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First recognized for his award-winning paintings of wild flowers, Chapman Kelley embarked on an entirely different direction in his career in the late 1960s. Mr. Kelley attended a talk on “Intuition” by Buckminster Fuller, and was so influenced by Fuller’s metaphor comparing a sailboat to man’s cooperation with nature, that he began a series of paintings on day sailers on Dallas’ White Rock Lake. His next opportunity to paint sailboats came when he moved to Chicago. He observed some of the most graceful and glamorous wooden racers on Lake Michigan, From his vantage point on the committee boat, he was able to study and paint the famous likes of Scaramouche, Hope and Fame. When these paintings were seen by a sailing friend, Mr. Kelley was invited to study and paint with the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta, and to visit the Wooden Boat Show at Southwest Harbor in Maine. These visits to Maine produced some of the most lifelike and glorious paintings of classic vessels — Tioga, Ticonderoga, Brilliant and Free Spirit. On a subsequent trip, Mr. Kelley followed the schooner races, with equally spectacular results. He has won innumerable awards and citations throughout the country, and his paintings are in more than 1,000 public and private collections.



Sunset Sail
Oil 24 x 30 $10,000

Highlander
Oil 20 x 30 $8,000

BH-11 inEggamoggin Reach
Oil 16 x 30 $7,000

"Brilliant" and Camden Hills
Oil 24 x 30 $10,000
Friendship Sloop #7
Oil 24 x 30 $10,000
Fame
Oil 16 x 20 $5,000		 The Red Buoy
Oil 20 x 24 $7,500
BH-11
Oil 20 x 24 $7,500
A Day for Sailing
Oil 20 x 24 $7,500
Tidal Reflections
Oil 24 x 36 $15,000
J.J. and Steve Dune
Oil 40 x 40 $20,000
Sliding Dune with County Kerry Flag
Oil 40 x 40 $20,000
Small Freindship
Oil 12 x 8 $2,000
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