Posted on April 3, 2021
| 6:33 p.m.
After a difficult year due to the pandemic, the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) is open again and exhibiting 55 paintings that chronicle the accomplishments of the U.S. Navy, from the USS Constitution to atomic bomb tests and expeditions to the North and South poles.
The exhibit — Arthur Beaumont: Art of the Sea — is the work of the man the U.S. Navy called the Artist of the Fleet. It is on view 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursdays through Fridays until May 30.
Although Beaumont (1890-1978) was born in Norfolk County, England, he came to the U.S. in 1908 to study art at Berkeley.
After studying with other artists in the U.S. and Europe, and teaching art and watercolor painting, he received a commission as a lieutenant in the Navy, with his earliest paintings showing naval vessels in various settings and states of preparedness.
Following Pearl Harbor, his work supported the U.S. war effort, including supporting the construction of the USS Los Angeles, and reflected dramatic life or death struggles in the Pacific. Subsequently, in 1944, he was given the title of war correspondent.
After World War II, Beaumont continued to travel with and paint for the U.S. Navy on missions in the Pacific, to China and Japan. In addition to his work during the Korean War, in the production of movies, in private commissions and personal painting, Beaumont painted frozen landscapes in Alaska and Antarctica.
Over the remaining years of his life, he painted the RMS Queen Mary as it arrived in Los Angeles, a series of Revolutionary War-era sailing vessels, portraits of prominent naval officers, and operations along the Mekong River during the Vietnam War.
Throughout his life, Beaumont used Impressionist techniques in painting the images in the exhibit and in capturing the majesty of the oceans and the vessels that sail them, so his work will appeal to a wide audience.
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