Tag: Sailing
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André Brasilier, Cavalcade in the pink sky 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #283
Andre Brasilier, French (1929 – ) was born into an artistic family in 1929, Brasilier has spent more than half a century creating canvasses that are a blend of abstraction, expressionism, and something distinctly his own. His works often feature themes and motifs like horses, nature, music, and women. Brasilier’s art is known around the world,…
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Geoff Hunt; H.M.S. Trusty in English Harbour, Antigua 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #282
HMS Trusty (1782) was a fourth rate launched in 1782, used as a troopship from 1799 and a prison ship from 1809, and broken up in 1815. Trusty served in the navy’s Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801. The 50-gun ship Trusty takes on stores, while to the right a sloop is careened for…
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Cheryl Cusick; Neck & Neck 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #281
Cheryl Cusick consistently won or achieved major placing, in every competition she has recently entered. Her list of awards is truly outstanding and a testament to both her popularity and talent. As far back as 1969, Cheryl has been involved in the Arts. Working as an art teacher Cheryl has taught all ages. She has been…
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Carlos Nadal, La plage 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #280
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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Paul Augustin Aizpiri; THE BAY OF ST. TROPEZ 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #279
Saint-Tropez is a town on the French Riviera, 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Nice in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region of southeastern France. Saint-Tropez was a military stronghold and fishing village until the beginning of the 20th century. It was the first town on this coast to be liberated during World War…
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Marcel Gromaire, Sailors carrying a boat, 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #277
Marcel Gromaire (24 July 1892 – 11 April 1971) was a French painter. He painted many works on social subjects, and is often associated with Social Realism, however, one can say that Gromaire created an independent oeuvre far away from groups and movements Gromaire was born in Noyelles-sur-Sambre, France. He studied classically at Douai, then continued…
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Leslie A. Wilcox; The American Clipper ”Mischief” 01 Marine Painting – Edward William Cooke, With Footnotes, #268
Mischief was an extreme clipper ship built in 1853 by James M. Hood, at Somerset, MA. Dimensions 144’/146’×29’×16’6″ and tonnage 548 tons/560,69 tons; reported to have had the sharpest ends of any clipper at the time. Mischief was employed in the California/China trade. In command of Captain Martin Townsend. Mischief was damaged off Cape Horn and…
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Linda Weir; St Ives harbour 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #288
St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, UK. The town lies 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 popular holiday resort, notably achieving…
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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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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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Francis Augustus Silva, SAILING ON THE HUDSON NEAR NYACK 01 Marine Painting – Francis Augustus Silva, With Footnotes, #278
Nyack is a village located primarily in the town of Orangetown in Rockland County, New York, United States. Incorporated in 1872, it retains a very small western section in Clarkstown. It is an inner suburb of New York City lying approximately 19 miles (31 km) north of the Manhattan boundary near the west bank of the…
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Thomas Saliot, Sailing girl 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #246
Thomas Saliot: “I live in Morocco, France and Spain where i paint simple iconic images from the net or my life, like big oil sketches. I have been painting professionally for over thirty years. Sort of a child of Hopper, figurative and Pop art, i love colors, provocation and big canvas. Thomas Saliot was born in…
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Rafaelle Berchtold, Physical state 02 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #359
“In nature there is a closed cycle. Everything flows. The sea is constantly changing dynamically. It permeates life and makes everything softer, smoother and more permeable. Water is formless, condenses, decomposes, sometimes it seems threatening, effervescent, then calm again, crystal clear, until mirror-smooth. Water refreshes and renews life. The element water symbolizes energy in the…
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Peter Clapham Sheppard, DRY DOCK 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #208
Peter Clapham Sheppard ARCA OSA (1882-1965) Born in Toronto on October 21, 1882, Peter C. Sheppard would go on to study at the Ontario Collage of Art where, like many of the finest artists of his generation, he received an artistic education from George Reid, John William Beatty, and William Cruickshank. He had a very successful career…
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Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Net menders 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #215
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923) was born in Valencia. He and his younger sister were orphaned 2 years later when both their parents died from a cholera outbreak. From an early age it was clear that Sorolla had a passion for art. Instead of academic study, the young Sorolla would spend his…
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Charles Haigh Wood; Mending the sail 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #214
Charles Haigh-Wood, (British, 1856-1927) was a genre painter, who lived in London, Bury and Taplow, Buckinghamshire. Haigh-Wood’s enchanting visions of romance, with attractive girls and pretty dresses are some of the most endearing and popular of all images. His patrons adored them, a successful businessman of Haigh-Wood’s day with any pretension to artistic taste had to…
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Jane Long; Worth my Salt 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #202
Jane Long is a photographer and digital artist, born in Melbourne, Australia in 1970. Currently based in Brisbane, Australia, she combines photography and photomanipulation to create slightly surreal images that straddle the line between reality and fantasy. Completely self-taught, she has worked with Photoshop since 1994, both commercially and for personal work. More recently she has…
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Abraham Storck, the Four Days Battle 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #158
The Four Days’ Battle was a naval battle of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Fought from 1 June to 4 June 1666 in the Julian or Old Style calendar then used in England off the Flemish and English coast, it remains one of the longest naval engagements in history. The Dutch inflicted significant damage on the English…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART BY THE OLD MASTERS, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #21B
Egon Schiele Sailing Ship With Dinghy, c. 1908 Oil on cardboard Private Collection Egon Schiele (German: 12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many…
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