Christopher Blossom
'Late Afternoon Surf, Maine'


Christopher Blossom
'Fisher's Island Sound'


Christopher Blossom
'Housatonic River'

Christopher Blossom
'Smuggling off San Diego'

Christopher Blossom
'Schooner MONITOR'

Christopher Blossom
'Evening, Roaring 40's'

Christopher Blossom
'Last of the Whale Ships'

Christopher Blossom
'Trawler ANTHEA'

Christopher Blossom
'East Wind Off Seguin'

Christopher Blossom
'Reaching for Monhegan'

Christopher Blossom
'HMS BLOSSOM'

Like a member of another famous American art family, the Wyeths, Christopher Blossom follows in a line of  highly accomplished artists. Both his grandfather, Earl, and his father David, were celebrated commercial artists. Their influence in combination with Chris’ own unique approach to easel painting have led him to become regarded as one of the undisputed leaders of today’s generation of marine painters.

After informal studies with his father, Chris attended the Parsons School of Design. At the same time he worked in the Industrial Design studio of Robert Bourke where he learned to accurately interpret blueprints of all kinds. By the time he finished, he was able to visualize an entire boat by using its plans alone as reference and he could draw a craft accurately from any angle, a skill possessed by very few.

Born in 1956, Blossom has received a level of recognition that most artists need a lifetime to achieve. At the age of twenty, he was awarded a “Scholarship Gold Medal” by the Society of Illustrators. He went on to become a charter member and then President of the American Society of Marine Artists. Shortly thereafter, he was accepted into the exclusive Society of Historical Artists. He is the only marine artist to have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Western Art, from whom he received a “Gold Medal” in 1991. Most recently he was one of only 20 artists nationwide selected by the Forbes Magazine, and American Artist Magazine to paint at the Forbes family ranch in Colorado and their chateau in Normandy, France for two special exhibitions in New York City.

Although practiced both in studio and plein-air, today he devotes the majority of his time exclusively to marine paintings, to which he brings to life a long passion and extensive experience cruising both the east and west coast under sail. He recently spent a year cruising the Caribbean with his family aboard their 30-foot sloop ARCADIA. The paintings from that trip became the subject of an article in Southwest Art Magazine. Other magazines which have featured his work include Sailing, Sea History, American History, and American Artist. 

The U.S. Navy has called on him to document life aboard their own sailing vessels as part of the Naval Art Program. His painting of SSN 571 the U.S.S. Nautilus helped raise funds to found the Nautilus Museum in Groton, CT.

His passion for history and his unique ability to visualize in three dimensions has allowed him to recreate scenes from maritime history with a genuineness and feeling that is unequaled among his contemporaries. His distinctive painterly style, complex compositions, and subtle use of light are characteristics that have attracted collectors from all over the globe. His paintings have been exhibited at the Mystic Seaport Museum, the Gilcrease Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Colorado History Museum, National Western Heritage and Cowboy Museum, and for over 20 years at the prestigious Artist of America Exhibition, now the Artists Forum International. Limited edition prints of his unique work have been published nationwide by the Greenwich Workshop since 1979. Forty paintings, spanning 25 years of his painting, have recently been published as a monograph on his work, Christopher Blossom Premier Marine Artist by the Greenwich Workshop.

In his understated way Blossom says. “I try to portray the feeling of excitement and well-being that sailors feel when they’re around water,”. We think you’ll agree with us that his paintings accomplish this and much, much more.

Christopher Blossom
'Winter Dawn'

Christopher Blossom
'Foggy Return'

Christopher Blossom
'Drying Out'

Christopher Blossom
'Transfer the Pilot'

Christopher Blossom
'Hauling Traps

Christopher Blossom
'Heading Out'

Christopher Blossom
'Seguin Island Light'

Christopher Blossom
'The YORKSHIRE'

Christopher Blossom
'The Dory'

Christopher Blossom
'Hudson River Sloop'

Christopher Blossom
'Outbound from New York'

Christopher Blossom
'Eastport Pinky'

Christopher Blossom
'Ship ALERT'

Christopher Blossom
'USS PORPOISE'

Christopher Blossom
'Ocean Point Surf'