01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #179

Aginor Asteriadis, (1898 - 1977)
Hydra
Tempera on paper
30.5 x 35.5 cm
Private collection

Hydra is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece, located in the Aegean Sea between the Saronic Gulf and the Argolic Gulf. It is separated from the Peloponnese by a narrow strip of water. In ancient times, the island was known as Hydrea, a reference to the natural springs on the island.

There is one main town, known simply as "Hydra port". It consists of a crescent-shaped harbor, around which is centered a strand of restaurants, shops, markets, and galleries that cater to tourists and locals. Steep stone streets lead up and outward from the harbor area. Most of the local residences, as well as the hostelries on the island, are located on these streets. More on Hydra

Aginor Asteriadis, (1898 - 1977), was educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1915 to 1921. His first personal exhibition was held at the Dafnopoulou Gallery in Larissa. To earn a living, he works in an advertising agency and afterwards, he was appointed professor of drawing in secondary education.

Asteriadis traveled extensively in Greece, especially in Thessaly and Macedonia, and was deeply inspired by natural landscapes. His painting has its own style, combining modern and traditional elements. At the moment of his maturity his painting favors a certain formalism and a rather flat prospect.

Asteriadis , who died in Athens in 1977, tried to bring out in his creations the Greek folk tradition, the spirit of Byzantine hagiography and the lessons of Cubism, without ignoring other artistic trends. Indeed, what better summarizes his artistic approach is the purpose of the synthesis, the volume, and the ultimate choice, the choice of the theme. More on Aginor Asteriadis

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #180

Georgij Aleksandrovic Lapsin, (Russian, 1885–1950) 

LA VOILE ROUGE/ Red Sails 

Oil on canvas. 

21 3/4 x 32 in. (55.2 x 81.3cm)

Private collection

The typical, rusty-red colour of the flax sails was due to the dressing used to treat the sails that were permanently aloft, traditionally made from red ochre, cod oil, urine and seawater. The red ochre was there to block the ultra-violet in the sunlight from degrading the sails (much as lamp-black was used in the sail dressing for the Norfolk wherries), but sails that were stowed away such as jibsails were usually left untreated. More on Red Sail

Georgi Alexandrovich Lapchine was born in Moscow in 1885. He was a painter and graphic artist. In the early 1900s he studied at the Stroganov’s College. In 1906 he traveled to Paris where studied for three years in the studios of Cormonne and Lermit. Upon his return to Moscow he participated in the exhibition of the Independent in 1910. Lapchine became a member of the group called “Svobodnoye Tvorchestvo” (“Free Art”) (1911-1917). During Soviet times he participated in the first and second exhibitions of the Union of the Moscow artists (1918 and 1919) and at the First Russian art exhibition in Berlin in 1922. In 1920s Lapchine settled in Paris where actively exhibited at galleries and salons. Lapchine died in Paris in 1950.

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01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #177

Joe Duncan Gleason, (American, 1881-1959)

The California Clipper Ship -- Young America

Oil on canvasboard

16 x 12 inches (40.6 x 30.5 cm)

Private collection

The Young America was built by William H. Webb of New York. She was launched in 1853, at the height of the clipper construction boom. She sailed in the California trade, on transatlantic routes, and made voyages to Australia and the Far East.

She set a record for the passage from Liverpool to San Francisco in 1872, of 99 days. She set a record for a loaded sailing ship between San Francisco to New York in 1870, 83 days: "the record for a loaded sailing ship...

In 1857, Young America transported 800 Chinese coolies from Hong Kong to Melbourne via Guichon. She sailed from Liverpool to Melbourne under Captain D.S. Babcock with 289 passengers in 1858. In 1865, she brought a cargo of sugar and hemp from Manila to New York in 100 days.

 In 1886 February 17, she sailed  outward bound from Philadelphia for Fiume under command of Captain Vlassich and was never heard of again. More on The Young America

For Joe Duncan Gleason,  (1881 - 1959 Glendale, CA) It was boating - and life on the sea, in general - that steered the motley professions and avocations of the California painter Joe Duncan Gleason. Trained at the Chicago Art Institute and the New York Arts Students' League, he illustrated for various magazines, including Leslie's Monthly, Ladies Home Journal, and Forecast, from 1903 to 1914; during this period, while competing as a gymnast in national competitions, he acquired a 36-foot yawl and sailed often on Long Island Sound. Gleason's earliest paintings are Impressionist in style and depict the scenic hills of his childhood Los Angeles as well as the peopled shores of nearby Laguna Beach. A brief return to New York from 1919 to 1924 inspired Gleason to take up marine painting, model shipbuilding, and writing about sailing: he published Windjammers, a book of etchings (1922), followed later by Islands of California (1950). In the mid-1920s, Gleason established his studio in the harbor town of San Pedro, California, and began consulting for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros., providing visual guides for the ships that appeared in such films as Yankee Clipper, Captain Blood, and The Charge of the Light Brigade. When not painting or lecturing on historical ships, he was sailing, both with the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary during WW II and recreationally with the California Yacht Club.More on Joe Duncan Gleason

