Title: Oil on canvas of a sailing ship. Author: Coulter, William Alexander Place: Publisher: Date: No date Description: 14x20” oil on canvas, on board showing a three-masted square rigger in a stormy sea. Set in a gilt frame which measures 17½x23½” overall. Signed W.A. Coulter, lower right. Coulter, (1849-1936), an American marine painter was born in Ireland, and as a young man went to sea, and sketched and painted in his off hours. He arrived in San Francisco in 1869 where he worked as a sailmaker and by 1874 was exhibiting at the SFAA. By 1890 he was living in Sausalito with a studio on Montgomery Street. One of his most important commissions was done between 1909-20 which is the huge mural which still hangs in the old SF Merchants Exchange building on California Street. In 1923 the US Postal Service immortalized one of his paintings with a commemorative stamp. He never painted ships in distress, and always showed them in full glory as this painting exhibits. His works are held in most local museums, as well as many across the country. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine. Item number: 240412
Title: Oil on canvas of a sailing ship. Author: Coulter, William Alexander Place: Publisher: Date: No date Description: 14x20” oil on canvas, on board showing a three-masted square rigger in a stormy sea. Set in a gilt frame which measures 17½x23½” overall. Signed W.A. Coulter, lower right. Coulter, (1849-1936), an American marine painter was born in Ireland, and as a young man went to sea, and sketched and painted in his off hours. He arrived in San Francisco in 1869 where he worked as a sailmaker and by 1874 was exhibiting at the SFAA. By 1890 he was living in Sausalito with a studio on Montgomery Street. One of his most important commissions was done between 1909-20 which is the huge mural which still hangs in the old SF Merchants Exchange building on California Street. In 1923 the US Postal Service immortalized one of his paintings with a commemorative stamp. He never painted ships in distress, and always showed them in full glory as this painting exhibits. His works are held in most local museums, as well as many across the country. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine. Item number: 240412
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