Montague Dawson RMSA, FRSA (1890–1973)
THE LOFTY CLIPPER, CLAN MACFARLANE
oil on canvas
36 by 24 3/8 in. 91.4 by 61.9 cm
Private collection
The Clan MacFarlane was built by Russel & Co., for Thomas Dunlop & Sons and launched in 1881 from Greenock, Scotland. The three-masted full-rigged iron ship was sunk with her crew by a cyclone when stationed at Noumea, New Caledonia in 1934. The title of the present work is likely original, Dawson's addition of "lofty" emphasizing both the ships' sails and the somewhat unusual tall, vertical composition. More on The Clan MacFarlane
Montague Dawson RMSA, FRSA (1890–1973) was a British
painter who was renowned as a maritime artist. His most famous paintings depict
sailing ships, usually clippers or warships of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Montague was the son of a keen yachtsman and the grandson of the marine painter
Henry Dawson (1811–1878), born
in Chiswick, London. Much of his childhood was spent on Southampton Water where
he was able to indulge his interest in the study of ships. For a brief period
around 1910 Dawson worked for a commercial art studio in Bedford Row, London,
but with the outbreak of the First World War he joined the Royal Navy. Whilst
serving with the Navy in Falmouth he met Charles Napier Hemy (1841–1917), who considerably influenced his
work. In 1924 Dawson was the official artist for an Expedition to the South
Seas by the steam yacht St.George. During the expedition he provided
illustrated reports to the Graphic magazine.
After the
War, Dawson established himself as a professional marine artist, concentrating
on historical subjects and portraits of deep-water sailing ships. During the
Second World War, he was employed as a war artist. Dawson exhibited regularly
at the Royal Society of Marine Artists, of which he became a member, from 1946
to 1964, and occasionally at the Royal Academy between 1917 and 1936. By the
1930s he was considered one of the greatest living marine artists, whose
patrons included two American Presidents, Dwight D Eisenhower and Lyndon B
Johnson, as well as the British Royal Family. Also in the 1930s, he moved to
Milford-Upon-Sea in Hampshire, living there for many years. Dawson is noted for
the strict accuracy in the nautical detail of his paintings which often sell
for six figures.
The work of Montague Dawson is represented in
the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich and the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth. More on
Montague Dawson
Montague Dawson RMSA, FRSA (1890–1973)
The Flying Cloud
Oil on canvas
20 x 30 in 50.8 x 76.2 cm
Private collection
Flying Cloud was a clipper ship that set
the world's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San
Francisco, 89 days 8 hours. The ship held this record for over 100 years, from
1854 to 1989.[
Flying Cloud was the most famous of the clippers built by
Donald McKay. She was known for her extremely close race with Hornet in 1853;
for having a woman navigator, Eleanor Creesy, wife of Josiah Perkins Creesy who
skippered Flying Cloud on two record-setting voyages from New York to San
Francisco; and for sailing in the Australia and timber trades. More on Flying
Cloud
Montague Dawson RMSA, FRSA (1890–1973) was a British
painter who was renowned as a maritime artist. His most famous paintings depict
sailing ships, usually clippers or warships of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Montague was the son of a keen yachtsman and the grandson of the marine painter
Henry Dawson (1811–1878), born
in Chiswick, London. Much of his childhood was spent on Southampton Water where
he was able to indulge his interest in the study of ships. For a brief period
around 1910 Dawson worked for a commercial art studio in Bedford Row, London,
but with the outbreak of the First World War he joined the Royal Navy. Whilst
serving with the Navy in Falmouth he met Charles Napier Hemy (1841–1917), who considerably influenced his
work. In 1924 Dawson was the official artist for an Expedition to the South
Seas by the steam yacht St.George. During the expedition he provided
illustrated reports to the Graphic magazine.
