01 Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #231

Per Anders, Denmark
Baywatch
Oil, Acrylic on Canvas
65.4 W x 38.2 H x 1 in

This painting shows more or less my surroundings where I live at the southern edge of Denmark. The Baltic Ocean (or more correctly the fjord called Flensburg Fjord where Denmark is situated on the north side and Germany is situated on the other side, about 2 miles away) is right outside my windows and sailing is a part of my DNA. The combination of the 'blue water' and the sailboats define what is home to me! More on this painting

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and sculpting, Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in New York during the 1970s, focusing particularly on language, technology, and visual imagery. She became more widely known outside the art world when her single "O Superman" reached number two on the UK pop charts in 1981. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave.

Anderson is a pioneer in electronic music and has invented several devices that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows. In 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow instead of horsehair and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. In the late 1990s, she developed a talking stick, a six-foot (1.8 m) long baton-like MIDI controller that can access and replicate sounds. 


Anderson met Lou Reed in 1992, and was married to him from 2008 until his death in 2013. More on Laurie Anderson




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01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #229

Nicholas Pocock, (1740–1821)
Destruction of the French squadron of Admiral Leissègues at Santo-Domingo - 6 February 1806, c. 1808
Oil on canvas
National Maritime Museum

The Battle of San Domingo was a naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars fought on 6 February 1806 between squadrons of French and British ships of the line off in the Caribbean. The French squadron, under Vice-Admiral Corentin Urbain Leissègues in the 120-gun Impérial, had sailed from Brest in December 1805, one of two squadrons intending to raid British trade routes as part of the Atlantic campaign of 1806.

After winter storms near the Azores damaged and scattered his squadron, Leissègues regrouped and repaired his ships at the city of Santo Domingo, where a British squadron under Vice-Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth discovered them on 6 February 1806.

By the time French lookouts at Santo Domingo had spotted Duckworth approaching from the southeast, it was too late for Leissègues to escape. Sailing with the wind westwards along the coast, Leissègues formed a line of battle to meet the approaching British squadron, which had split into two divisions. Duckworth's lead ships remained in a tight formation and successfully engaged the head of the French line, targeting the flagship Impérial. Severely damaged and surrounded, Leissègues drove Impérial ashore to avoid capture. The remaining French ship of the line, Diomède, followed him. Although most of the crew of these ships scrambled ashore, British boarding parties captured both vessels and set them on fire. The only French ships to escape the battle were three smaller warships, which Duckworth's squadron had ignored; they eventually returned to France.



The battle of San Domingo was the last fleet engagement of the war between French and British capital ships in open water. The Royal Navy's dominance off every French port made the risks involved in putting to sea insurmountable. The only subsequent breakout attempt, by the Brest fleet in 1809, ended with the defeat of the French fleet close to its own anchorage at the Battle of the Basque Roads. More The Battle of San Domingo


Nicholas Pocock (2 March 1740 – 9 March 1821) was a British artist known for his many detailed paintings of naval battles during the age of sail. Pocock was born in Bristol in 1740, the son of a seaman. He followed his father's profession and was master of a merchant ship by the age of 26. During his time at sea, he became a skilled artist by making ink and wash sketches of ships and coastal scenes for his log books.

In 1778, Pocock's employer, Richard Champion, became financially insolvent due to the effects of the American Revolutionary War on transatlantic trade. As a result, Pocock gave up the sea and devoted himself to painting. The first of his works were exhibited by the Royal Academy in 1782. Later that year, Pocock was commissioned to produce a series of paintings illustrating George Rodney's victory at the Battle of the Saintes. In 1789, he moved to London, where his reputation and contacts continued to grow. He was a favourite of Samuel Hood and was appointed Marine Painter to King George.

In addition to his large-scale oil paintings depicting naval battles, Pocock also produced many watercolours of coastal and ship scenes. More on Nicholas Pocock



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02 Marine Painting - With Footnotes, #359

Rafaelle Berchtold, Switzerland
Aggregatzustand II/ Physical state II
Oil on Canvas
130 W x 90 H x 20 i

"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 earth." More on this Painting

Rafaëlle Berchtold: "Born in Zurich with French roots, worked as a  trained economist in the investment area of ​​a major bank. At the same time, I immersed myself in painting and continued my artistic education in visual arts, video art and photography, and completed a master's degree in MA of Arts in Transdisciplinarity at the ZHdK.

