John Stobart (1929-2023) British/American, Signed 1981 Charleston Lithograph. Shows the port town with significant details beneath, and subtitled "The Celebrated Southern Port over the Rooftops in 1870." Signed in pencil bottom right. Numbered 601/750 in pencil bottom right above the signature. Framed. 

Condition: Miniscule damage to canvas matting. Overall very good. 

Overall Size: 31 3/4 x 38 1/2 in. 

Sight Size: 21 3/4 x 29 in. 

Frame Thickness: 2 1/2 in. 

John Stobart was born in Leicester, England on December 29th, 1929; his mother died during his birth due to a seizure. He was brought up in Allestree and Weston Underwood, Derbyshire, and was educated at Derby Grammar School, where by the age of six he was drawing on any scrap of paper he could get his hands on. He struggled academically, but showed a talent for painting. Despite lacking the appropriate educational qualifications, his raw talent and the influence of his father helped him to enroll at Derby School of Art in 1946. His success at the school earned him a scholarship to the prestigious Royal Academy Schools in London in 1950. He spent five years at the academy, briefly interrupted by a period of National Service. Despite growing up in landlocked Derbyshire, Stobart had a fascination with the sea that stemmed from childhood visits to his grandmother in Liverpool, where he observed the city’s busy docks. Following his graduation, Stobart travelled to Africa by sea in order to visit his father, and the sketches he made of the twelve ports he visited on the journey inspired him to pursue maritime art as a speciality. Stobart emigrated to Canada in 1957, where his paintings sold well to the various shipping companies on the Saint Lawrence River, developing a relationship with them where he frequently painted ships when they first launched. In 1965 he had his first solo show in the United States at the Kennedy Galleries, and his success there led him to branch out into painting historic maritime scenes as well as contemporary ones. In 1989 he established the Stobart Foundation, to encourage traditional artists through school scholarships, and began to publish prints of his works as well. Starting in the early 2000s, deteriorating health led him to begin wintering in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and spending his summers in Westport, Massachusetts. Stobart died on March 2nd, 2023, considered one of the most prolific artists of his generation focused on the American Golden Age of Sail. 

Miniscule damage to canvas matting. Overall very good.