Seascapes New Cummer Exhibit Presents the Art of Ships and the Sea

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"I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,"

the poet John Masefield declared.

Those are pretty much the sentiments of the American Society of

Marine Artists as well.

The group, whose exhibition "Romancing the Sea" opens today at

The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, is dedicated to portraying

the sea and its ships in art.

The rules can be relaxed to include an occasional lake or

harbor, marine birds on wing, or even some denizens of the deep

like the humpbacks whose size dwarfs the whaling ship above the

sea's surface.

But ship or no ship, marine art means water. Water is depicted

in every way imaginable: shimmering, cresting, surging,

crashing, lapping placidly at the ocean's edge.

The exhibition of more than 60 paintings and three-dimensional

pieces takes up all of the museum's riverside Terry …