I move between these worlds and besides exhibitions I also do commissioned work, which I sell directly in consultation with the customer. During my studies I took over the artistic implementation and management of several performances, painting and video projects and have been developing my artistic engagement ever since." More on Rafaëlle Berchtold

Rafaelle Berchtold, Switzerland
Sand
Oil on Canvas
51 W x 41 H x 8 in

"Lying on the beach, standing on a peak or wandering through the forest, we can enter into resonances with natural forces."



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01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #228

Naima Rauam, German/American, b. 1946 
Tug On The East River, 1992 
Oil on canvas 
20 1/4 x 30 inches
Private collection

The East River is a salt water tidal estuary in New York City. The waterway, which is actually not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates the borough of Queens on Long Island from the Bronx on the North American mainland, and also divides Manhattan from Queens and Brooklyn, which are also on Long Island. Because of its connection to Long Island Sound, it was once also known as the Sound River. The tidal strait changes its direction of flow frequently, and is subject to strong fluctuations in its current, which are accentuated by its narrowness and variety of depths. The waterway is navigable for its entire length of 16 miles (26 km), and was historically the center of maritime activities in the city, although that is no longer the case. More on The East River

Naima Rauam lived and worked amongst the fishmongers of the Fulton Fish Market for well over two decades, documenting Market life with her artwork. Night after night, year after year she worked alongside Market owners, salesmen, buyers, and fish cutters, sketching and photographing them, their work and their downtown setting. Their darkness to dawn work schedule became her own. To quote from a 2005 New York Times feature article on Ms. Rauam: “She’s a market guy,” explained John Guttilla, a big, bearded man who runs Blue Ribbon’s shellfish operation. “Anyone who’s out there in the middle of winter, in the middle of a snowstorm, doing her thing while we’re doing our thing, is one of the boys.” As she became immersed in Market culture and lore, her work was recognized by the South Street Seaport Museum with a 1999 exhibit. More on Naima Rauam




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09 Etchings, Marine Art - With Footnotes, #107

Eugene Bejot (1867-1931)
 Ships dock in a town
Etching
10 1/2" x 13"
Private collection

Eugène Béjot (August 31, 1867 in Paris – February 28, 1931 in Paris) was a French etcher. 

Béjot studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and learnt to etch with Henri-Gabriel Ibels in 1891. Béjot's technical skills were already apparent in his 1892 first commissioned series, La Seine a Paris. He then firmly established his reputation with his widely acclaimed La Samaritaine, which was exhibited at the Peintres-Graveurs exhibition in Paris in 1893.[2]

Béjot’s work is inextricably linked to Paris. He made many etchings of the Seine, as well as of the quays and buildings of Paris. His delicate use of light evokes the city’s atmosphere.

Béjot was very highly regarded in England. In 1908, he was elected to the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in London. He also became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1912. More on Eugène Béjot 

Kerr Eby, (1889-1946)
Isles of Shoals
Etching
10" x 17 1/4"
Private collection

The Isles of Shoals are a group of small islands and tidal ledges situated approximately 6 miles (10 km) off the east coast of the United States, straddling the border of the states of Maine and New Hampshire. More on The Isles of Shoals 

Kerr Eby (1889-1946)  was born in Tokyo, Japan, the son of Methodist missionaries from Canada. Returning to that country when he was three, Eby grew up studying art, which his parents encouraged. As a boy he worked as a printer's apprentice in a newspaper office.

After graduating from high school in 1907, Eby moved to New York City to study art, first at the Pratt Institute, and later at the Art Students League. During this period he formed a number of influential friendships with major artists. He supported himself by working as a magazine illustrator and at the American Lithographic Company. 

In 1917 Eby joined the U.S. Army. He tried to obtain a commission as an artist, but was assigned first to ambulance duty and later as a camoufleur to the 40th Engineers in France. During the war he documented in drawing what he saw and experienced and on his return to New York City, he translated his studies into prints. He continued creating out occasional war-related prints throughout the 1920's and 30's.

When the United States declared war in 1941, Eby tried to enlist, but was turned down because of his age. He instead received his opportunity to participate when Abbott Laboratories developed its combat artist program. Between October 1943 and January 1944, he traveled with Marines in the South Pacific. While on Bougainville he became ill with a tropical disease, one which weakened his health. He returned to the United States unable to regain his full strength. He completed his final drawings for Abbott and two unrelated etchings, but could not complete the etchings that he intended to make from his war pictures. He died in Norwalk, Connecticut in 1946. More on Kerr Eby 

Gordon Hope Grant, (1875-1962)
Sail boats and fisherman
Etching
12 1/2" x 15 1/2"
Private collection

Gordon Hope Grant was a noted American artist, well-known for his maritime watercolors, and his work with the American Boy Scouts. He was born in San Francisco in 1875, and died in 1962.

