01 Marine Painting, Gustave Buchet's Bâteaux à vapeur/ Steam boats, with Footnotes, #329

Gustave Buchet, (1888 - 1963)

Bâteaux à vapeur/ Steam boats

Watercolour on laid paper

45.2/45.6 x 29.7 cm

Private collection

Gustave Buchet, (1888 - 1963) belongs to a generation of Swiss artists drawn to the Parisian avant-garde movements and interested in Cubism in the early years of the 20th century. Born in 1888 in Étoy, Buchet founds Le Falot group in Geneva in 1915 with several other artists. These artists are looking to resist the influence of Hodler’s style, which is deemed outmoded, and wish to take up an innovative art like the kind being done in France. 

Buchet studies at Geneva’s School of Fine Arts and participates in Dada events mounted by Christian Schad in the same city. In 1920 Buchet settles in Paris, where he exhibited as part of the Section d’or. Fascinated by the representation of movement, Buchet adopted the Futurist aesthetic before shifting towards a flat painting that verges on abstraction. In this way he adheres to the purism developed by Le Corbusier and Amédée Ozenfant.

His return to Geneva in 1939 was marked by a major solo show at the Musée Rath. The canvases of his final years take on greater colour and are further and further removed from his avant-garde practices. He employed a more classic and figurative vocabulary, which he combined with all his earlier stylistic experiments. More on Gustave Buchet

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01 Painting - Marine Art, John Gleich's In the port of Hamburg, wth Footnotes, #327

John Gleich, (1879 - 1927)

In the port of Hamburg

Oil on canvas

80 x 110 cm, eng. 95 x 125 cm.

Private collection

The Port of Hamburg, is a sea port on the river Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, 110 kilometres from its mouth on the North Sea.

It's Germany's largest port and is named the country's "Gateway to the World". Hamburg is the second-busiest port in Europe (after Rotterdam) and 15th-largest worldwide. 

The harbour is location is naturally advantaged by a branching Elbe, creating an ideal place for a port complex with warehousing and transshipment facilities. More on The Port of Hamburg

John Gleich (born November 2, 1879 in Memel , † after 1927) was a German merchant, oriental and marine painter and publicist.

After graduation, he worked as a merchant. He taught himself to paint, and in 1906 dedicated  himself from to painting. He undertook study trips to India and Ceylon in 1909 and 1910 , where he created many images of the Oriental genre. Back in Germany, he devoted himself mainly to marine painting, also painted genre paintings, portraits and nudes. He lived in Berlin.

During the First World War he published two coloring books about the combat activities of the German Navy . He also published several essays on the architecture of India in the German construction newspaper and in the publications of the German Castle Association. More on John Gleich

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01 Photograph - Marine Art, Kasia Derwinska's He promised to come back, with Footnotes, #325

Kasia Derwinska, Spain

He promised to come back

Photography

 15.7 W x 15.7 H x 0.4 in

Private collection

Kasia Derwinska "Photography is my way of communicating with the world. In my work, I talk about own experiences, thoughts, doubts, fears and hopes trying to reflect my own life's path. In addition to my experiences, my creations are inspired by night dreams as since childhood I remember most of them and I believe that dreams are the most simbolic language of our subconscious, a guide to navigate in the modern world. I am autodidactic and I don´t recognize myself as a photographer. I use photography as a tool, like a brush for painting or an instrument to play music. My work is an attempt to connect substantiality of the world that surrounds us with elusiveness of feelings and thoughts. For that reason I describe my creations as building a bridge between the visible and the invisible. My works are divided in four basic series: fairytales and fantasies, conceptual black and white, night dreams, and the color serie called "who sings, frightens away his fears"  More on Kasia Derwinska

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01 Painting - Marine Art, William Alexander Coulter's Ship at sail, with Footnotes, #326

William Alexander Coulter, (1849-1936 Sausalito, CA)

Ship at sail

Oil on canvas laid to canvas

18" H x 26.25" W

Private collection

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 Painting - Marine Art, Willem van de Velde the Younger's Third Anglo Dutch War, with Footnotes, #326

Willem van de Velde the Younger

A battle of the Third Anglo Dutch War, probably the London at the Battle of the Texel, August 1673

Oil on canvas

110.7 x 137.6cm (43 9/16 x 54 3/16in)

Private collection

The Third Anglo-Dutch War, 27 March 1672 to 19 February 1674, was a naval conflict between the Dutch Republic and England, in alliance with France. It is considered a subsidiary of the wider 1672 to 1678 Franco-Dutch War.

