Harbor Night
by James Williamson
Original - Sold
Price
$895
Dimensions
18.000 x 12.000 inches
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Title
Harbor Night
Artist
James Williamson
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
HARBOR NIGHT watercolor painting by artist James Williamson.
A full moon illuminates the masts of a tall ship as a steam tug prepares to assist.
Artist James Williamson, ASMA
Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists
Pacific Coast Tugboat History
Artwork dedicated to the men of the Pacific Coast's fleet of working boats, and to the gallant vessels, which will forever live in our memory.
Classic Pacific Coast Tugboats: Gallant workboats with a history of nostalgic drama and color in tugboat operation on Pacific waters. Tugboats are a colorful and essential part of the Pacific Coast seascape today, just as they were a century ago.
Pushing their way through fierce storms to find a stricken ship a thousand miles at sea or sailing down a fairway on a summer afternoon with seagulls crying and catching rides on the boom of logs astern, tugboats are a colorful and essential part of the Pacific Northwest Coast today.
The hiss of steam and the creak of walking beams have given way to diesel and tractor power. Tugboats are a story of brave men in powerful vessels who are not afraid to take on a mighty ocean. A history of hard-hitting sea adventures of the great ships of sail and steam alike.
Tugboats on Puget Sound
Tug boating started on Puget Sound as a means of getting trees to the mills. The timber barons of the nineteenth century built their sawmills on tidewater, rigged with miles of virgin forests. Steam tugs towed the log rafts to the mills.
Sailing ships came to Puget Sound from all ports of the world. Around the Horn from Europe and East Coast ports, across the Pacific from the Orient and the Antipodes, and up the West Coast from the booming towns of California.
Originally the tugs' purpose was the towing of ocean sailing vessels to and from their intended docks. Today, engines power ships, yet they continue to require assistance of these powerful tugboats in and out of docks throughout Puget Sound.
Pacific Coast Maritime Artwork
Artist James Williamson
Steam Tugboats of the World
Artist James Williamson has created artwork to foster and encourage the preservation and restoration of STEAM TUGBOATS throughout the world and to stimulate public interest in the history of maritime steam.
The history of steam tugboats can be found hidden away in books on a shelf. Mr. Williamson’s artwork invites the collector to display this important maritime history in their home and office for all to see.
Artwork that inspires people to learn and to foster steam culture; maintain maritime traditions and knowhow of steam vessels and their operation and to transfer this information to new generations.
The artist acquires information about vessels, identifies important aspects of the maritime history, and explores archival material that documents the history. Combining all aspects to create a memorable, visual appealing and enlightening work of art.
Mr. Williamson’s maritime artwork of tugboats is a medium to inspire and cultivate the stories past, present, and future of the tugboat industry. The artwork deepens and expands the knowledge, history and importance of sea transportation, encourages new research, writing and artistic rendering of ships. The paintings engage the imagination of youth with sea travel and its innovations by highlighting the importance of world trade and open markets made possible by sea transportation.
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December 2nd, 2011
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