Name: North Atlantic Gale, USS Constitution, 1812
Brand: Paul Garnett

North Atlantic Gale, USS Constitution, 1812

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About the Item

In the year 1812, the U.S. Frigate Constitution was sent across the Atlantic to rendezvous’ with the squadron in the Mediterranean. It was a storied passage that time and time again tested the stoutly built frigate to her limits. In this painting, the ship is shown as she tried to battle her way out of a North Atlantic gale. The sea is confused and storm wracked, and the sky is streaked with interwoven bolts of lightning. The Constitution is seen with her t’gallant masts let down through the top mast crosstrees and under shortened topsails and a fore topmast staysail. The ship’s boats are lashed firmly to their davits and the hammocks can be clearly seen stowed in their netting along the rails. Details of the ship’s appearance at this time in her career were taken from the “Anatomy of a Ship Series: The Frigate U.S.S. Constitution,” as well as “A Most Fortunate Ship” by the former Constitution Commander Tyrone Martin. A native of Massachusetts, marine artist Paul Garnett is entirely self-taught. For seven years he served as the shipwright on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's tall ship replica of the famous "Bounty" that was built for M.G.M.'s 1962 production of Mutiny on the Bounty starring Marlon Brando.His artwork has been featured in Nautical World Magazine and Sea History Magazine. He has also had his paintings appear on A & E's Sea Tales as well as The History Channel's program History's Mysteries. The Clinton County Historical Society in New York licensed Battle of Valcour Island as a poster for their recovery project on the lake where the battle took place. This painting has also been used in Facts On File's Revolutionary War Almanac. Mr. Garnett's paintings have also been featured as the covers of the trilogy by naval historian William H. White about the War of 1812 – A Press of Canvas, A Fine Tops'l Breeze and The Evening Gun. Also, for Mr. White, the artist has produced covers for The Greater the Honor a tale of the Barbary Wars, In Pursuit of Glory, When Fortune Frowns, The Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora, Gun Bay and Sea History's Press Guide to the War of 1812. Recently, Nicholas Nicastro's work Between Two Fires A Novel of John Paul Jones used Mr. Garnett's art for the cover. He has also done cover art for Telarc's Masters & Commanders CD recorded by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra conducted by the late great Erich Kunzel and for Secret Signs recorded by the Bow Triplets, an Irish/Celtic folk music group based in Europe. He was OP Sail's featured event artist at the gathering of Tall Ships. In July 2005, Mr. Garnett was involved in the National Juried Exhibition at the 12th Annual Maritime Art Exhibition at the Coos Art Museum in Oregon. Both the Constitution Museum in Charlestown and the Marine Museum in Fall River Massachusetts have permanent exhibits of his work, as do the Minnesota Maritime Museum, the North Carolina Marine Museum in Beaufort and, more recently, the National Coast Guard Museum. The artist is also a longtime member of the National Maritime Historical Society, the International Society of Marine Painters and the Nautical Research Guild.

Creator:
Paul Garnett (1951, American)
Dimensions:
Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
Medium:
Oil
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Stonington, CT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU94813004321