After the
War, Dawson established himself as a professional marine artist, concentrating
on historical subjects and portraits of deep-water sailing ships. During the
Second World War, he was employed as a war artist. Dawson exhibited regularly
at the Royal Society of Marine Artists, of which he became a member, from 1946
to 1964, and occasionally at the Royal Academy between 1917 and 1936. By the
1930s he was considered one of the greatest living marine artists, whose
patrons included two American Presidents, Dwight D Eisenhower and Lyndon B
Johnson, as well as the British Royal Family. Also in the 1930s, he moved to
Milford-Upon-Sea in Hampshire, living there for many years. Dawson is noted for
the strict accuracy in the nautical detail of his paintings which often sell
for six figures.
The work of Montague Dawson is represented in
the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich and the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth. More on
Montague Dawson
Joseph Giunta, (1911–2001)
Seascape Rockport
Oil on wood panel
20 x 30 in.
Private collection
Rockport is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. Rockport is located approximately 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Boston at the tip of the Cape Ann peninsula. It is directly east of Gloucester and is surrounded on three sides by the Atlantic Ocean.
Before the coming of the English explorers and colonists, Cape Ann was home to a number of Native American villages, inhabited by members of the Agawam tribe. Samuel de Champlain named the peninsula "Cap Aux Isles" in 1605, and his expedition may have landed there briefly. By the time the first Europeans founded a permanent settlement at Gloucester in 1623, most of the Agawams had been killed by diseases caught from early contacts with Europeans. More on Rockport
Joseph Giunta (1911–2001) was a Canadian painter whose career spanned over 70 years. He was born in Montreal and began painting at the age of 14. He studied the arts at the Monument National and at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal. Giunta also studied in Boston, France and Italy. Throughout his career, Giunta's style evolved into 4 major styles: Figuration (1931–1958), Gestural Abstraction (1958–1975), Geometric and Baroque Constructions (1971–1989), Organic Collage-Paintings (1974–2001).
Over the course of more than 60 years, Giunta participated in a host of solo and group exhibitions, including at Quebec City's Zanettin Gallery in 1965 and 1973, as well as at the Quebec Pavilion at the Osaka World's Fair in 1970.
In 2001, the year of his death, a major exhibit at the Maison de la culture Frontenac in Montreal, along with the release of filmmaker Pepita Ferrari's Joseph Giunta: A Silent Triumph, served to pay a tribute to the artist, repositioning Giunta within the artistic scene in Quebec and Canada. More on Joseph Giunta
MARY ELIZABETH PRICE, American (1877-1965)
Village Queen
Oil on board
9 1/2 x 16 inches
Private collection
Mary Elizabeth Price (March 1, 1877 – February 19, 1965), also known as M. Elizabeth Price, was an American Impressionist painter. She was an early member of the Philadelphia Ten, organizing several of the group's exhibitions. She steadily exhibited her works with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the National Academy of Design, and other organizations over the course of her career. She was one of the several family members who entered the field of art as artists, dealers, or framemakers. More on Mary Elizabeth Price
Frederick Judd Waugh, American (1861-1940)
Seascape with Breaking Waves
Oil on board
13 1/4 x 19 3/4 inches
Private collection
Frederick Judd Waugh (September 13, 1861 in
Bordentown, New Jersey – September 10, 1940) was an American artist,
primarily known as a marine artist. During World War I, he designed ship
camouflage for the U.S. Navy, under the direction of Everett L. Warner.
Waugh was
the son of a well-known Philadelphia portrait painter, Samuel Waugh. He studied
at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with Thomas Eakins, and at the
Académie Julian in Paris, with Adolphe-William Bouguereau. After leaving Paris,
he moved to England, residing on the island of Sark in the English Channel,
where he made his living as a seascape painter.
In 1908,
Waugh returned to the U.S. and settled in Montclair Heights, New Jersey. He had
no studio, until art collector William T. Evans offered him one in exchange for
one painting a year. In later years, he lived on Bailey Island, Maine, and in
Provincetown, Massachusetts.
In 1918, Waugh was recommended to serve as a
camouflage artist (or camoufleur) for the U.S. Navy, as a member of the Design
Section of its marine camouflage unit (Behrens 2002, 2009). That section was
located in Washington, D.C., and was headed by American painter Everett L.
Warner (Warner 1919). More
on Frederick Judd Waugh
Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, R.S.A., R.S.W.,1883-1937
NORTH WIND, IONA (THE BATHER)
Oil on panel
36.9 by 45.1cm., 14½ by 17¾in.
