Two that spring particularly to mind are Wool Work: A Sailor's Art at Compton Verney in Warwickshire, which revealed the sophistication of a genre – naval scenes embroidered by Jolly Jack Tars from the time of Nelson to the Great War – long dismissed as mere craft.
Avid sailor, American art collector.
To obfuscate uncomfortable facts, he was elevated to hero, complete with a memorial in Westminster Abbey and an epitaph by Tennyson, his kinsman by marriage: Not here! the white North has thy bones; and thou Heroic sailor-soul, Art passing on thine happier voyage now Toward no earthly pole.
An endearing mix of performance art, sailors' craft and historical re-enactment, "After the Battle of Brooklyn East Riverr Incognita II" draws attention to other battles — over Red Hook cruise-ship terminals and Greenpoint high-rises — being waged along the city's waterfront.
An art collector, sailor and lover of music, Mr. Pearl's interests were reflected in the institutions he supported, including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where he was a member of the board of trustees.
Though time-consuming, this undertaking has only deepened her appreciation of Sailor Moon and the art of animation.
It was in the islands of the Pacific that European sailors encountered this body art.
Teacher of Hebrew and French at Thomas Jefferson High School; scholar, sailor, lover of the arts, ardent Jew and Zionist.
He particularly cites "the verbal art of sailors and soldiers, largely English and Irish in origin, which combined with the songs and hollers of black cowboys and the corrido, or Mexican folk ballad, tradition of the vaqueros".
Retired advertising executive, investor, sailor, navigator, expert shot, raconteur, art collector, and connoisseur of fine food and drink.
