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Chesapeake Bay Art

Chesapeake Bay
By Melinda Zox
Located in Quogue, NY
Colorful abstract painting on raw edge cold press paper
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Sunset on Chesapeake Bay, Painting, Oil on MDF Panel
By Mark Hunter
Located in Yardley, PA
Sunset on Chesapeake Bay was inspired by one of my sailing trips on the Bay. This scene is one of
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Maryland Ship DEFENCE Chases the British Sloop OTTER Down Chesapeake Bay
By Leslie Arthur Wilcox
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
This large and exciting scene features an American Revolutionary War battle in Chesapeake Bay. With
Category

1970s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Chesapeake Oysters
By Kristine Kainer
Located in San Francisco, CA
shellfish I would get from the Chesapeake Bay. Since I can no longer eat oysters there, I have them shipped
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Thomas Point Light Station, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Mark Hunter
Located in Yardley, PA
sailed past the Chesapeake Bay Thomas Point Light Station many times, in weather both fair and foul
Category

Early 2000s Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

4280 Pier and shipyard, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Andres Vivo
Located in Yardley, PA
Part of the many shipyards along Chesapeake bay and the intercauseway. Got surprised by this
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Skipjack Off Thomas Point LIghthouse, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Mark Hunter
Located in Yardley, PA
A Skipjack, an oyster boat of the Chesapeake Bay, sailing off the Thomas Point Lighthouse. This
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2010s Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Summer Fox
Located in New Orleans, LA
. From his earliest years growing up on a creek flowing into the Chesapeake Bay, he combined driftwood
Category

2010s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

Summer Fox
H 22 in W 36 in D 18 in
Armored Mantis Shrimp
Located in New Orleans, LA
. From his earliest years growing up on a creek flowing into the Chesapeake Bay, he combined driftwood
Category

2010s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

Sink Submarine Walker
Located in New Orleans, LA
. From his earliest years growing up on a creek flowing into the Chesapeake Bay, he combined driftwood
Category

2010s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

Saw-Nosed Shark
Located in New Orleans, LA
. From his earliest years growing up on a creek flowing into the Chesapeake Bay, he combined driftwood
Category

2010s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

Saw-Nosed Shark
H 9 in W 30 in D 11 in
Evening at Lake Lucerne by Herman Herzog
Located in Philadelphia, PA
, Lake George, along the Maryland’s Eastern Shore and Chesapeake Bay, New Hampshire, Niagara Falls, Maine
Category

Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting - The Lovers - painted in France
By Herb Kornfeld
Located in Los Angeles, CA
), Charles M. Russell Museum, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, The American Academy of Arts, and UNICEF
Category

1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Oil Painting - English landscape - River Thames series, UK
By Herb Kornfeld
Located in Los Angeles, CA
, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, The American Academy of Arts, and UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund Tour
Category

1990s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Oil Painting - "Peggy's Cove", Red Water, Nova Scotia - oil landscape painting
By Herbert Kornfeld
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Art, The U. S. Navy Museum (Washington D.C), Charles M. Russell Museum, Chesapeake Bay Maritime
Category

1980s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid Century Still Life with Apples and Pitcher Original Oil on Artist's Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Maryland artist had a passion for painting ships, seascapes, and waterside scenes of the Chesapeake Bay
Category

1950s Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board

Lines on Old Sailboat, Acrylic Painting on Wood Panel, 2020
By Denise Mumm
Located in Boston, MA
Island, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay. I was fascinated by the elaborate lines and rigging on it. Keywords
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Oyster Boat, Windmill Pt. Marina, Va, Original Acrylic Painting, 2020
By Denise Mumm
Located in Boston, MA
boat south on the Intracoastal Waterway in the fall. It was off the Chesapeake Bay, where we have
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

JONAH AND THE WHALE
By Ruth Starr Rose
Located in Portland, ME
worked in the Chesapeake Bay area, and chose African American people and her sense of their understanding
Category

