Sailing Bye

Sailing Bye

on September 22, 2018, painted June 19, 2019

7" x 5" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,

and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness

and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on

140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100%

cotton extra white watercolor paper

Sails in Sight Insight Quiz

Which two paintings are from the artist's sketchbooks?

Which painting was painted when the artist was thirteen years old?

Which painting is the oldest?

Which painting is the newest?

Which painting was painted with a view from the same island that I painted, above?

Which painting had a print of it hung in our living room by my father during my teenage years?

1

Boy in a Dory

Winslow Homer, (1836-1910) American

Watercolor on paper, 14" x 10" (w x h), circa 1881

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut

2

Sloop, Nassau

Winslow Homer, (1836-1910) American

Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper,
21" x 15" (w x h), 1899

The MET, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

3

Venetian Barges

Henry Scott Tuke, R.A., R.W.S. (1858-1929) British

Watercolor on paper, 5" x 4", 1899

Sotheby's London, February 5, 2019
Estimate: 1,000 - 1,500 GBP, Sold 1,000 GBP ($1,250 USD)

4

Rough Sea, with a Fishing-Boat

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) English

Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper,
11" x 8" (w x h), circa 1820-1830

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection,
New Haven, Connecticut

5

Seascape at Rimini

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) American

Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper,
10" x 6" (w x h), May 28 1869

6

Movement No.9, Sea and Boat,
Deer Isle, Maine

John Marin (1870-1953) American

Watercolor and black crayon on paper, 22" x 18" (w x h), 1927

Alfred Stieglitz Collection

7

Ground Swell

Edward Hopper (1882-1967) American

Oil on canvas, 50" x 36" (w x h), 1939

Corcoran Collection

Corcoran School of the Arts and Design,
George Washington University

8

Flying Dutchman

Man Ray (1890-1976) American

Oil on board, 25" x 19" (w x h), 1920

The MET, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

Which two paintings are from the artist's sketchbooks?

#4, Rough Sea, with a Fishing-Boat, Joseph Mallord William Turner, circa 1820-1830
and
#5, Seascape at Rimini, John Singer Sargent, 1869

Which painting was painted when the artist was thirteen years old?

#5, Seascape at Rimini, John Singer Sargent, 1869

"Among the earliest works by Sargent is a remarkable sketchbook that records the family's travels in summer 1869, when they toured southern Italy and then went north to the Alps. His drawings, often inscribed with location and date, reflect the seriousness with which the talented thirteen-year-old Sargent chronicled the journey. These prodigious records of travel helped convince his parents to endorse his choice of career.

In October 1870 John Singer Sargent's father, Fitzwilliam, wrote to his mother, John's grandmother, 'My boy John seems to have a strong desire to be an Artist by profession, a painter, he shows so much evidence of talent in that direction, and takes so much pleasure in cultivating it, that we have concluded to gratify him and to keep that plan in view in his studies.'"

Which painting is the oldest?

#4, circa 1820-1830, Rough Sea, with a Fishing-Boat, Joseph Mallord William Turner

Which painting is the newest?

#7, 1939, Ground Swell, Edward Hopper

Which painting was painted with a view from the same island that I painted, above?

#6, Movement No.9, Sea and Boat, Deer Isle, Maine, John Marin, 1927

Deer Isle Maine, the island where Stonington, Maine's located, is where I often go to paint, sometimes at the same exact places where he's painted. I painted Sailing Bye from a photo I took in September 2018.

Which painting had a print of it hung in our living room by my father during my teenage years?

#2, Sloop, Nassau, Winslow Homer, 1899