Marine Art: January 2023

01 Marine Painting - Otto Kuster's Sydney Summer, with Footnotes, #349

Otto Kuster (1941 - )

Sydney Summer

Oil on board

60 x 90cm

Private collection

Sydney is home to some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. A quick Google search tells us that Sydney has over a hundred beaches scattered across the city, and that’s just the recorded number. There are heaps of hidden beaches that manage to stay under the radar. Unsurprisingly, if you were to visit a new beach in Sydney every day, it would take you nearly four months to visit them all. More on Sydney beaches

Otto Kuster was born in Karlsbad, Bohemia (1941) and commenced studying art at the age of 14 years at the Kempten Studio of Josef Mayer of the Munich Academy. He also studied under Joseph Konrad, the noted Bavarian sculptor, whilst attending the Kempten Technical College, obtaining his Arts Diploma in 1958.

A vision of Australia was born in Otto's boyhood and in 1960 the call of adventure brought him to our shores. His travels seen him working as a farm labourer, cane cutter, lightning ridge opal miner amongst other menial jobs before settling in Sydney and pursuing his life long passion.

This diverse and interesting time spent away from the cities created an enormous love of the bush and its people. It also created incredible inspiration for Otto, his passion for depicting the scenes he has lived in, into works of art, is stronger than ever. It has given him the ability to capture the atmosphere, the mood, the colour and the everyday life that is Australia. Otto loves the movement of water.

the oceans, the rivers with their boats and ships and this love shows in his paintings.

Otto is well known for his Sydney Harbour and Street Scenes. He is recognised, as one of Australia's foremost impressionist with his palette knife style and dramatic light effects. Otto is a member of the Royal Art Society of NSW, has had numerous one-man and group exhibitions. His work is represented in public, corporate and private collections around the world. More on Otto Kuster

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01 Marine Painting, Maurice MacGonigal's CURRACHS FISHING - With Footnotes, #348

Maurice MacGonigal, PPRHA HRA HRSA (1900-1979)

CURRACHS FISHING (OFF ACHILL), c. 1936

Oil on panel

h:11.50 w:15in

Private collection

A currach is a type of Irish boat with a wooden frame, over which animal skins or hides were once stretched, though now canvas is more usual. It is sometimes anglicised as "curragh".

The currach has traditionally been both a sea boat and a vessel for inland waters. The River currach was especially well known for its shallow-draft and maneuverability. These currach were common on the rivers of South Wales, and were often referred to as Boyne currach. However, when Ireland declared the netting of salmon and other freshwater fish illegal in 1948, its once common appearance quickly dwindled. More on a currach

Maurice MacGonigal was apprenticed to his uncle Joshua Clarke’s glass studio in his hometown of Dublin at the age of fifteen. Politically active in his youth, he joined the first Na Fianna Éireann in 1917, being interned first in Kilmainhal Gaol and then Ballykinlar Camp, Co. Down. When released from internment in 1921, MacGonigal returned to the Clarke studio before he won a scholarship to the Metropolitan School of Art where he studied painting under Sean Keating, Patrick Touhy and James Sinton Sleator. He subsequently taught at the school for over thirty years (later the National College of Art) and became professor of painting.

MacGonigal's association with the RHA began in 1924, and he exhibited annually, being elected a full member of in 1933. He succeeded his former tutor Sean Keating as president of the academy in 1962, retaining the position until two years before his death. As well as exhibiting at the RHA he showed regularly at the Dawson and Taylor Galleries, and in 1991 a posthumous retrospective was held at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin.

MacGonigal was known not only for his painting but also his set designs for the Abbey Theatre, book illustrations, posters for the Irish Army and a mural he produced in 1939 for the New York World’s Fair in 1939. His works can be found the collections of the National Gallery of Ireland, Hugh Lane, Crawford Gallery and Ulster Museum. More on Maurice MacGonigal

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01 Marine Painting - Henry Scott's The clipper ship Light Brigade, with Footnotes, #347

Henry Scott, (British, 1911-2005)

The clipper ship 'The Light Brigade', c. 1966

Oil on canvas

24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)

Private collection

Ocean Telegraph was an American clipper ship. Built in 1854 for the run between New York and San Francisco, she was later sold and renamed Light Brigade in 1863. For the next 12 years she was used predominantly to transport cargo and immigrants between London and Australia and New Zealand.

