{"id":1292,"date":"2014-11-10T15:16:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T01:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halsteadpress.com.au\/site\/?page_id=1292"},"modified":"2022-05-19T16:50:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T02:50:02","slug":"ships-and-the-sea-the-art-and-life-of-oswald-brett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halsteadpress.com.au\/site\/ships-and-the-sea-the-art-and-life-of-oswald-brett\/","title":{"rendered":"Ships and the Sea: The Art and Life of Oswald Brett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1294 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/halsteadpress.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/OswaldBrettPic1-280x300.png\" alt=\"OswaldBrettPic1\" width=\"313\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halsteadpress.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/OswaldBrettPic1-280x300.png 280w, https:\/\/halsteadpress.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/OswaldBrettPic1-600x642.png 600w, https:\/\/halsteadpress.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/OswaldBrettPic1.png 691w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><strong>Adventure on the High Seas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oswald Brett\u2019s remarkable life and work now in print<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This is a story you\u2019ll find vibrant with the tang of salt air and the call of new horizons as seen by an artist who\u2019s really been there.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Peter Stanford, <\/em><em>Professor Emeritus, National Maritime Historical Society, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p>World-renowned maritime artist Oswald Brett has spent a lifetime painting the world\u2019s most famous ships and the oceans they explored. Oswald grew up in Depression-era Sydney and took to the seas, serving aboard the <em>Queen Elizabeth<\/em> during World War II. Now for the first time he tells his incredible life story, accompanied by much of his best work. He follows in the tradition of intrepid Australian artists, travelling the world and honing his craft.<\/p>\n<p>Regarded as a rarity in the marine art world for his profound personal knowledge of both ships and the sea, \u2018Os\u2019 spent much of his life seeing first-hand the relationship between wind, sea, and marine craft.<\/p>\n<p>Today his works form part of the world\u2019s major collections, including the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, the White House in Washington, and the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.<\/p>\n<p>The fabulously illustrated book features such celebrated vessels as <em>The Golden Hind<\/em>, <em>James Craig<\/em>, <em>Endeavour<\/em>,the First Fleet, <em>Queen Elizabeth<\/em>, <em>Cutty Sark<\/em>, <em>Bounty<\/em>, <em>Bismarck<\/em> and many more. It also includes paintings and anecdotes from other great artists whom Oswald met along the way, such as John Allcot, Charles Pears, Anton Otto Fischer and Charles Robert Patterson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Hardback, RRP $69.95<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adventure on the High Seas Oswald Brett\u2019s remarkable life and work now in print &#8220;This is a story you\u2019ll find vibrant with the tang of salt air and the call of new horizons as seen by an artist who\u2019s really been there.\u201d \u2013 Peter Stanford, Professor Emeritus, National Maritime Historical Society, New York World-renowned maritime artist Oswald Brett has spent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-image","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"post_format-post-format-image"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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