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STOBART AND McGURL TO GIVE FIRST OF MASTER CLASSES
by Greg Harper, Executive Director
and Curator of the Cape Museum of Fine Arts
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John
Stobart and Joseph McGurl, two of the most prominent maritime painters in the
United States, will hold the first of the master classes for artists at the
Cape Museum of Fine Arts, June 19-22. Each
session will run from 9:30 AM to 2:00 PM. Called
"Draughtsmanship and Research for the Maritime Artist," the course, will deal mainly with the generation of ideas, less with
technique. Although there will be a portion of time spent on
drawing from life. Students
will learn how to research maritime subjects and how to render and reorient
the documentary images for compositional purposes. Stobart
is perhaps the premiere painter of the American harbor scene in the days of
the great clipper ship. The English-born son of a pharmacist, he is known for
the quality control he exercises over his work.
The evidence of such lies, says Harper, in 75 of the master's paintings
featured in E. P. Dutton's outstanding book about him called "Stobart:
The Rediscovery of America's Maritime Heritage." Jospeh
McGurl received his most influential instruction from his father, a well-known
muralist. The younger McGurl's
work relates to the 19th-century luminist painters but with a modern approach
to style and subject. The process
of the former yacht captain relies on sketches, reinterpreted memory and
imagination. The
museum is on the campus of the Cape Playhouse Center for the Arts, Route 6A,
Dennis, where the 100 pieces currently displayed in the 12th National
Exhibition of the American
Society of Marine Artists provide an appropriate complement to the Stobart/McGurl
class. The
two other offerings in the series are "Mining the Subject" (July 10
- 13) with Jan Collins Selman and "The Artist's
Book" (August 7 -10) with Ann Gillen. |
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