vast parade of ships coming into the great English port that serves the densely populated industrial MidlandsFrench onion schooners, transatlantic liners, and occasional square riggersdrew him in their wake into a career first as naval architect with Royal Mail Lines, then with the London County Council, designing ferryboats, river craft, pontoons and buoys. He worked with Alan Villiers and Frank Carr as architect of the Cutty Sark restoration in Greenwich, and is author and illustrator of histories of the Royal Mail Lines and China tea clippers, and Jackstay, a manual for model-builders. George serves as Advisor to South Street Seaport Museum and the National Society, and works as exhibit designer at the American Museum of- Natural History; having come to the United States in 1963, he lives today in Brooklyn Heights with his wife Peggy, looking up from his drawing board to see the shipping of the great city that grew up on trade with his native Liverpool. perience of America at sea, which he has helped to unfold in original research, as well as in his art. In the '20s and '30s he did magazine illustrations and ads. Three years' service in the Navy in World War II opened new opportunities. The U.S. Naval Institute histories of submarine and destroyer operations were illustrated by Fred, who contributed to the revision of history through the careful study that went into some of his battle diagrams . He has also illustrated Scribner's Pictorial History
Campbell, The Challenge, extreme clipper built in 1851 in New York by William Webb.
of the U.S. Navy, and has illustrated Time-Life and Reader's Digest books including a memorable Two Years Before the Mast. Before Sputnik was launched, he got into drawing advanced rockets and men in space: seven of his paintings are in the permanent NASA collection. A founder of the Essex Art Association, he has encouraged many young people to follow his interest in American seafaring. "Captain William Coit trod these cobbles!" read a formidable poster he put up for a recent show
at Coco Lovelace's Foot of Main Street Gallery in Essex. But as these paintings show, he is ready to explore the world of the ancient Greeks, or of the modern scuba diver: after 50 years in the field, he feels he is at last at the frontiers of what he has to paint.
Freeman, The Battle of Salamis, 480 B. C., in which the Greeks took to their "wooden walls" to gain victory over the invading Persians.
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