She was described as "a very sharp clipper and said to be one of the most perfect ships ever built". In common with other clipper ships of the day she was constructed from wood and with three masts. Also in common with other clipper ships of the day her hull was painted black, and the bottom of the hull lined with copper.

From 1854 to her sale in 1863 she was involved in moving cargo and passengers between New York and San Francisco. In common with many other clippers at the time, she was sometimes unable to procure a return cargo and when this happened had to return to New York in ballast.

Each time Light Brigade had sailed to Australia and New Zealand she carried around 400 passengers, mail and a cargo of general merchandise.

In 1883 she was condemned and sold to Gibraltar where she was converted into a coal-hulk. More on Ocean Telegraph

Henry Scott F.R.S.A, 1911-2005, British, was a painter of marines and coastal subjects strongly associated with the Royal Society of Artists. As well as painting lucrative shipping portraits for some of his wealthy clientele, he also executed a number of works of British and American clippers. His works have often been confused with those of Montague Dawson. Scott worked in a similar way to that of Dawson and captured a wonderful freshness and feel of immediacy. Scott’s palette is striking, with all surfaces and elements observed, capturing every movement in full flow. His sails are nearly always bellowed with a good stiff breeze, which is further emphasised by the spray of the water being wisped across the top of the choppy seas. Particularly notable are his skies which move the subject helping the canvas feel alive. In 1970 Scott was commissioned to paint ‘Morning Cloud’ which was skippered and owned by the then Prime Minister, The Right Honourable Edward Heath, P.C., M.B.E., M.P.. Scott exhibited at the Society of Marine Artists; The Royal Exchange, London; The Guildhall, London and The Royal Academy. He also exhibited at the St. Malo Museum, France and at Madison Square in New York. He was honoured as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and awarded an honorary Life Member ‘Cape Homers’ by the International Association of Master Mariners. More on Henry Scott

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01 Marine Painting - Charles William Bush's The Pearl River - Canton China, With Footnotes, #346

Charles William Bush, (1919-1989)

The Pearl River - Canton China

Mixed Media on Paper

34x50cm

Private collection

The Pearl River is an extensive river system in southern China. The river is so named because of the pearl-colored shells that lie at the bottom of the river in the section that flows through the city of Guangzhou. More on The Pearl River

Born in Melbourne, Charles William Bush studied under Mcinnes (q. v.) and Wheeler at the National Gallery of Victoria School, and later taught there from 1954 to 1955. After his appointment as a war artist in 1943, he studied, travelled and exhibited overseas. In partnership with his longtime companion Phyl Waterhouse, and June Davies, he established the Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne, in 1962. Bush was equally adept with pen and brush, and won many awards for his skilful, professional paintings which included landscapes, seascapes, genre and portraits. (He was also widely known throughout Australia for his long-running weekly television programme My Fair Lady.) More on Charles William Bush

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01 Marine Painting - Frederick James 'Fred' Elliott's Shipping, Sydney Harbour with City Skyline, with Footnotes, #345

Frederick James 'Fred' Elliott, (1864-1949)

Shipping, Sydney Harbour with City Skyline

Watercolor

44x28cm

Private collection

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 Humpybong School near Redcliffe, Queensland. Elliott worked as a lithographic artist in the Queensland Government Printing Office from July 1896 to about 1903. He was a prolific artist, painting almost invariably in watercolours, occasionally in oils. He specialised in marine watercolour studies, travelling up and down the coast by ship and sketching scenes that he later turned into paintings. Mainly painting Sydney Harbour, including views and individual ships. His watercolours are characterised by a high key and strong atmospheric effects. He showed his paintings infrequently in the Queensland National Association’s exhibitions and with the Queensland Art Society and the NSW Society of Artists. He signed his paintings. More on Frederick James Elliott

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