Released on: 31, December 1969
, Author: Rosemary McKittrick
, Audience: Internet related
Nov. 12, 2007--A kinship with the sea shows up in different waysfor different people. For some it s a life as a seafarer. Other people becomeenvironmentalists. For 20th century painter Montague Dawson it was life devoted topainting the sea.
Born in 1895, Dawson grew up close to the England s Southampton water. He came froma long line of sea lovers. His father was an engineer and sea captain. Hisgrandfather Henry Dawson was a marine artist.
Recreating the sea s magic on canvas was in his blood. Even as a young child hestudied the giant vessels coming and going.
Dawson s fascination with the beauty of the great commercial sailing ships wasobvious in his later work. Nothing escaped his attention.
The massive ships. The hard breezes. The restless seas. The fierce skies. Heconnected the dots and captured the relationship in a way that few others did.
Dawson completed his first watercolor at the age of five. It was the seeding of atalent that would end as Dawson being named one of the greatest marine artists ofthe 20th century.
He never even went to art school. He did join an art studio in 1910 in Bedford Row,London, which made posters and illustrations.
When World War I started in 1914, the sea lover joined the Royal Navy. He metOfficer Charles Napier Hemy, the maritime artist. Hemy tutored Dawson and had ahuge impact on his work.
During World Wars I and II Dawson supplied the magazine Sphere with monochromeillustrations of historical events like the final surrender of the German GrandFleet. It was illustrations like this that brought him the attention he longed foras an artist.
Dawson s painting of the China Tea trade clippers Chrysolite and Stornoway almostneck-and-neck racing home through the high seas is marine history frozen in time.
The oil on canvas went on the block on July 25, 2007, in Christie s, Marine auction. The 28 inches by 42 inches painting sold for $216,000.
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