworthy New Books

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They went to the in a Lafayette, Louisiana courtroom Toyes stolen from museums across the Northeast, Art Loss Register, a London-based interna- remained unbowed and whacked the New York including a land grant signed by Abraham tional company listing lost and stolen paintings, Times photographer with his cane on his way Lincoln, was seized from a New York man’s which working with the FBI and the Swiss out of court. apartment who had been selling them; one police eventually, by 2005, had recovered all Mark Ulugo was indicted in December for seven paintings, including a Cezanne, which The Marine Art World was rocked with the walking into the Chambers Hotel in mid in 1999 was worth $29 million. Based on the recent publication of Caveat Emptor by self- Manhattan, putting five paintings off the wall recent private sale of Cezanne’s painting “Card confessed forger Ken Perenyi, who describes into a bag and walking out, and later doing the Players” to a member of the Qatar Royal fam- over forty years of forging artists like James E. same thing at an upper east side gallery includ- ily for $250 million dollars, who knows what Buttersworth, and Martin Johnson Heade, ing a $350,000 sketch by Ferdinand Léger. that’s worth today. The latest word was that fooling all the experts (See our book page). These were later found hanging on the walls Mardirosian was in his first year of a seven year So what is a buyer to do? Unless the artist is of Ulugo’s Hoboken, New Jersey apartment. jail sentence. You just can’t make this stuff up. still living, and the work is coming directly That’s one way to acquire a collection, I sup- from him through a gallery, you should review pose. Or take the case of one William Toye. Over the last four decades he and his wife have been the artwork’s provenance –the “history of own- In New York City a complaint has been filed forging and selling the works of Louisiana folk ership”—you may also want to check the Art against one Robert Cook who has been accused artist Clementine Hunter (who died at the age Loss Register to see if it’s on their lost or miss- of selling 16 works of art, that he did not own, of 101 in 1988), apparently in collusion with ing list. To check if the work is actually by a by artists like Picasso and Matisse for nearly a dealer Robert Lucky, Jr., to given artist, if the artist is well known, and has $4 million without the owner’s knowledge, and whom Toye in a colorful letter wrote in 2005 left behind a foundation like Andy Warhol, then not paying the owner. “Wow!” Cook is “And if you end up in jail, it would be with my Jackson Pollock, or Willem de Kooning you now living abroad. blessing and my boot up your rear end.” Ah. No could check with them, though increasingly honor among thieves, I suppose. It’s a twisted foundations are refusing to authenticate works. And here’s a story that reads like a Robert tale that involves Toye’s claim that a 1974 This has to do with economics. (The Warhol Ludlum novel. One day in 1978 Michael accusation that he had sold 22 forged Hunter foundation was actually sued with the asser- Bakwin returned to his house in Massachusetts paintings was really a plot by the former Mayor tion that its rejection of an authentic Warhol to find $30 million worth of artwork stolen. of New Orleans to dissuade Toye from running was designed to drive up the price of the oth- Though no arrest was made, it was well known for City Counci, and that in 1997 when it was ers.) Even this is not a clean road, however. that the seven missing paintings had been stolen discovered by an auction house that the Degas, Technology also comes into play here. Forensic by a career criminal named David Colvin who Matisse and other paintings supplied by Toye specialists can look closely at the materials left them with his lawyer Robert Mardirosian were fakes, he claimed that they had switched used in paintings. In the Knoedler case, foren- for safe keeping. Before Colvin could be the “originals” he had provided with fakes.” sic analysis revealed that one of the supposed charged he was murdered. Mardirosian then Wow, Wow, Wow! It all came to a head a cou- “Jackson Pollock” paintings contained a yellow sent the paintings to Switzerland for storage ple of years ago when the Feds descended on paint that was not even invented until after he for the next twenty years. In 1999 he tried Toyes’ Baton Rouge home with a fire truck, an died! to sell the paintings through a Swiss lawyer animal control van, (Toyes reportedly had over and a Panamanian shell company. When he Of course, one of the considerations after buy- a hundred cats), and an ambulance that carried ing works of art is how do you protect yourself couldn’t sell the paintings he tried to use them away the suddenly collapsed Mrs. Toyes. It to extort $15 million from the Bakwin family. if they are damaged or stolen. Even though you said that even during his recent “guilty” plea think you’ll never forget a painting that you Continued on page 24

