John Stobart, a British-born artist whose evocative, meticulously researched oil paintings of 19th-century harbors and tall ships earned him a reputation as one of the world’s foremost maritime ...

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) will present Where the Mountains Meet the Sea, a new exhibit of landscape paintings by 12 predominately Santa ...

Famed 19 t h-century painter James E. Buttersworth distinguished his ship portraits in numerous ways, combining the luminism of the Hudson River landscape school with the technical adeptness of a ...

John Stobart depicted the Golden Age of Sail with meticulous attention to detail, each brushstroke drawing us closer into maritime history navigated by his keen eye for key port cities around the ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. In 1918, maritime painter John ...

Maritime painters from throughout the state will unite on Sunday, April 28, to raise funds for cancer research, education and prevention at the second annual Canvases For A Cause, sponsored by Sails ...

A seventh-generation artist, John Perry supported himself for decades by painting and selling maritime oil paintings and playing guitar in country rock bands. But when the market for his paintings ...

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) is pleased to announce the opening of its latest exhibition Coastal Moments, a presentation of 10 local plein air artists and their works incorporating coastal ...

Thomas Chambers (1806-1869) has been called America’s first modernist, a curious label for a Brit who made paintings of ships as interior decoration. Yet, as a Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibit ...

Fans of the popular Antiques Roadshow television program often fantasize that the old painting that Grandpa left them is actually worth something--and in the case of the owner of this maritime ...