For a more traditional marine art experience, visit the Ocean House Resort (www. oceanhouseri.com), overlooking the ocean in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, this fall from 17 September through 2 December, to view works in Marine Art of Yesterday and Today, an exhibition of twenty-five paintings by some of the world's leading marine artists, sponsored by the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery. The exhibition will be on display in the resort's lobby and is open to both guests and visitors. Visitors can take an old-fashioned "virtual" tour of the New England coast through the evocative paintings of Sergio Roffo, and sail through heavy weather miles offshore and into the choppy seas of the Gulf Stream with yachts racing in the 1934 Bermuda Race in a dramatic painting by Don Demers. Also included will be paintings by New Zealand's leading marine artist, A. D. Blake; New York's
USS Constitution vs. HMS Cyane and HMS Levant, by Patrick O'Brien, oil, 24" x 36" leading nineteenth-century ship portraitist, Antonio Jacobsen (1850-1921); and Russ Kramer, current president of the American Society of Marine Artists. NMHS Maritime Heritage Award winner Patrick O'Brien's War of 1812 battle scenes will be on display, as will the clipper ship watercolors of Jim Griffiths, and even paintings by the 249 th man to sail around the world single-handedly, Brech in Morgan, along with many more. Marine Art of Yesterday and Today may also be viewed on line at www.jrusselljinishiangallery.com. On selected Fridays and Saturdays through October, artists will be painting on the resort's grounds, offering a chance to see them working first-hand and talk with them informally. The fall schedule of the ArtistsIn-Residence Program is: 26 September, Sergio Roffo; 3 October, William P. Duffy; 10 October, Russ Kramer; 17 October, Brechin Morgan; and 24 October, Robert Lagasse.
Into the Gulfstream Chop, Schooner Mandu and 72' Yawl Orion, Bermuda Race, 1934, by Don Demers, oil, 24" x 30"
Sunrise at Brant Point, Nantucket, by Sergio Raffo, oil, 24" x 36"
For more information and directions, visit www. oceanhouseri.com. While in Watch Hill, you can take a stroll down the hill from the Ocean House Resort and visit another exhibition of marine and sporting art at Sotheby's International Realty office at 27 Bay Street.
]. Russelljinishian is the former director of the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport Museum. His gallery in Fairfield, Connecticut, keeps an inventory ofover 500 works oforiginal marine and sporting art including paintings, drawings, sculpture, scrimshaw, and ship models throughout the year. (1899 Bronson Road, Fairfield, CT 06824; Ph. 203 259-8753; www.jrusselljinishiangallery.com). 44
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