In the 1670 Secret Treaty of Dover, Charles II of England agreed to support an attack by Louis XIV of France on the Dutch Republic. By doing so, Louis hoped to gain control of the Spanish Netherlands, while Charles sought to restore the damage to his prestige caused by the 1667 Raid on the Medway. Under the treaty, Charles also received secret payments which he hoped would make him financially independent of the English Parliament. More on The Third Anglo-Dutch War

Willem van de Velde the Younger (bapt. 18 December 1633; died 6 April 1707) was a Dutch marine painter. A son of Willem van de Velde the Elder, also a painter of sea-pieces, he was instructed by his father, and afterwards by Simon de Vlieger, a marine painter of repute at the time, and had achieved great celebrity by his art before he came to London. By 1673 he had moved to England, where he was engaged by Charles II, at a salary of £100, to aid his father in "taking and making draughts of sea-fights", his part of the work being to reproduce in color the drawings of the elder Van de Velde. He was also patronized by the Duke of York and by various members of the nobility. More on Willem van de Velde the Younger

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01 Photograph - Marine Art, Kasia Derwinska's Overseas, smell of the northern wind, with Footnotes, #324

Kasia Derwinska, Spain

Overseas, smell of the northern wind

Photography

15.7 W x 15.7 H x 0 in

Private collection

Kasia Derwinska "Photography is my way of communicating with the world. In my work, I talk about own experiences, thoughts, doubts, fears and hopes trying to reflect my own life's path. In addition to my experiences, my creations are inspired by night dreams as since childhood I remember most of them and I believe that dreams are the most simbolic language of our subconscious, a guide to navigate in the modern world. I am autodidactic and I don´t recognize myself as a photographer. I use photography as a tool, like a brush for painting or an instrument to play music. My work is an attempt to connect substantiality of the world that surrounds us with elusiveness of feelings and thoughts. For that reason I describe my creations as building a bridge between the visible and the invisible. My works are divided in four basic series: fairytales and fantasies, conceptual black and white, night dreams, and the color serie called "who sings, frightens away his fears"  More on Kasia Derwinska

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01 Painting - Marine Art, Romola Templeman's Cruising (Ship of Fools), with Footnotes, #322

Romola Templeman, (born 1935)

Cruising (Ship of Fools)

Watercolour on paper

54 x 73cm

Private collection

Ship of Fools. When an eclectic group of passengers boards a cruise ship bound for prewar Germany, they form a microcosm of 1930s society. One passenger, a mysterious countess, is headed for a German prison camp. The charming Dr. Schumann harbors a debilitating heart condition. Then there's American divorcée Mary Treadwell, who vainly attempts to outrun time itself. During their weeks at sea, the group forges bonds and rivalries, and unearths secrets. More on Ship of Fools

Romola Clifton, also known as Mrs None Morrow, Mrs None Templeman, was educated at St Hilda's and the Slade School in London 1953-55. She became a full-time artist following her first solo exhibition at twenty-one at the Skinner Galleries in 1959. 

Clifton held an exhibition each year spending time travelling overseas and some time living in Sydney. Of her 1960 solo exhibition at the Skinner Galleries the critic Charles Hamilton wrote, “Deft handling of watercolour to produce beautiful textures and atmospheric effects, reinforced by a romantic and poetic feeling for the essence of landscape. Figures in action, and old buildings, lift this section to a high level. The freedom of ink and gouache is shown in spirited portrait-sketches and action studies pointing to further progress.”

