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The Great Transatlantic Ocean Liners

CARONIA Capetown, 1951

CARONIA Capetown, 1951

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Biography
Ian Marshall

an Marshall is currently President of ASMA. He is the author of four earlier books of paintings, Armored Ships, Ironclads, Passage East and Flying Boats. His work hangs in the permanent collections of the U.S. Naval Academy Museum at Annapolis, the Royal Naval Museum at Portsmouth, England, the Scottish United Services Museum at Edinburgh Castle, Maine Maritime Museum, Lloyds of London, Foynes Flying Boat Museum, Co. Limerick, Ireland, Botswana National Museum and the Royal Netherlands Navy Museum at Den Helder, Netherlands.

For twenty years his paintings have been shown in London by Oliver Swann. Swann's gallery, now merged under the name of the Tryon and Royal Exchange Art Gallery, is located at 7 Bury Street, close to St. James' Street. In America, Marshall's work is shown by the American Marine Model Gallery at Salem, Massachusetts, the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery at Fairfield, Connecticut and the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut. His ship [paintings have been the subject of public exhibitions at the U.S. Navy Museum in Washington D.C., the U.S. Naval Academy and the Maine Maritime Museum. His work has been hung regularly at annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Marine Artists in London and at the Mystic International, Mystic Seaport Museum, Connecticut. In 2004, he received the Rudolph J. Schaefer Maritime Heritage Award at the Mystic International.

Ian comes from the County of Fife, in Scotland. He acquired his qualifications as an architect at the University of Cape Town and the University of Pennsylvania. His architectural career was in private practice largely in East and Central Africa. His wife is from Massachusetts and since 1986 they have made their home on Mount Desert Island in Maine.

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