Description: Vintage Framed and Matted Robert Trenaman Back (1922-2004) Limited Edition 35/750 Dated 1981 Signed Lithograph of “Channel Squalls” The Wavertree - A historic iron hulled ship built in 1855, the largest wrought iron sailing vessel afloat, located in South Street Seaport, NYC. In Vintage Condition- one small scratch on the upper right side of the frame. Measures 23” x 17” Robert Back is one of the most famous English Naval and Maritime Ship Painters of the 20th C. He painted English Sailing Competitions as well as historical ships and Naval battles. Robert was an avid sailor. Robert Trenaman Back (1922-2004) was born in Adelaide, South Australia, the son of William Back, a frustrated artist turned aircraft designer, who had emigrated to Australia after the Great War. "I inherited a family tradition of the sea from both my father's and my mother's sides of the family. In 1833 my ancestor, Captain George Back RN, sailed in search of the North West Passage. Two cousins were admirals in the First World War" (Prints 1984 6(2) March / April). The family returned to England when his his fa their inherited the family estate in Norfolk in 1931 and the long voyage on the Jervis Bay aroused his interest in the sea. Robert was educated at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and at Felsted where he won the school artist prize in three successive years. During the holidays he learned to sail on the Norfolk Broads in his father's old fourteen foot clinker built boat, Ursula. He was only aged fifteen when awarded the President's Prize of the Royal Drawing Society by The Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, for 'Old Tramp Being Towed Past Tilbury'. Robert studied at Edinburgh College of Art in 1940 and 1946-1949, under tutors William Gillies (1898-1973), Leonard Rosoman (1913-2012) and John Maxwell (1905-1962). His tuition was interrupted by the Second World War when he served in the merchant navy, and the sea turned into his hobby, being Norfolk Broads dinghy champion and an Olympic trialist. His reputation as a marine artist took off when he was "introduced to Malcolm Henderson who had a gallery in London. When Henderson moved to America, Back's market moved with him. In 1983, he had his first major American exhibition at the Atlantic Gallery in Washington, others following" From 1983 he held a series of solo shows at The Atlantic Gallery, Washington, USA; Campbell College, Belfast with the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, and the New Orleans Academy, and The U.S. Constitution in Boston hold examples of his work.
Price: 395 USD
Location: Norman, Oklahoma
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Artist: Robert Back
Type: Print
Year of Production: 1981
Theme: Maritime
Production Technique: Lithography
Subject: Ships
