MARINE ART NEWS Now that we have seen the exhibition of Milton Burns's work at the Schaefer Gallery at Mystic Seaport Museum, we urge all hands to tum out and see this marvellous stuff. The show moves on to Smith Gallery in New York in September. An illustrated catalog of the exhibition is available for $6. 50 (ppd.) from Mystic Seaport Museum Stores, Mystic CT 06355, or Smith Gallery , 1045 Madison Avenue, New York , NY 10021. A richly varied exhibition at the Peabody Museum, The New England Fisheries includes a handsome catalog, available for $15 from Peabody Museum of Salem, East India Square, Salem, MA 01970. "Tribute to John A. Noble (19131983) " went on exhibition at Mystic Maritime Gallery, August 18-September 5. This is a special feature of '' Coastwise,'' a changing exhibition of contemporary marine art. The work of the marine watercolor painter Steven Cryan is on exhibit at the Hudson River Maritime Center's gallery in Kingston, New York from August 4 through September. John Stobart is expected to have a major exhibit in Wunderlich Gallery, in New York City, this autumn. In Seattle, Kirsten Gallery's 10th Annual Northwest Marine Exhibition is being held July IS-September 15. A boxed three-volume catalog, "The Willem Van de Velde Drawings in the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum , Rotterdam," is offered by the Museum , Eendrachtsweg 21, 3012 LB Rotterdam , Netherlands, at D.fl. 750 (about $230 or £160). John Chancellor John Chancellor, distinguished British marine artist and former seafarer who survived two torpedoings in World War II , died suddenly at his home in Brixham on April 9 , at the age of 59 . " He was gentle by nature," says Dr. Alan McGowan, Head of the Department of Ships at the National Maritime Museum, going on to describe him as "a man of considerable humor and sensitivity who always had an air of amused disbelief in his own success as a painter.'' An interest he shared with the American artist and writer Lois Darling was the design of Darwin's Beagle; his painting of the vessel appears on the cover of Darling's study "HMS Beagle, 18201870," recently published by the National Society . Robert 0. Skemp Robert Skemp, a Fellow of the American Society of Marine Artists , who lived in Westport, Connecticut and commuted by boat to a summer home in Amagansett, Long Island, was killed in an automobile accident in June. He will be sorely missed. An appreciation of his life and work will PS appear in a future SEA HISTORY . SEA HISTORY, FALL 1984
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