Sergio Roffo (b.1953) Late Afternoon Sail Oil 24” x 36” $18,500

22 Marek Sarba (b.1945) The Last Moments of the U.S.S. Monitor off Cape Hatteras, N.C. December 31, 1862 Oil 24” x 36” $26,000

Continued from page 19 Don. If you’re Wisconsin bound between now who were virtually penniless later in their taken him from living aboard a boat in Europe and March 2014 “Pirates: Ship to Shore” at the career. Why did paint so many self- for many years, to living and painting on both Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon portraits for example? Simple. He couldn’t the East and West Coasts of the United States. Bay, Wisconsin will include 19 of Don’s pirate afford any other model but himself. One artist closely identified with contemporary Continued on page 24 paintings. His “Taking the Whydah” is currently Ah, but there’s good news in California for yacht racing, partly because of the very contem- traveling with the 15th National Exhibition of fans of maritime art. Joyce Nelson, who with porary look of his paintings will not be onsite to the American Society of Marine Artists. her husband Harry founded the Ventura document the action packed event. I’m speak- Wow! As Don says himself, “That’s amaitz- County Maritime Museum in 1991 at Oxnard ing of the late Willard Bond (1926-2012) ing!” in the Channel Islands Harbor, officially whose colorful, dramatic oils and watercolors Here’s a cautionary tale about achieving suc- opened their new building across the harbor, of modern racing yachts matched his own col- cess in the art field. The case of landscape nearly quadrupling their previous exhibition orful personality. I’ve met hundreds of people painter Russell Chatham, a native of San space. The museum’s terrific collection of over the years who tell me that they remember Francisco whose grandfather was well known maritime paintings from 17th century through meeting Willard selling his paintings and prints muralist Gottardo Piazzoni. Chatham left San the modern masters, along with shipmodels can as a regular feature of the Newport, New York Francisco and moved to Livingston, Montana be viewed at vcmm.org. and Annapolis Boat shows for 30 years. The in the 1970s where his paintings of the West San Francisco, California of course, will be story goes that if you waited until just before were avidly collected by actors Robert the site of the 2013 Americas Cup Regatta, the show closed, he’d give you a really good Redford, Warren Beatty, Jeff Bridges, Jessica sailed from September 7 -22 in San Francisco. deal. With a career that took him from playing Lange, and others. He was so successful that With vantage points available from inside the in the Navy Band in the Pacific during World for years he owned a gallery, a print shop, a Bay, it should produce a tremendous subject War II to acting in New York Theater, then to publishing house and a restaurant. Today, as he matter for marine artists of the area, while we building geodesic domes in the Jamaica jungle, says, “My sole possessions in this great uni- have not heard of any specific galleries opening and serving as Pier Master greeting tall ships verse are ten grey T-shirts and three pairs of related to the Cup. But hey, watch out for San from around the world during Op Sail 1976, he overalls.” What happened? Well, “I did what Diego based America’s Cup skipper Dennis never seemed to run out of energy or ideas. these rich people who were buying paintings Conner who’s been making marine paintings Most recently he was proud to have been named from me told me to do, which was to buy land. for 20 years or so. We’ll keep you posted. celebrity spokesman of the National Hospice So I took all the money I had and bought land. Regattas, and donating his artwork to help Unfortunately, just at the wrong time. Today One artist we’re sure to see on one of the chase raise money for this good cause. The marine art there’s little or no market for undeveloped boats is Newport Beach and Baja, world will miss his unique presence. You can Montana wilderness.” Chatham has returned to based artist Scott Kennedy. Scott is well actually watch a video of Willard in full form at San Francisco, and is working on his memoirs. known in southern California for his paintings his last one man show at the Annapolis Marine made into posters to promote the Newport His story just reflects the difficulty of the artis- Art Gallery in Annapolis, Maryland. Watch Beach to Ensenada, Mexico Race each year. “Willard Bond Paint the Wind” on You Tube. tic lifestyle. Chatham is not alone. There are He tells me he’s just produced 40 pieces of many artists whom we consider some of the work for Ceart, and is at work on a comprehen- Christopher Blossom is another artist who has greatest of all times, including Rembrandt, sive book on his work and career, which has managed to straddle both coasts successfully. Continued on page 25 23 Richard Loud (b.1945) Topsail Schooner Bessie, Off Brant Point, Nantucket c.1905 Oil 18” x 34” $23,000

