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A native of Massachusetts, marine artist Paul Garnett is entirely self-taught. For seven years he served as the shipwright on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's
tall ship replica of the famous "Bounty" that was built for M.G.M.'s 1962 production of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' starring Marlon Brando.
His artwork has been featured in Nautical World Magazine, Marine Art Quarterly and Sea History Magazine. He has also had his paintings appear on A & E's Sea Tales as well as The History Channel's program History's Mysteries. The Clinton County Historical Society in New York licensed "Battle
of Valcour Island" as a poster for their recovery project on the lake where the battle took place. This painting has also been used in Facts On File's Revolutionary War Almanac. Included in the 2007 Art of the Sea Calandar is the artist's painting "H.M.S. Beagle Approaches the Galapagos Islands".
The Number 8 2006 edition of Denmark's Historie Magazine includes the artist's "Men Against the Sea".
Mr. Garnett's paintings have also been featured as the covers of
the trilogy by naval historian William H. White about the War of 1812 – "A Press of Canvas," "A Fine Tops'l Breeze" and "The Evening Gun." His
latest book cover was done for "The Greater the Honor", a tale of the Barbary Wars, also by Mr. White. The artist's work will also be featured on the cover art for the future release of Telarc's Masters & Commanders CD.
The artist's originals can be seen at the J. Russell
Jinishian Gallery in Fairfield, Connecticut, the Kensington-Stobart Gallery in Salem, Massachusetts, Art of the Sea Gallery in Thomaston, Maine and the Camden Falls Gallery in Camden, Maine.
They have appeared in such shows as "Modern Masters" at Mystic Seaport, "Water Ways" at Art of the Sea, "Charlestown – Then and Now" at the Charlestown Naval Museum, "Masters and Commanders" at the Union League Club in New York City, "Art of the Boston Waterfront" at the John Stobart Gallery in Boston, as well as in the Gallery at Mystic Seaport and the Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York.
In July 2005, Mr. Garnett was involved in the National Juried Exhibition at the 12th Annual Maritime Art Exhibition at the Coos Art Museum in Oregon.
Mr. Garnett's work was also featured and auctioned at the Don Cesar Hotel on St. Petersburg Beach in the summer of 2002 when he was OP Sail's featured event artist at the gathering of Tall Ships.
Both the Constitution Museum in Charlestown and the Marine Museum in Fall River Massachusetts have permanent exhibits of his work, as well as does the Minnesota Maritime Museum.
The artist is also a longtime member of the National Maritime Historical Society and a member of the International Society of Marine Painters. He works from his studio in Newtonville, Massachusetts.
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"For a ship is the noblest of all man's works - a cunning fabric of wood, and iron, and hemp, wonderfully propelled by wings of canvas, and seeming at times to have the very breath of
life."
Nordhoff and Hall, Mutiny On the Bounty
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