MARINE ART NEWS Exhibitions • February 28-June 2, The Great Age of Sail: Treasures from the National Maritime Museum comprising some eighty paintings, including works by Canaletto, Turner, William Yan de Yelde, Cleveley and Brooking. Peabody & Essex Museum , East India Square, Salem MA 01970 •April 24-May 23, Steichen and his Men, the US Navy at sea and in the air during World War II in 60 photographs by Edward Steichen and assoc iates. Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg WV; June l 2-August29, Marietta-Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta GA. •April 30-September 19, Patterson in Maine, featuring oils and sketches of Maine and Maine-built ships by renowned sailor-painter Charles Robert Patterson (1878-1958). Maine Maritime Museum , 243 Washington Street, Bath ME04530. •April 22-September 15, Development of the Passenger Liner at its Peak: 1893-1916, a series of large, color side elevations of 12 passenger liners by steamship artist and hi storian Peter Sparre. Ellis Island, New York. •April 25-September 20, Modern Marine Masters: new paintings, drawings, sculpture, scrimshaw and models by over 50 premier national and international marine artists. Mystic Maritime Gallery , Mystic CT 06355. •May 15-June 30, ASMA Exhibit '93, featuring work by ASMA Northeast Region artists on the theme of "US-tlag Merchant Marine Shipping Past and Present. " American Merchant Marine Museum, US Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point NY 11024. •June-September 15, William Partridge Burpee: American Marine Impressionist. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton NY13323.
At bottom, three of Peter Sparre ' s side advance in design and machinery. Th e elevations ofI 2 great ocean liners, on exhibit Titani c is recognized as the largest and at Ellis Island through September. These most beautiful in her time. An interesting large portraits , up to 4 feet wide and all contrast ca n be drawn betw een the drawn to scale, offer a unique opportunity Mauretania andtheTitanic. While only32,000 to compare these spectacular vessels one to tons , the Mauretani a had engines generating another and illustrate a steady change in 68,000hp, compared to 46,000hp available style and growth in size. Sparre' s series to the 46,000-ton Titanic. With her top speed begins with what he describes as the world' s of 26-27 knots, the Mauretania was the first true ocean liner, the Cunard Line's Atlantic speed champion for over 20 years. Campania, built 1893. The Mauretania he The exhibit also includes original liner deck salutes as the single most extraordinary plans and photographs. Campania, I 893; 620 feet.
Mauretania, 1907; 790feet.
Titanic, 1912; 882 f eet. ~-------------------------
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