South Street Seaport Museum
(212) 748-8600
207 Front Street,
New York, NY 10038
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Maritime Paintings
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Venue: South Street Seaport Museum
Cost: Adults: $10
Students/Seniors with ID: $8
Children 5-12: $5
Children under 5: Free
Museum Members: Free
The Southstreet Seaport Museum has an extensive collection of maritime paintings by the most renowned maritime artists to work in America.
Featured in the collection:
James Edward Buttersworth (1817 – 1894)
English
James Edward Buttersworth was born in Middlesex County, England but immigrated to the United States in the mid-1840s. From 1847 to1865 he was employed by Nathaniel Currier until he became an established marine artist in his own right.
Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (1850 – 1921)
Danish-American
Antonio Jacobsen moved to New York in 1871 and soon began to specialize in painting portraits of steamers. He was one of the most prolific maritime painters with over 4,000 known sketches and paintings to his name.
Duncan McFarlane (c.1818-1865)
British
McFarlane began his life’s work in Liverpool. He later sailed to America and was employed in the capacity of a ship and figure portraitist in Boston (one of his works was published by Currier & Ives as a lithograph). His paintings are noted for their skilled draftsmanship and in the ratio of ships to the overall picture area. McFarlane’s work is rarely seen on the public market. His talent has inspired historian A.S. Davidson to define him as “a true artisan of marine art.”
John Rubens Smith(c.1775-1849)
American
A master of drawing, topographer, portrait and miniature painter and art teacher, John Rubens Smith was born in London, where he studied with his father, John Raphael Smith, and exhibited portraits at the RoyalAcademy from 1796 to 1811. Smith was a skillful delineator of the American scene in the decades before photography, and a gifted teacher who influenced a generation of American artists through his drawing academies and drawing manuals.
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Ocean Liner Memorabilia
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Children 5-12: $5
Children under 5: Free
Museum Members: Free
The South Street Seaport Museum’s collection of ocean liner models and memorabilia evokes a time when swift and elegant ocean liners were the first and last words in fashionable and luxurious travel accommodations. Traveling by ocean liner was an experience apart from arriving at your ultimate destination.
The extensive collection ranges from scale models of ships like the Titanic and United States to posters, cigarette cards, hat bands, commemorative medals, tea sets and china and menus. The Museum’s model of the Queen Mary, now on display in the Walter Lord Gallery, once graced the lobby of Cunard Line’s main headquarters in New York City.
In 2003, the Museum acquired the collection, of the now closed Ocean Liner Museum - making the Museum the largest repository for Ocean Liner Memorabilia in the world.
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Scrimshaw
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Children 5-12: $5
Children under 5: Free
Museum Members: Free
Scrimshaw is well known for its historical and aesthetic qualities. It is an evocative symbol of connection: between land and sea, between the whale and the utilitarian consumption of its by-products, and between the tedium and the danger in the personal lives of crewmen who were instruments of the hunt. The collection primarily comes from such major contributors as Jack R. Aron, a notable lifelong collector, and from the former Seamen’s Bank for Savings. With over 700 pieces this scrimshaw collection ranks among the finest in the United States.
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Ship Models
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The South Street Seaport Museum maintains a collection of over 1,000 ship models, from full hull to waterline models, all have which have contributed to the history of the Port of New York.
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