Continued from page 22 look at everyday, there is the case of a collector offers a free trial for up to ten items. My Stuff, stituted a Degas painting in the Grand Salon of who had a valuable Marc Chagall painting contactplus.com costs $40, it can be used free the ship, which can be seen in the movie just as prominently displayed on his yacht. It took 16 times. Frostbow Home Inventory has a 30 the ship sinks. him several months to realize that in fact the day free trial under their Professional Version. original painting had been stolen and replaced Home Manage 2011, libertystreet.com also has Here’s a case where science and research have by a copy! It’s interesting to know that Chartis a 30 day free trial. C.A.D. 3.1, tinkerware.com, come together to prove that a painting that was Insurance who does a lot of art and jewelry which has been around for several years, has a once thought to be Van Gogh, then later dis- insuring says that only approximately 17% of $50 fee with no trial period, but a full money missed as not by Van Gogh, is now considered the claims that they pay out relate to outright back guarantee. Quicken Home Inventory a genuine Van Gogh. What? It’s entitled “Still theft of artwork. Managing from the personal finance and busi- Life with Meadow Flowers and Roses” which ness software publisher Intuit, http://quicken. was acquired by the museum Croeller-Mueller But of course technology has its limits. “It intuit.com – go to the products tab for a profes- in the Netherlands in 1974. By 2003 they had will almost never prove that a work is authen- sional version – costs $30. There’s no trial ver- decided after looking at it more closely that tic,” says Sharon Flescher, Executive Director sion. Nearly all of these offer fields to describe it was not by Van Gogh, so they attributed it of the International Foundation for Art where an object was purchased or came down to an anonymous artist. Later, an X-ray of the Research, “It can prove that a work is inau- through the family, the location in your own painting clearly showed that underneath the thentic, but not necessarily, if the materials are house, price paid, even who you might want to flowers were two wrestlers wearing loin cloths. of the same period you won’t find anachro- leave it to in your Will. While reading Van Gogh’s own voluminous nisms.” In other words, just because materials correspondence, the museum came across a used were around when the artist was alive Here’s another interesting question relative to letter he wrote to his brother Theo while he doesn’t mean the work is by a particular artist. ownership. If you own a work of art, do you was a student at Antwerp Academy in 1886 also own the right to reproduce it for pleasure saying how happy he was with a painting he How do you keep track of what you have in or profit? Do you acquire the copyright auto- had done of two wrestlers. Knowing that it the event of theft or damage? Well, like every- matically when you buy it? The answer is an was not unusual for artists, particularly an thing else, there are whole industries that have emphatic no, unless it has been specifically impoverished one like Van Gogh, to paint over grown up to address this. In addition to keeping negotiated in the purchase. Copyrights, like all earlier paintings, the museum reversed its origi- accurate records of your purchases, one simple intellectual property issues, present complex nal opinion. It now hangs as an original Van way is to take your iPhone and walk around issues. The general rule in the law is that the Gogh. In the end, “authentication” of artwork the house and simply video things of value copyright stays with the artist as long he or turns out to take a combination of science and you have. In addition to photographs, you can she is living, and stays with the artist’s estate art. In fact, this whole story is written up in employ some of the specially designed soft- for 70 years after that. No one is immune a new publication by the Van Gogh Museum ware to marry those photographs to informa- from tampering with this. Take the case of entitled, Rehabilitation of Flower tion on artwork. There are nine or ten programs James Cameron, director of Titanic who used and the Croeller-Mueller Museum and a Lost you can buy to accomplish this. All of them a reproduction of Picasso’s famous painting Antwerp Painting by Van Gogh. have their strengths and weaknesses. Some “Demoiselles d’Avignon” to hang aboard the even offer free trials for a period of time, or ship in the first cut of the movie. Picasso’s That’s all the news that fits here, but read many for a set number of objects (usually ten to Estate got wind of this and contacted Cameron. more expanded tales at jrusselljinishiangallery. fifteen). All range in price between $25 and They hold the copyright until 2043. Cameron com/marineartquarterly. $50. All are compatible with Windows, some wasn’t too happy about this, but he finally paid with Mac. Collectify Inventory, collectify.com some kind of a fee and, at the last minute, sub- 24 Continued from page 23 Based in the East, he exhibits annually at the anywhere in the world”— The Plein-Air paintings of the salient moments from all 27 Exhibition with fellow Convention and Expo in Las Vegas last year. America’s Cup Regattas, chronicled in The marine artists Don Demers and Joe McGurl at How large was it? Well, an estimated 8,000 art- Winning Moments, a coffee table book by the Salmagundi Club in New York City, and ists showed up and “painted the town,” as they Ranulf Rayner recently republished as the regularly at the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery in say. This spectacular event certainly had to Story of the America’s Cup, 1851-2003, Warwick Fairfield. But he’s also a regular exhibitor at have put a smile on the faces of executives at Publishing (Toronto/Los Angeles). the annual exhibition the Gene Autry Museum artist paint makers Winsor and Newton and The 2013 Cup will coincide with the publica- in Los Angeles, and the Prix de West held in Grumbacher. tion of a complete overview of art inspired by Oklahoma each year, where he’s been a regular Further west, in fact, so far west it’s East, Keith the America’s Cup, financed by America3 win- award winner. When he is not painting or cruis- Reynolds reports that he just returned from his ning America’s Cup skipper and prodigious ing—or, excuse me, “researching”—on his 20th annual exhibition in Japan, where he marine art collector Bill Koch, and written by boat, a 1962 Alden designed sloop, Arcadia, focused on great J-boats of America’s Cup Maritime Art dealer Alan Granby. This will be he’s traveling west each year to the Maynard Races of 1930, ’34 and ’37. The shows held in the definitive book on America’s Cup Art. So Dixon Country plein air event run by the and Kobe featured Keith actually definitive, in fact, that as it’s developed it’s Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts in painting while people watched. He said it was grown from a single volume to seven volumes. ’s studio in Mt. Carmel, Utah. extremely successful. In addition to his J-boat Wow! As Johnny Carson’s sidekick Ed In general like most productive artists he says, paintings, Keith prepared, at the special request McMahon used to say. “Eeeverything you want “I live a boring life, spending hours each day of his gallery, sketches of the Nile River to know” about America’s Cup art will be alone at the easel.” But “boring” must be good and the feluccas that sail there. Why? Because included in this publication Art and Artifacts of for him based on the quality of the paintings he the Santori Museum next to his gallery held a the America’s Cup. See our next issue for spe- produces. major exhibition on historic Egypt and the Nile cific information. Speaking of plein air paintings again, which while he was there. Ah—two ancient cultures Here’s an interesting tag sale story. I got a note were particularly popular at the turn-of-the-cen- coming together. recently from Michael Patcher, who had pur- tury in New England, over the last 25 years they The America’s Cup Regatta over the years has chased a Carl Evers print of a square rigged have really gained in popularity in the West, not only been good for yachting, yacht design, ship, “Fast Freighter on Australia Run” which even now spawning the publication of Plein Air Rolex and Mt. Gay Rum, but also for marine had been framed to include a check from Carl’s Magazine, under the leadership of retired art. The great sporting action and super fast personal checking account on which was print- American Artist editor Steve Doherty, himself yachts have engendered some terrific artwork ed the exact same image. Carl then inscribed a painter. Recently he, along with Fine Art from James E. Buttersworth and Frederic the check and the print to the owner. What is it Connoisseur Magazine editor Peter Trippe Cozzens turn-of-the-century dramatic paintings worth, Michael wanted to know. Hey, have you and publisher Eric Rhodes, sponsored what of yachting scenes, to contemporary British art- seen what a letter from George Washington is was billed as “the largest plein air event held ist Tim Thompson’s incredible collection of worth in our recent sales section? Continued on page 28

