Xavier Rhodes

"Tangier Starboard" Large, colorful landscape/seascape of dock, water, blue sky

2018

"Pool and Forest" Oil on Canvas, 18 x 14 Inches, is a small landscape with lush green foliage in the top half and a bright blue swimming pool dominating the bottom half. Reminisc...

"Waterfall from Above," Oil on Canvas, 48 x 36 Inches, is a large landscape painting of Niagara Falls as seen from above with brilliant light, waterspray and greenery. This is o...

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...

This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. This mesmerizing seascape, titled "Kelp Web" by the talented ar...