By Tim Plaehn, Marinefuel.com News

schooner yacht artists

Avid boaters and sailors often want their art to reflect their sailing passion. The beautiful lines of schooner yachts have inspired many artists through the years and a search for schooner yacht paintings and schooner artists can result in the discovery of some amazing pieces. The search for schooner representations can lead down a couple of paths. Where to view examples from historic schooner artists work and where to get an artistic representation of a beautiful schooner to hang on the wall.

Some of the best places to view older, quality yacht focused art is to visit historic yacht clubs. Many of these clubs were formed when the only way the keep records of the yachts were paintings and drawings. For example, the New York City Yacht club has amassed a collection of over 150 paintings and water colors. The works are displayed in the club’s New York clubhouse and the outpost, Harbor Court in Newport, Rhode Island. Some of the more famous marine artists with works in the collection are British artist Barlow Moore, renowned European artist, Italian Chevalier Edoardo de Martino, Americans James Edward Buttersworth and Frederic Schiller Cozzens. Other artists with paintings hanging in the NYYC are Archibald Cary Smith, who was also a shipwright and yacht designer, Elisha Taylor Baker and Conrad Freitag. If you belong to or have an older yacht club in your local area I would not be surprised of you can find some beautiful yacht works hanging on their walls.

If you want to own some art depicting schooner yachts there are a couple of avenues to search. These are options for those who are not serious art collectors, but want a beautiful and stirring piece to hang on the wall. Online site Fine Art America provides a location for artists to sell both original are reprints of their works. The Schooner Paintings page has a selection of art you can buy or contact an artist to see what other schooner art they may have available. 1st-Art-Gallery.com can provide a hand painted copy of just about any piece of art. You can even select the size for your own piece of schooner painting. On the website, famous marine artist James E. Butterworth has five pages (20 paintings per page) of works listed that copies of which can be purchased through the website.

For the sailing enthusiast, the works of current and historic schooner yacht artists can be compelling. If you want to ferret out local example of these works check out the historic yacht clubs. If you are looking for your own piece of schooner yacht art to hang on the den wall, the Internet provides several resources with a wide range of choices and prices.

Source: Magazine Antiques, July 1999, Fine Art America , 1st Art Gallery