01 Marine Painting - Jack Lorimer Grays Nova Scotian Schooner, with Footnotes, #361

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

Of all the wooden vessels that have sailed in Nova Scotia waters, perhaps the best-known and best-loved is the schooner. Regardless of size or various sail configurations and rigs, the Nova Scotian Schooner and its graceful silhouette are instantly recognizable, imbedded in the popular imagination as quintessential symbols of maritime life and the salt-water trade.

The schooner's reputation was built on serviceability — relatively small, speedy, agile and seaworthy, it was the workhorse of the sea. In the days before modern road networks and transportation systems, regional trade and commerce relied almost entirely on marine routes — and small vessels. Schooners were the backbone of the coastal trade — every seaside community had at least one or two carrying produce, fish and passengers to larger towns, bringing goods back. Schooners were also the mainstay of both the inshore and Grand Banks fisheries. More on the Nova Scotian Schooner

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 Marine Painting - Ernest Fiene 's Docked Boat, with Footnotes, #360

Ernest Fiene, American, 1894-1965

Docked Boat

Oil on canvas

30 x 40 inches

Private collection

Ernest Fiene (November 2, 1894–August 10, 1965) was a 20th-century American graphic artist known primarily for his varied printed works, including lithographs and etchings. 

Fiene was born in Germany . He fled Germany in 1912 to avoid military service in what would become World War I. Traveling first to the Netherlands, he continued on to the United States.

From 1914 he studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City, and from 1916 to 1918 at the Beaux Arts Institute. In 1923, Fiene continued his study of printmaking at the Art Students League of New York. In 1921 he married Jeannette Etarre. He had his first solo show at the Whitney Studio Club.

From 1928 to 1929 Fiene studied in Paris and traveled in France. In 1932, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship which allowed him to study mural painting in Italy. 

Fiene re-established his relationship with the Art Students League in 1948, returning to teach classes in painting and drawing there. In 1948, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1952. In the 1950s he also served on the faculty of the Famous Artists School in Westport, Connecticut.

Fiene died of a heart attack in Paris in 1965. More on Ernest Fiene

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01 Marine Painting - Ezelino Briante's Without title, with Footnotes, #359

Ezelino Briante, (1901, Napoli - 1971, Roma)

Without title

Oil on canvas

40x70 cm

Private collection

Ezelino Briante ( Naples , 1901 - Rome , 1971 ) was an Italian painter. He was born in Naples in 1901; son of musician artists; after some irregular studies he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples , but after some exams, he abandoned it. He traveled to Italy and abroad (France, Switzerland, Sweden, Brazil and the United States of America) to be in contact with nature, which he loved since childhood.

His brush stroke is full-bodied, his style is whimsical, sometimes material. Hiss Italian ports are characteristic, above all Campania, and its marinas are famous, depicting Sorrento, Capri, Maiori, the Amalfi and Sorrento coast; curious are its mountain landscapes, woods, country houses; the glimpses of cities - Naples and Venice - are rare and the mountain villages even rarer. Ezelino Briante usually painted in oil on wood, on masonite, on cardboard and on canvas, he rarely used the watercolor technique. More on Ezelino Briante

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