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Warren W. SheppardThe Surf at Newportc. 1906
c. 1906
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The Surf at Newport (Rhode Island). c. 1906. Oil on canvas. 17 x 24 (framed 26 x 34). Lined; extensive craquelure; otherwise fine condition. Housed in an exceptional Louis XV (revival Rococo) style gold leaf frame. Signed lower left.
Newport is a, internationally-famous city in the New England state of Rhode Island, set on Aquidneck Island. Its yacht-filled harbor hosted the America’s Cup, a renowned annual regatta, for many years. In 1906, Sheppard was a crew member of the racing yacht Tamerlane on the Newport Bermuda race. He painted the Tamerlane in the Gulf Stream in that year.
Warren Sheppard (1858-1937) enjoyed careers as an artist, illustrator, yacht designer, and navigator. He was born in Greenwich, New Jersey, on the Delaware River, an area associated with shipping since colonial times. His father was a ship captain and Sheppard made many trips with him. Sheppard became active in yacht racing, designing his own yacht and twice commanding the yacht "Tamerlane" when it won the New York-to-Bermuda race. He wrote the authoritative work "Practical Navigation," used as a standard text by the United States Naval Academy. By his mid-thirties Sheppard had become a magazine illustrator of ships and marine scenes. He was an expert on the design and rigging of early ships, and his paintings were accurate in every detail. His only formal art training were of classes in perspective drawing at New York's Cooper Union. In 1874 he began to exhibit his work at the Brooklyn Art Association. In 1879 he spent four months sketching the Mediterranean ports of Gibraltar, Genoa, Naples, and Messina. In 1884 Sheppard was awarded a gold medal at the Denver Exposition. From 1888 to 1893 he traveled to Paris and Venice to study painting. Sheppard exhibited at the Brooklyn Art Association, the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Denver Exposition and the St. Louis Exposition. His paintings are in the collections of the Mystic Seaport Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Mariners' Museum, and the Museum of the City of New York.
- Creator:Warren W. Sheppard (1858 - 1937, American)
- Creation Year:c. 1906
- Dimensions:Height: 26 in (66.04 cm)Width: 34 in (86.36 cm)Depth: 4 in (10.16 cm)
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- Condition:Lined; extensive craqueleur.
- Gallery Location:Storrs, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU33522716113
Warren W. Sheppard
Warren Sheppard was born on April 10, 1858 in Greenwich, New Jersey along the Delaware River. This town was known as a seaport and shipbuilding center since the Colonial days. Sheppard’s father was a lumber ship captain and often took his son on trips along the river where the young boy was exposed to the sea and its ways. He studied painting under Mauritz Frederik de Haas (1832-1895), but received his formal artistic training at the Cooper Union, one of the nation's oldest institutions of higher learning, dedicated exclusively to preparing students for the professions of art and architecture. Sheppard was the essence and the personification of the Renaissance Man. He was first and foremost an artist, but he was also a teacher; a yacht designer as well as a yachtsman; and a navigator as well as the author of two books on navigation entitled, Practical Navigation and A Tale of the Sea which he also illustrated. Because Sheppard was intimately acquainted with the sea and its physicality coupled with his detailed knowledge of the design of the ships and their riggings, he was able to secure a number of commissions for illustrations in several well-known periodicals of the time such as the Brooklyn Eagle, the New York Herald Tribune, and the New York Sun.
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