His best known work is likely his watercolor of the USS Constitution. He also produced war time posters during WW I, and illustrations for books such as Penrod, and magazine covers for periodicals such as Saturday Evening Post. He was the cover designer for the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in 1911.

He was illustrator for The Story of American Sailing Ships by Charles S. Strong, The Scarlet Plague by Jack London, Eternal Sea: An Anthology of Sea Poetry edited by William Martin Williamson and many other works.[9]

He was a member of the Association of American Artists and many of his prints were sold through it. More on Gordon Hope Grant

Gordon Hope Grant (1875-1962)
Ship
Etching
7 5/8x9 3/4"
Private collection

Gordon Hope Grant (1875-1962), see above

Loren Barton, (1893 - 1975)
Oakland Channel
Etching
11" x 14 1/2"
Private collection

The Oakland Estuary is the strait in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, separating the cities of Oakland and Alameda and the Alameda Island from the East Bay mainland. On its western end, it connects to San Francisco Bay, while its eastern end connects to San Leandro Bay. More on Oakland Channel

Loren Roberta Barton (1893-1975), an artist known first for her etchings, book illustrations, and later her paintings in both oil and watercolors, was born in Oxford, Massachusetts and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended art school at the University of Southern California and the Art Students League in Los Angeles. For many years, she was a teacher at the Chouinard Art Institute.

Ms. Bartons frequent travels to the East Coast and Europe can be noted in her artwork. Her subjects include portraits, still-lifes and landscapes from scenes and people in Europe, Mexico and many regions of the United States.

Achieving success early in her career, Loren Barton exhibited regularly from 1920-1950s. In 1933 she was commissioned by the White House to paint the first ladies' gowns. Her work can be found in the collections of the New York Public Library, the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Library of France. More on Loren Roberta Barton

Phillip Kappel, (1901 - 1981)
Three men on a boat
Etching
10" x 11 1/2"
Private collection

Phillip Kappel, (1901 - 1981)  Etcher and book illustrator Philip Kappel was born in Hartford, Connecticut and graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He also studied with marine artist Philip Little in Salem, Massachusetts and was employed as an artist by several American steamship lines. He made six trips around the world on sailing vessels to gather themes, mainly maritime, for his etchings, which held by major American museums and the Biblotheque National in Paris His artwork constitutes s a record of the shipping industry in the United States at its peak. Kappel received many awards for his work. He was the author of several books, including Boothbay Harbor-A Portfolio of Sketches, 1924, Louisiana Gallery, 1950, Jamaica Gallery, 1960, and New England Gallery, 1966. More on Phillip Kappel

Phillip Kappel (1901 - 1981)
The Hay Boat
Etching
11 1/2" x 15"
Private collection


Phillip Kappel, (1901 - 1981), see above
Phillip Kappel (1901 - 1981)
The Fisherman
Etching
10" x 11 1/2"
Private collection

Phillip Kappel, (1901 - 1981), see above

Charles Adams Platt (1861-1933)
On a boat dock
Etching
11" x 14"
Private collection

Charles Adams Platt (1861-1933), a printmaker, painter, and architect, was born in New York City. He trained as an etcher and landscape painter with Stephen Parrish, attended the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League in New York, and subsequently studied in Paris the Académie Julian, exhibiting his etchings and paintings at the Paris Salon of 1885. Platt was also associated with the Cornish Art Colony at Cornish, New Hampshire, formed by Augustus St. Gaudens.

Primarily an influential landscape designer and architect, he executed numerous architectural commissions including residential and institutional buildings, served as a trustee of the American Academy in Rome from 1919, became its president from 1928 to his death, and served on the U. S. Commission of Fine arts. More on Charles Adams Platt









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02 Work of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #227

Charles Brooking, LONDON 1723 - 1759
Detail: TWO MEN-OF-WAR IN A GALE
Oil on canvas, laid on board
38 x 58.5 cm.; 15 x 23 in.
Private collection

Charles Brooking (c.1723–59) was an English painter of marine scenes. Despite his short life, Charles Brooking was one of the most influential British marine painters of the eighteenth century. His best work was achieved in the final decade of his life. Brooking excelled at painting shipping in calm conditions, using luminous glazes to give a sense of light on sails moving gently in the lightest of breezes, subtle cloudscapes and the shifting hues and reflections of the sea. He was influenced by Willem van de Velde the Younger and Peter Monamy, but forged his own highly individual style which in turn influenced Dominic Serres the Elder (who may have been his pupil) and Francis Swaine.

