$95,216,000 Pablo Picasso “Dora Maar du Chat” Oil

$21,296,000 Charles Wilson Peale “George Washington at Princeton,” c. 1780 Oil

$17,300,000 Four American Revolutionary War Flags

$10,794,000 Edvard Munch “Summer Day,” 1903-04 Oil

$9,200,000 Andy Warhol Jackie O frieze Silk Screen

$9,200,000 Norman Rockwell Homecoming Marine 1947

$6,008,000 Rose of Dubai 25.02 carat Pink Diamond

$5,616,000 John James Audubon “Birds of American” Complete Set 435 Prints

$4,731,480 Claude Monet “La Seine a Vetheuil” Oil

$4,100,000 Magazine Rights to Publish Photographs of Actor Brad Pitt’s Newborn Baby

$3,152,000 Edward Hicks “The Peaceable Kingdom,” 1846 Oil 25” x 32 ½”

$2,928,000 Edward Steichen “The Pond – Moonlight”, 1904 Photograph

$2,928,000 William and Mary Decorated Pine Chest of Drawers, 1729 22 ¾”

$2,144,000 Set of Six Quaker Yokeback Side Chairs

$2,032,000 Safavid Oriental Carpet 16th c.

$2,032,000 Tiffany Magnolia Leaded Glass and Bronze Floor Lamp

$1,868,750 Abraham Lincoln Signed Copy of 13th Amendment Abolishing Slavery

$1,640,000 Harry Winston 26.09 carat Diamond Ring

$1,248,000 John Kensett “Entrance to Newport Harbor, 1855” Oil 14” x 24”

$1,080,000 Goddess of Liberty Copper Weathervane 30”

$1,024,000 Faberge Gold, Silver Enamel Cigarette Box

$1,000,000 George Washington’s Letter of Military Resignation, Dec. 23, 1783

$1,000,000 John Lennon’s Handwritten Lyrics to “All You Need is Love”

$913,500 Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865) “Moonlight Owls Head, Northeast View,” 1851 Oil on Board 12” x 18 ¼”

$822,400 Edward Weston “The Breast” 1921 Photograph

$744,825 Lancaster, PA Painted Box, 1790s 6” x 12” x 9”

$744,000 Simon Willard Signed Lighthouse Clock, 1825

$688,000 Abraham Lincoln Signed Emancipation Proclamation, 1864

$486,400 Montague Dawson (1895- 1973) “HMS Shannon vs. USS Chesapeake” Oil

$464,000 Pair of Philadelphia Chippendale Mahogany Side Chairs 1760-70

$457,000 William Bradford Unsigned “Frigate USS Congress at Sunset,” 1861 Oil

$456,057 Honus Wagner 1909-11 Baseball Card

$450,000 Pair of JFK Limo American Flags

$441,600 Queen Anne Mahogany Open Armchair c.1730

$431,250 Colt Walker Percussion Revolver

$420,000 JFK’s Omega Wristwatch, 1960

$396,800 Montague Dawson “Clipper Taeping in Light Winds” Oil

$392,000 William Morris Hunt “Gloucester Harbor”, 1877 Oil

$336,250 Painted Woven 1929 Basket with Designs, 20”

$318,400 Lalique Glass Vase “Grenouilles et Nenuphars”

$307,100 Gettysburg Address 1st Printing

$281,000 Antonio Jacobsen (1850-1927) Unsigned “DREADNOUGHT” 1873 Oil 28” x 49 7/8”

$273,125 Flash Comics #1 “The Mile High”

$218,500 Flowing Hair Silver Dollar,1795

$216,000 Pair of China Trade Paintings, 1850 21” x 36 ½” each

$204,000 Andrew Wyeth “Berry Picking”, 1940 Watercolor and Pencil

$192,000 International Watch Co. Wristwatch, 1993

$181,600 Winchester Lever Engraved / Gold-plated Action Rifle, 1866

$181,000 Fred Nichols Yellow Legs Carved Decoy

$179,071 John Wilson Carmichael (1799-1868) “On the Thames at Woolwich” Oil 29½” x 43¾”

$174,858 Montague Dawson “The Forest Queen of Boston” Oil 24” x 36”

$168,000 Alfred Stieglitz “The Terminal, New York”

$168,000 James E. Buttersworth (1817-1894) “Steamer Italy with Packet Mercury” Oil 20” x 36”

$159,149 Lou Gehrig 1927 Game Bat

$149,250 Tinglit Indian Shaman’s Rattle

$144,461 John Cleveley the Elder (1712-1777) “A Flagship Arriving in Port” Oil 23 ¼”x30”

$144,000 Philadelphia Coat of Arms Sampler, 1765

$138,000 Mickey Mouse Mad Doctor Movie Poster

$132,500 Gibson F-5 Mandolin, 1923

$132,000 George Ii Silver Bread Basket

$132,000 Pair of Massachusetts Carved Bellows att. Samuel McIntire

$132,000 Robert Salmon (1775-1845) ‘‘Merchant Ships off Liverpool” Oil 27” x 43”

$127,000 Les Paul Sunburst Standard Guitar, 1959

$120,000 Simon Willard Lighthouse Clock

$118,000 Sitting Bull’s Revolver

$117,374 Montague Dawson “Wind Abeam” Oil 20” x 36”

$115,000 Parade Saddle Edward Bohlin

$112,860 Dominic Serres (1722-1793) “View of Lundy Island” Oil 60 ½” x 97”

$112,860 Montague Dawson “HMS Victory Sweeping the Seas” Oil 28” x 33”

$109,250 Pair Scrimshaw Whale Teeth, 1833 Josiah Sheffield

$108,000 Jack L. Gray (1927-1981) “Schooner Bluenose” Oil

$108,000 Thomas Chambers () “Capture of HBM Frigate Macedonia by USS United States”, 1825 Oil 21” x 20”

$105,300 Jessie James Letter

$104,750 Siberian Pygmy Mammoth Fossil 7’ h.

$103,831 Thomas Buttersworth (1768- 1842) “Lord Exmouth’s Attack on Algiers” Oil 24” x 36 ½”

$102,000 George Washington Letter

$102,000 John Steven Dews “Shamrock V Ahead of Britannia, Astra, Velsheda off Hampstead Ledge” Oil 30”x40”

$100,800 Cast Iron Horse Race Mechanical Bank, 1870

$99,000 German Bisque Portrait Doll, 1910 24”h

$96,000 Soup Plate “Order of Cincinnati” Service, 1786

$95,000 John James Audubon “Brown Pelican”, 1835 Lithograph 37 7/8” x 25 1/8”

$93,000 Cobalt Blue Stoneware Jug Inscribed “Sloop Eclipse”, 1822 14 ½”

$89,625 American League Baseball Stars Photograph, July 24, 1911 8” x 41”

