MARINE ART NEWS Mystic Maritime Gallery's seventh International Exhibit opens September 28 and will run through November 18. The juried show , chosen by Thomas Bourne , of the Richard Bourne Co., auction house in Hyannis, and Duncan Robinson , Director of the Yale Center of British Art in New Haven , features seventy-nine paintings , drawings, sculptures and scrimshaw by sixty artists from the US , Canada and Great Britain. A catalogue is available for $3. November 23, the Gallery will open "Overseas Empire," which focuses largely on the maritime affairs and development of European colonies through paintings, sculpture and ship models. The exhibit will run through the new year. (Mystic Maritime Gallery , Mystic, CT 06355; 203 536-9685). Throughout his lifetime , and in the eighteen decades since he fell at Trafalger, the genius of Lord Nelson has held people in awe. This wonder , handed down generation to generation , is celebrated in The Mariners' Museum exhibit "Lord Nelson: The Immortal Memory," a collection of some 250 prints, paintings and objets which collectively show nearly every aspect of his brief but brilliant career. From expensive commemoratives to cheap curios, pieces produced while he lived or hawked today outside St. Paul ' s Cathedral (where he is entombed), one can see Nelson in heroic triumph or lampooned in his affair with Lady Hamilton; depicted on goblets or as a ci garette lighter. This most unusual view of England ' s foremost seaman is on view through 22 March 1987 at The Mariners ' Museum (Museum Drive, Newport News, VA 23606; 804 595-0368). Mark Greene died June 17 , after an eight-year bout with cancer. A founder of the American Society of Marine Artists, and steadfast supporter during its bumpy early years, he was the recipient of its first Iron Man Award. His art is distinguished by a visionary calmness and control, within which is contained a lot of inner drive and power. Mark's was a halcyon vision of the world of ships and seafaring . He rejoiced in the de licacy and strength of the sailing ship in all her incarnations: tall clippers , heavily sparred nineteenth century yachts, modern Cup challengers and defenders with their swelling acres of taut, gleaming Dacron sails. It all had a special quality, like the man himself, a quality not soon forgotten. J.. SEA HISTORY, AUTUMN 1986
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