The greatest assemblage of marine paintings I have ever seen, and I have seen quite a few.
This will probably be the longest blog I've ever done. I will try to trim it somewhat, but I so
love these paintings! I strongly urge you to see the exhibit before it closes (October 3).
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| William Trost Richards "Along the Shore" 1903 The first painting to see in the exhibit, monumental, stunning. |
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| Charles Herbert Woodbury "Mid-Ocean" 1894 |
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| Norman Lewis "Untitled (Red)" 1975 |
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| Edward Moran "The Valley in the Sea" 1862 |
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| Francis Augustus Sylva "Calm at Sunset" 1873 |
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| Fritz Henry Lane "Halfway Rock" 1850s |
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| detail of above |
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| Frank Weston Benson "Summer Day" 1911 |
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| James Edward Buttersworth "Yacht Racing off Sandy Hook" 1877 |
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| William Formby Halsall "Vigilant in last days Race against Valkrie" 1893 |
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| Julius LeBlanc Stewart "On the Yacht Namouna, Venice" 1890 |
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| Fitz Henry Lane "Southern Cross in Boston Harbor" 1851 |
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| James Bard "Steamer Syracuse" 1857 |
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| detail of above |
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| Edward Ludlow Mooney "Portrait of Ahmad bin Na'aman" 1840 |
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| detail of above |
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| Henry Rudterdahl "Passing of United States Fleet in the Straits of Magellan, the Morning of February 8, 1908" 1910 |
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| William Bradford "Icebound Ship" 1880 |
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| Thomas Moran "Fiercely the red sun descending/ Burned his way along the heavens" 1876 |
I was sure this was a Turner when I came around the corner and saw it.
Moran is quoting Longfellow
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| Norman Rockwell "For a Good Boy" 1922 Small painting of exquisite charm. |
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| detail of above. |
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| Xanthus Russell Smith "Final Assault upon Fort Fisher" 1873 By far the largest painting in the exhibit, perhaps 12 feet wide. |
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| N.C. Wyeth "The Drowning" 1936 |
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| Thomas Hart Benton "Up Periscope" 1944 How very cool to see a Benton in this exhibit. |
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| Albert Bierstadt "Wreck of the Ancon in Loring Bay, Alaska" 1889 The description of the painting buys in to the current fad to see Bierstadt in very unfavorable terms, and I am kinda sick of it. If Wagner's music can be played in the concert halls, then Bierstadt's brilliance deserves our admiration as well. |
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| Paul Cadmus "The Fleet's In" 1936 |
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| Fletcher Martin "Trouble in Frisco" 1938 Referring to the longshoreman strike of the period. |
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| Rockwell Kent "Down to the Sea" 1910 |
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| John Frederick Kensett "Coast Scene with Figures (Beverly Shore) 1869 |
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| Howard Pyle "Marooned" 1909 |
detail of above
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| Childe Hassam "East Headland, Appledore, Isles of Shoals" 1911 |
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| Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee Nation) "New Hampshire Coast" 2020 |
And a few from the permanent exhibit in the Maritime Art Wing
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