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American Racing Yachts Off The East End Of Long Island
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: James E Buttersworth
American Racing Yachts Off The East End Of Long Island by James E Buttersworth, hand-painted in oil on canvas, keeps the diagonal sweep of sail and hull that defines the original.
Description
Description
White sails, dark hulls, and a sky washed in grey-blue meet head on in this maritime scene by James E Buttersworth. The white of the canvas catches the light and pulls the eye first, set hard against the deep green-black of the water below. Between them runs a thin band of pale sky, cool and slightly hazy, that keeps the contrast from turning harsh. It is a simple range of colour, but Buttersworth uses it with real precision.
About American Racing Yachts Off the East
The subject is a fleet of racing yachts caught mid-run off the eastern shore of Long Island, their sails filled and leaning into the wind. Buttersworth arranges the boats in a loose diagonal, so the eye moves from the nearest hull back through the fleet toward a horizon kept low and quiet. This was a favourite device of his: a crowded foreground of rigging and canvas set against an open, uncluttered distance, which gives the whole scene a sense of forward motion even though the paint itself is still.
Buttersworth built his reputation on exactly this kind of picture. Working through the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when yacht racing was a serious spectator sport along the American coast, he painted for owners and clubs who wanted their vessels recorded with real accuracy of rigging, trim, and hull form. The brushwork here is tight and controlled where the ships are concerned, then loosens into broader, more fluid strokes for the water and sky, a contrast that gives the picture both documentary precision and atmosphere.
The version made at ByMuseum is not printed. It is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction, built layer by layer on canvas by a trained painter working directly from the original composition. The same range of white, green-black, and grey-blue is mixed and matched by eye, and the same rhythm of tight detail against loose, open passages is carried through by hand. The result is a replica painting with real oil sitting on the canvas, not ink lying flat on paper, so the brushwork and the slight ridges of paint remain visible up close, the way they would on the source work.
The hand-painted reproduction
What carries across is the balance of colour, the diagonal pull of the composition, and the contrast between the crisp handling of the yachts and the freer treatment of sea and sky. Those relationships are what make the picture work, so preserving them by hand, rather than flattening them into a print, is what keeps the reproduction faithful to the original.
- Hand-painted using real oil colour on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
- Arrives gallery-ready for display
- Includes a certificate of authenticity
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
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