DOI Heft:
No. 249 (January 1914)
DOI Artikel:Schmidt, Anna Seaton: An american marine painter: Frederick J. Waugh
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21208#0299
An American Marine Painter: F. J. tVaug/i
“fresh morning breeze”
During the five years that he held this position he
never failed to send a marine or landscape to the
Royal Academy, where his pictures were invariably
sold before the close of the exhibition. At this
time he was elected a member of the Bristol
Academy (now called the Royal West of England
Academy).
After fifteen years of absence from his own
country he decided to take up his permanent
residence in America, and it was on his home
voyage that I first had the pleasure of meeting him.
My curiosity had been excited during a tremen-
dous storm by seeing a tall, slender man lashed to
the mast, painting steadily on, despite the blinding
spray and wild lurching of the vessel. The storm
lasted three days, yet he only forsook his post when
the bugle sounded for dinner. Completely drenched,
he would dash down to his cabin, and half an hour
later quietly take his place in the dining saloon.
Artists who sketch the sea attract little attention
on board ship, but a man who paints eight hours a
day and makes no parade of it, is always interesting,
and I was much pleased when we were introduced.
BY FREDERICK J. WAUGH
The boat was a slow one, and we were able to spend
many evenings on deck discussing our favourite
artists and schools of painting. I learned much of the
sterling character of the man, his broad grasp of life
and his deep appreciation of everything beautiful,
whether in music, literature, or art. What attracted
me most strongly was his devotion to his wife and
children, his desire to help and to make happy all
with whom he was brought in contact.
Soon after landing he exhibited some of his
marines in New York and Philadelphia, where they
attracted universal attention. To those who had
known him only as a portraitist they came as a
revelation of his genius, and he was at once placed
among our great painters of the sea. Yet it was
his masterly treatment of the human figure that won
for him the Clark prize in the New York Academy
three or four years ago.
The picture of The Buccaneers was suggested by
a costume party at the Salamagundi Club, where
the exquisite colour effects of old armour and pirate
costumes appealed powerfully to Waugh’s imagina-
tion. This picture shows the influence of his care-
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“fresh morning breeze”
During the five years that he held this position he
never failed to send a marine or landscape to the
Royal Academy, where his pictures were invariably
sold before the close of the exhibition. At this
time he was elected a member of the Bristol
Academy (now called the Royal West of England
Academy).
After fifteen years of absence from his own
country he decided to take up his permanent
residence in America, and it was on his home
voyage that I first had the pleasure of meeting him.
My curiosity had been excited during a tremen-
dous storm by seeing a tall, slender man lashed to
the mast, painting steadily on, despite the blinding
spray and wild lurching of the vessel. The storm
lasted three days, yet he only forsook his post when
the bugle sounded for dinner. Completely drenched,
he would dash down to his cabin, and half an hour
later quietly take his place in the dining saloon.
Artists who sketch the sea attract little attention
on board ship, but a man who paints eight hours a
day and makes no parade of it, is always interesting,
and I was much pleased when we were introduced.
BY FREDERICK J. WAUGH
The boat was a slow one, and we were able to spend
many evenings on deck discussing our favourite
artists and schools of painting. I learned much of the
sterling character of the man, his broad grasp of life
and his deep appreciation of everything beautiful,
whether in music, literature, or art. What attracted
me most strongly was his devotion to his wife and
children, his desire to help and to make happy all
with whom he was brought in contact.
Soon after landing he exhibited some of his
marines in New York and Philadelphia, where they
attracted universal attention. To those who had
known him only as a portraitist they came as a
revelation of his genius, and he was at once placed
among our great painters of the sea. Yet it was
his masterly treatment of the human figure that won
for him the Clark prize in the New York Academy
three or four years ago.
The picture of The Buccaneers was suggested by
a costume party at the Salamagundi Club, where
the exquisite colour effects of old armour and pirate
costumes appealed powerfully to Waugh’s imagina-
tion. This picture shows the influence of his care-
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