John Steven Dews

The Mighty Westward

20th Century

Gustave Cariot 1872-1950 French L'allée fleurie (The Flowered Path) Signed and dated "G. Cariot 1907" (lower right) Oil on canvas Celebrated French painter Gustave Cariot evokes ...

Hugues Claude Pissarro b.1935 French La petite île (The Little Island) Signed “H. Claude Pissarro” (lower right) Oil on canvas In this composition, French artist H. Claude Pissar...

Hugues Claude Pissarro b. 1935 French Le manoir de Miette au Vey (Miette's Manor in Vey) Signed “H. Claude Pissarro” (lower left) Oil on canvas H. Claude Pissarro masterfully cap...

Ramon Dilley 1933 - Spanish Le château d’Artigny Signed “Dilley 90” (lower right) Signed and titled “Ramon Dilley / Le château d’Artigny” (en verso) Oi...

Unframed Dimensions: 30 x 40 in. Framed Dimensions: 35 1/2 x 45 1/2 in. Signed lower left The painting depicts Nat Herreshoff’s great racing schooner Ingomar racing the schooner Elmina off Great Captain Island during the Larchmont Race week 1907 at her helm is the redoubtable Charlie Barr the successful skipper of three Americas’s Cup campaigns. Ingomar was built of the wealthy financier Morton F Plant and was the first of Nat Herreshoff’s 9 great steel hulled racing schooners which included, Queen, Westward, Elena and others. She was built alongside Reliance in 1903 and joined her on the New York Yacht Clubs annual cruise of that year as Reliance tunned up to Defend the America’s Cup against Shamrock 111. In 1904 with Capt Charlie Barr at the helm and a crew of veterans from Reliance she crossed the Atlantic to race the cream of the British yachting fleet at Cowes before crossing to compete in the German regattas at Keil where with Capt Barr at the helm she famously forced the German Kaiser racing on his schooner Meteor...

Unframed Dimensions: 30 x 40 in. Framed Dimensions: 35 1/2 x 45 1/2 in. Signed lower left The painting depicts Rainbow leading Endeavour in the crucial race five of the 1934 Americ...

Andrea Locatelli (Rome, Italy, 1695 – 1741) Title: Landscape with fisherman Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: Without frame 27 x 28.5 cm – with frame 35 x 47.6 x 3.5 cm Expertise b...

Gorgeous American impressionist mid century coastal landscape painting of sailboats near Santa Barbara by John Dominque (Swedish/American, 1893 - 1994), 1946. Signed "Dominique" and ...