Of her 1983 exhibition when she had returned to live in Perth, Murray Mason wrote, “... extensive exhibition … is warm and mellow and maintains an honesty of approach in the face of demands of contemporary expressions.” The Morrow’s divorced and she married writer, arts administrator, and publisher Ian Templeman and moved to Canberra with him when he took up a position in the National Library of Australia. Various of her works were published in editions. More on Romola Templeman

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01 Marine Painting - John Allcot's S.S. Dorrigo, with Footnotes, #370

John Allcot, (1888 - 1973)

S.S. Dorrigo, 1922

Watercolour

20 x 30.5 cm

Private collection

SS Dorrigo was a cargo and passenger steam ship. It was built under the name of Saint Francois by the Smiths Dock Company at the South Bank in Middlesbrough on the River Tees in Northeast England for the Compagnie Navale de l'Océanie for the Pacific Island postal and general trade service, for which it sailed the waters of the Pacific from 1914 to 1921. The ship suffered minor damage during the First World War during the Bombardment of Papeete, prior to coming into the hands of the Langley Bros who placed it in the Sydney to Coffs Harbour route from 1922 to 1925. Upon the demise of the Langley Bros shipping firm in 1925 the vessel came into the service of John Burke and Co and was used for the Northern Queensland runs prior to its loss on 4 April 1926. More on SS Dorrigo 

John Charles Allcot (1888-1973), artist, was born in Liverpool, England, son of George Allcot, mariner. Educated at Arnot Street Board School, at the age of 14 John was apprenticed to Tillotson & Son Ltd, lithographers, and attended classes at the Liverpool Institute and School of Art. In 1906 he worked in the Mersey tugboats and next year sailed as a deck-boy in the barque, Invermark. He loved painting and would scrounge ship's paint, sailcloth and handkerchiefs with which to depict the sea, ships and life on board.  

Arriving in Sydney in 1909, Allcot signed on with the old clipper, Antiope. He worked in coastal, island and intercolonial vessels out of Sydney before giving up the sea in 1912. Supporting himself by painting theatre sets, he obtained commissions for ship paintings from Sydney photographers and toured the countryside, completing landscapes which he exhibited regularly with the Royal Art Society of New South Wales from 1920. About this time he formed an enduring friendship with Phyllis Zanker.

He gained widespread recognition in the 1920s with a series of oil paintings (on the founding of the Australian colonies) which were later acquired by the Australasian Pioneers' Club. Other commissions followed. Allcot also worked as an illustrator and wrote articles about the sea for the Sydney Mail. In the 1940s he painted the seas for ship-models built by the sculptor Robert Klippel. Allcot's painting of the Cutty Sark was presented to the Duke of Edinburgh in 1954.

Painting to tried and tested conventions, with impeccable attention to detail, Allcot used water-colour and gouache, and oils. His work was prolific and romantic. At a time of great change in the shipping industry, he specialized in nostalgic views of sailing ships and steamers, and found an appreciative market of ship-owners, captains, crews and their families. More on John Charles Allcot

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01 Painting - Marine Art, Archie Forrest's Fishing Boat, Corse, With Footnotes, #320

Archie Forrest RGI (British, born 1950)

Fishing Boat, Corse

Oil on canvas

71 x 75.5cm (27 15/16 x 29 3/4in).

Private collection

Corsica (French: Corse) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is located southeast of the French mainland and west of the Italian Peninsula, with the nearest land mass being the Italian island of Sardinia to the immediate south. A single chain of mountains makes up two-thirds of the island. More on Corsica

Archie Forrest was born in Glasgow in 1950. He attended Glasgow School of Art between 1969 and 1973 prior to becoming a tutor there for seven years. In 1985, he gave up his teaching so that he could devote his time to painting. Forrest was elected a Member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1988 and has been a regular exhibitor there and at the Royal Scottish Academy since 1975. He has won numerous awards for both his painting and sculpture. Examples of his work can be found in private and corporate collections worldwide.

Forrest is essentially viewed as a colourist working in the subdued earthy harmonies of the Glasgow school. Cézanne and Matisse are major inspirations to the artist. More on Archie Forrest

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