Marine / Seascape

Julian Nemethy (N/A) American

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 11.25” x 23.5”
Frame Size: 16.5” x 28.75”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: $3200

Biography/Statement

Contemporary artist Julian Nemethy is the son of artist Albert Nemethy, and his work can be distinguished from that of his father by the use of fantastical elements, extreme use of color and detail, and whimsical touches.

Julian Nemethy is one of the many artists in the Nemethy family. Born in Hungary, his parents fled the Communist regime in the mid-1950s when Julian was a small child. He was one of six siblings who were raised by their father.

In high school, Julian taught himself to paint, and felt he had found his vocation. In the 1980s, he moved to the Smokey Mountains of North Carolina, becoming something of a recluse, living in a remote cabin and painting infrequently. He worked a number of jobs, including stints in factories and motels, and selling paintings only when his finances required it.

His paintings are painstakingly rendered and are realistic with minute and often whimsical detail, often in a flat or naive style. Nemethy has been known to start promising works, which are frequently left unfinished for long periods of time.

Occasionally, with the help of his sister, his work has enjoyed professional representation. An accomplished painter, Nemethy has infrequently appearing works that have enjoyed a level of popularity.

Artist Profile Page: Julian Nemethy / Categories: Marine / Seascape

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Walter Farndon (1876-1964) American

Medium: Oil on board
Image Size: 8” x 10”
Frame Size: 14” x 16”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: $3200

Biography/Statement

Walter Farndon was a New England plein-air painter best-known for impasto, Impressionist, sometimes near-Expressionist harbor and shore scenes, though he also painted portraits and figures. Born in Coventry, England, Farndon came to the United States, studying at the National Academy of Design, where he was later elected an Associate in 1928, and an Academician in 1937. He also studied with Robert Henri, and was a member of the Society of Independent Artists. He painted in Ridgefield, New Jersey in the 1920s.

Artist Profile Page: Farndon, Walter / Categories: Marine / Seascape

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Manning De Villeneuve Lee (1894-1980)

And Ever So Often We'd See The Black Fang Of Rocks

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 30” x 40”
Frame Size: 36” x 46”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $3800

Biography/Statement

Artist Profile Page: Lee, Manning De Villeneuve / Categories: Marine / Seascape

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Greg Klein (N/A) Contemporary,

Medium: Oil on board
Image Size: 18” x 24”
Frame Size: 25” x 30.5”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $2400

Biography/Statement

Artist Profile Page: Klein, Greg / Categories: Marine / Seascape

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Mary Jo Van Dell (N/A) Contemporary, American

Moonlight Beach

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 30” x 36”
Frame Size: 38” x 44”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: $6500

Biography/Statement

Mary Jo Van Dell, an artist from the St. Croix River Valley of Minnesota, has devoted her life to mastering her artistic vision onto the oil painter’s canvas.

Largely self-taught, Van Dell’s style, unique and independent, defies precise classification. Historical references might include Winslow Homer and Andrew Wyeth. Her minimalist palette emphasizes the natural world, austere and uncompromising. Her contrast of light and dark captures the drama and power. With her paintings Van Dell conveys the awe and joy of the nature’s rawness, and invites others to share in her emotional response.

Van Dell is known for evocative works in oil, rich in beauty, mystery and immense power. Many of her paintings depict man’s presence and his struggle to survive in an ever changing environment.

She draws inspiration by hiking, backpacking, skiing and immersing herself in the wild. The rivers, lakes and forests of northern Minnesota, especially the North Shore of Lake Superior, and into Canada have been her focus throughout her life. More recently, she has explored and portrayed landscapes of the Pacific coast and desert vistas of the Southwest.

Collected and exhibited nationally and internationally, Van Dell’s paintings hang in both public and private collections including, The Minnesota Historical Society, The Minnesota Marine Art Museum, The National Park system and most recently the Art in Embassies program of the U.S. State Department.

Artist Profile Page: Van Dell, Mary Jo / Categories: Marine / Seascape, Regionalist (Urban)

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Warren Sheppard (1858-1937) American

Seascape on wooden pallette

Medium: Oil on Wood Pallette
Image Size: 11” x 14”
Frame Size: 13” x 15”
Signature: Signed lower center
Price: $3200

Biography/Statement

A student of Dutch marine artist, Mauritz de Haas, Warren Sheppard built two successful careers around his love of the sea: marine painting and yacht designing.

