Antonio Jacobsen was a Danish-born American maritime artist known as the Audubon of Steam Vessels. Jacobsen's Painted Ships on Painted Oceans, includes some 100 color pictures of the artist's ship paintings. The public rooms of The Griswold Inn in Essex, Connecticut, the oldest continuously run tavern in the United States, features the largest privately held collection of Jacobsen's paintings. John McMullen, a naval architect and marine engineer, had a collection that included 75 paintings by Jacobsen, the first two of which were found in the 1940s in the offices of the family ship repair business. On February 19, 2006, Fetching The Mark, an unsigned painting of the racing yacht Dreadnought attributed to Jacobsen, was sold at auction for $281,000, more than triple the highest price previously paid for one of Jacobsen's works. The piece had been brought to an Antiques RoadShow event in Tampa, Florida, and had originally been thought to be a work of Jacobsen's contemporary James E. Buttersworth, until further research led to a conclusion that it was by Jacobsen.
$35,000
The Steamship Jamestown of the Old Dominion Line, American Marine Painting
By Antonio Jacobsen
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (Danish/American, 1850-1921) Signed: Antonio Jacobsen, 1907 (lower, right) " The Steamship Jamestown of the Old Dominion Line ", 1907 Oil on Board ...
Oil, Board
$16,500
American Clipper Ship at Sea by Antonio Jacobsen, Signed and Dated 1917
By Antonio Jacobsen
Located in Jacksonville, FL
American Clipper Ship at Sea by Antonio Jacobsen, Signed and Dated 1917 This stunning maritime oil painting by renowned marine artist Antonio Jacobsen (1850–1921) captures a majesti...
Oil
$7,500
H 19.5 in W 15.5 in D 1.5 in
“Eastern White Pines, c. 1910”, New England Landscape, Signed Oil Painting
By Charles Warren Eaton
Located in Yardley, PA
“Eastern White Pines, c. 1910” by Charles Warren Eaton (American, 1857-1937). A wonderful example of Eaton’s renowned compositions of Eastern white pine trees in his mature style. A...
Canvas, Oil, Board
$32,000
H 19 in W 27 in D 3 in
Women's City Club, Youngstown, Ohio. American Historical Scene Painting.
By Clyde Singer
Located in Marco Island, FL
An accomplished American Scene painter, Clyde Singer successfully captured everyday life during his long career. A unique aspect of American life is depicted in this painting, entitl...
Oil, Board
$25,000
H 39 in W 27 in D 2 in
Brooklyn Bridge NYC American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA
By Cecil Crosley Bell
Located in New York, NY
Brooklyn Bridge NYC American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Cecil C. Bell (American, 1906-1970) Brookyn Bridge amid the NYC Waterfront 35 ½ x 23 ½ inches Oil on Bo...
Oil, Board
Red Sky
By Warren W. Sheppard
Located in Greenville, DE
Spectacular example of Warren Sheppard's work, from what most consider his best period. Sunset (possibly, sunrise) executed with strong orange/red palette, and rock formations, maki...
Canvas, Oil
Battle Mountain, Nevada
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
Battle Mountain, Nevada (2005), oil on canvas, 30x40 inches (framed size: 39 x 50 inches) Earl Jones (1937- ) is one of Utah’s best known landscape artists. As an undergraduate at the University of Utah, where he earned a BFA in 1959 and an MFA in 1962, Jones was preoccupied with the figure, studying under the tutelage of portrait painter Alvin Gittins. He then ventured from Utah to New York and the Art Students League where he took figure painting classes with Joseph Hirsch. Later Jones became heir to the landscape legacy of LeConte Stewart...
Oil, Canvas
Wetlands at Sunset by Robert Hamblen
Located in New York, NY
Robert Hamblen (American, 1932-2017) Untitled, c. 20th century Oil on board 12 x 15 3/4 in. Framed: 16 x 19 3/4 x 1 3/4 Signed lower right: Hamblen Rob...
