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Book The Marine Art of Geoff Hunt

Download or read book The Marine Art of Geoff Hunt written by Geoff Hunt and published by Anova Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoff Hunt, RSMA, is know to millions of readers across the world as the artist responsible for the covers of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels.

Book The Sea Painter s World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Geoff Hunt
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2012-06-11
  • ISBN : 1844861899
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book The Sea Painter s World written by Geoff Hunt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely follow-up to Conway's highly successful Marine Art of Geoff Hunt (2004) presents the considerable artistic output of Britain's leading marine painter since 2003. This new volume is heavily illustrated with images ranging from large paintings to sketchbook drawings with text written by the artist himself. The new book reflects Hunt's developing career during a time in which he served a five-year term as President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists, worked on large-scale paintings such as the definitive Mary Rose,and also completed numerous outdoor sketches and paintings. The book is divided into six sections: 1. The Sea Painter's World, an introduction to the artist's studio work at Merton Place, London and his plein air work on the River Thames; 2. Home Waters; 3. The Mediterranean; 4. In the Wake of Nelson; 5. North America and 6. The West Indies and Beyond. This concept sets Geoff's work in a broadly geographical context, showcasing the artist's freer plein air style alongside the exhaustively researched maritime history paintings to which he owes his standing as Britain's leading marine artist.

Book The Marine Art of Geoff Hunt

Download or read book The Marine Art of Geoff Hunt written by Geoff Hunt and published by Adlard Coles. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoff Hunt is known to millions of readers across the world as the artist responsible for the covers of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels, and more recently for those of Julian Stockwin's Thomas Kydd books. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the leading marine artists of his generation. More than a showcase of the versatility and creativity of his work, this book, written by the artist himself, also reveals its accuracy, through five key case studies that explain the initial inspirations, gathering of source material and often lengthy artistic progression that leads to the creation of a finished painting. The artist has selected over 150 paintings and sketches to illustrate his prolific career, painting techniques and influences, dividing them into sections on Nelson's Navy, The American War of Independence, illustrating the naval writers and the Modern Maritime Scene, which includes recent commissions from the commercial sector and yachting community.

Book The Frigate Surprise

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Lavery
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780393070095
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book The Frigate Surprise written by Brian Lavery and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The HMS "Surprise" starred as the principal ship in Patrick O'Brian's much-celebrated Aubrey-Maturin series of novels. This volume narrates the career of HMS "Surprise" in both her historical and fictional roles.

Book The Surgeon s Mate

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick O'Brian
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780393037074
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book The Surgeon s Mate written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers soon become menacing. The chase that follows is as thrilling and unexpected as anything O'Brian has written. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Book Lobscouse and Spotted Dog

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chotzinoff Anne Grossman
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2000-10-03
  • ISBN : 9780393320947
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Lobscouse and Spotted Dog written by Chotzinoff Anne Grossman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-10-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this cookbook companion to Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin novels, readers get authentic and practical recipes for dishes that complement the pair's travels--such as Burgoo, Drowned Baby, Sea-Pie, Jam Roly-Poly, and Sucking pig.

Book Celebration of Sail

Download or read book Celebration of Sail written by Roy Cross and published by Crowood Press (UK). This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features paintings by Roy Cross, one of the foremost marine painters working today. Dozens of his best paintings are showcased in full colour and accompanied by detailed captions giving historical information on each of the vessels featured.

Book The Lost Art of Walking

Download or read book The Lost Art of Walking written by Geoff Nicholson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we walk, where we walk, why we walk tells the world who and what we are. Whether it's once a day to the car, or for long weekend hikes, or as competition, or as art, walking is a profoundly universal aspect of what makes us humans, social creatures, and engaged with the world. Cultural commentator, Whitbread Prize winner, and author of Sex Collectors Geoff Nicholson offers his fascinating, definitive, and personal ruminations on the literature, science, philosophy, art, and history of walking. Nicholson finds people who walk only at night, or naked, or in the shape of a cross or a circle, or for thousands of miles at a time, in costume, for causes, or for no reason whatsoever. He examines the history and traditions of walking and its role as inspiration to artists, musicians, and writers like Bob Dylan, Charles Dickens, and Buster Keaton. In The Lost Art of Walking, he brings curiosity, imagination, and genuine insight to a subject that often strides, shuffles, struts, or lopes right by us.