Tim Thompson (b.1951) HMS Orion Off St. Peter Port, Guernsey, England Oil 20” x 30” $40,000

25 Sporting Art News

The Art Of Stanley Meltzoff’ is at The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT (www.brucemuseum.org). The Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum in Oradell, NJ (www. blauveltart- museum.com) also launched an exhibition of Meltzoff’s work that will be featured through June 30. Between the two institutions, more than 80 of Meltzoff’s game fish paintings will be on display for the first half of 2013! Arthur Shilstone’s work will be on display at the Mahopac, NY Library (mahopaclibrary.org) as a Retrospective Exhibition of his 70-year career as an illustrator and fine art- ist. Additionally, Shilstone’s work is one of the focal points at the ongoing Sportsman’s Palette exhibition and sale at the Orvis-Sandanona Shooting Grounds in Millbrook, NY and, last year, one of Shilstone’s paintings was accepted into the permanent collection of the American Museum of Fly Fishing in Manchester, VT. Shilstone’s work continues to grace the covers and pages of such notable sporting pub- lications as Gray’s Sporting Journal and Sporting Classics. Collectors today recognize Shilstone as the world’s finest sporting art watercolorist and most closely compare him to one of his notable predecessors – Ogden Pleissner. Al Barnes recently completed a grand commission that Arthur Shilstone (b.1922) measures over six feet in length – proof that Al can produce A Day in the Field just about anything he is commissioned to do with a level of Watercolor 18.5”x23” $7,800 expertise, great design, mood and conviction that only Al can tanley Meltzoff’s artwork and legacy continue to travel do. Last year, Al was bestowed the great honor of having one Sthroughout the US. Last year, Meltzoff’s work was fea- of his recent paintings featured on the cover of Contemporary tured in Art Of The Dive/Portraits Of The Deep, which American Marine Art – 15th National Exhibition of The launched in the fall of 2011 at the IGFA Headquarters in American Society of Marine Artists 2011-2013 Catalog. Dania Beach, FL, then moved to The Art Museum of South Nick Mayer has been very busy lately, working on several Texas in Corpus Christi, and finally finished at The Wildlife commissions, various projects and participating in a number Experience in Parker, CO. The next major exhibition was of shows and events. Nick was also tapped this fall for a major a first-ever comprehensive retrospective of Stanley’s distin- project to create 40 paintings of popular indigenous fish spe- guished careers as both an illustrator and fish painter. Oceans cies of Catalina Island off the coast of southern California. and Other Worlds, which featured over 90 original paintings, The book, produced by master Catalina diver Jon Council and launched at The Museum of American Illustration in New renowned fishing author Mike Rivkin, will be an art book/ York City last June and was on display through the summer. field guide to the fish of Catalina Island. The book is available Next stop was the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural as of summer 2013, as will the original artwork from the book History in Jamestown, NY, where Meltzoff’s work was the – The Mayer Catalina Collection.Nick has been busy on a primary exhibition for the entire fall! number of commission projects, including an Atlantic Salmon 2013 started with two exhibitions launching within a month of painting that was prominently displayed at the 2012 Atlantic each other. The first exhibition, titled “Lure Of The Ocean: Salmon Federation Dinner in New York City. Roger Blum took a trip recently to Lake Clark National Park in Alaska. Roger offers, in his own Sporting Art at words, his experience dur- ing this recent outing: “I stayed at the Silver Salmon Lodge at Lake Clark National Park. The purpose for my trip was to Orvis Sandanona in Millbrook, NY in collaboration with gather big game, fishing and J. Russell Jinishian Gallery in Fairfield, CT present an ongoing landscape for future paint- Exhibition and Sale featuring 50 new paintings from today’s ings. Every day while at the premier Sporting Artists and is open to the public. lodge, I observed Grizzly For exhibition information: jrusselljinishiangallery.com Roger Blum (b.1950) Out of the Shadows bears foraging food, at lei- and orvis.com/sandanona Oil 12”x16” $3,200 sure and occasionally sows protecting their cubs from

