A Provincetown childhood bonded Stephen Cook to the sea early, and growing up in a family of visual artists determined his career interest. After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Illustration, Stephen has spent most of the past five decades in the illustration, graphic design, and art education fields. [...]
Originally from the Midwest, David Coolidge attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and studied in Rome, Italy at the Tyler School of Art. He cites his apprenticeship with John Falter, noted cover illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post, as the high point of his art training. For more than 10 years he worked in Old [...]
J. Terry Culpan has been painting for more than 30 years and his work has been acquired by collectors in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. As a keen student of Naval architecture and living most of his life on England’s Yorkshire coast, it seemed natural for him to specialize in painting marine subjects. He [...]
Art has always been a focal part of Donald Curran’s life. His drive to draw and paint always pushed him to pursue a career in art. Donald studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and in 1975 began a career as a successful illustrator. He is best known for designing and illustrating high-end collectible steins for [...]
Bill Davidson is a nationally known artist and teacher represented in galleries in several states in the Untied States. He is also an accomplished Plein Air painter, which enlivens his larger paintings, and has studied extensively under recognized masters of representational American landscape paintings.
Anthony Davis is a Signature member of the American Society of Marine Artists and Artist member of the Salmagundi Club. Today, in addition to painting local scenery, Anthony continues with his first love, representing the ocean and maritime scenery in a realistic fashion through the use of pastel.
One of the leaders of the new generation of marine artists, Don Demers has had a life-long love of the sea. Although he attributes his high school art teacher with being the most formative influence in his training, he attended the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts, and concluded his formal studies at the Massachusetts [...]
Born in Oakland, CA in 1930, DeWitt’s career has never veered from his two loves, sailing and art. As a five-year-old, he drew pictures of the sailboat his father was building in their backyard and dreamed of someday being her skipper. He studied art for six years at the California College of Arts and Crafts [...]
Andrey Dolenko was born in 1951 in Sevastopl in the Crimean Peninsula on the Black Sea and migrated to Vladivostok in 1959 where he later attended the Russian Maritime Academy. He received his degree in Management of the Fleet Fishing Industry. Andrey and his family have dedicated much of their lives to the sea on whaling vessels: his [...]
Patrick Donovan was born in Hampshire, England, in 1944 and brought up and educated in Dorset, on the English Channel coast. He specializes in marine and military subjects using watercolour, oils, pen, ink and pencil.