{"title":"William S. Barrett","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWilliam Sterns Barrett was born by the sea in Rockport, Maine, the son of ship builder Amos Barrett, for whom the artist would eventually design and build racing yachts, flying fishermen and sailing vessels. In 1882, Barrett was a ship designer for A. Cary Smith in New York City. In 1883, he sailed for Paris to study painting techniques at the \u003ci\u003eAcademie Julian\u003c\/i\u003e with Boulanger and Lefebvre. After being influenced by the work of Turner, Constable, Whistler and Bougereau, in 1885 Barrett returned to Brooklyn, New York, to teach marine painting, study with William Merritt Chase and eventually found The Brooklyn Ten and The Society of Brooklyn Painters. He was a member of the Salmagundi Club and exhibited with Brooklyn’s Hooper Gallery and in New York City with Macbeth and Montross Galleries. In 1920 he returned to his hometown of Rockport to live as a recluse and paint on location the rocky coast of Maine with George Bellows, Henry Meakin, A.T. Bricher, Max Kuehne, Edward Henry Potthast and Paul Dougherty.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eAs a serious student of the sea and its movement, coloration and atmospheric effects, Barrett became well known for his dynamic, realistic painted with an impressionist’s brush of Monhegan Island, Port Clyde, Marshall’s Point, Crie Haven, Devil’s Den, Camden and Rockport, Maine. In 1905 \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e noted that Barrett was a painter “of remarkable energy… strength and spirit.” Leonard Sipiora, Director of the El Paso Museum of Art, wrote in 1972, “…Barrett, like Turner, captured with ease the mystery of the sea and sky,” and in 1978 art historian Patricia Jobe Pierce observed, “The sea was Barrett’s mistress and he knew her well. She was his challenge and his inspiration and as his curiosity and knowledge of her broadened, the sureness, breadth and authority of his paintings developed [as he] conquered her on canvas.” \u003ci\u003eThe Boothbay Register\u003c\/i\u003e critiqued in 1971 that each of Barrett’s paintings “reveals a sensitive man with a sure reason behind every stroke.”\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eAlthough Barrett’s marines are often compared with those of Winslow Homer, Barrett was not an illustrator nor was he a studio painter. He painted \u003ci\u003een pleinaire \u003c\/i\u003eships at sea and the east and west coasts of America until the day he died in 1927 at his home in Rockport, Maine.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"fishing-boat-in-a-storm","title":"Fishing Boat in a Storm","description":"\u003ch4\u003eWilliam S. 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