Charles Brooking was probably ‘bred in some department of the dockyard’; his father may have been the Charles Brooking who was a painter and decorator at Greenwich from 1729 to 1736. He is likely to have been self-taught. In 1752 he worked as a botanical draughtsman for John Ellis’s (?1710-1776) Natural History of the Corallines (1755). Brooking is said to have worked for a dastardly picture dealer in Leicester Square, who concealed his identity so that clients would not be able to commission him directly. 

Brooking, like the other artists who contributed to the Foundling Hospital’s decoration, was made a Governor for his pains.

Brooking depicted naval actions from the War of Jenkins’ Ear, 1739, although he never painted a fleet action. Brooking’s output was limited by the consumption which slowly killed him. He died aged only thirty-six in London in 1759, leaving his family destitute. His widow and children were allocated 10 gns from the profits of the Society of Artists’ exhibition of 1761.

The work of Charles Brooking is represented in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; Tate Britain, London; the Foundling Museum, London; the Royal Naval Club, Portsmouth; the National Gallery, Dublin; Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT and Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine. More on Charles Brooking 

Charles Brooking, LONDON 1723 - 1759
TWO MEN-OF-WAR IN A GALE
Oil on canvas, laid on board
38 x 58.5 cm.; 15 x 23 in.
Private collection



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01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #226

Anna Sidi-Yacoub, Ireland
Jump
Acrylic, Metal on Aluminium, Canvas, Wood
11.8 W x 19.7 H x 0.8 in

Anna Sidi-Yacoub, a Graphic Designer and Artist living in Co.Kerry, Ireland. She's inspired by the natural sunlight, vivid colors found in nature and fluids. Her works are a visual celebration of human nature and life. Most of her abstract paintings are inspired by liquids, mainly water in oceans and rivers.

Anna has been creating alluring artworks across a variety of mediums for the past years. She is commonly known to create digital paintings which feature the process of metamorphosis, allowing the viewer to break away from the traditional representation of various visual realities when creating the pieces of art.

She might perceive the final piece differently than the viewer, but the final word belongs to the individual. The bigger the piece, the higher the impact on the viewer. The observer will be blown away by the movement, the vibrant colors and the positive energy. You can detect biological shapes in the minuscule details which form natural landscapes attracting the eye. More on Anna Sidi-Yacoub




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01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #225

William Alexander Coulter, (1849-1936 Sausalito, CA) 
Three Brothers Clipper Ship Outward Bound
Oil on canvas 
24" H x 36" W 
Private collection

The Three Brothers was originally built as the iron paddle-steamer Cornelius Vanderbilt and launched 1857 at Greenpoint, New York. In 1873 the vessel converted to a full-rigged clipper without machinery. She spent most of her time in the grain trade between San Francisco, Le Havre, Liverpool, and New York City where she acquired an enviable reputation for speed and handling. Most recently (1899), the vessel was a coal hulk at Gibraltar and was not broken up until 1929. More on Tree Brothers

William A. Coulter, born William Alexander Coulter (March 7, 1849 – March 13, 1936), was an American painter of marine subjects. Coulter was a native of Glenariff, County Antrim, in what is today Northern Ireland. He became an apprentice seaman at the age of 13, and after seven years at sea, came to settle in San Francisco in 1869. In the late 1870s, he went to Europe to study with marine artists Vilhelm Melbye, François Musin, and J. C. Jacobsen. In 1896, he joined the art staff of the San Francisco Call. Between 1909 and 1920, he painted five 16-by-18-foot murals for the Assembly Room of the Merchants Exchange Building. Coulter resided in the San Francisco Bay Area until his death at the age of 87, in his Sausalito home. During the course of his life, his paintings chronicled the history of shipping and navigation in the San Francisco and San Pablo bays. More on William A. Coulter




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01 Marine Work, GEORGE SAVARY WASSON's USS Brooklyn at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, With Footnotes, #320

GEORGE SAVARY WASSON (American, 1855-1932) USS Brooklyn at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, c. 1901 Oil on canvas 30 x 45 in. Private collect...