It's a Homer Simpson at a garage sale...
Posted on 12/18/2020 12:21:36 PM PST by Utah Binger
One of the most commercially successful painters of the last century, Montague Dawson, born in Chiswick, West London is acknowledged as a supreme painter of the sea, sailing ships and the deep ocean.
His father and grandfather were both marine painters, and this maritime background was reinforced when, early in his life, his family moved to Smugglers House on Southampton Water, on England's south coast. Dawson never went to art school but, around 1910, he joined a commercial art studio in London, working on posters and illustrations.
Joining the Royal Navy at the outbreak of the First World War, Dawson met Charles Napier Hemy who was to have a great influence on the young man's art.
Dawson had supplied illustrations to the Sphere magazine during the First World War and after the war set up as a painter and illustrator. He concentrated on historical subjects and sailing ships, usually under full sail on the deep ocean. He achieved great commercial success starting in the 1920's, showing at the Royal Academy from 1916 to 1936 and regularly at the Royal Society of Marine Artists, of which he was a member.
Dawson moved to Milford-on-sea in Hampshire in the 1930's. In the Second World War, he illustrated events of the war for the Sphere and afterwards continued a painting career that was financially one of the most successful of the 20th century.
He died in Sussex in 1973.
OK> So somebody bought it at a thrift sale for $5.00. Please don’t tell us that you gave him $100 and he was happy to get it ....
I don’t see any people on it. It must be The Marie Celeste.
Amazing art work the water look like a color photo not a painting
Of course, we're capitalistic pigs.
Make a donation to the Thunderbird Foundation and we'll forgive you. We'll even send half the money to FR.
what talent
Thanks, I looked through that the other day. There might be a couple that are close. The title “Ocean Rollers” should be a dead giveaway but so far haven’t tracked that down.
INDEED!
The complex math behind intersecting wave motion is captured quite nicely.
WOW!
I’m getting goosebumps just imagining the goosebumps YOU must be having!
Giclée is a neologism coined in 1991 by printmaker Jack Duganne
for fine art digital prints made on inkjet printers.
The name originally applied to fine art prints
created on a modified Iris printer
in a process invented in the late 1980s.
It’s a Homer; Stinson!
Why not?
Absolutely, very realistic, photo like, the color is spot on.
ISWYDT!......................
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