About the Artist:
Thomas Hoyne (American) (1923-1989
He served his naval career in the Pacific Theater as a gunnery officer on the L.S.T. 48. This period was no doubt crucial to the development of Hoyne’s excellent knowledge of and feels for the water. For not only does he possess a thorough understanding of the anatomy of oceans, currents, waves, wind and the weight of water, he also has an instinctive sense of the poetry of the sea.
Hoyne worked for most of his career in advertising, but in mid-life, he changed paths and became a marine artist. Although he only painted for 17 years, he was considered to be one of the finest contemporary marine artists in the world until his death in 1989. He produced about 100 marine paintings, many of which have already found their way into major museum collections, including Mystic Seaport Museum, Peabody Essex Museum, and Maine Maritime Museum. While he painted many scenes depicting maritime activity, most of his work evoke the terrors and hardships of fishing from sailing vessels on the notoriously inhospitable Grand Bands of the northern Atlantic.
Many consider Hoyne’s greatest strength as a painter his ability to depict vessels realistically, showing how they went about their work along the fishing banks of New England and the Mid-Atlantic states. It is said that the water shown in a Hoyne painting “feels” wet if you touch the surface of the artwork, a testament to the degree of realism the artist brought to his work. The majority of his paintings were made into limited-edition prints, which have sold out over the years.
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