26 the constant threat of other bears. The lodge is uniquely situ- ated in prime habitat of grasses, berries and Salmon Runs in the nearby Silver Salmon Creek. Often, grizzlies would come Upcoming Sporting Art into the lodge area, as they would smell food cooking. One day a bear came into the lodge mudroom and took my prize salmon Sporting Art News catch from the mudroom sink the guide was using to clean and Exhibitions fillet the fish. That memory was worth my loss! The American Museum Of Fly and a chance to win a Caesar Fishing Heritage Dinner & Guerini shotgun. Novices are Mark Susinno continues to gather accolades for his artwork Auction welcome. The Sportsman’s and, most recently, one of his paintings – A Snook subject This year the Museum will Palette ongoing exhibition also - was selected into a juried show titled ‘America’s Parks pay tribute to industry icon on display Through The Beauty Of Art’. The painting also received Orvis Sandanona Shooting the prestigious Wildlife Art Journal Juror’s Choice Award. and innovator Leon Martuch, These honors are just one more example of Mark’s unique abil- Founder of Scientific Anglers Grounds ity to capture fish in their natural environment and why he is so and active contributor to the Millbrook, NY • 845-677-9701 celebrated as an “in situ” fish painter. early Trout Unlimited forma- orvis.com/sandanona tion. June 6-7 This all New York, NY comes on the amff.com • September 18 Lure Of The Ocean: The Art Of heels of a Stanley Meltzoff banner year Contemporary Sporting Art This exhibition features for Mark Masters approximately 30 oil paintings as a 2012 Featuring over 150 original by Meltzoff portraying fish in inductee into paintings and sculptures by their environments from the the Fresh leading sporting artists. New Jersey shores to the shal- W a t e r J. Russell Jinishian Gallery lows of the Caribbean and the Nick Mayer (b.1971) Cow Mahi Mahi F i s h i n g Fairfield, CT • 203-259-8753 deep Atlantic waters. The exhi- Watercolor 12”x31” $4,500 Hall of jrusselljinishiangallery.com bition Lure of the Ocean: The Fame and Ongoing Art of Stanley Meltzoff is orga- Museum, in nized by the Bruce Museum in Hayward, WI, as a Legendary Artist; a rare accomplishment The 8th Annual Orvis Shotgun indeed that keeps Mark in some very fine company, with the cooperation with the J. Russell likes of Ogden Pleissner, Eldridge Hardie, Chet Reneson & Classic – Orvis Sandanona Jinishian Gallery in Fairfield, Brett Smith, to name just a few. Mark’s work was featured Shooting Grounds CT in the Western Visions Annual Show & Sale at the National Two days of sporting clays Bruce Museum Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, WY. shooting. Unlimited shotgun Greenwich, CT •203-869-0376 shooting, lessons with guest brucemuseum.org Mike Stidham continues to be busy with commission work instructors, gourmet meals, Through June 2 and he just recently finished a commission for a private collec- cocktail party, scotch tasting, tor – a 40”x60” canvas of a Brown & - Now that’s a lot of painting! Stidham’s work will be featured at the 8th Annual Orvis Sandanona ‘Shotgun Classic’ event this June, with new paintings on display. Mike’s work will also be fea- 2014 at the Museum in Manchester, VT. More details on the tured in the upcoming Orvis Sandanona Family Game Fair exhibition will follow in the coming months. Weekend in September in Millbrook, NY. Along with fellow artists Arthur Shilstone, Al Barnes and Stanley Meltzoff, one Fred Polhemus of Mike’s paintings was recently accepted into the American Sporting Art Specialist Museum of Fly Fishing’s permanent collection and will be on [email protected] display in a major exhibition on saltwater fly fishing slated for

Al Barnes (b.1937) Bright Flats Oil 36” x 80” Recent Commission

27 Continued from page 25 Another artist who uses watercolor, but trans- Huskisson, NSW. They have a very informa- , and Wollongong.” You’ll read the parent watercolor in a loose, painterly way, and tive online newsletter, “Marine Art in Australia” tale of a research voyage aboard the tallship who also specializes in military vessels is artist, at marineartistsaustralia.com.au in which you’ll James Craig by Ian Hansen in company with author of five books on military and aviation learn that Jane Bennett won the President’s fellow Society member Hugh Cross; a message history, American Society of Marine Art past Medal for her painting of the ex van frigate from president Carter about traditions, and the President Ian Marshall. importance of keep- His painting and an ing it alive; view the article on the “SMS craftsmanship of Konigsberg At Pangani ship models of East Africa, July 1914” Roland Michael was included in the Laroche. Ross winter edition of Sea Shardlow tells of History Magazine. Ian completing a paint- is working toward an ing of the full rigged exhibition on the his- ship Narcissis 1876, tory of aircraft carriers, featured in Joseph “The Aircraft Carrier, Conrad’s novel; and 1912-2012.” To date finally “Marine Art he’s completed 12 of in Australia,” a the 26 paintings he has review written by in mind, including ves- artist Peter Yeoman sels like HMS Engadine (1930-2007). 1916, USS Wasp CV-7 In an unusual col- 1942, USS Intrepid laboration with the 1944, USS Enterprise Sydney Heritage 1975, and the HMS Fleet Museum, the Illustrious 1982. For Society sponsors an more information visit artist-in-residence jrusselljinishiangallery. program to record com. today’s maritime From Down Under, life, arguably the Dean Claflin, Secretary maritime history of of the “other” ASMA the future. Artists are – Australian Society invited to spend of Marine Artists – Peter Layne Arguimbau (b.1951) three to four months at ENDEAVOUR vs.SHAMROCK at Castle Hill Light Newport, RI reports that the association is continuing the museum and are given studio Oil 28” x 34” $15,000 to gain in membership. They’re now up space on the top deck of the historic to 139 artist members. Dean says that Sydney Harbor Ferry Kanangra. At they have been very successful in mount- HMS Adelaide at the decommissioning at the end of that period the museum ing exhibits in museums and government Glebe Island Wharf; President Robert Carter, mounts an exhibition of the artist’s work. Hey, departments around Australia. From March to who selected her said that the artist is “leaving they really know how to treat marine artists in May of this year a selection of members’ works an important historical record of the ‘way we Australia, it seems. were on exhibit in “Celebrating a Maritime were’, and how commerce and industry were That’s all the news that fits for now. Keep those Year” at Lady Denman Heritage Complex in intertwined with the waterways of Sydney, cards and emails coming in.