Private collection
It was unusual for Cadell to include figures in his Iona paintings, but here he has placed a woman clad in a white dress which flutters in the sea-breeze and gives a beautifully animated element echoing the rolling waves in the bay beyond. Mauve, sea-greens and brilliant blues give a vibrancy to the picture and are wholly Colourist in their harmonies and contrasts. North Wind, Iona depicts the North shore, painted amongst the rocks that form the west boundary of the sands at Chalbha, where we catch a glimpse of the uninhabited island of Lunga, partly hidden by the rocky islet of Eilean Chalbha. More on this painting
Cadell spent much of his adult life in Scotland and had little direct contact with many of the new ideas that were being developed abroad. He therefore tended to use subjects and environments that were close at hand – landscapes, fashionable Edinburgh New Town house interiors, still life and figures in both oil and watercolour. He is particularly noted for his portraits of glamorous women whom he painted in a loose, impressionistic manner. He enjoyed the landscape of Iona enormously, which he first visited in 1912 and features prominently in his work.
During World War I he served in the 9th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the 9th Royal Scots regiments. More on Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell
John Duncan Fergusson, R.B.A., 1874-1961
THERMICE, HARLECH BEACH, c. 1926 "Thermice, Harlech"
Watercolour and coloured chalks over pencil
27.5 by 33.5cm., 10¾ by 13¼in.
Private collection
Harlech is a seaside resort and small town on the Cardigan Bay coastline in Gwynedd, West Wales. Nestling in the foothills of Snowdonia the town sits on the edge of the Bay of Cardigan looking westward toward the Llyn peninsula. Harlech is renowned for it's medieval fortress, Harlech Castle, built by the English King Edward 1 in the 13th century in his attempt to subdue the rebellious Welsh. The castle dominates the small town and is visible for miles around standing sentinel over Cardigan Bay. After almost a thousand years, the sea has abandoned the Castle and has left it stranded high and dry on its rocky promontory almost a mile from the present shoreline. More on Harlech
John Duncan Fergusson, (b Leith , 9 Mar. 1874; d Glasgow, 30 Jan. 1961). Scottish painter (mainly of landscapes and figure subjects) and occasional sculptor, the best known of the Scottish Colourists. From about 1895 he made regular visits to Paris and he lived there 1907–14. His early work was Whistlerian and he then came under the influence of Manet, but by 1907 he had adopted the bold palette of Fauvism and became the most uncompromising adherent to the style among British artists (Blue Beads, 1910, Tate, London). More on John Duncan Fergusson
Jimmy Lawlor
Lady with hat
"Australia is a vast, mostly empty continent. The large population areas all cling to the coastlines. I live within walking distance of beautiful, white, sandy beaches at the edge of the Indian Ocean. I can look out to sea and realise that the next landfall to the west is the island of Madagascar, 7,000 miles away (11,000km). I would like to say that I love reclining in a giant shell, pondering the wonders of nature and wearing an amazing shell hat, but that would be a lie." Jimmy Lawlor
Jimmy Lawlor was born in Wexford. He now lives in Westport, in the magnificent West of Ireland. Lawlor has been exhibiting for over 20 years.
His work is based not only on the Irish sense of humour, but on the vivid realisation that the old way of life will have vanished by our next generation.
His work takes elements from his surroundings and mixes them with the people of the place, in their environment and doing what they love best. In their own way, they have helped create the atmosphere around them, whether they be farmers, business people, students or otherwise.
Hooked
Photography
31.5 H x 31.5 W x 0.4 in
Private collection
Sarah Vermeersch studied art and photography in Brussels, then moved briefly to London before settling in the south of France. After years of exploring different areas of photography from portraits to street reportage as well as music videos and documentaries, Sarah started working on illustrations of classic mythology which led her to new adventures creating images reminiscent of paintings within the photographic medium. Inspired often by fairytales and myths, sometimes just by idioms or turns of phrase, Sarah’s images conjure an imaginary world behind the curtain of the real, to illustrate dreams and nightmares, love of life, fear of death, reach and grasp. More on Sarah Vermeersch
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