Oil, Board
Pilot Boat Adams No. 4
By Nicholas Berger
Located in Greenwich, CT
Oil, Board
$25,000
H 27 in W 60 in
Industrial Mural Study, Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Barbara WPA American
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Mural Study, Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Barbara WPA American Joseph Edward Knowles (1907-1980) "Study for Industry Mural, Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Barbara, CA" 19 1/2 x 50 1/2 inches Oil on board, c. 1930s. Estate stamp verso Framed: 27 x 60 inches The completed mural is currently hanging on the wall, part of the building actually, at the Veterans Memorial Building in Santa Barbara. A photo of the work insitu is included in the attached photos. BIO Joseph Edward Knowles was born in Kendall, Montana, on June 15, 1907. He grew up in San Diego, California. At age twenty, two years before the beginning of the Great Depression, he moved north to another town on the coast of California---Santa Barbara. There he began studying fine art at the Santa Barbara School of the Arts* (1927-1930), under the supervision of Frank Morley Fletcher, previously director of the Edinburgh College of Art. Fletcher, who was trained in portraiture, landscape painting, and woodblock* printing, was a great influence on young Knowles. It was there that Knowles learned the art of color woodblock printmaking, a medium in which he showed great skill. Not long after completing his studies with Fletcher, Knowles began teaching art. For a period of thirty years, from 1930 to1960, he taught at the Cate School in Carpinteria, California. In 1934-1935, Knowles traveled throughout Europe, further developing his artistic skills in England, France, and Italy. Upon his return, he continued to teach art at various schools and institutions: Cate School, Crane Country School, extension classes at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), and at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA). Knowles also served as an art education consultant for the County of Santa Barbara. In addition, he was founding co-director and president of the Santa Barbara Fine Arts Institute (1969-1972), which later developed a specialization in photography and became the Brooks Institute of Photography. Knowles died at his home in Santa Barbara on September 8, 1980. Much of Knowles' watercolor work is associated with what has been termed the "California School*," a loose grouping of artists throughout the state that included such figures as Millard Sheets, Phil Dike, Dong Kingman, George Post, and the Santa Barbara painters Dan Lutz and Standish Backus, Jr. The California School artists, including Knowles, were known for their fresh, direct, spontaneous style of watercolor painting. Knowles and other members of the school found inspiration in nature and the built environment alike, emphasizing elements of design in their exuberant, boldly stated, colorful scenes from everyday life. While painting in a representational* manner, Knowles generally avoided photographic realism, preferring subjective interpretation of his subjects. In this, as well as in his experimental approach and vigorous brushwork, he displayed a strongly modern sensibility. Knowles often used the wet-on-wet watercolor technique as he painted seascapes and landscapes, mostly along the California coast. He also employed dry-brush* techniques in many of his paintings, often leaving some of the white of the watercolor paper exposed. Some of the latter depict trees and other forms in a broken and airy manner that recalls Cezanne. Knowles' colored woodblock prints are more reserved and exact in their draftsmanship than his paintings. Spare, clean, lyrical lines are drawn to illustrate floral motifs and boat scenes with a touch of asymmetry conjuring Japanese woodblock prints. His murals from the post-World War II period are considerably more modern in their approach and show an emphasis on design and color. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS California Watercolor Society (1940 - 1955) Santa Barbara Art Association (Vice President - 1952) ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) - San Francisco, California San Diego Fine Arts Gallery (SDMA) - San Diego, California Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) - Santa Barbara, California Cowie Galleries - Los Angeles, California Gallery de Silva - Santa Barbara, California Bradley Galleries - Santa Barbara, California MURALS Westmont College - Ellen Porter Hall Mural - Santa Barbara, California Safeway Grocery (now Vons Grocery on West Victoria Street) - Exterior Tile Mosaic - Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara Bank & Trust - Interior Mosaic Panels, Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara Girls Club - Interior Mosaic Mural - Santa Barbara, California Ernest Righetti High School - Mosaic Mural - Santa Maria, California Shell Oil Company - Mosaic Panel - California Beckman Instruments, Corporate Headquarters - Mosaic - Fullerton, California STAINED GLASS WINDOWS, WALLS and PANELS Katherine Thayer Cate Memorial Chapel - Cate School, Carpinteria, California William S. Porter Memorial Chapel - Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, California La Rinconada Building - Santa Barbara, California ILLUSTRATIONS "California's Wonderful Corner: True Stories for Children from the History of the Santa Barbara Region," by Walter A. Tompkins (1962 & 1975) China Designs: Two sets of dinnerware for Winfield China...