1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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1926 Still Life Oil On Canvas of a Lobster by Carl Vilhelm Meyer, Danish
By Carl Vilhelm Meyer
Located in London, GB
Carl Vilhelm Meyer's masterful oil on canvas painting, "Lobster's Elegance," dated 1926, captures a moment of culinary allure frozen in time. This exquisite piece showcases Meyer's u...
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Vintage 1920s Danish Organic Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint

Antique 19th century English fishing vessels In the English Channel
By William Henry Williamson
Located in Woodbury, CT
Antique 19th century English fishing vessels In the English Channel William Henry Williamson was a gifted, London painter of coastal scenes, particularly of the south coast. He exhi...
Category

1880s Victorian Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1880s Figurative Sackett's Calvary Charge of the 9th New York Volunteers
Located in Soquel, CA
Late 19th century figurative painting of the battle of Trevilians Station and of the wounding of Colonel Sackett June 11, 1864. Oil on canvas in giltwood frame. Signed or notated ind...
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1880s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Cristalleries De Baccarat, a Large Pair of French Cut-Crystal Tsarine Torcheres
By Cristalleries De Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
Cristalleries De Baccarat, A Large Pair of French Cut-Crystal Twenty-Four Light Tsarine Torcheres, Standing Floor Chandeliers. "A Magnificent Pair of Chandeliers" Each central ...
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20th Century French Floor Lamps

Materials

Crystal

A Magnificent Pair of French Royal Paintings "Aurora and Diana" "Night and Day"
Located in New York, NY
Jacques-Francois Delyen (1684-1761), Court Painter of King Louis XV. A Magnificent Pair of Palatial "French Royal" Allegorical Paintings "Aurora and Diana" "Night and Day" A truly ...
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18th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Napoleonic War Battle of Pulo Aura
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
This large and epic battle scene commemorates one of the most unusual actions of the Napoleonic Wars. The British Honourable East India Company’s China Fleet of merchant vessels left...
Category

Early 1800s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Beautiful and Large Marine - A Ship in Two Positions Off Dover
By William John Huggins
Located in London, GB
William John Huggins (1781-1845) A Ship in Two Positions Off Dover oil on canvas Unsigned 33 x 45 inches, inc. frame William John Huggins, of whose parents nothing is known, repute...
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19th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Portrait of a Gentleman in Armour and Mauve Cloak c.1740; Louis Tocque, Painting
Located in London, GB
The sitter in this superb portrait, presented by Titan Fine Art, is shown with the grandiloquence characteristic of the eighteenth-century French school of painting. The young noble...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Painting
By Albert Bierstadt
Located in Winter Park, FL
A large scale 19th century Hudson River School landscape painting depicting people fishing on a moonlit lake. Unsigned. Original giltwood and gesso frame is in good condition with mi...
Category

Antique 19th Century North American Barbizon School Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Giltwood

"Elements 3070" Abstract Mixed Media Layered Composition on Baltic Birch Panel
By Christie Owen
Located in New York, NY
This piece Owen depicts an abstract composition with the use of mixed media and bold patterns producing work which is visually textured and rich with layers and is a part of the arti...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

Materials

Sandstone

Very Large Marine Oil Painting Three Masted Sailing Ship at Sea, signed oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Scandinavian School, indistinctly signed & dated 1963. Title: Three Masted Sailing Ship at Sea under an Encompassing Sky, presented in ornate gilt frame. Medium: ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Cracked Brown Egg, Oil Painting
By Kristine Kainer
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A realistic rendition of an egg and its shell placed on a white ceramic plate by artist Kristine Kainer. "A freshly laid brown egg is cracked open, revealing a ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Georgian Still Life Fruit Animals Signed Gilt Frame
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Gorgeous large still life oil painting in the Georgian manner Shows a large still life display with fruits, a bowl with lobsters in it and various animals including pheasants, a rabb...
Category

