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2010 New Exhibit

Steam on the Hudson - Hudson River Steamboat Paintings from the Roger W. Mabie, Donald C. Ringwald, and C. W. Spangenberger collections.
In the great age of steam transportation in the 19th and early 20th centuries elegant steamboats and steamships carried passengers on the Hudson, as well as other rivers, and across the oceans. Proud owners commissioned portraits of their steamboats because of their beauty and success as a major form of transportation. In the New York area two ship portrait painters painted thousands of steamboats and steamships in the 19th and early 20th centuries. These artists, James Bard and Antonio Jacobsen, are represented in the collections of the Hudson River Maritime Museum. Having recently received paintings by these artists from the estate of C.W. "Bill" Spangenberger, we are pleased to exhibit a wonderful group of ship portraits by Bard and Jacobsen, as well as steamboat paintings by William G. Muller, a fine marine artist of the last forty years who is still painting today.
Ship portraits by James Bard and by Antonio Jacobsen from the collection of the late Donald Ringwald are also featured in this year's new exhibit as is a painting by Bard on loan from the collection of the late Roger Mabie.
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