Showing posts with label Stephen J. Card. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephen J. Card. Show all posts

Saturday, July 15, 2017

Pintor de Marinha Stephen J. Card

Algumas das obras de Stephen Card: de cima para baixo, o cargueiro misto COTOPAXI, da Pacific Steam Navigation Comany, de Liverpool, os paquetes AMERICA e DUILIO e o cargueiro HOBART STAR, da Blue Star Line


Dois dos meus amigos do mundo dos navios e do mar e livros acerca desse universo que me diz tanto: William H. Miller e Stephen Card, apresentados aqui num diálogo ilustrado por algumas das obras de Stephen Card:
Recently, Bill Miller shared a photo of the German super liner Europa in a magnificent painting by Bermuda's Stephen Card.
Well, he was quick to respond: 
"A skeleton in the closet! This was one of my very early paintings... 1984. It is Number 8!!!!! 20 x 30 inches. Acrylics on canvas. Now 34 years later and 1,100 paintings, I think I am just now getting the hang of this painting 'stuff'. I wish I had gone to art school! I had two artists that helped along the way, Deryck Foster and Bill Muller. Two of the finest marine artists ever. On top of that I had to 'learn' about ocean liners. Always liners from early age, but it was in 1984 started to pay attention to detail and a lot of that came from many of your own books like the Dover books. I might have become a sail yacht painter, but I enjoyed the subject of liners much more. It has been a long voyage and I am still not even near the first port yet!"
Myself, I am just finishing a book about freighters of the '50s & '60s. Stephen has always been so generous. He has provided images of his numerous paintings. One of them, the attached Hobart Star of Britain's Blue Star Line, is included. As I sit here, I can see the mist that adds to the mood and even almost smell the sea salt. And I can feel the sense of determination: The 1956-built Hobart Star is heading home to London after a long voyage out to Australia & New Zealand. She's at​ top speed, her valuable cargoes of meat and wool yet to be delivered. Thank you, Stephen ... you keep these wonderful ships alive and in our memories. 
Conheço ambos há muitos anos como apreciador das obras respectivas. Tive o prazer de viajar de navio com o Stephen Card, sempre de "quarto" no Ocean Bar do Rotterdam. O Bill e eu encontrámos-nos pela primeira vez pessoalmente em 1983, em Portimão viajava ele no CANBERRA, e fomos ambos a Sines ver o INFANTE DOM HENRIQUE. Mais sobre o SJC aqui, e ainda aqui...
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Monday, May 23, 2016

ROTTERDAM and STATENDAM in Roterdam


Another original painting by Captain Stephen J. Card onboard the new Holland America Line's flagship KONINGSDAM depicting a waterfront scene in the port of Rotterdam somewhere in the early nineteen sixties showing the ROTTERDAM of 1959 arriving and the fleetmate STATENDAM of 1957 at her Whilhelminakade berth.
Photographs taken by Luís Miguel Correia on the KONINGSDAM, May 2016.

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Thursday, May 19, 2016

KONINGSDAM by Stephen Card


One of the many great atractions aboard Holland America Line cruise ships are the original oil paintings by marine artist Captain Stephen J. Card, and the new HAL flagship KONINGSDAM is no exception, with this great painting of the ship sailing off the seven sister on her way to Geiranger. The Norwegian sail training ship CHRISTIAN RADICH can also be seen on the picture.
I love the work of Stephen Card, very acurate and beautiful.
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Thursday, January 28, 2016

O antigo paquete AMERICA


Paquete AMERICA, de 1939, da companhia United States Lines, numa representação plástica lindíssima de Stephen J. Card. O S.S. AMERICA, que eu conheci bem na sua encarnação posterior como AUSTRALIS, da companhia Chandris Lines, era o navio-almirante da frota mercante dos Estados Unidos da América em 1939, quando rebentou a segunda guerra mundial na Europa. Em miúdo descobri a existência deste navio por acaso, em Dezembro de 1964, ao folhear um livro na antiga livraria Ática, quase à esquina da rua Alexandre Herculano com a avenida da Liberdade. O livro chamava-se PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD e deixou-me fascinado e ao mesmo tempo intrigado por alguns dias, pois logo a seguir a eu recolocar o livro na mesa da livraria, este desapareceu, para surgir misteriosamente, embrulhado, na chaminé de nossa casa, na manhã de 25 de Dezembro de 1964. Coisas do Pai Natal, claro. Pois acabei por ficar verdadeiramente fascinado com este navio, ainda mais que com o seu irmão mais novo UNITED STATES, cuja existência já conhecia, mas na altura não o AMERICA.
Muitos anos depois vi-o em Lisboa e no Funchal, por diversas vezes este navio atracado quando em cruzeiro de verão com passageiros ingleses. Com as cores da Chandris era também muito bonito, mas as chaminés vermelhas originais eram incomparáveis.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Paquete italiano REX


Paquete italiano REX pintado pelo meu Amigo Stephen Card, mostrando o navio na aproximação ao porto de Nova Iorque, passando o navio-farol de Nantucket. Gosto particularmente desta imagem e da forma como Stephen Card conseguedar vida aos seus personagens gigantescos marítimos.

O REX foi o maior navio de passageiros convencional italiano, com cerca de 50 000 toneladas (TAB), encomendado para o Lloyd Sabaudo mas entregue já depois da formação da companhia Itália, em 1932 na sequência da reorganização da marinha mercante por Mussolini. Este belo navio passou a guerra (1940 a 1944) no Adriático onde foi destruído pela aviação Aliada, em Setembro de 1944, sem necessidade nenhuma...
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Wednesday, November 03, 2010

NIEUW AMSTERDAM art onboard


It is a must on board the newest NIEUW AMSTERDAM: to see the paintings displayed on the forward stairway showing Holland America ships past and present in the best of Stephen Card style.
One of the more interesting is partly reproduced in this post, showing the full ship in black hull in the 1950s. Also of notice is the Rotterdam Lloyd's flagship WILLEM RUYS on the foreground...

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Friday, October 29, 2010

Stephen Card artwork on the NIEUW AMSTERDAM

As usual with all new Hoilland America cruise ships, the artist Stephen J. Card, of Bermuda, has contributed with several magnificent paintings and line drawings to the newest NIEUW AMSTERDAM.
The originals are much better than the pictures reproduced here just for the record: from top to bottom, the passenger steamer ZUIDERKRUIS, the cargo liners DRECHTDIJK (1923-1940), BLOMMERSDYK (1916) and ARKELDYK (1946-1966).



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