Claude MuncasterSovereign and Kurrewa America’s Cup Interest Oil Painting1964
1964
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- Creator:Claude Muncaster (1903 - 1974, British)
- Creation Year:1964
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Holywell, GB
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Claude Muncaster
At the age of 15, the career for landscape painter Claude Grahame Muncaster, RWS, ROI, RBA, SMA began, and he soon took to the seas, spending the 1920s and ‘30s traveling the world with his sketchbook in a series of vessels. With the outbreak of war, he joined the RNVR training as a navigator. Having left school at 15, his understanding of mathematics was very weak, and it was a relief for all when his artistic talents meant he was recruited as a camoufleur.
A master of capturing seascapes, Muncaster was, therefore, able to hide huge ships in plain sight with clever disguises. After the war, he painted for the Royal Family and was a frequent guest at Sandringham. Muncaster was a watercolorist known for his landscapes and maritime scenes.
Born Grahame Hall, Muncaster was the son of the Royal Academician Oliver Hall, who taught his son to paint from an early age. He first exhibited his work at 15 and a few years later was showing at the Royal Academy. However, he adopted the name Claude Muncaster in 1922 to dissociate his career from that of his father. Muncaster’s primary choice of subject matter came from a genuine love of the sea. He made several long-distance sea voyages, including one around the Horn as a deckhand in the windjammer Olivebank in 1931, which he described in Rolling Round the Horn, published in 1933. Armed with a sketchbook, Muncaster aimed to be able to paint ships and the sea with greater authority. This he certainly achieved, perfectly capturing the limpid first light of morning over the Port of Aden, the choppy rain-grey waters of the Bay of Biscay and a streak of sunlight through gathering storm clouds at dusk in Exeter.
Muncaster became an associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1931 and was a founding member, and later president, of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. During the Second World War, Muncaster served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) from 1940–44, training as a navigator before going on to advise on the camouflage of ships, and also worked as an official war artist. In 1946–47, he was commissioned by the Queen to produce watercolors of the royal residences at Windsor, Sandringham and Balmoral, the Duke of Edinburgh, in a foreword to a biography of Muncaster, recalls looking at these and considering the artist’s unerring instinct for a subject, his sense of atmosphere. Other commissions included large panoramas of the Thames and Bradford. Muncaster's career also included work as an etcher, illustrator, writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and his paintings can be found in the Royal Academy, Tate, National Maritime Museum Cornwall, National Railway Museum and Royal Air Force Museum.
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