Paul Hee

Art Brokerage: Paul Hee American Artist: A master of the luminescent style, Mr. Hee lived and painted in his Marsh Street studio in Beaufort, NC, where he retired after a life at sea. Mr. Hee served in the US Navy, and as a Miami-based cruise ship executive. His life-long love of the sea led him to pick up a brush and study art with Leo Stitsky of Fort Lauderdale School of Art. His oil paintings often sold before the paint dried on the canvas. "His deft brush work, use of color, shape and light, conveyed the ever changing drama and mood of the sea," said Raymond Voelpel of Tidewater Gallery in Swansboro. "Paul Hee established himself as one of America's finest maritime artists." nspired by Antonio Jacobsen, the prolific Danish artist, Hee researched vintage American and British ships to gain exact specifications and place steamships and sailboats in historical context. Mr. Hee captured Beaufort's storied port history in works such as Louisa Bliss Departs Beaufort for the Gold Rush, and CSS Nashville Runs the Beaufort Blockade, specially commissioned for the book. These local scenes, along with portraits of Otway Burns' Snap Dragon, George Ive's Sharpie, and Maris, the swift sloop of Charleston's Carolina Yacht Club, are part of the Carolinas chapter, which showcases famous ships of the southeast Atlantic coast. Listings wanted.