$88,500 Grandma Moses December 1956 Going to Church

$88,125 Jonas Lie (1880-1940) “Vesper” (Maine Scene) Oil

$86,250 Leica MP-2 Camera

$86,250 Scale Model WWII Warship Models Used in Tora, Tora, Tora

$84,000 Dictionary of the Sioux Language, 1866

$84,000 James Buttersworth (1817-1894) “New York Yacht Club Schooner of Gibraltar” Oil 7” x 12”

$82,250 Chippendale Mahogany Desk, 19th c. Newport

$80,000 Don Demers “End of Day One-Great Transatlantic Race, 1866” Oil 34” x 60”

$78,000 Edmund Greacen (1877-1949) “A Day at the Beach, Watch Hill” Oil 1914-15

$77,725 Tiffany Dogwood Hanger Glass Lampshade

$77,200 John Wilson Carmichael (1800-1868) “Dutch Barges Running out of Channel” Oil 14” x 20”

$75,000 Tim Thompson “Glorious Victory, Schooner Yacht America” Oil 36” x 48”

$72,668 Babe Ruth Game Hat

$72,000 Frederick S. Cozzens (1846- 1928) “American Yachts Their Clubs and Races” Complete Set of 27 Lithographs

$70,500 South Sea Fishery 19th c. Scrimshaw Whales Tooth 8 ¼”

$66,000 Ansel Adams “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico”, 1941 Photograph

$66,000 Gooseneck 1933 Fire Engine Toy 15”

$65,725 Pair Navy Colt Revolvers Mid 19th c.

$65,725 Town Plan of Pittsburgh, PA, 1784

$65,406 Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver

$64,400 Six Sheet Map of Philadelphia, 1822

$60,000 John James Audubon “Roseate Spoonbill” Engraved by R. Havell, 1836 25” x 38 ¼”

$60,000 Pair 19th c. English Library Globes 18” diameter

$59,587 Civil War Henry Repeating Rifle

$59,252 Montague Dawson “American Clipper Red Jacket” Oil 20” x 30”

$59,000 Ivan F. Choultse (1877-1932) “Moon Rising at Twilight” Oil 20” x 24”

$57,000 Jackie Kennedy’s Passport

$56,750 Holland and Holland Royal Grade Double-barrel Nitro Express Rifle

$56,400 George Loftus Noyes “Venetian View” Oil

$56,350 Custer’s Camp Chair

$54,625 Superman #2 Comic Book

$52,900 First English Printed Aiken Bible, 1781

$52,900 New England Seaman’s Journal, 1810-1816

$50,400 Silk Embroidered Sampler, 1662

$50,000 Anthony Blake “Shamrock II Tacks Ahead of Columbia” Oil 36” x 48”

$50,000 Don Demers “Returning the Pilot” Oil 30” x 40”

$49,658 Montague Dawson “Clipper Overhauling a Fishing Lugger” Oil 16” x 20”

$48,875 Colt 1921/26 Thompson Submachine Gun

$48,875 Ralph Cahoon “Ondines Hand Laundry” Oil 24” x 40”

$48,000 Antonio Jacobsen “Oscar II Entering New York Harbor” Oil 21” x 35”

$48,000 Lloyd McCaffery U.S.S. Constitution, 1798 Scratch Built Ship Model Scale 8’=1” 5 ½” x 6” x 27”

$48,000 Warren Sheppard (1858-1937) “C.S.S. Merrimac vs. U.S.S. Monitor” Oil 25” x 45”

$47,000 Sunqua (1830-65) “Foreign Factories Near the City of Canton” Watercolor 11 ½” x 14 ½”

$46,000 USS Constitution Lion Figurehead

$45,600 Fred Pansing (1844-1910) “Camden at Sea” Oil 28” x 48”

$45,400 Zane Grey Deluxe Winchester Rifle

$42,000 John Barber “Twilight Finish” Oil

$37,400 Copper Chautauqua Weedless Trolling Fishing Lure with Box

$36,800 One Leaf from Gutenberg Bible, 1450-55

$36,000 Antonio Jacobsen (1850- 1921) “Steamship New York and Pilot Boat New York” Oil 22” x 36”

$35,000 Christopher Blossom “East Wind off Seguin” Oil 22” x 44”

$34,500 Antonio Martino “Gloucester Harbor” Oil 40” x 50”

$34,075 Arthur Diehl (1870-1929) “Florida River View” Oil 16” x 24”

$34,000 Lionel Full Scale Freight Train Set, 1940

$32,200 Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Navigational Chart

$31,625 Anthony Thieme Motif #1 Rockport, MA Oil

$31,625 Foot Officer’s Sword, 1850

$30,000 William G. Muller “S.S. Minnesota Leaving Seattle” Oil 26” x 40”

$28,750 Teddy Roosevelt Bronze Inauguration Medal, 1905

$28,600 Beatles Signed Hard Days Night Script

$27,000 Douglas Fairbanks “The Black Pirate” Movie Poster

$26,400 Duncan McFarlane (1834- 1871) “Clippership Dreadnought” Oil 20” x 30”

$26,400 Henry Scott (1911-1966) “U.S.S. Constitution vs. HMS Java” Oil 24” x 36”

$26,400 JFK’s Cigar Box

$25,850 Leon Dabo (1868-1960) “Night Shore, Long Island” Oil 30” x 35”

$25,300 Blaeu China Atlas c.1650

$25,300 G.S. Garcia Gal Leg Spurs

$25,300 Lincoln’s Assassination Reward Poster

$24,200 Marklin Limousine Toy 18th c.

$23,500 William L. Stevens “At the Docks” Oil 23” x 25”

$22,325 William H. Lippincott “Maine Coast, Ogunquit”

$21,500 Elisha Baker *1827-1890) “Fishing Schooner J.W. Roberts” 24” x 32”

$20,400 Scale Model of Steam Yacht Corsair III Solid Hull 52” x 57”

$19,550 Emile Gruppe (1896-1978) “Rockport Harbor, MA” Oil 25 ½” x 30”

$19,125 Indian Head Cent Complete Set 1857-1909

$18,975 Austin Powers Movie Volkswagen Beetle

$18,800 Ross Moffett “The Old Fisherman” Oil

$18,400 Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises 1st Edition

$18,400 Old Town Canoe Salesman’s Sample

$18,000 Issac Heard (1804-1864) “China Clipper Kate Caring” Oil 23” x 36”

$17,250 Aldro Hibbard “Baiting Up” Oil

$17,250 Steiff Teddy Bear 15”

$16,100 US Navy WWII Periscope

$16,200 Thomas Buttersworth (1768- 1842) “British Warship and Shipping Caught in a Gale” Oil 12” x 16”

$15,890 Spontoon Tomahawk

$15,600 Bronze Figurehead of Woman with Crown, 19th c. 42”

$15,600 William P. Stubbs (1842-1909) “Martha N. Hale off New England Coast” Oil 24” x 36”

$15,000 Stanley Meltzoff “Montauk, August” Oil 31” x 24”

$14,950 Bitter Campari Advertising Poster 39” x 27”

$14,586 Charles Schulz Original Peanuts Strip

$14,100 Jane Peterson “On the Beach” Gouache 9” x 12”

$14,100 William G. Norton “Tending the Sails”

$13,500 Dimetrious Athas “Tight Around the Mark” Oil 18” x 24”

$13,200 Builder’s Half Model Steam Yacht Gladys, 1883 12” x 64”

$13,200 Double Octagonal Sailor’s Valentine, 19th c. 9” x 18”

$12,650 Houdini Poster

$12,000 Buddy L toy School Bus

$12,000 Plank on Frame Scale model HMS Victory 33” x 47”

$11,750 Jane Peterson “Sailing Vessels in Lifting Fog”

$11,562 Babe Ruth Check

$11,500 Al Hirshfeld Drawings of George Burns

$10,800 American 16’ Diameter Terrestrial Library Globe, 19th c., Juvet & Co.

