Tag: Ships
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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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Nikitas Grispos, The guard 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #249
Nikitas Grispos was born on the island of Amorgos in 1873. He studied painting at The School of Fine Arts, Athens, under Nikiforos Lytras, Spyridon Prosalentis and Constantinos Volanakis. During this time he also studied sculpture. His themes included landscape, still-life, portraiture and symbolism. His paintings were in keeping with the academic tradition but also…
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FÉLIX ZIEM, Port of Antwerp 01 Classic Works of Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #248
The Port of Antwerp in Flanders, Belgium, is a port in the heart of Europe accessible to capesize ships. It is Europe’s second-largest seaport, after Rotterdam. Antwerp stands at the upper end of the tidal estuary of the Scheldt. The estuary is navigable by ships of more than 100,000 Gross Tons as far as 80 km…
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William Thon, Running Home 01 Work, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #247
Thon was born in New York City in 1906. He spent his childhood summers camping on Staten Island. He joined the Navy during World War II, and shortly after the war won the Rome Prize, a fellowship to the American Academy in Rome. He later became a trustee of the Academy. In 1951, Thon received a…
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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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Frederick James Elliott, Tall Ship in Stormy Seas 01 Work of Art, Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #245
Frederick James ‘Fred’ Elliott, 1864-1949, was a prolific watercolour painter and lithographer, active in Sydney from the 1890s to the 1920s, specialising in marine subjects. Frederick James ‘Fred’ Elliott was born in Paignton near Brixham, Devon, UK, son of Alfred Elliott. Fred Elliott immigrated to Queensland in 1876 when his father was appointed teacher at…
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Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Ships in harbour 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #244
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (March 14, 1888 – March 2, 1970) was a Québécois painter, born in 1888 in Ste-Rose, Quebec. He studied art in Montreal and worked at the Montreal Post Office, and at an Edmonton bank. He studied art abroad. He was known for painting watercolour landscapes of the St. Lawrence Valley. He travelled around the St. Lawrence…
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Massimo Vitali, Papeete Beach Regatta 01 Work of Art, Marine Photograph – With Footnotes, #244
Massimo Vitali (b. Como, Italy in 1944) is an Italian photographer based in Lucca. Vitali studied photography at the London College of Printing. He initially worked as a photojournalist for the Report Agency in the 1970s, and later as a movie camera operator. In 1995 he took on fine art photography, often standing on a podium…
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Angel Botello, Boats in port 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #243
Ángel Botello (June 20, 1913 – November 11, 1986) was a Spanish-Puerto Rican painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He was dubbed “The Caribbean Gauguin” for his use of bold colors and depictions of island life. Botello is considered one of the greatest Latin American post-modern artists and recognition and demand for his artwork continues to grow…
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Paul Aizpiri, The Harbor 01 Work, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #242
Paul Augustin Aizpiri (14 May 1919 – 22 January 2016) was a French artist. Aizpiris art is largely influenced by expressionist and Cubist elements. The motives have often been vases and clown portraits , but he also has taken motifs from the more typical French, among other Mediterranean cities. His artwork is often characterized by a distinctive use…
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Jean Dufy, BAIE DE LISBONNE/ LISBON BAY 01 Work, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #241
Lisbon is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, and one of the oldest cities in the world, and one of the oldest in Western Europe, predating other modern European capitals such as London, Paris, and Rome by centuries. It is the westernmost capital city in continental Europe and serves as the country’s chief port,…
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Eugène Boudin, BEACH SCENE IN TROUVILLE, 01 Work, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #240
Trouville, in full Trouville-sur-Mer, seaside resort and port on the English Channel, Calvados département, Normandy région, northwestern France. It is situated where the Normandy Corniche drops to the right bank of the Touques estuary, opposite Deauville-les-Bains, with which community there are ferry and bridge links. Wooded hills above Trouville give way to a magnificent sandy beach…
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Bernard Buffet, LE YACHT 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #238
Bernard Buffet (10 July 1928 – 4 October 1999) was a French painter of Expressionism and a member of the anti-abstract art group L’homme Témoin (the Witness-Man). Buffet was born in Paris, France, and studied art there at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and worked in the studio of the painter Eugène Narbonne. Buffet…
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Eugène Boudin, BIG WEATHER ON THE SCHELDT 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #237
The Scheldt (French: Escaut) is a 350-kilometre (220 mi) long river in northern France, western Belgium, and the southwestern part of the Netherlands. Its name is derived from an adjective corresponding to Old English sceald (“shallow”), Modern English shoal. More on The Scheldt The Port of Antwerp, in Flanders, Belgium, is a port in the heart of Europe…
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Raoul Dufy, LES VOILIERS À DEAUVILLE 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #236
Les Voiliers à Deauville conveys a sense of stillness in the midst of a frenetic scene, in which the lines of opposing objects intersect and create a cohesive landscape where the sea is associated more with commerce than nature. The present work is a departure from more Fauve depictions of ships in Dufy’s early paintings. This…
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Paul Signac, PAIMPOL 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #235
Paimpol is a commune in the Côtes-d’Armor department in Brittany in northwest France. It is a tourist destination, especially during the summer months when people are attracted by its port and beaches. More on Paimpol Paul Signac, (born Nov. 11, 1863, Paris, France—died Aug. 15, 1935, Paris) French painter who, with Georges Seurat, developed the technique called pointillism. When he…
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John Lovett; Down River 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #234
John Lovett was born in Cooma, NSW, Australia in 1953, and studied at the National Art School, Newcastle, Australia. He has been painting professionally since 1979. John works in oils, acrylics, watercolor, and mixed media. As John states: “For me, the unpredictability and uncontrollable nature of watercolor make it the most exciting and expressive medium of…
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Louis Gabriel Eugène Isabey, Boats in the storm 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #233
Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey (22 July 1803, in Paris – 25 April 1886, in Montévrain) was a French painter, lithographer and watercolorist in the Romantic style. He was born to Jean-Baptiste Isabey, a well known painter who enjoyed the patronage of the Imperial Family. Originally, he wanted to be a sailor, but his father insisted that…
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Rodney Winfield, At The Waters Edge 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #232
Rodney Winfield (1925-2017) was born in New York City. From an early age, he was artistically inclined; he composed music, drew and painted, danced, wrote poetry, and created sculptures. As a young man, he studied music composition with composer Carl Ruggles. Choosing to focus on fine art, he attended Cooper Union School of Art in New…
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Ellie Hesse; Breezy Day in St Ives 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #230
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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