At the age of 15, the career for landscape painter Claude Grahame Muncaster, RWS, ROI, RBA, SMA began, and he soon took to the seas, spending the 1920s and ‘30s traveling the world with his sketchbook in a series of vessels. With the outbreak of war, he joined the RNVR training as a navigator. Having left school at 15, his understanding of mathematics was very weak, and it was a relief for all when his artistic talents meant he was recruited as a camoufleur.
A master of capturing seascapes, Muncaster was, therefore, able to hide huge ships in plain sight with clever disguises. After the war, he painted for the Royal Family and was a frequent guest at Sandringham. Muncaster was a watercolorist known for his landscapes and maritime scenes.
Born Grahame Hall, Muncaster was the son of the Royal Academician Oliver Hall, who taught his son to paint from an early age. He first exhibited his work at 15 and a few years later was showing at the Royal Academy. However, he adopted the name Claude Muncaster in 1922 to dissociate his career from that of his father. Muncaster’s primary choice of subject matter came from a genuine love of the sea. He made several long-distance sea voyages, including one around the Horn as a deckhand in the windjammer Olivebank in 1931, which he described in Rolling Round the Horn, published in 1933. Armed with a sketchbook, Muncaster aimed to be able to paint ships and the sea with greater authority. This he certainly achieved, perfectly capturing the limpid first light of morning over the Port of Aden, the choppy rain-grey waters of the Bay of Biscay and a streak of sunlight through gathering storm clouds at dusk in Exeter.
Muncaster became an associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1931 and was a founding member, and later president, of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. During the Second World War, Muncaster served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) from 1940–44, training as a navigator before going on to advise on the camouflage of ships, and also worked as an official war artist. In 1946–47, he was commissioned by the Queen to produce watercolors of the royal residences at Windsor, Sandringham and Balmoral, the Duke of Edinburgh, in a foreword to a biography of Muncaster, recalls looking at these and considering the artist’s unerring instinct for a subject, his sense of atmosphere. Other commissions included large panoramas of the Thames and Bradford. Muncaster's career also included work as an etcher, illustrator, writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and his paintings can be found in the Royal Academy, Tate, National Maritime Museum Cornwall, National Railway Museum and Royal Air Force Museum.
Well Digger Lane, Guildford, Surrey
By Claude Muncaster
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Claude Muncaster R.W.S. 1903-1974, was an English painter and watercolorist. He originally signed his works Hall being the son of Oliver Hall R.A. , however to forge his own career t...
Oil, Canvas
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Claude Muncaster (1903-1974) RWS, ROI, RBA. Chap Wells, Cumbria oil c1936
By Claude Muncaster
Located in Frome, Somerset
Claude Muncaster ( 1903-1974) PRSMA, RWS, ROI, RBA British. Chap Wells and Chap Fell, Cumbria (The Lake District). Oil on board circa 1936. Signed , and old London...
Oil
$16,000
H 31 in W 25 in
Henry Gasser American Scene Realism Regionalism Mid-20th Century Modern WPA
Located in New York, NY
Henry Gasser American Scene Realism Regionalism Mid-20th Century Modern WPA Henry Martin Gasser (1909-1981) "Village in Snow" Oil on canvas laid on artist's board, c. 1930s 28 x 22...
Canvas, Oil, Board
Unavailable|$80,000
H 20 in W 24 in
1946 "Untitled" oil on canvas painting signed and dated by artist Alex Katz.
By Alex Katz
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Untitled" oil on canvas painting by artist Alex Katz. Signed and dated A. Katz 46 recto lower right. Painted in 1946, during the period when Katz was studying at Cooper Union in New...
Canvas, Oil
Judson Perkins 'California Coast' Seascape Painting
Located in San Rafael, CA
Judson A. Perkins (American, 1914-1982) 'California Coast' Oil on canvas Signed lower left Overall (with vintage frame): 17.5"h x 21.5"w
Canvas, Oil
$3,800
H 22.25 in W 17.25 in
Bay - Watercolor on paper, 22 3/16 x 17 3/16 inches, 2026, by Bradley Kerl
By Bradley Kerl
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bradley Kerl creates paintings that merge lived experience, memory, and invention, transforming familiar subjects into images that balance the recognizable with the uncanny. Drawing ...
