DOI issue:
Nr. 341 (October 1925)
DOI article:M'Cormick, William B.: Going to sea in art
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19986#0016
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SCSI®!©
THE FLAPPER Courtesy of Milcb Galleries BY IRVING R. WILES
board foremast shrouds here, none of our painters summer months while away for a holiday from his
gives to us so much of the thrilling grace of these more familiar genres, in painting pictures of 'long-
superb pleasure craft. shore craft, yachts and small boats, of which "The
Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific seaboard each have Flapper" reproduced here is a glowing example,
literally myriad fleets of smaller craft whose type- He brings to these paintings of vessels a back-
names present an extraordinary variety from dory ground of yacht sailor himself and of being con-
and bugeye to cat-boat of the older styles down sidered the leading authority on ship models in
to the more modern "Star" and "Jewel" classes, this country. And no one can be an authority on
Seldom does one see so wholly admirable a picture these models without being learned as to ships
of these smaller craft as is shown in Edward themselves and the ways of the sea. Wiles paints
Hopper's etching of "The Cat-Boat." Here he a few of these marine pictures every summer and
has preserved not only the fine sturdy form of the they immediately disappear into private collec-
hull and rig but the quite as important thing of tions, few of them ever appearing in public exhi-
giving to the informed small-boat sailor his knowl- bitions. One of the finest things of this kind he
edge of a definite moment in sailing spiritedly ever did, a schooner yacht slowly fanning along
expressed. before a faint evening breeze, was in the Hearn
If I have left Irving R. Wiles to the last in this Collection and hung for several years in the
brief summary of the best of our present-day Metropolitan Museum of Art. And I recall
painters of ships it is chiefly for the reason that another painting of several sailing boats of the
he is so much more widely known as a portrait dingy class, each with its sail up and lying at the
and figure man that he is seldom thought of as a end of the usual American wooden landing, that
marine artist at all. For many years now Wiles summarized pretty much all the thrill of pleasure
has sought variety in his work, but only in the the boat-sailor finds in these works of Wiles.
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SCSI®!©
THE FLAPPER Courtesy of Milcb Galleries BY IRVING R. WILES
board foremast shrouds here, none of our painters summer months while away for a holiday from his
gives to us so much of the thrilling grace of these more familiar genres, in painting pictures of 'long-
superb pleasure craft. shore craft, yachts and small boats, of which "The
Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific seaboard each have Flapper" reproduced here is a glowing example,
literally myriad fleets of smaller craft whose type- He brings to these paintings of vessels a back-
names present an extraordinary variety from dory ground of yacht sailor himself and of being con-
and bugeye to cat-boat of the older styles down sidered the leading authority on ship models in
to the more modern "Star" and "Jewel" classes, this country. And no one can be an authority on
Seldom does one see so wholly admirable a picture these models without being learned as to ships
of these smaller craft as is shown in Edward themselves and the ways of the sea. Wiles paints
Hopper's etching of "The Cat-Boat." Here he a few of these marine pictures every summer and
has preserved not only the fine sturdy form of the they immediately disappear into private collec-
hull and rig but the quite as important thing of tions, few of them ever appearing in public exhi-
giving to the informed small-boat sailor his knowl- bitions. One of the finest things of this kind he
edge of a definite moment in sailing spiritedly ever did, a schooner yacht slowly fanning along
expressed. before a faint evening breeze, was in the Hearn
If I have left Irving R. Wiles to the last in this Collection and hung for several years in the
brief summary of the best of our present-day Metropolitan Museum of Art. And I recall
painters of ships it is chiefly for the reason that another painting of several sailing boats of the
he is so much more widely known as a portrait dingy class, each with its sail up and lying at the
and figure man that he is seldom thought of as a end of the usual American wooden landing, that
marine artist at all. For many years now Wiles summarized pretty much all the thrill of pleasure
has sought variety in his work, but only in the the boat-sailor finds in these works of Wiles.
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