Fine Art & Antique Expo
Bidding starts: August 17, 2013 at
06:00 PM CDT
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Closing begins: August 17, 2013 at
10:00 PM CDT
Lihue, HI
Auction Type: Simulcast
Item # 1003
Raymond A. Massey - "Steamboat Superior Enters Buffalo 1825" 1995
Giclee 34/350 by Raymond Massey, "Steamboat Superior Enters Buffalo 1825." circa 1995.
OS: 27"(w) X 24"(h). SS: 17" (w) x 14" (h). Professionally sealed in frame. Giclee signed by artist right corner.
OS: 27"(w) X 24"(h). SS: 17" (w) x 14" (h). Professionally sealed in frame. Giclee signed by artist right corner.
Raymond A. Massey is a self-taught maritime artist, with English roots. His family migrated to Canada in 1950, only to later relocate to Buffalo, NY. His work focuses on historical scenes, and paintings depicting China. He has increasingly become regarded as a major American maritime artist.
Ray never took an art lesson; instead he would go to museums and study how the artists applied paint and solved the color. He went to the public library and read books on perspective and techniques, enhancing his skills. He began exhibiting in outdoor shows, within a year he joined an art organization and began exhibiting in galleries. Ray had exhibits in Galleries in New England, New York City, and eventually in Ship Store Galleries, here in Hawaii.
Ray was a founding member of the American Society of Marine Artists at the World Trade Center in New York City and went on to become a Fellow in the Society. Ray began a series of paintings to celebrate the commencement of the United States into China Trade in 1784. In 1989 the Masseys took a cruise around the Hawaiian Islands, to visit a gallery called Ship Store on Kauai. The owners, Fred and Carol Von Wiegen had seen Rays work at the World Trade center exhibit and were interested in having his pieces be exhibited in their gallery. Since the success of Ship Store Galleries sale of Masseys China Trade Paintings, Ship Store Gallery has been the exclusive Gallery of Ray Masseys artwork.
Ray never took an art lesson; instead he would go to museums and study how the artists applied paint and solved the color. He went to the public library and read books on perspective and techniques, enhancing his skills. He began exhibiting in outdoor shows, within a year he joined an art organization and began exhibiting in galleries. Ray had exhibits in Galleries in New England, New York City, and eventually in Ship Store Galleries, here in Hawaii.
Ray was a founding member of the American Society of Marine Artists at the World Trade Center in New York City and went on to become a Fellow in the Society. Ray began a series of paintings to celebrate the commencement of the United States into China Trade in 1784. In 1989 the Masseys took a cruise around the Hawaiian Islands, to visit a gallery called Ship Store on Kauai. The owners, Fred and Carol Von Wiegen had seen Rays work at the World Trade center exhibit and were interested in having his pieces be exhibited in their gallery. Since the success of Ship Store Galleries sale of Masseys China Trade Paintings, Ship Store Gallery has been the exclusive Gallery of Ray Masseys artwork.
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