Yacht Race

Name: Painting of Yacht Race by James E Buttersworth
SKU: BM8091
Price: 259.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Original price was: $518.00.Current price is: $259.00.

Artist: James E Buttersworth

Bring the racing yachts of James E Buttersworth to your wall with a hand-painted oil reproduction that preserves every brushstroke of this famous painting.

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SKU: BM8091 Category: James E Buttersworth

Yacht Race by James E Buttersworth - hand-painted oil reproduction

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Description

Stand back a few paces and this canvas reads the way a marine painting should: a modest, intimate scale that pulls you close rather than overwhelming you, so the eye can move at its own pace from the near water to the horizon. That closeness matters, because so much of what James E Buttersworth records here happens in small increments of light and spray rather than in grand gesture. Once you settle in front of it, the subject declares itself plainly: racing yachts under full sail, heeled hard against the wind, caught at the exact moment when speed and balance are held in tension.

About Yacht Race

Buttersworth built his reputation painting exactly this kind of competitive sailing, working in the decades when yacht racing was becoming a defining American and British pastime, and Yacht Race shows him at ease with the vocabulary he had refined over a long career. The hulls are drawn with a precision that comes from real knowledge of rigging and trim, while the sea and sky are handled more loosely, with quick, confident strokes that suggest movement without describing every ripple. Light falls across the sails and water in a way that separates the vessels from their surroundings, giving the composition a clarity that has made it a genuinely famous artwork among collectors of American marine painting.

What distinguishes Buttersworth from many of his contemporaries is his restraint. He resists the temptation to crowd the canvas with incident, choosing instead to let a few boats, a stretch of open water, and a carefully pitched sky carry the whole composition. That economy is part of what a hand-painted oil painting reproduction has to honour: our painters work in layered oils on canvas, matching the palette stroke for stroke and preserving the visible brushwork and surface texture of the original, so the finished piece is a painted object with real depth rather than a flat printed copy.

The hand-painted reproduction

Live with this painting for a while and it keeps giving you something new. The angle of a sail catches differently in morning light than in the evening, and the passages you barely noticed at first, a distant hull, a change in the color of the water, start to assert themselves the longer you look.

Hand-painted in oil on artist-grade canvas
Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
Gallery-ready presentation, ready to hang
Certificate of authenticity included with every order
Free worldwide shipping, with no shipping charge to any country

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Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.

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Unframed — Rolled in Tube

Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.

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Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.

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Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.

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Yacht Race

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