Fine American Artist - Marine Art

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  (1850-1921) Born and raised in Boston, Marshall Johnson set sail for South America aboard the ship "Sunbeam" at age of eighteen. Tragically, the ship caught fire and burned at sea, and Johnson was one of only twelve survivors. This harrowing experience did not dampen Johnson’s enthusiasm for the ocean, however; he returned to Boston and took classes at the Lowell Institute and the Boston Art Club, and then studied painting with well-known marine artist William E. Norton. By 1884, Johnson had opened his own studio at 12 West Street in Boston, and it was during this period that he developed his romantic and dramatic style of painting. In the late 1880's he traveled to Holland, England and then to France to learn from their famed marine artist.  

(1855 - 1931) James Gale Tyler was born in Oswego, New York in 1855. He was a marine painter and illustrator and although he studied in 1870 with Archibald Cary Smith in New York City, he basically was self-taught. He maintained studios in New York City from 1882 through 1899 and in Greenwich, Connecticut and Pelham, New York from the mid-1870s until his death in 1931, as well as in Providence (mid-1880s).

No aspect of maritime life escaped Tyler's attention. In addition to painting all types of boats-from old sloops to clipper ships-he painted a variety of seamen, coastal scenes and seascapes. His emphasis is more on mood and impression than on the exacting details conveyed by more realistic painters.

His marine paintings were so popular during his lifetime that even his night views of boats coming home in the dark sold-out.

James G. Tyler was one of the most notable maritime painters and illustrators of his day. 

(1911-2001) Caspar Hjalmar Emerson III in New York City in 1911. In 1946 he legally changed his name to Hjalmar Amundsen in honor of his great-uncle, explorer Roald Amundsen, who located the center of the South Pole.  When in his early twenties, he first began painting and moved back to New York City, also spending time painting in and around Gloucester and Provincetown, Massachusetts.  In his earlier days of his career he  executed a remarkable 275 paintings a year, over a period of six years, under the name of Enwright, and it is now believed that J.J. Enwright and Hjalmar Amundsen is one and the same artist.

Living in Greenwich Village, he was one of the founders of the Washington Square Art Show in New York City.  In 1946 he moved to Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York and opened a studio becoming  well thought of in the community.  He painted waterfront images, sailing ships, fishing boats, and the New England coastline.

(Born 1955)Largely self-taught, Jerome Howes devoted himself to painting in 1994 and quickly gained a wide-spread following on his native Cape Cod, and Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. He specializes in marine subjects, having acquired a deep appreciation of the marine art tradition from his father, a paintings and antiques dealer in Brewster, Massachusetts, who had an extensive private collection of 19th Century ship portraits.  

 (1841-1914) Wesley Elbridge Webber  He was born in Gardner, Maine, lived in Boston from 1870 to 1890 and in New York City from 1892 and was self-taught. Webber served in the Civil War and created original sketches made at the surrender.  His finished illustrations of the Civil War were shown at the Boston Art Club and brought Webber considerable fame, recognition and fortune.  Webber shared a Boston studio with marine painter William P. Stubbs and kept other studios in New York City until his death. Every summer he went to Conway, New Hampshire to paint the Hillside, where painters John J. Enneking, Frank Shapleigh and others joined him to paint. He is considered one of the finer landscape painters who painted from life in the Conway area of New Hampshire and along the New England coast.    

(20th Century)  Michael Mathews lives in the United Kingdom.  Michael Mathews is known for painting wonderful marine paintings. He lived in the United States  in Phoenix, Arizona and painted while here. This painting was done while here and features the New York City harbor with a view of the Statue of Liberty. It is a very detailed example of the harbor in the early 20th century when schooners and the modern era are merging together.