Book Treason s Harbour

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick O'Brian
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780393037098
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Treason s Harbour written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language."--J. de Courcy Ireland

Book Printed Images by Australian Artists 1885 1955

Download or read book Printed Images by Australian Artists 1885 1955 written by Roger Butler and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of printmaking in Australia.

Book Life In Nelson s Navy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dudley Pope
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2013-03-08
  • ISBN : 0755147650
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Life In Nelson s Navy written by Dudley Pope and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a well-researched and highly readable account of naval life, both ashore and at sea, from a respected and admired historian and writer of whom it was written: ‘An author who really knows Nelson’s navy’ (Ramage’s Prize - The Observer) and ‘An expert knowledge of naval history’ (Ramage at Trafalgar - The Guardian).

Book The Maritime Paintings of Montague Dawson

Download or read book The Maritime Paintings of Montague Dawson written by Ron Ranson and published by David & Charles Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montague Dawson RMSA, FRSA was a British painter who was renowned as a maritime artist. His most famous paintings depict sailing ships, usually clippers or warships of the 18th and 19th centuries. In this volume there are over eighty paintings by one of the world's great maritime artists.

Book Master of the Sea

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Powell
  • Publisher : Alison Hodge Publishers
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 0906720370
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Master of the Sea written by Margaret Powell and published by Alison Hodge Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of one of the finest English maritime painters of the 19th century, told by his grandfather

Book The Tall Ship in Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roy Cross
  • Publisher : Blandford Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780713726947
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book The Tall Ship in Art written by Roy Cross and published by Blandford Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five world-class marine artists exhibit some of the most breathtaking paintings of ships ever published, in huge, oversize, full-color gallery-quality reproductions. Along with the gorgeous art comes the artists' own descriptions of their subjects and explanations of how they executed their work. The term "tall ships" calls to mind the majestic beauties that graced America's Bicentennial, but this collection also features paintings of such immortals as the Bounty, the Pinta and the Nina. Enjoy the views the clipper Southern Cross saw leaving Colonial Boston Harbor; an 1870 New York Yacht Club race; and many more scenes unforgettable to lovers of art and sailing alike.

Book Thomas Chambers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathleen A. Foster
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780300141054
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Thomas Chambers written by Kathleen A. Foster and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labeled as a traveling American folk artist when he was rediscovered in the mid-20th century, the mysterious Thomas Chambers here receives a fresh and creative reassessment. Although his distinctive sea- and landscapes appear in many American collections, little is known about this English-born painter, who arrived in New Orleans in 1832 and disappeared from record in the mid-1860s, leaving many paintings that later resurfaced in rural New York and Massachusetts. In this richly illustrated work, Kathleen A. Foster shows, however, that far from being simply an itinerant painter of folk art, Chambers actually enjoyed a professional, even entrepreneurial, relationship to the art world. Foster performs close studies of Chambers's known works, his stylistic relationship to his brother (English marine painter George Chambers), and a newly discovered American auction record of 1845. Chambers, she argues, provided a popular landscape art for a middle class of mixed cosmopolitan and folk tastes. Bringing "fancy" painting to this new constituency, Chambers worked outside academic circles, drawing astutely from popular culture. In the 20th century, his rediscovery as "America's first modern" paid tribute to his independent spirit and decorative panache. Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule: Philadelphia Museum of Art (September 27 - December 28, 2008) The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York (February 8 - April 19, 2009) American Folk Art Museum, New York (September 29 - March 7, 2010) Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington (March 26 - May 30, 2010)

Book The Marine Art of Geoff Hunt

Download or read book The Marine Art of Geoff Hunt written by Geoff Hunt and published by Mystic Seaport Museum Incorporated. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in paperback comes this Illustrated volume with over 150 paintings and sketches from the portfolio of one of the most celebrated marine artists of our time. His paintings of square-riggers, sea battles, and naval operations truly evoke the era of Nelson's Navy and those of its enemies during the "Age of Sail."

Book Nelson s Navy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Lavery
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2020-07-07
  • ISBN : 1472841352
  • Pages : 66 pages

Download or read book Nelson s Navy written by Brian Lavery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect guide to Nelson's Navy for all those with an interest in the workings of the great fleet.