The painting is
 "Doing Business on A Street"

The building on the left was the old Tacoma Hotel.
The Frank Russell Company Building is now located on that site.

34 x 40 Oil on Canvas

Loads of new stuff at the studio....  

THE GLAMOUR OF BIG CLASS CLASSIC YACHT RACING RETURNS TO COWES

...........and we were be there to begin a new series of paintings dedicated to this new event

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Minus the power boats, container ships, cruise boats, power plants and jets this is how it looked 100 years ago.

Here are three samples of over 4000 images taken over the week long event. Complements to the owner, skipper
and crew, as good as it gets!

http://www.cowes.co.uk/zonexml/video?url=http://www.cowes.co.uk/d/2010 Video/Westward Report_H.mov;d=Cowes TV coverage of the inaugural Westwood Cup

Mariquita draws a crowd on the Solent Saturday Morning

Mariquita at the Needles

Mariquita in light fog at the Needles

Mariquita is powered by wind and muscle. Hauling up the main requires all hands and a shanty
keeps the crew in sync. Here is a link to a video of the traditional shanty sung when departing
port and the very one I heard on the Solent from the deck of Mariquita ( with a few variations of course).
Enjoy: http://cityofadelaide.org.au/bound-for-south-australia.html

Currently in the studio...

Important new paintings of Eleonora and Elena.
Two dramatic paintings of the Newest J Boat HUNAMAN sailing in the Newport Bucket  Finished
Several paintings of Senator Ted Kennedy aboard MYA
Whaling scenes and the Charles Morgan

	20 x 24 Oil/Canvas "Bad Boys of Plymouth"
	18 x 36 Oil/Panel "Kittery Morning"

  Something new for a change....Horses, a collaboration with Anne Converse
                          "Race Day Morning" 6 x 9 oil on copper
 
  

   Announcing a new series

   San Francisco Bay Area circa 1885 - Historical Scenes based on photographs from the
   San Francisco Marine Museum

Green Street Pier

24 x 36 Oil on Ampersand Panel

Piscatore de Sausalito

22 x 28 Oil on Canvas

"Clara"  A tribute to Nate Herreshoff

20 x 30 Oil on Linen

The original painting will be auctioned at the Herreshoff Museum in Spring 2006
and a limited edition of 105 Giclee on canvas will be released. 

Each will include a portion of original wood saved during the restoration of Clara.

Pre-sale reservations may be confirmed by contacting the Herreshoff Museum In Bristol, RI

HMS Rose
 

36 x 24 Oil on Ampersand Panel

Best of Show at Tall Ships Tacoma 2005 juried exhibition.

July Cover 48º North Sailing magazine.

. Recent work........

William Jefferson Clinton, as seen through the camera of
Robert Mc Neely now transformed into a painting finished
on  24 July 2004

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