Oil, Board
Harbor, New York City
By Robert Lavin
Located in Austin, TX
This painting is a 20th century realist landscape depiction of a shipyard by Robert Lavin. The piece is executed in oil on board and measures 10" x 24". Robert Lavin was born in New York City. His education included Townsend Harris, a prep school in New York followed by college at City College of New York. He also attended the National Academy of Art, where he studied as a painter. Studying the social realists of the 1930’s, Lavin, a former Marine pilot, portrayed steelworkers, roughnecks and trainmen. Lavin often painted his “proletarian ballets”- as one critic called them – to illustrate magazine advertisements. The Smithsonian Institution and other museums collected Lavin’s original paintings, which portrayed the laboring subjects with dignity and integrity. Lavin also illustrated stock certificates and books. Paper Money magazine praised him as “one of the greatest vignette artists of the 20th century.” In addition to this, Lavin was for a number of years an Associate Professor of Art at City College of New York, a position he left in the mid ‘60’s in order to devote himself full time to his painting. His commissions took him around the world, from the North Sea to the coast of Africa, from the slopes of Alaska to the Sea of Japan. As part of a series for Gulf Oil, he painted the royal family of England for the opening of a new refinery in Wales. Another portrait of one of the early Americanastronauts, appeared on the cover of Time Magazine. Other major commissions during these years included Readers Digest books...
Oil, Board
$50,000
H 41 in W 36 in D 4 in
Snow in the City, American Winter Scene Painting, Ornate Frame, Mid-Century Oil
By Clyde Singer
Located in Marco Island, FL
American life is captured in this Clyde Singer painting, Snow in the City (1954), where he depicts an everyday moment in the city. An ordinary scene, of a group of women making thei...
Oil, Board
$8,000
H 15 in W 11 in D 1 in
Afternoon Ride, Pair of Equestrian Landscape Paintings of Horses with Riders
Located in Doylestown, PA
Afternoon ride is a pair of, 13 x 9 inches each, equestrian paintings by Pennsylvania painter James N Hess. One is signed in the lower left, one is signed in the lower right. Animal...
Oil, Board
$84,000
H 29.19 in W 41.25 in
SAPPHO, DAUNTLESS and GRACIE Racing at Cape May 1871
By James Edward Buttersworth
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
James E. Buttersworth's most sought-after artworks emerge from his depictions of American racing yachts going head to head in the major regattas...
Canvas, Oil
An American Clipper Ship
By Antonio Jacobsen
Located in Wiscasett, ME
An oil on artist board featuring an American clipper ship by Antonio Jacobsen. Signed and dated 1916 in the lower right corner. Measuring 23.5" x 35.5" including the frame. 1850 - 1...
Oil
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H 29.5 in W 57.5 in
"The Bransford" Antonio Jacobsen, Marine Ship Portrait, Great Lakes Seascape
By Antonio Jacobsen
Located in New York, NY
Antonio Jacobsen The Bransford, 1903 Signed, inscribed "West Hoboken," and dated lower right Oil on canvas 22 x 50 inches Antonio Jacobsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to a family of violin makers. He was an accomplished string player and throughout his life music was to remain an avocation. He studied at Copenhagen's Royal Academy, and emigrated to the the United States in 1871. He frequented the harbor around Battery Park, sketching, until he was hired by the Marvin Safe Company to decorate safes. Subsequently he received commissions from sea captains, ship owners, and steamship companies. The Old Dominion Line, the Fall River Line, and the White Star Line hired him to paint visual records of their entire fleets; he also received commissions from the Clyde, Black Ball, Mallory, Anchor, and the Red Star Lines. Jacobsen's style is often, though not exclusively, characterized by a flattened perspective. He had a complete understanding of ships and achieved great accuracy of detail in his works. In 1878 Jacobsen married; he remained in New York City until 1880, when he moved to Hoboken, New Jersey. His home became a gathering place for marine artists including James Bard, Fred Cozzens, Fred Pansing, James Buttersworth, Worden Wood...
