Tag: Beach
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Carlos Nadal, (La plage/The Beach 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #267
Carlos Nadal (24 April 1917 – 6 June 1998) was a Spanish painter of the Fauvist school Nadal was born in Paris on 24 April 1917, but moved to Barcelona in 1921. His father, Santiago Nadal had a commercial design studio, where Carlos learnt to paint, and met modern artists including Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy and…
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Edward William Cooke, A riverside town 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #266
Edward William Cooke, R.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., F.S.A., F.G.S. (27 March 1811 – 4 January 1880) was an English landscape and marine painter, and gardener. Cooke was born in Pentonville, London. He was raised in the company of artists. He was a precocious draughtsman and a skilled engraver from an early age, displayed an equal preference for…
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Nebojsa Ruzic Varda; Limani 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #286
“Limania” is a Greek word meaning harbors. Nebojsa Ruzic Varda; “I was born on March, 16. 1955. in Otocac – Lika. I finished schooling in Belgrade, as well as the Faculty of Fine Arts. My main interests are in: drawing, painting, caricature and photography. In the previous period I also dealt with: graphics, film and architecture.…
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Charles Murray Padday, The Harbour at Bougie, Algeria 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #265
Béjaïa is a Mediterranean port city on the Gulf of Béjaïa in Algeria. According to Al-Bakri, the bay was first inhabited by Andalusians. Béjaïa stands on the site of the ancient city of Saldae, a minor port in Carthaginian and Roman times it was founded as a colony for old soldiers by emperor Augustus. According to…
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Eugène Galien-Laloue, Navire au port/ Ship at the port 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #264
Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941) was a French artist of French-Italian parents and was born in Paris on December 11, 1854. He was a populariser of street scenes, usually painted in autumn or winter. His paintings of the early 1900s accurately represent the era in which he lived: a happy, bustling Paris, la Belle Époque, with horse-drawn carriages,…
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Antoine Renault, Quincy Davis 01 Marine Painting – Dorothy Braund, With Footnotes, #263
Quincy Rose Davis (born May 18, 1995) is a surfer born in Montauk, New York. She started surfing when she was seven years old. With the shore as her backyard, Davis spent long summer days at the beach with her family who were always surfing. Davis started attending local surf events with older friends and would…
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Dorothy Braund, Bathers I 01 Marine Painting – Dorothy Braund, With Footnotes, #260
Dorothy Braund was born in Melbourne in 1926 and studied at the National Gallery School, and the George Bell School. Her travel studies in the 50s and 60s took her across Europe, Greece, Italy, Pakistan, Persia, and Turkey. Braund’s restrained figurative style has, at its core, the natural world, people and activity, observed with distinctive wit…
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Linda Weir, (Men Coming Home. St Ives Harbour 02 Marine Paintings – Linda Weir, With Footnotes, #260
St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a…
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Donald Hamilton Fraser; Study for Seascape 02 Marine Paintings – Donald Hamilton Fraser, With Footnotes, #259
Dinghy sailing is the activity of sailing small boats. There has always been a need for small tender boats for transporting goods and personnel to and from anchored sailing ships. Together with other smaller work craft such as fishing and light cargo, small inshore craft have always been in evidence. Charles II of England had a private…
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Arthur Hayward, Smeatons Pier, St Ives 02 Marine Paintings – Arthur Hayward, With Footnotes, #259
St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a…
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Charles Meere, Australia, ustralian beach pattern 02 Marine Paintings, With Footnotes, #258
Charles Meere was one of a group of Sydney artists whose work modernised classical artistic traditions as a means of depicting national life during the inter-war period. The epitome of his vision is Australian beach pattern, a tableau of beach goers whose athletic perfection takes on monumental, heroic proportions. Meere created a crowded and complex…
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William Lentz Weiss; Boston Harbor Scene 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #257
Boston Harbor is a natural harbor and estuary of Massachusetts Bay, and is located adjacent to the city of Boston, Massachusetts. It is home to the Port of Boston, a major shipping facility in the northeastern United States. Since its discovery to Europeans by John Smith in 1614,[2] Boston Harbor has been an important port…
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Edgar Yaeger, Trans Atlantic 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #256
Edgar Louis Yaeger (1904–1997) was an American modernist painter from Detroit, Michigan. Yaeger studied at the Detroit School of Fine and Applied Arts, by which he was awarded the Founder’s Society Purchase Prize. Subsequently, with the backing of the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Traveling Scholarship, Yaeger embarked on a study tour of eight European countries, from France…
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Roy Cross, The clipper ‘Reindeer’ arriving at Boston Harbor 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #255
USS Reindeer (1863) was a steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat assigned to patrol Confederate waterways. Reindeer joined the Mississippi Squadron just as Union Army and Navy efforts to open the entire Mississippi River system to Federal shipping finally reached fruition with…
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Fausto Pirandello, Bathers on the rocks 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #255
Fausto Calogero Pirandello (17 June 1899 – 30 November 1975) was an Italian painter. Because he spent his holidays between Rome and Sicily, the landscapes there would have a prominent presence in his paintings. He studied Classics until he was called to arms in 1917 by the Ragazzi del ’99. He was not sent to the…
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Neapolitan school; Galleon coming out of a port 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #254
Galleon, full-rigged sailing ship that was built primarily for war, and which developed in the 15th and 16th centuries. The name derived from “galley,” which had come to be synonymous with “war vessel”. A high, square forecastle rose behind the bow, the three or four masts carried both square and fore-and-aft sails, and one or…
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Thomas Jacques Somerscales; A bathing party, HMS. Clio 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #252
HMS Clio was a Cadmus-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1903, saw active service in the Middle East during World War I, was briefly involved in the British campaign against the Mad Mullah and was sold at Bombay in 1920. Clio started her career on the Australia Station, where she arrived in…
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Elizabeth Lennie, Tethys 01 Painting, Modern Interpretation of Olympian deities, with footnotes #41
In Greek mythology, Tethys was one of the Titan offspring of Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth). Tethys played no active part in Greek mythology, the only early story concerning Tethys, is what Homer has Hera briefly relate in the Iliad’s Deception of Zeus passage. Hera says that, when Zeus was in the process of deposing Cronus, she was given…
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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Abandoning Ship 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #251
While stormy seas, sinking ships and survivors in lifeboats are common themes in Aivazovsky’s work, the absence of horizon and sky in this painting is very unusual. The tightly cropped composition draws the viewer in and increases the drama of the scene, further enhanced by the striking reflection of light on the waves. The unusual…
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