MARINE ART NEWS William Bliss Baker, whose memorable painting of a dreaming , seagirt city appears on page 24, is little known. Barbara Millstein of the Brooklyn Museum , who called our attention to his work, says only a few of his works survive. She would like to know more of this strong, delicate painter, as would we. Dorothy Brewington's Dictionary of Marine Artists, forty years in preparation , contains brief, accurate entries on 3,074 American, European and Oriental artists, including elusive semi-professional ship portraitists of the 18th and 19th centuries. With her husband Marion (who died in 1974), Dorothy Brewington has worked to the great benefit of us all in charting the world of marine art , first at the Peabody and later at Mystic Seaport Museum . Her Marine Paintings and Drawings in Mystic Seaport Museum was published in 1982. The 453-page Dictionary, co-published by Mystic and Peabody, can be had for $35 from Peabody Museum of Salem, East India Square, Salem MA 01970.
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"NANTUCKET", a limited-edition of 950 prints by the noted marine artist PAUL McGEHEE. Available signed and numbered for $100, or with artist's remarque for $150. Please include $5 shipping. Depicted is the entrance to the famous whaling port's harbor in 1908. The steamer "Nantucket", built in 1886, is shown passing the Brant Point lighthouse, erected in 1901 and still standing . A Paul McGehee print is not only a piece of fine art, but a historically accurate window to the past. Send $1 for
Exhibits of Special Interest The American Society of Marine Artists' Seventh Annual Exhibition will be again at Newman & Saunders Galleries in Philadelphia, May 21-June 25 .... From July 17 through September 12 Kirsten Gallery in Seattle will mount their Ninth Annual Northwest Marine Art Exhibition, always a strong and worthwhile showing. This will be followed in October by a one-man show of the West Coast's Steve Mayo, and in November, a one-man show by Mark Myers, a San Franciscan who lives in happy exile in Cornwall, England .... Back East, Mystic Maritime Gallery (of Mystic Seaport Museum Stores) offers, May 8-June 19, 1983 Mystic International, a juried marine art show including contributions from abroad , catalog $7; June 25-September 18, "Trading Under Sail;' New England merchant and fisheries shipping in art and models. Watercolors and prints by the famous yacht portraitist Frederic S. Cozzens (1846-1928) will be on exhibit at Mystic Seaport Museum's R.J. Schaefer Gallery, May 15-0ctober 10. With 150 items, this will be the largest exhibition of Cozzens's work ever mounted. '1>
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