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Considered the patriarch of modern seascape art, his paintings hang in many major collections throughout the globe, including Canada, England, South America, South Africa, Japan, Mexico and Russia, as well as hundreds of American homes. Eugene Garin is an artist who appeals to both the novice collector and the connoisseur.
US president Barack Obama in the Oval Office (2014) with two of Hopper's 1930s South Truro works, Cobb's Barns (upper) and Burly Cobb's House. Since 1930, Hopper and Jo had spent every summer in South Truro, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, where Hopper began focusing on the Cape's unique sunlight and, in 1930 alone, painted such works as South Truro Church, Corn Hill, Hills, and South Truro. [1]
A native of Madison Heights, Michigan, Wyland began painting as a child and attended Detroit's Center for Creative Studies in the 1970s. [1] His connection with whales began when he was 14 on a visit with his family to Laguna Beach, California where he saw the ocean for the first time and witnessed several gray whales migrating down the California coast towards Mexico. [2]
The Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai created colour prints of the moods of the sea, including The Great Wave off Kanagawa showing the destructive force of the sea at the same time as its ever-changing beauty. [1] The 19th century Romantic artist Ivan Aivazovsky created some 6,000 paintings, the majority of which depict the sea. [28] [29]
The Molinere Bay Underwater Sculpture Park is a collection of ecological underwater contemporary art located in the Caribbean sea off the west coast of Grenada, West Indies and was created by British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor.
Peter Matthews (born October, 1978) is an English artist who has developed a practice of creating drawings while immersed in the ocean and paintings created over days or weeks of being in solitude along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. He works with art materials hiked into the landscape, strapped about his person, hidden in caches along the ...
Jason deCaires Taylor (born 12 August 1974 in Dover) [1] is a British sculptor and creator of the world's first underwater sculpture park – the Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park [2] – and underwater museum – Cancún Underwater Museum (MUSA). [3]
Angela Haseltine Pozzi (born 1957) is an American sculptor who uses recycled ocean plastic to create her work. She is also the founder and creative director of Washed Ashore. Her large-scale sculptures include a polar bear, puffin, jellyfish, and an octopus.