$10,800 Narwhal Tusk 19th c. 46”

$10,749 Michael Jordan Signed Jersey

$10,440 Paul Revere Silver Tablespoon

$10,230 Seafaring Surgeon’s Medical Kit, 1860

$10,000 Scale Model of Steam Yacht North Star 49” x 57”

$9,900 William Trost Richards “Guernsey” (Coastal Landscape)

$9,775 Noah Webster Dictionary of English Language 1828

$9,600 William Dixon (1774-1827) “A Harbor Celebration” Watercolor 6” x 31”

$9,350 John Lennon’s 1980 Logbook Signature Schooner Megan Jaye

$9,219 Duck Call J.T. Beckart, 1940

$9,000 Mr. Peanut figure 45”h

$9,000 British Builder’s Early 20th century Half Model of Paddle Steamer 12 ”x 65”

$9,000 William R. Davis “Cutter off Nantucket” Oil 10” x 16”

$8,850 George Washington Valley Forge Order

$8,813 Thomas Luny (1759-1837) “Shipping off Teignmouth”

$8,625 Carrington Bowles “Paul Jones Shooting a Sailor Who had Attempted to Strike His Colors…”, 1779 Mezzotint

$8,050 Power Horn 1861

$8,050 34 Star Civil War K Company Flag

$8,000 Loretta Krupinski “Lobster Smacks at McLoon’s Wharf, Rockland c. 1910” Acrylic 22” x 31”

$8,000 English 3 ½” Brass Telescope with Tripod 54” J.B. Dancier Manchester

$7,945 Anton Otto Fischer (1882-1962) “Three Schooners on the High Sea” Oil 26” x 31”

$7,800 French Boxed Chronometer 19th c.

$7,475 Allen Ginsburg Howl First Edition

$7,368 Soldier 19th c. Whirligig

$6,673 Complete 1962 Topps Baseball Card Set

$6,600 George Ropes (1788-1819) Pair: “Packet of Salem”, “New Hazard of Salem” Watercolor 14” x 19”

$6,325 Paul Strisik (1918-1998) Rockport Harbor Scene

$6,032 Barber Poles Used by Norman Rockwell

$5,760 Builder’s Half Hull Model of S.S. Belvoir Castle 13” x 59”

$5,750 Worthington Whittridge (1820- 1910) Shore Scene with Ship

$5,290 ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas First Edition

$5,175 James Fenimore Cooper The Water Witch on Skimmer of the Seas First Edition, 1830

$5,060 Continent via Harwich Travel Poster

$5,011 Satchel Paige Signed Baseball

$5,000 Frederic S. Cozzens “Schooner Yacht off Sandy Hook” Watercolor 17” x 25”

$5,000 Mark Myers “The Long Chase” Watercolor 11 ½” x 21 ½”

$4,485 Frank Benson “Clam Digger” Etching

$4,560 Brass Engine Telegraph Brelco N.Y., 44”h

$4,560 Currier & Ives “Yacht Squadron at Newport”, 1872 Hand Colored Lithograph

$4,000 Louisiana Territory Map, 1762

$3,877 Jay Conaway “Reverie Moonlight” Oil 25” x 30”

$3,658 Civil War Drum

$3,500 Richard Dana Kuchta CSA Hunley Ship Model

$3,300 Continental Barometer, 1816

$3,120 Yacht Defender Painted Head Bucket, 1895

$2,880 Pair 19th c. English Rowing Oars

$2,400 Morris Rosenfeld (1885-1968) Ranger, 1937 Gelatin Silver Print 7” x 9”

$2,040 Peter Ward Shamrock I Half Hull Model 36” x 6”

$1,870 Sky Chief Gas Pump

$1,680 Pair of Carved Nameboards

$1,652 Profiles in Courage Signed Copy by John F. Kennedy

$1,592 Muhammad Ali “Rumble in the Jungle” Fight Program

$1,440 Nantucket Basket with Scrimshaw, S. Gibbs

$1,305 Box Union Metallic Cartridge Shotgun Shells, 1920

$1,200 Plank Over Solid Hull Scale Model of Confederate Raider C.S.S. Florida 40” x 70”

$1,045 Snake Oil Salesman Ad Sign

$998 Arthur Diehl “Cape Cod Dunes” Oil

$833.75 Naval Medal Honoring Capt. Isaac Hull USS Constitution

$770 Marx Lone Ranger Toy

$668 Babe Ruth Game Hat

$660 Currier & Ives “Steam Yacht Polynia”, 1880 Hand Colored Lithograph

$632.50 Congressional Medal Commodore Edward Preble Barbary Coast Wars, 1801-05

$605 Victorian Dental Chair

$600 Copper and Brass Masthead Light

$600 Eight-Spoked Ships Wheel 42” diameter

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ALASKA’S WATCHABLE WHALESLarge format photographs of humpback and killer whales by two well-known Alaska photographers.Alaska State MuseumJuneau, AK • 907-465-2901museums.state.ak.usThrough October 14

AMERICAN ARTISTS AND THE LOUVREFeaturing Winslow Homer’s “The Gale,” this is the first ever exhibition devoted to American art.Louvre MuseumParis, France • louvre.fr • 212-367-2646Through September 18

AMERICAN SPLENDOR:Hudson River School Masterworks from the Permanent CollectionNiagara Falls, Hudson River, Yosemite Valley are among the natural wonders that inspired works by Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt, Sanford Gifford, John Kensett and others.Wadsworth AtheneumMuseum of ArtHartford, CT • 860-278-2670June 2 – December 31

AMERICANS IN PARIS, 1860-1900The works of James McNeil Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt and others explore the American artist’s attraction to Paris.The Museum of Fine Arts BostonBoston, MA • 617-267-9300mfa.orgJune 25 – September 24Metropolitan MuseumNew York, NY • metmuseum.orgOctober 24 – January 28, 2007

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ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE NAUTICAL RESEARCH GUILDKeynote speaker master shipmodeler and miniaturist Lloyd McCaffrey.Maritime Museum of San DiegoSan Diego, CA • Naut-res-guild.orgOctober 12 – 15

