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ROY CROSS British, b.1924 Born in London in 1924, Roy Cross began his artistic career during World War II as a technical illustrator of training manuals. After the war he became a respected journalist and illustrator of aircraft subjects. Cross studied briefly at the Camberwell School of Fine Arts in London and was primarily self-taught thereafter. He achieved renown in the 1960s while working for Airfix, the celebrated maker of aircraft models whose name is synonymous in the United Kingdom with plane models. He became a member of the Society of Aviation Artists in 1952, but his interest in historic marine painting emerged after viewing the work of Montague Dawson. In 1973 Cross had his first solo show, and was elected to the Royal Society of Marine Artists in 1977. Many of Cross' works are of historical themes of 19th century subjects, highly detailed, crisp, and historically accurate. When executing commissions, Cross travels when necessary to study the settings for the painting and makes extensive museum trips to research the accuracy of the vessels. His paintings are avidly collected by marine enthusiasts who consider Cross one of the foremost marine painters of the 20th century. The paintings of Roy Cross are found in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the U.S.S. Constitution Museum in Boston, and the Ventura County Maritime Museum in Oxnard, California. |
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