European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse A. Frigate Contil Luton engaging Britain s Guerriere. Ting heavy Lea Wai loaned by Smitn ionian Init tute Jure of . Fleet at Manila Bay on May 1, 1698. By Morton p. Gudebrod is Paris Bureau centuries artists have kept a graphic record of naval Power paint ing the fighting ships the men who Man them and the historic battled they have fought there have been few major development or events involving the United states Navy and Marine corp that have not been depicted by contemporary artists Amateur or professional sinew the Navy was established in 1778. Since Pearl Harbor the Navy has sponsored a program called operation palette to carry on the tradition of documenting naval activity in War an peace through the eyes of professional or tests. The Navy collection now numbers morn than 3,000 works oils Waier Coors gouache and sketches that form a Price less today at the French naval museum the Musee de la Marine in Paris Isa collection of 194 paintings and prints vividly tracing the history of the Navy an Marine corps from the Days of John Paul Jones to last fall s Cuba crisis. The exhibit which also comprises ship models old uniforms and ship diagrams was assembled at the invitation of the French Navy and brings together for the first Timeworks from the collections of leading Amer ican museums and naval foundations with paintings selected from the Navy s con temporary collection. Called the american Navy two can Luli a of history the Paris exhibit takes As us theme the Friendly relationship be tween the american and French halves since the american War for focal work of the display is a painting done in 1778 by Edward Moran depleting the first official Salute to the american Flag by a foreign nation French Nav ships saluting the Ranger commanded by John Paul Jones off the coast of Brit Tany. The two most recent paintings in the show Are by it Richard a. Genders a Navy artist now attached to the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean last october genders was flown to the Navy base at Cuba to record Navy and Marine activity there during the blockade. The Watercolours Ore entitled Crane Hill air control Post 30 october 1962" and Forward station. 3 november 1902." president Kennedy chose two painting from the White House collection of naval Art for showing in Paris. These Ore bombardment of the Citadel St. Malo end Beach at dusk iwo Elma both by Stmitchell Jameson one of the original group of Navy combat artists commissioned after the outbreak of world War ii. The variety of the works on display is wide ranging from primitives to the Navy collection s first and so far Only abstraction the former class is one painted in 1781 by a Ftp Matthew Parke a Marine corps officer serving under John Paul Jones. It shows the frigate Alliance passin Boston Lighthouse. The abstract called rehabilitation of the destroyer Johnson was painted at the Boston Navy Yard last summer. Done Inlow key colors it is a design whose ele ments include radar masts parts of ship superstructure dockyard pilings and Moor ing hawsers. Also on View is the famous pointing of the engagement Between the Jub. Frigate Constitution and the British frigate Guerriere off the coast of Boston in the War of 1812. The work by Thomas Birch 1779-1851 is from the . Naval Academy col Paris exhibition offers a rare Opportunity to All those interested in Ameri can naval history to see great moments of its Post its ships sailors and Marine through the eyes of artists Many of whom were actually at the scenes of the event depleted. Plans Are under study to take exhibit to Toulon London and West Berli after it closes in parts on May 26. 193 cmdr g. B. Coole i painting of the Carrier Saratoga Riding at Anchor behind Lub Marme Nett at Ceylon the stars and stripes tag ii
