MARINE

The Dead Artists Gallery presents “Redpath Building, Lake Ontario, Queen’s Quay”

O/Masonite Signed L/L “B. (Bernard) Sale”. Additionally inscribed on verso.  This plein air marine painter depicts the Redpath Sugar Building, a storage, refining and sugar museum located on Queen’s Quay in Toronto. Sugar processed at the plant originated in both the Caribbean and Brazil; it was delivered and stockpiled by ships plying the St. Lawrence Seaway. Although loose brushwork usually […]
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The Dead Artists Gallery presents “Full Sails”

O/Composition board  Unsigned, bearing the acquisition label H.C. (Herman Charles) Beaver (1908-20o4). Beaver was a self-taught Pennsylvania artist known for his forest and marine scenes, as well as rural farm genre. He had a special passion for sailboats. His style of painting is strongly suggestive of Van Gogh’s use of thick impasto oils. 16 1/2 x 20 1/2 in appropriate […]
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The Dead Artists Gallery presents “Afternoon Rest”

O/Canvas Signed L/R “Tarinson” This mid-century representation of boats at rest in a small Italian port on the Mediterranean was painted by the British plein aire artist Paul Tarinson, c. 1950-60. Inspired by the long artistic history of seascapes, especially those of the Impressionists, Tarinson breaks with tradition by mixing tight, blended brushwork in the boats with looser brush work […]
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