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THE BLUE ANGELS Painting
Canada
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 36.1 W x 60 H x 0 D in
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About The Artwork
THE BLUE ANGELS 50th Anniversary Painting by Robert Vanderhorst. In 1995, with the assistance of Admiral Skip Furlong, former Vice President of the United States Naval Aviation Museum Foundation and Capt. Bob Rasmussen, former Director of the National Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS Pensacola, Florida, I created a 3’x 6’ oil painting celebrating the 50th. Anniversary of the Blue Angels. The painting depicts all eight of the aircraft used by the Blues since their inception in 1946. Cdr. Butch Voris originated the Blue Angels and flew the first F6F Hellcat for the team in 1946. He also named the new Navy flight demonstration team after a night club in New York City called “The Blue Angel”. Below are listed the first flight leaders for each aircraft used by the Blues. F6F “Hellcat” - Cdr. Butch Voris, Team Leader 1946 F8F “Bearcat” - Lcdr. Dusty Rhodes, Team Leader 1947-50 F9F-5 “Panther” - Lcdr. Ray Hawkins, Team Leader 1952-53 F9F-8 “Cougar” - Cdr. Zeke Cormier, Team Leader 1954-56 F11 “Tiger” - Cdr. Ed Holley, Team Leader 1957-58 F4 “Phantom”- Cdr. Bill Wheat, Team Leader 1967-69 A4 “Skyhawk” - Cdr. Ken Wallace, Team Leader 1974 F18 “Hornet” - Capt. Gil Rud, Team Leader 1986-88 The original painting was on loan to the National Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS Pensacola and hung in the Atrium for 2 1/2 years. After returning to Canada for several years, the original has been acquired by the SMITHSONIAN AIR & SPACE MUSEUM in Washington, DC. as part of their permanent art collection.
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Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:36.1 W x 60 H x 0 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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Surrealist Painter Exact prices available upon request - contact the artist: r.vanderhorst@sympatico.ca The paintings of Robert Vanderhorst envision a world where psychological, social and material processes are intimately entwined. While figurative, his work typically rejects static pictorial spaces and linear narratives. Instead, a cumulative, serial or recombinant approach is evident in much of his work. The resulting imagery is alternately familiar and estranged, direct and mediated, traditional and unconventional. At play are subjects that are suspended in an imaginary environment that creates an implicit tension in the painting. Vanderhorst's environments are both transformative and in the process of transformation "” perpetually perched on the edge of becoming something else.
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