Marine Art: May 2023

04 Marine Photographs - Kasia Derwinska's Neighborhood, House with the ocean view, Summer shelter and Now or never, with Footnotes #377

Kasia Derwinska, Spain

Neighborhood

Color, Digital, Manipulated, Photo, Paint on Paper

19.7 W x 19.7 H x 0 in

Private collection

Priced at C$1,280 as of May, 2023

Kasia Derwinska, Spain

House with the ocean view

Photography, Color on Paper

33.5 W x 33.5 H x 0 D in

Private collection

Priced at C$1,663 as of May, 2023

Kasia Derwinska, Spain

Summer shelter

Mixed Media, Digital on Paper

15.7 W x 15.7 H x 0 D in

Private collection

Priced at C$1,003 as of May, 2023

Kasia Derwinska, Spain

Now or never

Photography, Color on Paper

15.7 W x 15.7 H x 0 D in

Private collection

Priced at C$977 as of May, 2023

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 Marine Painting - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes' Le pauvre pêcheur/ The Poor Fisherman, with Footnotes #376

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, (1824–1898)

Le pauvre pêcheur/ The Poor Fisherman, c. 1881

Oil on canvas

Height: 155.5 cm (61.2 in); Width: 192.5 cm (75.7 in)

Musée d'Orsay

The Poor Fisherman was the first of Puvis de Chavannes' paintings to be bought by the State. But the work sparked a lively reaction at the Salon of 1881 and was not bought until 1887 when it was again shown to the public. It took six years for a national museum to dare to show this radical painting that was so unrealistic in the light of the conventions of the time.

Without recourse to literal description, Puvis intended to give a view of desolation and resignation by painting a widower and his two children in a bleak landscape. The choice of the fisherman has obvious Biblical resonances. In 1881, the synthetic nature of the painting, its refusal of any modelling and traditional perspective, and its range of greenish hues, ranged most of the critics against the artist.

The writer Huysmans compared it to a picture from missal or the dull, flat frescoes of the past. On the other hand, some artists of the younger generation, from Seurat to Gauguin and Maurice Denis, not to mention Picasso, were enthusiastic over the extreme, poignant bareness of this silent image. Puvis became the leading light of the new style of painting. More on this painting

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898) was a French painter best known for his mural painting, who came to be known as 'the painter for France'. He became the co-founder and president of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and his work influenced many other artists, notably Robert Genin. Puvis de Chavannes was a prominent painter in the early Third Republic. Émile Zola described his work as "an art made of reason, passion, and will" More on Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

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01 Marine Work - Elger Esser's Nice, with Footnotes #376

Elger Esser (German, born 1967)

Nice

Chromogenic print

71¼ by 54⅜ in. (181 by 138.1 cm.)

Private collection

Sold for 12,500 USD on April 3, 2020

Nice is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. Located on the French Riviera, the southeastern coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of the French Alps, Nice is the second-largest French city on the Mediterranean coast and second-largest city in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region after Marseille.

The clear air and soft light have particularly appealed to notable painters, such as Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Niki de Saint Phalle and Arman. Their work is commemorated in many of the city's museums. More on Nice

Elger Esser is a German artist known for his lyrical photographs which recall the works of early photographers as well as 19th-century painters such as Caspar David Friedrich. Characterized by their golden light, archaic subject matter, and mellowed sublimity, Esser draws inspiration from the soft palette of antique postcards, as evinced in his work Nocturnes à Giverny (2013). “I am interested in capturing and preserving subjective memories, time and tranquility,” the artist explained.

Born on May 11, 1967 in Stuttgart, Germany, Esser grew up in Rome but returned to Germany as a young man to work as a commercial photographer. In 1991, he enrolled in the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher. Fundamentally different from the famed members of the Düsseldorf School, including Andreas Gursky, Esser’s work espouses a craftsman-based heritage rather than a conceptual deconstruction of the medium. Currently living and working in Düsseldorf, Germany, Esser’s works are in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, among others. More on Elger Esser

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02 Marine Works - David Thimgan's Abbott Lawrence, with Footnotes, #375

David Thimgan, (1955 - 2003)

Abbott Lawrence

Oil on canvas

16"h. 20"w. Frame 23.5"h.

Private collection

This work was sold for $2,520.00 on March 21, 2020

LAWRENCE, Abbott (1792-1855). Was an American merchant, legislator, and diplomat. He was born in Groton, Mass.; was educated in a district school, and at the Groton Academy. He moved to Boston in 1808, and there served an apprenticeship in the warehouse of his elder brother, Amos, with whom in 1814 he founded the famous firm of A. & A. Lawrence. Lawrence also took an active interest in several railroad enterprises; was president of the Essex Company, which in 1845 founded Lawrence, Mass. (named in his honor), and toward the latter part of his life was largely engaged in the China trade. From 1834 to 1837, and again from 1839 to 1840, when ill health forced him to resign, he was a member of Congress; and in 1842 he was one of the commissioners of Massachusetts, who coöperated with the commissioners of Maine, and with Daniel Webster, then Secretary of State, in negotiating the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (q.v.) concerning the northeast boundary of the United States, with England's representative, Lord Ashburton.

He was United States Minister to England in President Taylor's Administration, in which capacity he rendered important services to the country, and became widely popular with the English people, though in 1852, wishing to devote his attention wholly to his business interests, he was recalled at his own request. He made many donations to charitable institutions, and in 1847 contributed $50,000 for the establishment of a scientific school at Harvard, which was named in his honor, and to which by will he subsequently contributed another $50,000. He left a like sum for the erection of model lodging-houses for the poor, the surplus income from which was to be forever applied to charitable purposes. Consult Hill, Memoir of Abbott Lawrence (Boston, 1883). More on Abbott Lawrence

Abbott Lawrence

David Thimgan, (1955 - 2003) was one of the leaders of a new generation of marine artists. Specializing in re-creating scenes of America’s seafaring past with emphasis on the West Coast and Pacific Rim waterways.