ANTWERP – AMERICA: The Red Star Line and the Paintings of Eugeen Van Mieghem, 1870-1935Paintings and drawings document port life and the history of the emigrants who shipped aboard the Red Star Line from Antwerp to the East River Piers.Schermerhorn RowSouth Street Seaport MuseumNew York, NY • 212-748-8690sourthstreetseaport.orgThrough October

ART OF THE NATION200 significant works by major inter-national artists establish Britain’s maritime identity.Queens HouseNational Maritime MuseumGreenwich, ENGLAND44 (0) 30-8858-4422 • nmm.ac.ukOpens November 2006

THE ART OF THE BOAT:Photography from theRosenfeld Collection40 platinum palladium photographic prints capturing the true spirit of the maritime experience from the largest collection of maritime photographs.Mystic Seaport MuseumMystic, CT • 860-572-0711mysticseaport.orgThrough October

ARTS FOR THE PARKSJuried exhibition of 100 paintings depicting National Park sites by America’s leading artists.Jackson Lake LodgeGrand Teton National Park, WYartsfortheparks.com800-553-2787September 16

ARTS OF THE SAILORLife at sea revealed through paintings, engravings, carvings, embroidery and rope work by 19th century seamen.The Whaling MuseumCold Spring Harbor, NY • 631-367-3418chwhalingmuseum.orgThrough August

AT THE WATER’S EDGE: 19th Century Prints from the Jones CollectionPrints by James McNeill Whistler, Francis Seymour Hayden and others document artists’ fascination with all aspects of the sea.The Minneapolis Institute of ArtMinneapolis, MN • 888-642-2787artmia.orgThrough December 1

AUSTRALIAN FISHES –Illustrations by Walter Stackpool52 original paintings of fish peculiar to Australian waters with text.

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THE BEAUTY OF THEBOUNTY OF THE SEAFeatures large scale works of art.Coolidge Center for the ArtsPortsmouth, NH • 603-436-6607July 30 – August 27

BLACK HANDS BLUE SEA:The Maritime Heritage ofAfrican AmericansArt, artifacts and documents survey the struggle and contributions of black mariners in building and defending American democracy.Mystic Seaport MuseumMystic, CT • 860-572-0711mysticseaport.orgThrough March 2007

Upcoming Marine Art Exhibitions and Events Around the Globe

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BOAT LOADS OF BEN FRANKLINCelebrating the tercentenary birthday of Ben Franklin.Independence Seaport MuseumPhiladelphia, PA • 215-925-5439phillyseaport.orgThrough 2006

CANALETTO IN ENGLAND: A Venetian Artist Abroad (1746-1755)Over 60 paintings and drawings produced during Giovanni-Antonio Canal’s (1697-1768) 10 year sojourn in England.Yale Center for British ArtNew Haven, CT • 203-432-2800ycba.yale.eduOctober 19 – December 31

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A CENTURY OF MAINE PRINTS: 1880-1980A variety of techniques of printmak-ing in Maine are explored through 75 works by Winslow Homer, Rockwell Kent, Frank Benson, Fairfield Porter and others.Portland Museum of ArtPortland, ME • 207-775-6148portlandmuseum.orgSeptember 9 – December 10

CHIPS OFF THE OLD BLOCK:Decoy Traditions ofVirginia’s Eastern ShoreSurveys the distinctive styles of carvings created by former and modern masters.Ward Museum of Wildfowl ArtSalisbury, MD • 410-742-4988wardmuseum.orgThrough November 12

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THE END OF THE WATERFRONTThe Hudson River Piers, Circa 197024 large format photographs by Shelley Seccombe documenting the recreational, cultural and commercial uses of the Hudson River piers during the 1970s.Schermerhorn GallerySouth Street Seaport Museum

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FISH BY FLICK FORDNew original watercolors, meticulously detailed in celebration of his new book Fish, 77 Fish of North America.J. Russell Jinishian GalleryGreenwich Workshop Gallery1657 Post Road, Fairfield, CT203-259-8753jrusselljinishiangallery.comMeet the ArtistSaturday, September 30, 3-6pm

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HIROSHI SUGIMOTO:History of HistoryDioramas and seascape series photo-

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HOW TO BUY AT AUCTIONInformal seminar gives step-by-step instructions for new collectorsDoyle of New YorkNew York, NY212-427-4141 ext. 600August 21

ITTUKIAGATTA“How it Amazes”Over 91 Inuit sculptures, representing the early years of the development of Inuit art.The Montreal Museum of Fine ArtMontreal, Quebec, CANADA514-285-2000 • mbam.qc.caJune 29 – October 22

JAMIE WYETH’S BIRD PAINTINGS14 highly acclaimed oil, watercolor and mixed media paintings.Brandywine River MuseumChadds Ford, PA brandywinemuseum.orgOngoing

JAN MATEUKA:A Painter’s Eye on Cape AnnCape Ann Historical MuseumGloucester, MA • 978-283-0455capeannhistoricalmuseum.orgThrough September 9

JOHN PRENTISS BENSON Exhibition of his paintingsMaine Maritime MuseumBath, ME • 207-443-1316mainemaritimemuseum.orgThrough October 9

KARA WALKER AT THE MET:After the DelugePost-Hurricane Katrina examination of the impact of waterborne disasters on black Americans explored through American paintings from the Museum’s collection juxtaposed with paper cutout silhouettes. Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York, NY • 212-535-7710metmuseum.orgThrough July 30

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LORETTA KRUPINSKIAT THE MAINELIGHTHOUSE MUSEUMBoat building, ship restoration, fishing and lighthouse life of Rockland and St. George Peninsula, Maine from 1850-1940 are featured in this exhi-bition of historical paintings by Loretta Krupinski.Maine Lighthouse MuseumRockland, ME • 207-594-3301mainelighthousemuseum.comThrough September 30

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William Davis Schooner Yacht on Vineyard Sound Oil 10” x 16” $9,000

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MEDITERRANEAN WARMTH FROM PROVENCE73 paintings, depicting busy harbors, fishing, navigation, shipwrecks, street scenes, rustic settings and interiors, express the relaxed lifestyle of the French Mediterranean.Sinebrychoff Art MuseumHelsinki, FINLAND358 (0) 9-173361sinebrychofftaidemuseo.fi/index.aspSeptember 28 – January 7, 2007

THE MINIATURE SHIPS OFAUGUST F. CRABTREEA fleet of miniature Venetian gal-leass, rafts, sidewheelers and much more, supplemented by illustrations, photographs and tools.The Mariner’s MuseumNewport News, VA757-596-2222 • mariner.orgOpened May 5

MINNESOTA MARINE MUSEUMGrand opening of the newest addition to the marine art museum family. A state of the art exhibition space con-taining the Burrichter-Kierlin Collection of nearly 100 paintings by artists like John Stobart, Jack Gray, Tim Thompson, William Muller, James Flood, Louis Dodd and others, Leo & Marilyn Smith Folk Art Collectioon, Henry Bosse Mississippi River 19th Century photo-graphs, and the William A. Thompson, a Mississppi River Dredge.Minnesota Marine Museum800 Riverview DriveWinona, MN • 507-474-6626minnesotamarineart.orgOpening July 27Grand Opening August 20

MONET IN NORMANDY60 paintings depicting Claude Monet’s interpretation of the sea, the rivers, com-mercial harbors and resorts of Normandy as well as its architecture and daily life.

