MARINE ART NEWS BOOK REVIEW
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Flying Boats: The }-Class Yachts of Aviation, by Ian Marshall and Alexander Frater (Howell Press, Charlottesville VA, 2002, 136pp, illus, index, ISBN 1-57427- 121-0; $50hc) Ian Marshall, renowned for his vigorous, delicately limned watercolors of the liners and warships of the age of steam, has now introduced great metal birds into his world of steamships and empire in his wonderfully evocative Flying Boats. The paintings speak for themselves, but Marshall also gives us a text showing how widespread the network was that bound the world together by aircraft landing on water, from Pan American's great China clippers of just before World War II on into the war years, with England's Sunderland flying boats, the rugged US PBYs, and a surprising variety of German, Italian and Japanese aircraft. The story winds up with the agile puddle jumpers that still land on remote lakes from Canada to Africa and beyond. PETER STANFORD
Editor at Large
New Art Exhibits • Carla Massoni Gallery: 29 J une-28 July 2002, "The Golden Age of Sail is Now": Photographs by Michael Kahn (203 High Street, Chestertown MD 21620; 410 778-7330; e-mail: info@massoniart.com) • Edward Carter Gallery: 3-29 August 2002, "The Golden Age of Sail is Now": Photographs by Michael Kahn (The Inn at Canal Square, 122 Market Street, Lewes DE 19958; 302 644-7513; web site: www.edwardcartergall eries.com) • Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport: 2 1 September-3 November 2002, 23rd Annual Mystic International (47 Gteenmanville Ave., PO Box 6000, Mystic CT 0635 5; 860 572-5388; web site: www.mysticseaport.org/gallery) •National Maritime Museum: 9 M ay-3 1 October 2002, "New Visions of the Sea: Contemporary Art" (Greenwich, London, SElO 9NF, UK; web site: www.nmm.ac.uk) •Noble Maritime Collection: 8 June-29 September 2002, The Etchings of John Taylor Arms (1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island NY 1030 l ; 718 447-6490; web site: www.noblemaritime.org) • Peabody Essex Museum: 12 J uly- 14 October 2002, "Rendezvous with the Sea: The G lory of the French Maritime Tradition" (One Eas t India Square, Salem MA 01970; 978 745-9500; web site: www.pem.org) • Penobscot Marine Museum: 25 May-7 September 2002, "Send in the Marines": Co ntemporary Marine Art (5 Church Street, PO Bo x 498, Searsport ME 0 4974; 207 548-2529; e-mail: museumoffices@ penobscotmarinemuseum. org) •Ventura County Maritime Museum: 17 June-31August2002, "Nautica 02"; 2 September-3 1 October 2002, American Society of Marine Artists, Region 5 (2731 Somh Victoria, Oxnard CA 93035; 805 984-6260; e- mail: vccm@aol.com)
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