Pete Peterson

Lipton Challenges the Cup

1987

Born in Denver, Colorado, in 1931, Peterson spent four years at sea with the U.S. Navy. His principal duty – as a hand on an ocean-going tug sailing the Aleutian islands, North Pacif...

Edward William Cooke was born in Pentonville. His father, George Cooke, and uncle William Bernard Cooke were also well-known line engravers. Growing up in an environment of artists,...

American, b. 1949 In his more than three decades as an artist, Nicholas Berger (b. 1949) has created an outstanding body of work that continues to evolve and excite viewers. Best known for his industrial, waterfront scenes of New York between 1930-1970, Berger effortlessly captures a period when the technology and landscape of the city was rapidly changing. Although he paints scenes of a bygone era, Berger draws inspiration from the waterfronts near his home in New York’s Hudson River Highlands as well as historical sources in museums. Berger holds BFA and MFA degrees from Alfred University. Earlier in his career, the artist painted representational landscapes rendered in watercolor, a medium in which he achieved great success, sharing a sellout two-person show in Tokyo with Andrew Wyeth. In the mid-2000s, Berger transitioned to his signature industrial scenes of the city, employing oil on panel in a painterly manner influenced by the Hudson River and Brandywine schools...

Unframed Dimensions: 30 x 40 in. Framed Dimensions: 35 1/2 x 45 1/2 in. 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...