Legion of HonorSan Francisco, CA • 415-863-3330thinker.org/legionJune 17 – September 17North Carolina Museum of ArtRaleigh, NC • 919-839-6262ncartmuseum.orgOctober 15 – January 14, 2007

NANTUCKET WHALING MUSEUMNewly renovated and expanded in commemoration of its 75th anniversary, including paintings and scrimshaw, sailors’ valentines, the complete skeleton of sperm whale, a fully rigged whaleboat and more.Nantucket Whaling MuseumNantucket, MA • 508-228-1894nha.orgOngoing

NELSON’S NAVY250 objects and artifacts give insight into the British Royal Navy during the late Georgian period as well as Horatio Nelson’s role.National Maritime MuseumGreenwich, ENGLAND44 (0) 30-8858-4422 • nmm.ac.ukOpens June 2006

NEW IRELAND:Art of the South Pacific100 unique and captivating objects representing 12 art traditions from this most creative and prolific region during late 19th centurySaint Louis Art MuseumSt. Louis, MO • stlouis.art.museumOctober 15 – January 7, 2007Musee de Quai BranlyParis, FranceApril 2, 2007 – July 15, 2007Ethnologisches MuseumStaaliche Museen zu BerlinBerlin, GERMANYAugust 10, 2007-November 11, 2007

NORTH ATLANTIC SEAS, SCHOONERS AND FISHERMAN: THOMAS HOYNE’S PAINTINGS OF THE GRAND BANKSComprehensive exhibition includes the dramatic paintings, models and draw-ings by Thomas Hoyne’s (1926-1989), the quintessential maritime artist.Ventura County Maritime MuseumOxnard, CA • 805-984-6260October 5 – March 31, 2007Mystic Seaport MuseumMystic, CTOpens Spring 2007

NORTH LIGHT AT WILLOWBANK:Discovering the Sea Paintings of John P. BensonRomantic scenes of seascapes and sailing vessels painted at his home in Kittery, Maine.

Maine Maritime MuseumBath, ME • 207-443-1316Opened June 6

ONE-MAN SHOW:Marine Artist Russ KramerOil paintings of the great yachts and greatest yacht races of the America’s Cup.Museum of YachtingNewport, RI • 727-895-6272museumofyachting.orgJuly 29 – August 27

ON THE RED SEAThe Photographs of Henry de Monfreid (1879-1974)Photographs, watercolors, letters and more provide both a documentary and esthetic portal into this part of the world.Musee National de la MarineParis, France01-53-65-69-69 Through October 2

PAINTING SUMMERIN NEW ENGLANDPaintings spanning the years from 1860 to present depicting summer-time New England’s mountains, vil-lages, seascapes and city life by Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam John Singer Sargent, Andrew Wyeth, Frank Benson, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper and others. Peabody Essex MuseumSalem, MA • 978-745-9500 • pem.orgThrough September 4

RAVEN TRAVELLING:Two Centuries of Haida ArtOver 200 art objects spanning 200 years reveal the importance of the land and the waters to the Haida culture.Vancouver Art Gallery

Vancouver, BC, CANADA604-662-2719vanartallery.bc.caThrough September 17

THE RENOIR RETURNS:A Celebration of Masterworks at the Phillips Collection60 of the museums major works are on view in celebration of the return of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Luncheon of the Boating Party”The Phillip’s CollectionWashington, D.C.202-387-2151phillipscollection.orgThrough July 30

RIE MUNOZ RETROSPECTIVEFolkloric watercolor paintings and prints depicting daily life along the Southeast coast of Alaska span 50 years of Alaska’s most recognized artist.Alaska State MuseumJuneau, AK • 907-465-2901

Through September 23

SAVING OUR SHIPS: THE SEA-PAINTINGS OF CHARLES ROBERT PATTERSON (1878-1958)Oil paintings, watercolors and litho-graphs of warships of sail, every kind of 19th century merchant sail-ing vessel and naval vessels of the 1920s, as well as photographs and ephemera spanning the life of this artist and mariner.Heritage Museums & GardensSandwich, MA • 508-888-3300heritagemuseumsandgardens.orgThrough October

SEA CURTAINSFabric art exhibition of an underwater sea garden.Coos Art MuseumCoos Bay, OR541-267-3901coosart.orgJuly 21 – September 23

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SEAWEEDS: Wondersof the Ocean RealmA series of exquisite photographs, resembling Japanese paintings, of marine algae.The Charleston MuseumCharleston, SC843-722-2996charlestonmuseum.orgNovember 1 – April 30 2007

75 TREASURESFOR 75 YEARS:The Path of History and ArtRotating exhibition of ship models, figureheads, glasswork paintings and much more celebrates the 75th Anniversary of Monterey Maritime & Historical Society.Monterey Maritime andHistorical SocietyMonterey, CA • 831-372-2608montereyhistory.org/maritimeThrough December 31

SHIPS OF THE SEAMARITIME MUSEUM18th and 19th century ship models, paintings and maritime antiques.Ships of the Sea Maritime MuseumSavannah, GA • 912-232-1511shipsofthesea.orgOngoing

SIX STAR LEGACYThe WWII combat diorama art of Richard Dana Kuchta. The Mark Twain LibraryRedding, CT • 203-938-2545October 1 - 30

SKETCHED AT SEAMarine sketchbooks and drawings by artists, mariners and travelers, depicting their experience and inspi-ration of the sea.Peabody Essex MuseumSalem, MA • 866-745-1876 • pem.orgAugust 12 – January2008

SMALL SCALES WAR:Military Models of the World WarsTrench art and government recognition models from WWI and WWII are a testa-ment to the creative needs of the human spirit even during tumultuous times.Intrepid Sea, Air & Space MuseumNew York, NY877-957-7447/212-245-0072intrepidmuseum.orgNew ongoing exhibition

SOMETHING WAITS BENEATH IT :Early Works by Andrew Wyeth, 1939-196932 rarely seen tempura and water-color paintings of coastal Maine and eastern Pennsylvania by a young Andrew Wyeth.