His uncanny ability to portray the fluidity and texture of the sea’s many moods combined with an artist’s eye for color and a historian’s knowledge of the way of a ship generated some of the most strikingly accurate and appealing marine paintings by a modern maritime artist.

Showing his artistic talent at an early age, David created pencil sketches and watercolors as a child that hinted of the precision that was to follow.

In 1978, at age 23, he embarked on a career as a full time artist. With no formal art training, David’s approach was to start painting what he loved the best--ships and the sea. His marine pictures were the most popular with his growing collectors and what he enjoyed painting the best.

A member of the American Society of Marine Artists since 1981, David Thimgan’s reputation as one of America’s leading historical marine painters grew rapidly. His work is in numerous public and private collections. He had exhibitions at the prestigious Mystic International Show for many years as well as the Mystic Invitational Art Show. His paintings have been displayed at both the Museum of Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore and the Ventura Maritime Museum in Oxnard, California. More on David Thimgan

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02 Marine Paintings - Nelson White's Red Umbrellas, with Footnotes, #374

Nelson White

The Red Umbrellas, c. 2013

Oil on canvas

18 × 32 in, 45.7 × 81.3 cm

Private collection

Nelson White

The Red Umbrella, c. 2013

Watercolor

7 1/4 × 10 1/4 × 1/2 in | 18.4 × 26 × 1.3 cm

Private collection

A red umbrella painted en plein-air on a beach in Italy. Distant figures sit beneath a yellow umbrella along the shoreline, white sailboats soar across the horizon.

Nelson White is known for his Umbrella paintings. Painted en plein air on a beach in Italy. Born in New London, Connecticut in 1932. White has been surrounded by art and artists from the time he was born. He received his earliest art instruction from his grandfather, Henry Cooke White (1861-1952) and his father Nelson Cooke White (1900-1989). Living with his parents at the Florence Griswold house in Old Lyme, he met some of the most important and influential artists of the day, Childe Hassam, Will Howe Foote and Harry Hoffman.

After graduating from the Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts in 1951, Nelson H. White began to study at Mitchell College in Connecticut. By 1955, Nelson H. White had decided to devote himself to a career as a painter and traveled to Florence, Italy. Within two years, the young White had won two awards for his work. White divides his time between the United States and Florence.

Whether Nelson H. White is painting the Connecticut shore, a beach in Italy, a pond on Shelter Island or the hills of Vermont, he allows the observer to view a soft, yet dramatic side of nature. His ability to use color, coupled with rich brush work and a graduation of light, air and atmosphere allows one to enjoy a certain mood which is clearly conveyed in White's paintings. It is a mood that leaves us with a lasting impression.

White's first museum restrospective was in the New Britain Museum of American Art in July 2012. His work can be found in many private and public collections, as well as several museums. More on Nelson White

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01 Marine Painting - Linda Weir's Mousehole Spring, with Footnotes, #373

Linda Weir (Manchester, 1951)

Mousehole Spring

Oil on canvas

45.5 x 60.5cm (17 15/16 x 23 13/16in)

Private collection

Mousehole has a rich fishing heritage and was once known as Porth Enys, meaning ‘port of the island’. From the 13th century, it was the main port in Mounts Bay until the 16th century when Newlyn and Penzance became more dominant. The origins of its modern name ‘Mousehole’ are unknown, although it is suggested that it was derived from the Cornish word Moeshayle, meaning “young woman’s brook”, while others maintain it as simply being a reference to the original tiny harbour, or to a nearby sea cave, which resembled a mouse hole. More on Mousehole

This painting was sold for £1,083.75 at Bonhams on 12 May 2020

Linda Weir was born in Manchester in 1951, and studied at Manchester Metropolitan University, attaining a foundation in Visual Studies, a BA in Fine Art and a PGCE in Art. She went on to receive an MA in Fine Art from Nottingham Trent University.

Linda held many teaching positions between 1983 and 2003 including at the University of Nottingham and Manchester Metropolitan University. She was a member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Art and a founder member of the Manchester Artists Studio Association.

Linda won a place at Falmouth School of Art in the 1980s but was unable to take it up. Twenty-five years later, she finally arrived in West Cornwall and now lives and paints in St Ives where she produces impasto oils, all ‘en plein air’. She describes being in Cornwall as a “constant thrill” and finds it an “intensely inspiring place”.

Linda has exhibited extensively in one-woman and mixed shows across the country, most notably at the Royal Academy Summer Show. More on Linda Weir

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01 Marine Painting - Raoul Dufy's Le retour des régates/ The return of the regatta, with Footnotes, #371

Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)

Le retour des régates/ The return of the regatta, c. 1933

Oil on canvas

46.7 x 110cm (18 3/8 x 43 5/16in).

Private collection

A regatta is a series of boat races. The term comes from the Venetian-Italian language regata meaning "contest" and typically describes racing events of rowed or sailed water craft, although some powerboat race series are also called regattas. A regatta often includes social and promotional activities which surround the racing event, and except in the case of boat type (or "class") championships, is usually named for the town or venue where the event takes place. More on regattas

Raoul Dufy (3 June 1877 – 23 March 1953) was a French Fauvist painter, brother of Jean Dufy. He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events. He was also a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, scenic designer, a designer of furniture, and a planner of public spaces. More on Raoul Dufy

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