He was born in Greenwich, New Jersey, a town on the Delaware River below Philadelphia, which has been associated with ships and shipping since the earliest Colonial times.  His father was a sea captain and the young Sheppard took many voyages with his father to make artistic studies.  He learned perspective drawing at Cooper Union in New York City in addition to his studies with de Haas.  In 1879, he spent four months sketching Mediterranean port cities including Gibraltar, Genoa, Naples and Messina in Sicily.  Between 1888 and 1893, he also studied painting in Venice and Paris.

By the time he was in his mid-thirties, he had established himself as a successful illustrator and painter.  The yachts he painted were the most lavish of his day, owned by the wealthiest of men.  He was an expert in the design and rigging of ships of present and earlier times.  His work was highly regarded for its authenticity as well as its artistic merit.

Sheppard was also an expert navigator and sailed a number of famous yachts in races.  Twice he was to command Tamerlane when it won the New York to Bermuda run.  His book, Practical Navigation, was used for many years by the United States Naval Academy.  Though he retired from the sea, Sheppard continued to paint until his death in Brooklyn, New York in 1937.

Exhibited:
Denver Exposition 1884-Gold medal
Chicago Exposition – 1892
St. Louis Exposition-1904
Brooklyn Allied Artists Group Shows – 1874-1881
National Academy of Design – 1880-1899

Collections:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT
Addison Gallery of American Art (MA)
Phillips Academy, Andover
Springfield Public Library

Artist Profile Page: Sheppard, Warren / Categories: Landscape, Marine / Seascape

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Alexander Bower (1875-1952) American

View of Portland Harbor, Maine

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 34” x 27”
Frame Size: 44” x 37”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $16500

Biography/Statement

An American Impressionist, Bower was born in New York, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and was living with his wife in Cliff Island, Maine by 1914. Despite his urban upbringing, the coast and the sea fascinated Bower. A large portion of his paintings are seascapes, particularly scenes depicting the coast of Cape Elizabeth and Cliff Island, Maine.

Bower was a member of the Salmagundi Club, the Philadelphia Watercolor Club, and the Boston Society of Watercolor Painters, as well as being an associate member of the National Academy of Design.

He exhibited at the Carnegie Institute, the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.

His works are in the collection of the Springfield Art Museum, the Butler Art Institute, the Sweat Memorial Art Museum, the Portland Museum of Art, and the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine.

Bower was not only a painter but also the Director of the Sweat Memorial Art Museum and Director of the School of Fine and Applied Art (both in Portland, Maine), a trustee at Westbrook College in Portland, Maine, and an art instructor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

Artist Profile Page: Bower, Alexander / Categories: Impressionism, Marine / Seascape

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Edward R. Kingsbury (1855-1940) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 30” x 36”
Frame Size: 38” x 44”
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Price: $7500

Biography/Statement

Born in Boston, MA in 1855. Kingsbury studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, Boston Museum School, and Académie Julian in Paris. A resident of Carmel, CA in the 1920s, his last years were spent in Ogunquit, ME and Cambridge, MA, He died in the latter on May 1, 1940.

Member: Salmagundi Club; Ogunquit AA.  Exhibitions:  Springville (UT) High School, 1927. In: Charlestown (MA) High School (mural). Carmel At Work and Play, p. 58; WWAA 1936-41; NY Times, 5-2-1940 (obit).

Artist Profile Page: Kingsbury, Edward R. / Categories: Landscape, Marine / Seascape

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Bruce Busko (N/A) Contemporary, American

Seascape / Sunset

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 40” x 40”
Frame Size: 45” x 45”
Signature: Signed lower right and dated
Price: $7500

Biography/Statement

Bruce Busko is an exhibiting artist and Owner/ Director of Landing Gallery.  His work has been exhibited in his galleries since 1980 with a long list of additional Juried Shows, Invitational Exhibits and Awards.  He received his MFA from Pratt Institute and BFA from the Pennsylvania State University.

“During my frequent hikes, throughout Maine, I like to gather inspiration and visual information for my artwork. Nature walks and my outdoor experience become the first step for creating art in my studio.  Sketches, photos, memory and on site materials become the initial components of my painting process.  Each element lends its “specific flavor” to enrich my feeling for the subject. It can begin with a strong composition created by a low tide or perhaps the reflection of the sun and clouds in a calm body of water.  To seek is to find, is my moto.  Selecting what speaks to me is the core and the beginning of my creative experience.”

Artist Profile Page: Busko, Bruce / Categories: Landscape, Luminist, Marine / Seascape

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