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 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 oper- ates the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery, specializing in 19th, 20th, and 21st Century Marine and Sporting Art and continues to lecture nationally Visit us at on marine art and collecting. He may be reached at 1899 Bronson Road, J. Russell Jinishian Gallery Fairfield, CT 06824. Phone: 203-259-8753 Fax: 203-259-8761, or e-mail: 1899 Bronson Road [email protected]. Fairfield, CT 06824 Marine Art News designed by Peach Pair | Books & Events edited by Peach Pair www.jrusselljinishiangallery.com

28 Marine Art 1865 - 1965

Joseph B. Smith (1798-1876) Bark James L. Davis c.1857 Oil 25” x 36” $55,000

Robert Sticker (1922-2011) On a Nantucket Sleigh Ride Painted in 1965 Oil 20” x 26” $12,500

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Russ Kramer (b. 1960) AMERICA Salutes Queen Victoria, August 22, 1851 Oil 30” x 40” $45,000 Above, Russ Kramer, the current President of the American Society of Marine Artists, has used his powerful artistic imagination to recreate the activity aboard AMERICA as she’s passing the Queen’s Royal Yacht just after winning the first “America’s Cup” (see A.D. Blake’s dramatic painting of this moment on the opposite page). . . Here the Royal Yacht VICTORIA AND ALBERT falls in alongside, as New York Yacht Club Commodore and Yacht AMERICA’s owner John Cox Stevens orders the crew to dip her colors and doff their caps to the Royal Family in a gesture of respect and sportsmanship. Shown onboard AMERICA are Cox, Captain Richard Brown, First Mate Nelson Comstock, Colonel James Hamilton, English Pilot Robert Underwood and Edwin Stevens. Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their son Albert Edward can be seen on the observation deck of the royal Yacht. Albert Edward is dressed in a sailor suit – the first child ever to do so.

William Muller (b.1936) Hudson River Line Steamer New York Oil 42 ½” x 75 ½” $55,000 Passing Catskill Mountains Above Kingston, 1890 30 A. .D. Blake (b.1951) The America passing the Victoria and Albert off the Needles, Isle of Wight, Oil 36” x 48” $75,000 During the Race for the Royal Yacht Squadron Cup ( America’s Cup), Friday August 22, 1851

This dynamic painting depicts the America sailing ‘wing and wing’ (mainsail to port, foresail to starboard and jib to port) as she races past the Needles during the race for the Royal Yacht Squadron Cup, now known as the America’s Cup. Her well eased mainsail and jib are encouraging her to roll to windward showing her newly painted glistening black topsides (painted in , after she crossed the Atlantic) reflecting the waves and sky. The Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert, with Queen Victoria aboard, is steaming to catch up with America. The America is about to lower her ensign and all crew to take off their hats as a mark of respect to the Queen.

An excursion steamer, a small red sailed yawl and a small steamer can be seen to leeward of the Victoria and Albert. Astern of America and just appearing through the mist and light showers, is the cutter Wildfire. Although she was an unof- ficial entrant in the race, because she carried moveable sand bags as ballast, she caught and past America as the wind went very light on the run to the finish off The Castle at Cowes.

Clouds cast shadows across the foreground and the excursion steamer and some of the cliffs in the background. The America is ‘lit up’ in a patch of sparkling sunlit water.

At 8.37pm, to the sound of cannon fire from The Castle and cheers from the crowds thronging the shoreline, America crossed the finish line to win the first “America’s Cup.”

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Patrick O’Brien (b.1960) , Spanish Ship Santisima Trinidad and HMS Victory, October 21, 1805 Oil 24” x 36” $12,500

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