Canvas, Oil
Landscape near Bordeaux
By Louis Alexandre Cabié
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Louis-Alexandre CABIÉ (Dol-de-Bretagne 1853 - Bordeaux 1939) Landes at Pessac, near Bordeaux - Gironde Oil on canvas H. 126 cm; W. 201 cm Signed lower left Louis Cabié, a renowned a...
Canvas, Oil
$1,256Sale Price|38% Off
H 25.6 in W 31.89 in
Mediterranean Catalan Village and River Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Mediterranean Catalan Village and River Landscape Oil Painting Artist: Francesc / Francisco Galofré Surís Title: Catalan Village and Ri...
Oil
The painter's rest in Denmark
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Carl SCHLICHTING-CARLSEN (Flensburg 1842 – Hellebæk 1931) The Painter's Rest Oil on canvas H. 130 cm; W. 93 cm Signed and dated lower left – S. Carlsen (18)94 This artist of German ...
Canvas, Oil
$5,400
H 24 in W 29 in
Yolande Ardissone Pecheurs en Fleurs Signed Original Oil on Canvas Painting
By Yolande Ardissone
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Artist: Yolande Ardissone Title: Pecheurs en Fleurs Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Painting Year: c. 1960-1970 Canvas Dimensions: 24" x 29" Framed Dimensions: 31.5" X 36.5" X 1.5" In...
Canvas, Oil
$29,000
H 40 in W 43 in
"Winter Landscape" William Lester Stevens, Cape Ann Snowy Landscape
By William Lester Stevens
Located in New York, NY
William Lester Stevens Winter Landscape Signed lower right Oil on canvas 32 x 36 inches Born on June 15, 1888, in Rockport, Massachusetts, Stevens displayed his artistic abilities ...
Canvas, Oil
$13,500
H 40.5 in W 50.5 in D 3 in
“Washington Square Park, 1938” NYC Social Realism Female American Artist Oil
By Dorothy Eisner
Located in Yardley, PA
An exceptional, large, early work by American artist Dorothy Eisner (1906-1984). This painting was recently exhibited at Gracie Mansion in 2019 as part of “She Persists” - a show de...
Canvas, Oil
$2,900
H 15 in W 19 in
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
By Henry Ernst Schnakenberg
Located in New York, NY
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism Henry Schnakenberg (1982 - 1970) Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 sight Oil on Canvas Signed lower left 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches, Framed Bio In many cases, American artists visited the Armory Show in New York in 1913, and returned to their studios to react to or against what they saw. However, for Henry Ernest Schnakenberg it was much more life altering. Prior to visiting this important exhibition of American and European modernist art...
Canvas, Oil
Red Sky
By Warren W. Sheppard
Located in Greenville, DE
Spectacular example of Warren Sheppard's work, from what most consider his best period. Sunset (possibly, sunrise) executed with strong orange/red palette, and rock formations, maki...
Canvas, Oil
$14,400
H 27.75 in W 37.75 in D 3 in
Howard Post, b.1948, Arizona. Oil on canvas painting, Along the River, 20 x 30
Located in Basalt, CO
Howard Post b 1948. "Along the River". Oil on canvas, 2011. The painting measures 20 x 30. Overall dimensions are a little more than 27 x 37. The custom frame was made by the Co...
Canvas, Oil
Red House (The Hoffman House)
By Harry Leith-Ross
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Harry Leith-Ross (American, 1886 - 1973) Red House (Hoffman House) Oil on canvas, weathered wood 20th century frame 35” x 30” Signed lower right, ‘Leith-Ross’ Exhibition sticker v...
Canvas, Oil
$300
H 8.5 in W 14 in D 0.8 in
Spring Canyon, Landscape, Original Oil Painting, Ready to Hang
By Vahe Yeremyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2022 Style: Impressionism, Subject: Spring Canyon, Size: 8.5" x14" x...
Canvas, Oil
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H 24 in W 20 in D 3 in
Sovereign and Kurrewa America’s Cup Interest Oil Painting
By Claude Muncaster
Located in Holywell, GB
Claude MUNCASTER (1903-1974) Sovereign and Kurrewa America’s Cup Interest Oil Painting A sparkling depiction of the yachts Sovereign and Kurrewa in the 12 meter trial to determine t...
Oil