Canvas, Oil
THINGVALLA
By Antonio Jacobsen
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right & dated 1879. Antonio Jacobsen’s painting of the Thingvalla (a shipping line between Scandinavia and the United States) is a masterclass in maritime artistry, showcasing his signature crisp brushwork and dynamic composition. Jacobsen’s strokes are precise yet expressive, capturing the texture of the ship’s hull and the shimmering movement of the water. The fine detailing in the rigging and smokestack demonstrates his meticulous approach. • The Thingvalla appears to surge forward, cutting through the waves with a palpable sense of momentum. The artist’s use of diagonal lines and the tilt of the vessel enhances the illusion of motion. Jacobsen’s ability to balance realism with artistic flair ensures that the Thingvalla feels alive, as if caught mid-voyage. Bio: Antonio Jacobsen, America's folk art hero recognized for his unsurpassed contributions to America's maritime history, recorded domestic and international ships as they passed through the age of sail to steam. He was a prolific painter and throughout his life painted an estimated 6000 paintings. Jacobsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 November 1850, where, for generations his family had been violin makers. His father encouraged him to practice a similar craft. At an early age he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Design in Copenhagen, however, reversed family fortunes forced him to withdraw. At the age 18 it was compulsory for him to join the Danish military forces, but he decided instead, to sail for America. He left his family behind and arrived in New York in the early 1870's. Like many other immigrants, he went to New York City's Battery Park looking for work. He passed his days sketching the ships that sailed in and out of the harbor. Not before long a representative from Marvin Safe Company noticed his drawings and offered him a job decorating safes. His ability as an artist was further recognized as he began to receive commissions from sea captains and ship owners and eventually Steamship companies, to record their entire fleet. The Old Dominion Line, The Fall River Line and The White Star Line are some of the steamship companies that commissioned him to paint portraits of all the ship in their respective fleets. In addition, the Clyde Line, the Black Ball Line...
Canvas, Oil
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H 22 in W 36 in
S.S. Chateau Margaux - 19th Century Oil, Maritime Landscape by Antonio Jacobsen
By Antonio Jacobsen
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Oil on canvas by Antonio Jacobsen depicting a French ship sailing on a choppy sea. Signed, dated 1888 and inscribed with the artist's address lower ri...
Canvas, Oil
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H 26 in W 40 in D 3 in
Antique Southern Nautical Seascape Oil Painting, "Creole" by Antonio Jacobsen
By Antonio Jacobsen
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique nautical oil painting of the Creole by Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (1850 - 1921) . Oil on board, circa 1908. Signed. Disp...
Canvas, Oil
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H 27 in W 41 in D 3 in
Antique Nautical Seascape Oil Painting, "Horatio Hall 1908" by Antonio Jacobsen
By Antonio Jacobsen
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique nautical oil painting of the Horatio Hall by Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (1850 - 1921) . Oil on board, circa 1908. Signed....
Canvas, Oil
The Packet James Foster
By Antonio Jacobsen
Located in New York, NY
Built in 1854 for C.H. Marshall, by then the owners and operators of New York's famous Black Ball packet line, by William H. Webb, New York's premier ship builder. This powerful painting of the Packet James Foster by Jacobsen depicts the energy of the rolling waves as well as the wind rippling through the sails and flags of this ship. Among the flags are the American flag and various signal flags, which include the White Pennant flag...
Oil, Canvas