num_pages: 96
description: John A. The Rowboat Drawings is a collection of Noble's plein air drawings made during his 50 years of exploring New York Harbor in a rowboat.John A. Noble is one of America's preeminent maritime artists. Born in Paris in 1913, he was the son of the noted American painter, John "Wichita Bill" Noble. He moved with his family to the United States in 1919. A graduate of the Friends Seminary in New York City, Noble returned to France in 1931, where he studied for one year at the University of Grenoble. From 1928 until 1945, Noble worked as a seaman on schooners and in marine salvage. In 1928, while on a schooner that was towing out down the Kill van Kull, the waterway that separates Staten Island, New York, from New Jersey, he saw the old Port Johnston ship boneyard for the first time. In 1941, he began to build his floating studio there, out of parts of vessels he salvaged. From 1946 on, he worked as a full-time artist until his death in 1983.
language: English
title: John A. Noble: The Rowboat Drawings
titlecomplete: John A. Noble: The Rowboat Drawings
ratings_count: 2
publisher: The Noble Maritime Collection and South Street Seaport Museum