337 Clippership Dashing Wave, Off the California Coast, 1854

Category Art
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 2,500.00 USD
Estimated at 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD
Clippership Dashing Wave, Off the California Coast, 1854
Artist: Thimgan, DavidDate of Birth: 1955-2003
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 24 x 36 inches
Signed: Signed lower right
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Excerpt from the Greenwich Workshop obituary for David Thimgan: “David Thimgan was born in Inglewood, California in 1955. A self-taught artist, inspired and mentored by his father, he began painting and drawing ships as a child. Few artists painted the rich and varied maritime history of the West Coast with the devotion and passion of David Thimgan... Although his paintings were well researched and unique, it is the ethereal light and intoxicating Pacific Coast air that seems to pervade his work that earned him a special place among American marine artists.” Thimgan was no less exacting than when painting historic scenes of American marine history, yet these, too, show the artist’s concern for design, atmosphere, and light.