His love of the sea and yachting sparked a life long interest in marine art.
For those who like boats, sailing and marine art, it presents a little piece of heaven.
Kearsarge and the C.S.S. Alabama, with the resulting painting redefining marine art.
Both are oddly arcane, possessed of that shadowy melancholy that seems to characterize the best marine art.
Cabbage Sea, a seascape featuring a small boat in trouble on tempestuous waters (made of red cabbage and radicchio), is reminiscent of classic scenes in marine art.
After checking out all the items in this store, shoppers can head over to the Maritime Gallery, which sells marine art, ship models, scrimshaw and sculpture.
It was after returning to New York in 1976 and becoming a pier master at the South Street Seaport — he welcomed the tall ships of Operation Sail to New York Harbor for the bicentennial celebration — that Mr. Bond turned to marine art.
He hopes someday to start a museum in Hoboken or Jersey City to house his collection of marine art as well as the art from the American West that he collects.
Sotheby's London sold a Dawson painting of the clipper ship Great Republic for $113,420 on Dec. 2, the top lot of 275 sold in its marine art sale.
Tenuously inspired by the Paper Boat Project, a community event celebrating the maritime history of New Haven, the Yale Center for British Art has assembled an exhibition of British marine art, "Behold the Sea Itself".
"Bond creates paintings, not around what boats look like, but what it feels like to be aboard or nearby, watching them move fast — big, speeding boats, often only inches apart," J. Russell Jinishian wrote in his 2003 book, "Bound for Blue Water," a comprehensive study of marine art.