Young America

Photographic print

Builder: Wm. Webb 1853

Dimensions: 243 x 43.2 x 26.9

Tonnage: 1961

Type: American Clipper (Wood)

 San Francisco Public Library

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #175

Spyros Vassiliou, (1902 - 1984)

Masts and boats, c. 1962

Oil on canvas laid down on novopan

98.3 x 47.8 cm

Private collection

Spyros Vassiliou (1903- 03.22.1985) was a Greek painter, printmaker, illustrator, and stage designer. He became widely recognized for his work starting in the 1930s, when he received the Benaki Prize from the Athens Academy. The recipient of a Guggenheim Prize for Greece (in 1960), Spyros Vassiliou's works have been exhibited in galleries throughout Europe, in the United States, and Canada. More on Spyros Vassiliou

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #174

Wassily Kandinsky, 1866 - 1944

RAPALLO: GRAUER TAG (RAPALLO: GREY DAY), c. 1905

Oil on canvasboard

9 3/8 by 12 7/8 in., 24 by 32.7 cm

Private collection

Rapallo is a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, located in the Liguria region of northern Italy.

Rapallo has been known for its climate that made it over the years the winter residence of preference for most of the affluent Italians living in the North West of Italy. Its proximity to the coast makes for mild winters where people can enjoy easy strolls on the sunny promenade and the golfers can enjoy one of the oldest courses in Italy, opened in 1930. More on Rapallo

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist.

He is credited with painting one of the first recognized purely abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat—Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.

In 1896, Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. Following the Russian Revolution, Kandinsky "became an insider in the cultural administration of Anatoly Lunacharsky" and helped establish the Museum of the Culture of Painting. However, by then "his spiritual outlook... was foreign to the argumentative materialism of Soviet society", and opportunities beckoned in Germany, to which he returned in 1920. There, he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944. More on Wassily Kandinsky

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #173

Pavlos SAMIOS

Fishermen in a boat 

Encaustic painting/ hot wax painting on canvas

35 x 40 cm

Private collection

Pavlos Samios (born 1948) is a Greek painter and professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts.

Samios was born on October 28, 1948 in Athens, Greece. As a teenager he worked at Dionysios Karoussos icon-painting studio and at the same time he attended drawing lessons under Panos Sarafianos so that he could pass the exams in order to enter the School of Fine Arts where he was accepted in 1969,  and he graduated in 1972. 

In early 1978 Samios organised his first solo exhibition in Athens where he exhibited a total of 36 paintings. The same year he moved to Paris where he lived until 1992. 


In his paintings Samios express a symbolic and metaphysical vision. He uses several painting techniques (fresco, tempera, etc.) which are characteristic of his various periods of work. His works are found in private collections, museums and cultural institutions worldwide. More on Pavlos Samios

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #171

Jack Lorimer Gray, American/Canadian, 1927-1981 

Nova Scotian Schooner, c. 1961 

Oil on canvasboard 

24 x 36 inches (61 x 91.4 cm)

Private collection

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel with fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts. The most common type has two masts, the foremast being shorter than the main. While the schooner was originally gaff-rigged, modern schooners typically carry a Bermuda rig. More on schooners

Jack Lorimer Gray (April 28, 1927 — September, 1981) was a Canadian artist, known particularly for marine art.

Jack Lorimer Gray was born in Halifax and studied at the Nova Scotia School of Art and Design (NSCAD). Though a traditional painter of marine pictures in a decade known for advances in abstraction in Canada, Gray's paintings are avidly sought internationally. The appeal of his paintings has much to do with their authenticity and dynamism. Gray spent time at sea and was well-positioned to interpret in paint how vessels responded to the movement induced by wind and wave, unlike other marine painters who limited themselves to moored ships which they studied from dry land. 

Gray lived in New York in the mid-50s and was represented by Kennedy Galleries which accounts for the significant patronage he enjoyed in the U.S.  Gray moved to Maine in the late 1950s but was back in Halifax by 1961, More on Jack Lorimer Gray

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #167

Edmond Henri Théodore de Palézieux, (1850 - 1924)

The Rescue Ship, c. 1885

Oil on canvas 

h. 33-1/2 w. 45-1/2 in. 

Private collection

Edmond de Palézieux , born Edmond Henri Théodore de Palézieux, said Falconnet in Vevey ( Switzerland ) July 20, 1850, and died in Equihen-Plage ( Pas-de-Calais ) June 11, 1924, is a Swiss painter .


His work is known for his views showing storms and sailors fighting the raging elements.

Edmond de Palézieux wanted a career in the navy, but the family pushes him to embrace another vocation that would make him travel: painting.

He became a pupil of Barthélemy Menn. Later, he went to Paris to follow the teaching of Jean-Paul Laurens and Fernand Cormon . After a brief stint in Düsseldorf, he returned to the shores of Lake Geneva. He made frequent stays in Brittany , in Normandy and in the South of France.

