ART NEWS has finall y been establi shed as an ex hibit at the new Sail o rs Sn ug Harbor home of the John Nob le Coll ection at 1000 Ri chmond Terrace, Staten Island . Originally the teak salon of a transatlantic yacht, the studio was the place whe re, as Noble wrote in 1977, "most of my pictures have been clumsi ly breech birthed for nigh unto forty years with great effo11 and small g race. " Nob le frequented New Yo rk ' s marine scrap yards to record the last days of comme rcial sailing shi ps and over the yea rs fitDe Clerck al his fo lk-an best. The schooner Esmeralda of ted the studio with parts of Gloucester, Gloucestershire enters the Scheidt River in 1892. many vesse ls unti I it became, (Maine Maritime Museum photo, counesy Dr. Kenneth Martin) in the words of Noble Coland ships built in Maine. Two ships in lection director Erin Urba n, "a kind of particular, the Henry B . Hyde and theA. G. m icrocosm of the hi sto ry of New York Ropes, are known to have been pa inted by Harbor. " Patterson. Readers might also be a ble to An ex hibit at ew York' s hi stori c help Webb discover the whereabo uts of immi gratio n center o n ElI is Island , showan ide ntified but unlocated painting of a ing April I 5 thro ugh June I 5, wi ll depict small steam-powered whaling catche r in grand sca le anothe r, mo re o pule nt, boat, the Orion, fast to a running whale in vision of New York Harbo r maritime heavy seas.( Maine Maritime Museum , hi story. Steamshi p a rti st and hi storian 243 Was hington Street, Bath ME 04530) Pe te r Sparre ' s ex hibit " Development of the Passenger Liner at its Peak: 1893Different Perspectives of 19 16" wi ll di splay large colo r side elevaNew York Harbor tio ns, all drawn to scale from bu ilder' s Marine a rti st John Nob le ( 19 13- 1983) plans, of 24 passe nger liners from thi s had a we ll -known, fa nc iful ha bit of pe r- unprecedented period of development. sonali zing hi s living and work ing space. Also shown will be a complete set of Customi zation added characte r to hi s Titanic pl ans on huge plates accompanied ho use on Staten Is land , New York (see by hand-colo red structu rals of the ship. ::~** * * Sea History 59) and also created a unique a rti fact o ut of hi s studi o. Nobl e ke pt hi s In the last issue ASMA Pres ident Denni s floatin g studio o n a barge in the Ki 11 van Beaumont me ntioned the traveling maKull off the C ity of Bayonne, New Je r- rine art exhibits of the US Coast Guard sey. Now, under the directi on of restora- which include a series of Anton Otto ti o n spec ia li st Ru sse l Powe ll , the bai·ge Fischer paintings during World War II. John Noble clears ice fi·om his studio barge .
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Anothertrave lingex hibitthatcaptures the US Navy at sea and in the air during World War II is the Smithsoni an Institution ' s " Steichen and hi s Me n," organi zed in conjunctio n with the Navy Memorial MuseU1n , Was hington DC. Photographer Edward Steichen is recogni zed fo r elevating the usuall y ano nymo us for-the-record work of naval photographers. He told his colleagues: " Don ' t photograph the war. Photograph the man, the little g uy-the struggle, the heartaches, plus the dreams of thi s guy." Steichen later edited US Navy War Photographs, which sold six million copies in six months, a record for a photography book. On the road since 1988, the 60-piece exhibit can be seen at the fo llow ing venues: Fresno Metropolitan Museum , Fresno CA, January 16Apri I 4; P a rk e rs burg Art Cen ter, Parke rsburg WV , April 24-May 23 ; Marietta-Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta GA , June 12-A ugust 29 . O ur final despatch is news of a new maritime fes tival in Charleston, South Caro lina, to be he ld Septe mber 24-26. O rgani zers of the first Cha rleston Mari time Festiva l are incorporating a maritime art show as part of the program and are see kin g submi ss ions for jurying . The festival wi ll be he ld nex t yea r in conjunct io n w ith the start of the aro und the wo rld BOC Challe nge race , in Charleston on September 17, 1994. For informati o n contact Southeast Manageme nt Company , 2 11 Meeting Stree t, Charleston SC 2940 I ; 803 723- 1748 . K EV IN H AYDON
Exhibitions • November 5-April 15, William Partridge Burpee: American Marine Impressionist. Peabody & Essex Muse um , East Indi a Sq ua re, Sa lem MA 01 790. •Fe bruary 28-June 2, The Great Age of Sail: Treasures from the National Maritime Museum compri s ing some e ighty paintin gs , including works by Canaletto, Turner, William Yan de Yelde, C leve ley a nd Brook in g. Peabod y & Essex Mu seum , East Indi a Sq uare, Salem MA 01970 • April I 5-June I 5, Development of the Passe nger Liner at its Peak: 18931916. Elli s Isla nd, New York . • Ap ril 25-Septe mber 20, Contemporary Marine Masters, an in vitati o nal ex hibition of national and inte rnatio nal artists. Thi s new show supercedes the annual " Mys tic 100" event and features a smalle r gro up of artists . Mystic Mari time Ga ll e ry , Mysti c CT 06355. 31