Delaware Art MuseumWilmington, DE • 302-571-9590delart.orgMarch 29 – July 16

STANLEY MELTZOFF:Deep Sea Fish PainterRetrospective exhibition to celebrate the publication of a new book of the art of this inventor and master of the underwater fish painting genre since 1960.J. Russell Jinishian Gallery1657 Post Road, Fairfield, CTjrusselljinishiangallery.com203-259-8753 • Fall 2006

STORY OF TEXAS NAVY 1836-1845As told through the paintings of Robert Moak and related ship models and artifacts.Opens September 1Working Tall Ship ElissaOngoingTexas Seaport MuseumPier 21 No. 8Galveston, TX • 409-763-1877tsm-elissa.org

13TH ANNUALMARITIME ART EXHIBITJuried exhibition of works by mem-bers of the American Society of Marine Artist with featured artist Sylvia Waters.Coos Art MuseumCoos Bay, OR • 541-267-3901coosart.orgJuly 21 – September 23

TIDE LINESContemporary Staten Island Waterfront PrintsWoodcuts, engravings, etchings, litho-graphs and mezzotints by Christopher Clarke, Richard Sloat, Su-Ling Hung, Bill Murphy and others.Noble Maritime CollectionStaten Island, NY noblemaritime.orgThrough October 1

27TH ANNUALINTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONA juried exhibition of well known and up and upcoming masters of marine art from around the world.The Maritime Galleryof Mystic SeaportMystic, CT • 860-572-5388mysticseaport.orgSeptember 30 – November 27

UNION LEAGUE CLUB –MARINE ART EXHIBITIONPaintings by leading contemporary marine artists including Anthony Blake, Christopher Blossom, William Davis, Don Demers, William Gilkerson, Jim Griffiths, Geoffrey Huband, Loretta Krupinski, Gerald Levey, Ian Marshall, Joseph McGurl, Leonard Mizerek, William Muller, Ed Parker, Robert Sticker, John Stobart, Tim Thompson and others. Sponsored by theJ. Russell Jinishian GalleryUnion League ClubNew York, NY • 203-259-8753jrusselljinishiangallery.comNovember 1-30

VAN RYPER:A WORLD OF SHIPS IN MINATUREDer Scutt Ocean Liner collection of prized models of great shipsSouth Street Seaport MuseumNew York, NY • 212-748-8600southstreetseaportmuseum.orgOngoing

WILLIAM A. COULTER (1849-1938)A Master’s Brush With the SeaThe first retrospective exhibition of the work of the premier West Coast mari-time artist who also chronicled the great San Francisco earthquake and fire. The opening coincides with the 100th anni-versary of the great earthquake.San Francisco MaritimeNational Historical ParkSan Francisco, CA415-561-7000Through October 31

WINSLOW HOMER: Poet of the Sea60 oil and watercolor paintings, span-ning Homer’s life, features water as the central element.Musee d’Art Americain GivernyGiverny, FRANCE 33(0) 2 3251-9465 • maag.orgThrough September 19

WOMEN AND THE SEAChronicles women’s contributions to seafaring in peacetime and in war, from the earliest days of sail to cap-tains of racing yachts.Penobscot Marine MuseumSearsport, ME • 207-548-2529Penobscotmuseum.orgThrough September4

THE YACHTING PHOTOGRAPHYOF WILLARD B. JACKSONOver 50 photographs taken at Marblehead, MA capture the beauty of all types of sailing vessels.Peabody Essex MuseumSalem, MA • 978-745-9500pem.orgThrough November 19

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He held sold out workshops in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, Chatham, Massachusetts, on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, and the Chateau d’Artiste in the Burgundy province of France. His paint-ings are featured in articles in Fine Art Connoisseur magazine April issue, and the August issue of Arts and Antiques magazine. He’s been invited to paint with the Plein Air Artists of America in Laguna, California in October. And August will find him painting with leading artists from the West in Utah at the site of well-known western artist Maynard Dixon’s studio, which will be followed by an exhibition there sponsored by the Thunderbird Foundation. A calendar of his paintings was pub-lished by Am Cal—the 2007 version should be in bookstores soon, while two new limited edition giclée prints on canvas were published by the Greenwich Workshop. One is “Off the Windswept Coast” in an edition of 50, measuring 28”x42” at $950. The other is “End of Day One: The Great Transatlantic Race, 1866” also in an edition of 50, measuring 25”x44” at $1,250. To order call 800-243-4260 or greenwichfinearts.com. Paintings from his workshop in France will be exhibited, along with those of young marine artist Brad Betts at the Art of Sea Gallery in Thomaston, Maine this summer. June found him surrounded by collectors and friends, and 15 of his newest paintings at a one-man exhibition at the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery in Fairfield, Connecticut. Most of the paintings were large, from 20”x30” to 34”x60”, ranging in subject matter from the Eastern Yacht Club Cruise in Boothbay, Maine and the Fastnet Race of 1931, to Schooner Nina crossing the Atlantic in 1928, and the dynamic painting of schooner yacht Atlantic on her record setting transatlantic crossing in 1905. The paintings ranged in price from $4,200 for a 9”x12” to $80,000. Nearly all were sold out by the time the show opened. Don reminded us at the opening that the most expensive painting in his first one-man show in 1988 was $6,800. While that show too was a sell out, he’s certainly come a long way.

Recently we got a long letter from John Stobart, who’s been another extremely busy artist. He took the first quarter of this year to finish a major paint-ing of Jacksonville, Florida, interrupting only to fly up to Barnstable, Massachusetts to speak to a nice crowd at the Sturges Library. This fall will find him in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Closson’s Art Gallery, where he’ll be one of the featured artists as they celebrate their 140th anniversary on the weekend of November 3-4. On November 9 “The Art of John Stobart,” an exhibition of 15 paintings borrowed back from collectors for the occasion will open at the Artworks Gallery at the Ohio Center for History, Art and Technology. It runs through December 22. John tells me that he last published his “Art Commentary” some 15 years ago, in which he discussed his own experiences as a student and relayed his own views as a mature painter as to what an art education should consist of. Here is what his own consisted of: “In my four years at England’s Derby College of Art I drew cubes, spears and cones from every conceivable angle ad infinitum. Before drawing from the model students had to do two years anatomy by which time we could draw a complete skeleton from any position. We then added underlying muscles and then the main muscles and knew their names. We drew from the antique life sized plaster cast of Venus de Milo and other famous sculptures. Two years of painting models and two years of draw-

ing terminated the standard four-year course.” John goes on to discuss the virtues of painting from life, the detriments of painting solely from photographs, and his views of abstract art and its self-perpetuating marketing machine. In essence, he is a believer in the kind of fundamental aca-demic training that he received. He writes that he is considering a updated version of his comments, which we will look forward to. As many people know, he has put his money where his mouth is by sponsoring scholarships for young artists, and producing a series of television programs in which he paints outdoors from life. Entitled John Stobart’s Worldscapes, they have just been released in the DVD format this year. There are actually two. One is Simplifying Outdoor Painting available for $19.95, and a 2-DVD set John Stobart’s Worldscapes #1 available for $39.95 by calling 978-921-0761.

One of the institutions John has helped to support with the proceeds from the sale of his paintings, prints, books and videos is the Lyme Academy of Art in Lyme, Connecticut, which as many people know as the summer home of many of the fine, turn-of-the-century American Impressionist art-ists, like John Twachtman, Theodore Robinson, Childe Hassam, and Guy Wiggins, both father and son. We were invited to speak right down the street recently at the Lyme Art Association in conjunction with their summer marine art exhibit, which had been organized by painters Yves Parent and Bill Hanson. It’s a fine organization and fine gallery space operated by and for the over 800 artist members. The director Bob Potter left a lucrative career in television and film to take on the chal-lenges of running it, while his wife Jeanne Potter left her job at the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington, DC to become the director of the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport. So between them they‘ve obviously “cornered the art market” in southeastern Connecticut.