In the 1880s, Edmond de Palézieux made many trips to Paris, where he met some of his fellow painters like Eugene Burnand , Charles Giron, Paul Robert, Henry Rodt, Evert van Muyden and Theophile Bischoff. At the same time, he exhibited regularly at the Salon des artistes français for which he will receive critical reviews. Particularly, in 1887, he exhibited Return to market where one sees a peaceful fisherman on his Norman boat , appreciating the calm of the trip. 

One can see a certain nostalgia for his homeland in his last years. In 1923 he painted his Souvenir de Régates, where he pictured himself aboard a racing yacht during a Lake Geneva regatta. Full of vigor, this painting presents all the passion of the painter for navigation, just like a certain trace of nostalgia for his years of racing on Lake Geneva. More on Edmond de Palézieux

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01 Work, Marine Art, Jin-Woo Prensena in Capri - With Footnotes, #168

Jin-Woo Prensena, United States

La Fontelina I

Ink, Digital, Color and Photo on Paper

40 H x 53 W x 0.1 in

Private collection

La Fontelina - Capri. One of the most exclusive beach clubs and restaurants in the whole of Italy, Capri's Fontelina is a resting at the foot of the island's legendary Faraglioni. It is also a historical place, where the Roman emperors residing on Capri once came to bathe.

Although more than 50 years have passed since they first opened their small sea-edge eatery, the Arcucci and Gargiulo families continue to run the Fontelina with the very same passion and enthusiasm. 

Fontelina is situated opposite Capri's Faraglioni. You can reach the beach club on foot, via the little path which commences next to the Tragara viewing point. More on La Fontelina

Jin-Woo Prensena is a fine art photographer specializing in large-scale fine art and aerial photography. His focus on simplicity in large-scale displays is designed to trigger emotion and provide escape from the viewer's daily routine. Prensena, who was raised in Germany and is of South Korean descent, has been living and working in Los Angeles for the last 20 years. In a previous guise as a top Hollywood handler, Jin-Woo began taking pictures while on location and quickly amassed a clientele among Hollywood celebrities and studio elites. His passion for shooting under challenging conditions has resulted in unique images such as breath-taking helicopter shots of icy riverbeds in the Icelandic highlands, glimpses into underwater shark cages located several days’ journey into the Pacific Ocean, and hidden moments deep in the deserts of Southern California. More on Jin-Woo Prensena

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01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #166

Anders Zorn, (1860–1920)

Outdoors, c. 1888

Medium oil on canvas

Height: 133 cm (52.3 in); Width: 197.5 cm (77.7 in)

Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden

Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 – 22 August 1920) was one of Sweden's foremost artists. He obtained international success as a painter, sculptor and etcher. From 1875 to 1880 Zorn studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm. Members of Stockholm society approached him with commissions. Zorn traveled extensively to London, Paris, the Balkans, Spain, Italy and the United States, becoming an international success as one of the most acclaimed painters of his era. It was primarily his skill as a portrait painter that gained Zorn international acclaim based principally upon his incisive ability to depict the individual character of his model. At 29, he was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur at the Exposition Universelle 1889 Paris World Fair. More Anders Leonard Zorn

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #18f

William Edouard Scott, 1884 - 1964

FISHERMEN

Oil on panel

17 7/8 by 22 inches, (45.4 by 55.9 cm)

Private Collection

William Edouard Scott (1884–1964) was an African-American artist. Even before Alain Locke asked African Americans to create and portray the New Negro that would thrust them into the future, artists like William Edouard Scott were depicting blacks in new ways to break away from the subjugating images of the past. William Edouard Scott, well known for his portraits, Haitian scenes, and murals, challenged the standard depiction of blacks in art in the first half of the 20th century by utilizing black subject matter in an uplifting way. However, just as his style remained traditional as opposed to abstract, he was relatively conservative in his portrayals of blackness.

Scott was born in Indianapolis in 1884. After graduating from Manual Training High School in 1903, Scott spent a year studying drawing under Otto Stark. In 1904 he moved to Chicago and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he won the Frederick Mangus Brand prize for pictorial composition. During his time in Chicago he painted murals around the city, one of which was Commerce, which is still lauded today as “remarkable”. He learned much of his palette and impressionist technique, however, during his travels to France. While abroad he studied at Académie Julien and Académie Colarossi and was mentored by Henry O. Tanner. Training in Paris, Scott was able to build a reputation for himself more easily than his race would have allowed in America. 

After his formal education was complete, Scott received a Rosenwald Foundation grant and traveled to Haiti to paint those who had “maintained their African heritage”. Later he traveled to Alabama to study blacks in different communities in the South. By refusing to paint blacks as only slaves and laborers, Scott hoped to “reverse the stereotypical perceptions of African Americans and eventually foster an understanding among the races”. More on William Edouard Scott

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