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  2. Frank W. Wood - Wikipedia

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    During World War Two, Wood created also paintings to commemorate some of the major events of the war that had a naval component for example The Epic of Dunkirk and The Battle of The River Plate. Legacy and death. Frank Wood was a talented painter of British Royal Navy warships and landscapes.

  3. James Sessions - Wikipedia

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    James Milton Sessions (September 20, 1882 - November 14, 1962) was an American artist born in Rome, NY.Sessions was a master watercolorist of marine, sporting, and military World War II scenes.

  4. The Bootleggers (Hopper) - Wikipedia

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    The experience led to a grief-stricken watercolor titled Day After the Funeral, showing two people dressed in black walking down a street on a frigid, winter day. [8] Hopper began selling his first works to museums, with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts purchasing Apartment Houses (1923) in March. Museums in London and New York soon ...

  5. Bombardment of Punta Sombrero - Wikipedia

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    Watercolor. 1847. Naval Sketches of the War in California. Limited Edition 1,000. Grabhorn Press. San Francisco. 1939. The USS Libertad, tender ship of the USS Dale under command of Lieutenant T. A. M. Craven, USN, bombarding Punta Sombrero in the operation against the communications of Mexican troops at Muleje. 31 October 1847.

  6. William Frederick Mitchell - Wikipedia

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    William Frederick Mitchell (Calshot, 1845–1914, Ryde, Isle of Wight) was a British artist commissioned to paint many naval and merchant ships. Mitchell's collected works were originally published in The Royal Navy in a series of illustrations. Many are in the National Maritime Museum Collection in Greenwich, England.

  7. Marine art - Wikipedia

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    Naval cadets were now encouraged to learn drawing, as new coastal charts made at sea were expected to be accompanied by "coastal profiles", or sketches of the land behind, and artists were appointed to teach the subject at naval schools, including John Thomas Serres, who published Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawings in ...

  8. Lou Nolan (artist) - Wikipedia

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    Louis James Nolan, Jr. (28 June 1926 Washington, D.C. [1] – 24 October 2008 McLean, Virginia) was an American artist who, among other things, designed several United States Navy recruiting posters and, from 1985 through 2007, illustrated about twenty-five USPS stamps. In Navy literature, he is sometimes incorrectly credited as Lloyd Nolan.

  9. Roux family (marine painters) - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Roux was born in 1725 in Marseille, France to Joseph Roux, who worked as a hydrographer, and Magdaleine Senequier. [2] He took over the family business and became a hydrographer like his father, “in the course of which he published, manufactured, and sold a wide assortment of charts, navigating instruments, and related nautical gear.” [3] It was probably around the mid-18th century ...