Speaking of cornering the market, there’s not better place to accomplish that of course than on an island. We were in Bermuda recently, the birthplace of Stephen Card, well-known painter of ocean liners, whose huge paintings painted on alu-minum grace many of the public spaces aboard the new Queen Mary II. It is also the adopted home of British painter Deryck Foster whose friendship with Shorty Trimingham flourished during the 1974 Newport to Bermuda ocean race and resulted in a regular display of Foster’s work over the years at Trimingham’s Department Store in downtown Hamilton. With Trimingham’s now sadly closed, many of Foster’s paintings depicting important moments and vessels from the history of Bermuda like Sea Venture, whose shipwreck resulted in the establishment of the first colony on the island, to Bermuda sloops, the privateer EXPERIMENT, and the elegant liner Queen of Bermuda are out now on display at the Bermuda Maritime Museum in the Commissioner’s House as a part of the Bank of Bermuda Foundation’s collection of marine art. This is a must see museum for marine art lovers during a visit to Bermuda. There are eight buildings in addition to Commissioner’s House full of art and artifacts which tell the fascinating maritime history of Bermuda: her role in world wide trade, international conflicts and tourism through a great variety of art and artifacts and actual vessels. View Bermuda Maritime Museum site at www.bmm.bm.

A fine article in the Maritime Museum’s own pub-lication MARITimes reveals how Foster has now turned his talents towards ship model building and restoration of many of models in the museum’s collection. It certainly makes sense that he is able to transfer his knowledge and understanding of vessels from one medium to another. But his reflections on the differences between painting and ship model building are interesting. He says, “…every painting I do, all I can see are the faults. Most of the paintings have been a love/hate rela-tionship. You start off with an inspiration and it’s all going to be fantastic, and then it all goes wrong, and it’s aggravating. With modeling you may get a few frustrations, but it’s not the same heartache I had with painting. With modeling you have some-thing definite in front of you. When you’re trying to conjure something up in your mind, it’s different.” The moral of the story here, I think, is that no mat-ter how easy an artist makes it look in the finished product, the struggle to get from a blank canvas or paper, or chunk of wood or clay to a finished work of art is a tremendously difficult one fraught with peril and uncertainty. Painter Don Demers is fond of quoting our old friend, now deceased, Frank Wagner who described painting as a process of “starting with an perfectly white canvas which has nothing inherently wrong with it, and going to work on it with all the potential of ending up with a picture that has nothing inherently right with it.”

One artist who transferred his skills the other way, from making ship models to painting was New Orleans native Joe Wilhelm. When Joe died two years ago he left behind a number of paintings he made during the last years of his life of his favorite subjects, freighters from the 1950s and ‘60s of the United Fruit, Standard Fruit, the Lykes Lines—mostly in and around the harbor of New Orleans. These were recently purchased by current members of the shipping community during one weekend through an auction set up by Carleen Lyden Kluss of Morgan Marketing and Communications, which serves the commercial maritime industry (morganmarketcomm.com), at the conference of the Connecticut Maritime Association, an annual gathering of ship own-ers, brokers, and port authorities from around the world. In fact, the relocation of many shipping company headquarters out of the famed Whitehall building in lower Manhattan to Connecticut has resulted in the Connecticut Maritime Association becoming one of the largest in the industry. The silent auction was held during the conference with the proceeds going to benefit the North American Maritime Ministry Association (NAMMA). 19 of the 20 paintings offered were sold. So it was a win, win, win all around—ship owners got paintings by a top marine artist of a subject depiction not often painted. NAMMA received money in its coffers to support its fine activities, and Joe Wilhelm’s son Steve got a new roof on his house, which had been off for six months, courtesy of Hurricane Katrina.

The March 2006 issue of Maine Boats Homes and Harbors featured another article about an artist who uses the skills of one career to enhance anoth-er, and who concentrates on iron and steel liners, freighters and naval vessels from the 19th and 20th centuries. We’re speaking of course of Scotsman Ian Marshall, a trained architect who, along with his brother, was responsible for designing and building most of the public buildings in Botswana in Southern Africa. Ian than traveled the world as

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There are perhaps no sea stories captivating and compelling as those involving the massive sailing ships of the 18th and 19th centuries, where hundreds of men spent months and often years afloat in search of honor, glory and adventure. From the simple struggles of everyday life afloat on the world’s great oceans in all sorts of weather, to the epic tales of battles at sea that tested the skills and courage of even the most seasoned sailor, these tales never disappoint in the retelling. Today, Alexander Kent’s 10 novels following the Royal Navy career of one Richard Bolitho exploring all the tragedies and triumphs of this unique period in history. Alongside Kent’s words, painter Geoffrey Huband has created dramatic images for the covers of these compelling novels.

THE AGE OF SAIL – Paintings of Geoffrey Huband

A devotee of Montague Dawson, Huband is drawn to the period between 1700-1800, “a period I regard as the peak achievementin the combination of function

and beauty in ships…”

STAND INTO DANGER

1774 … His Britannic Majesty’s twenty-eight-gun frigate DESTINY, with Lieutenant Richard Bolitho aboard, closes with the privateer brigantine HELOISE in the Atlantic, en route to the Caribbean.

MAN OF WAR

1817 … His Britannic Majesty’s sev-enty-four-gun man-of-war ATHENA unleashes its starboard batteries on slavers in the Caribbean as it passes the severely damaged and sinking frigate, HMS AUDACITY.

U.S.S. CONSTITUTION vsHMS GUERRIERE

August 19, 1812 … In one of the decisive battles of the War of 1812, the flagship of the upstate American Navy soundly de-feated the 38 gun British frigate in only 90 minutes off the coast of Nova Scotia. Here the GUERRIERE’s mizzenmast has just been shot away.

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an architect on behalf of the United Nations, along the way observing and painting in all the famous and not so famous ports of the world. Over the last 30+ years he has created over 400 paintings, and authored and illustrated 5 volumes, mostly on ships, but one on Flying Boats. It’s interest-ing to hear his reflections on the difficulties of painting, and in his case working in watercolor. He always starts his painting by soaking his sheet of watercolor paper in the bath tub, then taping it down to a board and allowing it to dry. (Look first when bathing in the Marshall household.) While he’s actually painting, he works quickly. He says, “For these paintings of historical subjects, much the greater time is not on the paper. It is in think-ing, reading and looking at photographs. The ship is quite a complicated object. One misconception is that it will look the same from angle to angle, no matter how far you are from it.” But he says, “You must always take into account that an object flattens out as one moves away from it. Heat, light, sound, all the behaviors of the elements come to play,” says Ian. He wants his paintings to reflect the experience of observing a ship while at sea. He says, “You get an effect quickly, a passing effect. The next time you look at the ship she’s swung into mooring, the light has changed. And it’s that glimpse that stays in the mind.” In fact, many art-ists tell us that it’s that single, brief moment that often forms the kernel of an idea that becomes the basis for a very complex painting.