Vintage 1980s Georgian Paintings

Materials

Canvas

Sea Food Platter Still Life Lobster & Sea Food on Table Signed French Oil Paint
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French artist, circa 1950s, signed to the lower corner Title: Sea Food Table (wine bottle, lobster, oysters, etc) Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed Size: fra...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"6 Oysters" oil painting of white oysters on blue background with resin finish
By Anne Harney
Located in Edgartown, MA
“Spending a lifetime of summers on Martha's Vineyard my work has evolved into natural forms of coastal scenes. My connection to the island developed a deep concern with natural forms...
Category

2010s Still-life Paintings

Materials

Resin, Oil, Wood Panel

Riverscape oil painting of shipping on the Thames with Tower Bridge
By Edward Henry Eugene Fletcher
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Edward Henry Eugene Fletcher British, (1857-1945) Shipping in the Pool of London at Dusk with Tower Bridge in the Distance Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 19.5 inches x 29.5 inches...
Category

Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

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"Water Edge at Chesapeake Bay" 1957 Oil
Located in San Francisco, CA
This 1969 oil on board meadow scene entitled Water Edge at Chesapeake Bay, is by Russian-born
Category

1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Putting it in the Bank, Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe, Jay Dee
By Marc Castelli
Located in Stonington, CT
The elegant lines, and billowing sails of the traditional Chesapeake Bay log canoe forms a colorful
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Atlantic Pines
By Patrick Okrasinski
Located in Fair Lawn, US
A plein air painting done in the Chesapeake Bay area. Depicted is a section of the pine riddled
Category

2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Trimming the Corner- J-Class Yacht Ranger
By Marc Castelli
Located in Stonington, CT
Chesapeake Bay’s Eastern Shore. He is a member of the Maryland Waterman's Association, which has gained him
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Elements XII- blue and white aerial landscape photograph by Tuck Fauntleroy
By Tuck Fauntleroy
Located in Ketchum, ID
of the Chesapeake Bay expand to new photographic discovery within Wyoming's vast, largely uninhabited
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

The First Two Home
By John Bentham-Dinsdale
Located in Washington, DC
to his art form ensured the English tradition of marine painting. John Bentham Dinsdale is a
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Late 20th Century Academic Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Green Ledge Light, Norwalk, Connecticut
By Christopher Blossom
Located in Stonington, CT
Museum of Western Heritage, the Noyes Museum of Art, Spartanburg Art Museum, Chesapeake Bay Maritime
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Early 2000s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Open Sea
By Christopher Blossom
Located in Stonington, CT
, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, the Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts and Maynard Dixon Studio, and for
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Open Sea
H 26 in W 38 in D 2 in
Harbour Court, New York Yacht Club, Newport Rhode Island
By Christopher Blossom
Located in Stonington, CT
Museum of Western Heritage, the Noyes Museum of Art, Spartanburg Art Museum, Chesapeake Bay Maritime
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Early 2000s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Chesapeake
By Chris Lyter
Located in Greenwich, CT
Inspired by the beautiful Chesapeake Bay a couple of hours south of my home, this bird's eye view
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Oil

Harbor at Night
By Charles A. Watson
Located in Wiscasset, ME
specialty in miniature paintings. He often painted along the Chesapeake and Hudson Bays. “Harbor at Night
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Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Oil Painting - Greece
By Herbert Kornfeld
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Washington D.C), Charles M. Russell Museum, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, The American Academy of Arts, and
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1980s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

OIl on Linen - Forested Mountain, 1994, Pt. Reyes, California
By Herb Kornfeld
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Art, The U. S. Navy Museum (Washington D.C), Charles M. Russell Museum, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
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1990s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Oil on Canvas - "Striped Barn", Easton, California 1979
By Herbert Kornfeld
Located in Los Angeles, CA
), Charles M. Russell Museum, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, The American Academy of Arts, and UNICEF
Category

Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Pratt Street, Baltimore Harbor c 1900, original 36x48 marine landscape
By Leonard Mizerek
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
precious cargo harvested in Chesapeake Bay. Leonard Mizerek is best known for his original marine works
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Caarte Van West Indien, Soo Vaste landen als Eylanden, ...
By Joan Vingboons
Located in New York, NY
detail in and around the Chesapeake Bay (the Delaware Bay is now shown) These details are not found on
Category

Late 17th Century Other Art Style More Prints

Materials

Engraving

BOUND FOR GLORY
By Ruth Starr Rose
Located in Portland, ME
very good condition. Rose worked in the Chesapeake Bay area, and chose African American people and her
Category

1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Chesapeake Bay Sailboat Seascape
By James Drake Iams
Located in Soquel, CA
Maryland Institute College of Art. Iams’ paintings focus on the landscape of the Chesapeake Bay. His
Category

1980s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Laid Paper

Oil Painting - California farm landscape (modern art etc)
By Herbert Kornfeld
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Washington D.C), Charles M. Russell Museum, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, The American Academy of Arts, and
Category

1990s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Oil on Canvas - #1155 California landscape painting
By Herbert Kornfeld
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Washington D.C), Charles M. Russell Museum, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, The American Academy of Arts, and
Category

1990s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Landscape Oil Painting of Greece
By Herb Kornfeld
Located in Los Angeles, CA
. Navy Museum (Washington D.C), Charles M. Russell Museum, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, The American
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

California landscapes - "Fast Trip Through A Slow Town", Frazier Park, Calif.
By Herbert Kornfeld
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Downey Museum of Art, The U. S. Navy Museum (Washington D.C), Charles M. Russell Museum, Chesapeake Bay
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Raleigh Tavern Doorway In Williamsburg Virginia by Kenneth Harris
By Kenneth Harris
Located in Hallowell, ME
the children got older, the Harris couple took to sailing the Chesapeake Bay on their 27-foot sloop
Category

20th Century Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Florida and Virginia: A 17th Century Hand-colored Map by Hondius after Mercator
By Gerard Mercator
Located in Alamo, CA
from the Chesapeake Bay south to St. Augustine, including present day North and South Carolina and
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Early 17th Century Landscape Prints

Materials

Engraving

THE "WHITE FLEET" - EIGHT PHOTGRAPHS OF U.S. NAVY WARSHIPS
By William H. Rau
Located in Portland, ME
and as a training and guard ship in the Chesapeake Bay region. Decommissioned at the end of March 1919
Category

1890s Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film

Elements III- color aerial landscape photograph by Tuck Fauntleroy
By Tuck Fauntleroy
Located in Ketchum, ID
of the Chesapeake Bay expand to new photographic discovery within Wyoming's vast, largely uninhabited
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Elements II- color aerial landscape photograph by Tuck Fauntleroy
By Tuck Fauntleroy
Located in Ketchum, ID
Chesapeake Bay expand to new photographic discovery within Wyoming's vast, largely uninhabited ecosystems
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Elements IX- color aerial landscape photograph by Tuck Fauntleroy
By Tuck Fauntleroy
Located in Ketchum, ID
Chesapeake Bay expand to new photographic discovery within Wyoming's vast, largely uninhabited ecosystems
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Sunset Sailing in San Francisco Bay
By Gideon Jacques Denny
Located in Graton, CA
Chesapeake Bay and his enthusiasm for ships never waned. Arriving in San Francisco with the Gold Rush in 1849
Category

Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Virginie (Virginia)
By Alain Manesson Mallet
Located in New York, NY
engraving of the Chesapeake Bay region is from Mallet's first edition, printed in Paris in 1683. Among
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17th Century Realist Landscape Prints

Materials

Engraving

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The price for a piece of chesapeake bay art in our collection starts at $600 and tops out at $185,000 with the average selling for $3,700.