Paintings of Ships and the Sea

The Sixties
OIL PAINTINGS, WATER COLORS, AND DRAWINGS BY GERALD KING

THE SIXTIES

These were fun days. I was working for Banta Printing and spending evenings and weekends trying to catch up on the type of painting I had to forgo while attending collage. I wasn't really free from abstraction and the doctrine of shock art expected by the high brow art establishment, but I could now stick out my tongue and revert to my fantasy art. I called it Romantic Realism. As I look back it was really a form of Impressionism/Expressionism with romantic subject matter. This stuff would not get me into graduate school or later teaching in a college or university. It did give me a taste of what art could be and the power to survive as an real artist in the last half of the 20th Century.

#0013 "Morning Mist" 1962



#0048 "Armada" 1964
(Missing /Stolen)

DRAWINGS

        During the 1960s I lived in Appleton, Wisconsin
    and would frequently sketch and draw with my
    friends. Favorite spots included old farms and the
    banks of Lake Michigan. I've put up a few of the
    drawings (below) I did on some of those sketching
    trips.
       The usual drawing tool in those days was the
    felt pen. I sold most of the drawings from that period
    and if exposed to daylight they have already faded
    to a great degree. Sorry about that.

Drawings Below

"Boat Landing"

"Little Smoky Falls" 1965

# 0053"Before The Wind" 1964

"Old Shed" 1970

#0056 "Sketching The Fox" 1964

"Algoma" 1964

#0057 "Boy In The Woods" 1964

"The Roy K. Smith"



#0055 "Trade Winds"1964



"Two Rivers" 1970

                        #0052 "Starboard Fire" 1964

"Saw Mill" 1964

#0062 Evening Sail 1965

#0161A "Two Ships" 1970

#0063 "Smoky" 1965

Some Watercolor Sketches
made in the Sixties

These works were all done on location.

Paintings Below

#0050 "Harbor Fire" 1964

"Old Mill" 1964

#0067 "Sea Story" 1966

Tree and Shack" 1968"

#0058 "Yoko" 1964
(Missing-Stolen)

"Two Rivers" 1964



# 0059 "Stern" 1964

"Tropic Isle"

#0069 "Harbor Rat" 1967

#0068 "The Judges" 1966

#079 "Mirrored Witness" 1966

#0077 "Adventure's End" 1966

#081 "Maritime Structure 1" 1967



#083 "Bridge Structure" 1967



#084 "Composition with Towers" 1967