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Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre particularly strong from the 17th to 19th centuries. [ 1 ]
The Wunderlich family, who owned the gallery, encouraged him to further develop his ideas for painting historic maritime scenes. [1] With his original paintings becoming increasingly popular with private collectors, Stobart also began to publish prints of his work.
Linton is one of a select number of artists to have their work reproduced by the Franklin Mint and Mourlot Studios. [1] His paintings have won numerous awards worldwide. He has twice won the prestigious Heidelberg Award. [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]
Shamrock V - 1995 Artist's Proof Print by John Mecray from the painting of the same name. Inspired by a number of offshore yacht deliveries to the Virgin Islands in the 1970s he gave up his Philadelphia-based illustration career to devote full-time to marine painting.
Thomas H. Willis (1845-June 1, 1925) was a Danish-born American artist who combined marine art, folk art, and needlework in his portraits of American and European sailing ships, steamers, pilot boats and yachts.