Description: Texas A&M Maritime Academy TS General Rudder Galveston, Texas Training ship TS General Rudder is from an original watercolor painting on a nautical chart by William B. MacGregor Jr., who is known in the New England area as the Nautical Chart Artist. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Texas A&M Maritime Academy (TMA) is one of seven maritime academies that train U.S. Merchant Marine officers and the only one located on the Gulf of Mexico. Texas A&M Maritime Academy was founded on January 26,1962 and General Earl Rudder was the college’s first president. The Academy trains cadets to maintain and operate unlimited-tonnage ocean-going vessels. Students sail aboard the TMA training ship and commercial ships during to gain practical experience in navigation, seamanship and engineering operations. In March of 1996, the academy acquired the luxury liner USS Queens, and in June after a refit became the academy's first training ship named USTS Texas Clipper. In 1992, the ex-Contender a Stalwart-class ship became the T/V Kings Pointer, the training vessel for the United States Merchant Marine Academy in New York. (Stalwart-class ships were originally designed to collect underwater acoustical data in support of cold war antisubmarine warfare operations in the 1980s.) January 2012. She was then transferred to Texas A&M University at Galveston and renamed the "TS General Rudder" (after General James Earl Rudder), where she remains today as the primary training vessel for cadets of the Texas A&M Maritime Academy. In 2013, the vessel had another major overhaul, with the aft fantail's bulwark lowered, aft main deck leveled, and hull cleaned and repainted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ · Texas A&M Maritime Academy’s (TMA) training ship TS General Rudder in Galveston, Texas. · Free shipping (USA only) Art Print · Art print is printed on matte finish paper. · Mounted in a beveled double mat. · Matted Art Print is ready for a standard 8”x10”, 11”x14” or 16”x20” frame. · Mat will be signed by the artist. · Note: Mat size is the outside dimension. The double matted print will fit into a standard frame that can be purchased at your local craft/department store. No need for custom framing! The image/print size is smaller than the size of the mat. Magnet · Magnet is approximately 2 1/2” x 3 1/2” in size. · Acrylic Plastic Refrigerator Magnet. · Original Nautical Chart Painting: SOLD · Original Acrylic & Watercolor painting on nautical chart 11324. · SOLD William. B. MacGregor Jr. Watercolors The Junkyard Artist William B. MacGregor, Jr. was born in Medfield, MA, the son and grandson of Norfolk Hunt Club kennel masters. Many of his family members were self taught artists, woodcarvers, automobile mechanics and veterans of foreign wars including his father a WW1 US Army veteran. Bill is a graduate of Medfield High School, Wentworth Institute, and Northeastern University. His engineering career, from which he is now retired, included working for military and aerospace companies in industrial engineering and IR optics. His painting incorporates “old skool” mechanical and civil drafting tools and he uses a mixed medium of watercolors, acrylics and inks. Two rabbits are often in quite a few of his paintings. Look for them. He is frequently commissioned by United States Naval officers to create paintings of their ships and aircraft carriers on nautical charts. In May,2018, and for one year, four of Bill’s automotive related paintings were on display at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, MA .
Price: 9.49 USD
Location: Tiverton, Rhode Island
End Time: 2024-08-23T18:20:58.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
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Item Specifics
Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Artist: William B. MacGregor Jr.
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Originality: Reproduction
Signed By: William B MacGregor Jr
Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
Date of Creation: 2000-Now
Item Length: 10", 14" or 20" (Outside dimension of the mat so the print Image
Region of Origin: Rhode Island, USA
Framing: Print is in a double mat ready for a standard frame (Sorry do not
Personalize: No
Listed By: The Artist
Year of Production: 2022
Unit Type: Unit
Item Height: 8", 11" or 16" (Outside dimension of the mat so the print Image i
Style: Americana
Features: Mat is signed by the artist, Matted, Signed
Unit Quantity: one
Handmade: Yes
Culture: Maritine
Item Width: Approx 1/8” so it will fit into a standard size frame!
Time Period Produced: 2020-Now
Printing Technique: canon IP8720 ink jet printer
Image Orientation: Landscape
Signed: Yes
Color: Top mat is white Bottom mat is blue
Title: Nautical chart art painting
Period: Contemoporary (1970 - 2020)
Material: Fine art photo rag paper or equivalent
Subject: Texas A&M University
Print Surface: Fine Art-Photo rag paper
California Prop 65 Warning: N/A
Type: Print
Medium: watercolors acrylics and india ink
Theme: Nautical Chart Art
Production Technique: digital ink jet print
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Available Variations
Color: 8 x 10 double mat
Price: 25 USD
Available Quantity: 6
Quantity Sold: 2
Color: 11x14 double mat
Price: 35 USD
Available Quantity: 6
Quantity Sold: 2
Color: 16x20 double mat
Price: 49 USD
Available Quantity: 6
Quantity Sold: 1
Color: Refrigerator Magnet
Price: 9.49 USD
Available Quantity: 7
Quantity Sold: 0
