American naval art
prints by naval artist Randall Wilson. US Navy ships USS Texas, USS
Enterprise, USS Long Beach and USS Maddox, are shown in military art
prints by American artist Randall Wilson, published by Cranston Fine Arts.
USS Independence by Randall Wilson.
USS Independence launches multiple aircraft, RA5C Vigilante from the
waist cat, and a Crusader from the bow while deployed in the Gulf of
Tonkin, Vietnam.
USS New Jersey, batten down the Hatches by Randall
Wilson USS New Jersey seen battling her way through a Hurricane in 1944.USS
New Jersey was built at Philadelphia Navy yard and laid down on
the 16th September 1940 and launched on the 7th December 1942 and commissioned
into the US navy on the 23rd May 1943. She was used in the Pacific
theatre for the remaining part of world war two, and used mainly in
Aircraft carrier escort duties. Taken off the active list before the Korean War but
serving as fire support ships before being put into reserve by 1957.
Taken out of reserve and refitted to become fire support during Vietnam
War. The US Navy wanted these ships back in service although
modernization costs would be huge. all were reactivated
between 1982 and 1988
Yankie Station by Randall Wilson.
CVN 65 USS Enterprise on her first deployment in the Gulf of Tonkin. On this day she flew 165 sorties, a carrier record! Two A4 Skyhawks head towards a bombing mission while an F4 phantom rides escort.
Item Code : DHM0737
Yankie Station by Randall Wilson. - Editions Available
USS Independence launches multiple aircraft, RA5C Vigilante from the waist cat, and a Crusader from the bow while deployed in the Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam.
Item Code : DHM1341
USS Independence by Randall Wilson. - Editions Available
USS Long Beach became the first ship to ever shoot down aircraft using missiles. She is seen firing two Talos Missiles that downed two MIGs at a range of 80 miles in May 1968.
Item Code : DHM0726
Birds Away by Randall Wilson. - Editions Available
As the sun sets, two Tomcats pass the bow to take up their C.A.P. positions. Riding shotgun is one of two cruiser escorts. On board is C.A.W.9 as she is homebound from another successful deployment.
Item Code : DHM1124
USS John C Stennis by Randall Wilson. - Editions Available
In support of the American landings at Utah and Omaha beaches, the USS Texas slugs it out with German heavy gun emplacements during the D-Day landings.
Item Code : DHM0738
Gunline Omaha - USS Texas by Randall Wilson. - Editions Available
USS Kearsarge CV33, USS Princeton and USS Rochester CA124 in
Korea 1952 with bearcats over the top.
Aloha Hawaii by Randall Wilson
US Battleship USS Pennsylvania,
off Diamond Head, Ha
USS John C Stennis by Randall Wilson As the sun sets, two Tomcats pass the bow to take up their
C.A.P.
positions. Riding shotgun is one of two cruiser escorts. On board is
C.A.W.9 as she's homebound from another successful deployment.
USS Mississippi BB41 by Randall
Wilson
USS Mississippi rides at anchor. A brief rest for the
crew at the port of ADM Oldendorfs T.G. The ship is preparing for the
Invasion of Okinawa.
Gunline Omaha by
Randall Wilson
In support of the American
landings at Utah and Omaha beaches, the USS Texas slugs it out with
German heavy gun emplacements during the D-Day landings.
Yankie Station by Randall Wilson
CVN 65 USS Enterprise on her first deployment in the Gulf of
Tonkin.
On this day she flew 165 sorties, a carrier record! Two A4 Skyhawks
head towards a bombing mission while an F4 phantom rides escort.
Birds Away (USS Long Beach) by Randall Wilson
USS Long Beach became the first ship to ever shoot down aircraft
using missiles. She is seen firing two Talos Missiles that downed two
MIGs at a range of 80 miles in May 1968.
USS Maddox by Randall Wilson
USS Maddox engaging North Vietnamese Torpedo Boats with 5"
gunfire. August 2nd 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Setting of the Sun by Randall Wilson
USS Missouri and HMS King George
V head south to Tokyo for the surrender, after completing the last shore
bombardment of mainland Japan, 1945.
Art and aviation have been like a brother and sister to me. We have grown up together, learned together and made our adult lives together. But you do not have to have an appreciation of aircraft to admire the graceful lines of a Spitfire or the functional simplicity of a Focke-Wulf 190. They are themselves a work of art and they cry out to be painted - not as machines of war and destruction, but as objects of beauty, born of necessity and function, yet given a life and iconic classicism beyond their original calling. My interest and love of art and aircraft was gifted to me by my father, a designer and aeronautical engineer of considerable repute. Denis Berryman C.Eng. FRAeS. He gave me his eyes, his passion, his dedication and his unwavering professionalism. I owe him everything. And I miss him terribly. A love of art and of beautiful and interesting things takes you on a journey. You discover new interests, new fascinations, and you want to paint them. You want to paint them in their environment, in their element. Whether it is an aeroplane, a warship, a racing car or a beautiful woman, their gift to an artist is the same: Their lines, their texture and the way that light and shadows give them form. These are the food and oxygen of an artist. Not the paint and the canvas. These are mere tools. The secret is in the passion and the perception...
New Dambusters Paintings, Prints and Drawings!
A brand new series of releases featuring the aircraft and airmen of the Dambusters Raid.
This superb new collection of aviation art shows may of the famous events of the raids, but also shows some of the lesser known aircraft and details - the bomber that was so low that the tallboy bomb was ripped from the aircraft by a high wave (above), or the below treetop route to the target taken by one of the bombers, or the trains that were shot up by the gunners of the Lancasters on their way to the dams.