The fine article on Ian was written by Robert Lloyd Webb, the author of the recently published book Sailor–Painter, the Uncommon Life of Charles Robert Patterson. See our book page for details, and our exhibition page for more details on the

exhibition on Patterson’s work being held at the Heritage Museum on Cape Cod this summer.

Maine Boats Homes and Harbors is where you can also find the regular column “In the Lee of the Boathouse” by Peter Spectre well known for his “On the Waterfront” column for many years in WoodenBoat magazine. It’s chock full of fascinat-ing information and well worth the price of the magazine by itself.

If you’ve ever visited Monhegan Island you will have walked by the summer studio of the National Academy painter Don Stone. It’s interesting to listen to him describe his philosophy and tech-niques. Don says, “I make a lot of thumbnail sketches before starting the actually painting. The painting, I have found from experience, will be no better than the thumbnail. So it’s important to get it right.” He says, “When it comes to making the painting I do not draw the image and then color it in. I work directly from the beginning with the brush. As I add paint I use the brush to follow the contour of the subject matter, for instance, the shape of a wave.” Although he paints right on site, like many artists he avails himself of modern technologies to gather and retain information. In his view “a photograph is to inform not to copy. I‘ve often thought how envious my predecessors would be to see me use my video camera to film a wave breaking on a rocky coast, and then play it back on a monitor, still frame by still frame to study each second of motion!”

Through the years artists have always been looking for an edge regardless of their era to help them translate what they’re seeing in the real or imag-ined world into a believable, artistic creation.

From the use of 17th century Camera Obscuras and various “perspective” machines to the develop-ment of the still and video camera of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and now the computer, the artist has always been in the vanguard of adapting technology in innovative ways.

For artists today, the ample wealth of information that the computer provides, such as reference material on ships, harbors, individuals, etc., can simply open up new subject matter. Some artists use the computer to manipulate color and objects through various software programs like “Photo Shop” to augment their research with the camera. Painter Len Tantillo has been pioneering his own unique methods. His interest continues to be in recreating the Dutch Colonial history of the New York area, from Albany down the Hudson River, including New York Bay and Long Island Sound.

In the past, when Len has made detailed recreations of, let’s say, the waterfront in Albany, he’s worked with a model builder to literally build three dimen-sional cardboard models of a section of town he’s looking at in order to assure the accuracy of his final work. Incredibly, he says his whole approach changed when he first saw the movie Shrek! He’s now, after about a year and a half of experimenting, taught himself how to employ the same computer technology used to make that animated movie to make what he calls “digital” or “virtual” models on the computer. It’s a pretty fascinating process he began when he was asked to make a painting of Schenectady, New York. Using the computer, he was able to take the current city plan of Schenectady, and overlay it on a map drawn by British engineer William Rohmer in 1690 (who was assigned by

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Paul Garnett Eagle of the Sea – U.S.S. CONSTITUTION off the Coast of La Gabriel South America, September 29, 1799 Oil 24” x 36” $9,500

Joseph Wilhelm (1923-2002) Tug DALZELLINE in the Hudson River Oil 16” x 23” $5,000

the British after there was a huge massacre in Schenectady to reexamine the fortifications of the town). He then employed a computer program known as “Rhino” to draw in the computer the specifics of the architectural and landscape features to then create a virtual three dimensional view of Schenectady in the 17th century, which he could manipulate to look at from any angle. He literally set himself up to walk through the streets until he found an interesting perspective to paint just as if he were walking through them today. The painting wound up being a night scene, and he actually could light it by moonllight exactly the way he wanted using another program.

Len recently used the same principle to complete a commission for the Metropolitan Museum of Art who wanted him to paint what a Dutch tenant farmhouse would have looked like in the 17th cen-tury. They plan to create an exhibit using some pieces of the farmhouse which they actually have, augmented by Len’s painting. He’s developed this technique so thoroughly that he was asked to speak about it at the National Conference of American Archeologists who are looking for new ways to use what their findings tell them. Len actu-ally uses four programs: Rhino; Maya, which he says is a great rendering program used in movies like Master and Commander and The Perfect Storm; Poser, which is the study of the movements of people and animals, where you can actually set a

person in a certain position, move them twenty yards ahead, as if they’ve run that distance, then push a button and “Poser” will show you all the movements in between, like the famous Muybridge photographs and Terragin which is used for modeling seas, distant landscapes, atmo-spheric elements in the skies. He said these programs are so sensitive you can actually manipulate the haze and photo-degeneration of the color spectrum because of the degrading light in the atmosphere. His feeling is that these programs give artists tremendous tools to work from, and will really influence painters well into the future. But like everything else, it has taken an artist who under-stands these needs to interpret the technology to be used for artistic purposes.

He put this to the test firsthand recently during his workshop in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Where some artists will take the students outdoors and have them paint from life or reference material, Len showed up with a kit for each student consisting of a large flat reflective surface on which was placed an amorphously cut organic shape of cardboard, not very thick, and then seven blocks shaped from pyramidal to square. He asked these students to arrange all these pieces as each of them wanted to. He then photographed each one from above, gave them architectural and some landscape detail and created a printout for each student from which they could make a painting. In essence what they did was

create a small village scene, but in the end had to use the power of their imaginations to translate that into a final picture. As he says, in his view paintings really are inventions. He said, “Reality doesn’t look like any painting. A painting just feels like reality.”

In the it’s never to late to go to school cat-egory, you wonder what well-known marine artist Christopher Blossom has been up to. In addition to being the only marine artist invited to partici-pate year after year in two of the biggest art shows in the west, the Prix de West held in Oklahoma City each year and the annual exhibition at the Gene Autry Museum outside Los Angeles. Chris enrolled as a student in Len’s class this spring. Like all highly creative people, he’s always looking for new ways to approach the problems of seeing and making a painting. So Len’s students got a real treat, having two highly skilled professional artists to observe in the same class.

The Greenwich Workshop in Shelton, Connecticut recently published a new giclée on canvas of Chris’s painting “U.S. Frigate Congress of the California Coast” in a limited edition of only 75. It depicts the flagship of the California fleet during the War with Mexico. It contains all of the subtlety and strength we’ve come to associate with Chris’s paintings. The print measures 18”x24” and sells for $595. To order call 800-243-4260, or visit greenwichfinearts.com.

In the summer of 1799, the Constitution took aboard her second commander since her launching, Silas Talbot. In this painting, I have elected not to show the ship in one of her famous encounters with enemy ships but rather to let the viewer see her in her full sailing glory. She was off the coast of South America at the time, patrolling for French shipping. In the painting, her famous yellow-ochre gun stripe, as well as her original ornate stern and hammock netting in the waist, are clearly seen. I also had hoped that particular view I had chosen to paint would give each person a sense of her grace, great beauty, some feel of her original appearance as well as her legendary speed under sail. Paul Garnett