a special one-man exhibition was held in 2014
at the US Naval Academy Museum
U.S. Navy Ships of War, 1898-1991
Paintings by Jim Griffiths
40 paintings by Jim Griffiths were on display
at the nation’s Naval Academy Museum depicting important vessels
and naval actions from the Spanish American War to the first Iraq conflict
at the U.S. Naval Academy Museum, Annapolis, MD
"Across the Sea of Storms" — watercolor, 12 1/2" x 29" — $5,500
"Heading For The Aleutions" CL-II USS TRENTON; September, 1944 — gouache, 10 x 19”, 18 3/4" x 27 1/4" framed — $5,500
"Always Pushing Forward" BB-40 USS NEW MEXICO, 1944 — gouache, 12 1/2 x 19 ¼”,21 1/4"H x 27 1/4" — $5,500
"Always Ready" CVA-66 USS AMERICA, Mid-1980's — gouache,12 1/2 x 19”, 21 3/4"H x 27 1/4" framed — $5,500
"The ARIZONA in '38" BB-39 USS ARIZONA — gouache, 12 x 19”, 20 3/4" x 27 1/4", framed — $5,500
"Back from the Hunt" CVE-21 USS BLOCK ISLAND & TBF Avenger — gouache, 12 1/2 x 19”, 21 3/4" x 27 13/16" framed — $5,500
"The Barroom Braw" CA-38 USS SAN FRANCISCO at 3rd Battle of Savo Island, 1942 — gouache, 9 7/8 x 21 3/8”, 19” x 30” framed — $5,500
"Battleship Gray" USS IOWA (BB-4) and MASSACHUSETTS (BB-2) in 1911 — gouache, 11 1/2 x 20", 20 3/8" x 28 1/2" framed — $5,500
"The Black Island" CVE-21, USS BLOCK ISLAND with VC-55 Aboard, May, 1944 — gouache, 12 1/2 x 19”, 21” x 27” framed — $5,500
"Bound for Lingayan Gulf" Heavy Cruiser USS LOUISVILLE, Jan. 1945 — gouache, 11 ¾”x 26 ¾”, 21” x 36” framed — $6,500
"Clear to Port/Clear to Starboard" USN 'Permit' Class Sub (circa Mid-1970s) Returning to Port — gouache, 12 1/2 x 19”, 21” x 27” framed — $5,500
"ELDORADO in the Pacific" AGC-11 USS ELDORADO 1945 — gouache, 12 1/2 x 19”, 21 1/4" x 27 1/4" framed — $5,500
"The Fighting Lady" CV-10 USS YORKTOWN, March, 1945 — gouache, 10 x 19”, 18 3/4" x 27 1/4" framed — $5,500
"Getting Everybody Back Aboard" CVL-30 USS SAN JACINTO, 1944 — gouache, 11 1/16 x 19 7/16”, 20" x 27 3/4" framed — $5,500
DD-464 USS HOBSON Sept, 1942 — gouache, 12 1/2 x 19”, 21 11/16" x 28 7/8" framed — $5,500
"In the Gulf" LHA-1 USS TARAWA, 1991 — gouache, 11 x 19”,18 3/8" x 25 5/8" framed — $5,500
"First To Go Into Harm’s Way" LPH-10 USS TRIPOLI, Mid-1980's — gouache, 12 1/2 x 19”, 21 1/4" x 27 1/4" framed — SOLD
"Into the Missile Age" CAG-1 USS BOSTON, 1964/1965 — gouache, 12 1/2 x 19”, 19 5/8" x 25 5/8" framed — $5,500
"Making Smoke" USS FARENHOLT (DD-491), Benson Class Destroyer; summer, 1942 — gouache, 12 1/2 x 19”, 20"H x 27 1/4" framed — $5,500
CVA-43 USS MIDWAY, 1977 — gouache,12 1/2 x 19”,21 3/4" x 27 13/16" framed — $5,500
USS MISSOURI, BB-63, Summer, 1953 — gouache, 11 ¼” x 19”, 21” x 26” framed — $5,500
"New Mexico at Sunset" BB-40 USS NEW MEXICO, 1919 — gouache, 12 1/2 x 19", 21 1/4" x 27 1/4" framed — $5,500
"On Her Last Patrol" Carrier USS BLOCK ISLAND, May 1944 — gouache, 13 ½” x 27 ¾”, 22 ¼” x 35 7/8” framed — $6,500
"On Her Way Out" USS NEW JERSEY, 1916 — gouache, 12 1/2 x 19”,21 3/4" x 27 3/4" framed —SOLD
"One Away" Gato Class Submarine (Original Painting Framed with Actual USPS Stamps) — gouache,12 ½” x 14”, 26 ¼” x 32” framed — $5,500
"No Quarter Asked, No Quarter Given" B-25's of the 499th Bomber Squadron, April, 195 — gouache, 10 1/2 x 19”, 19" x 27 1/4" framed — $5,500
"Ordeal of the Radar Pickets" DD-570 USS CHARLES AUSBURNE, June, 1945 — gouache, 14 x 26 ½”, 22 3/4" x 34 5/8" framed — $5,500
"Changing to Peacetime Gray" DD-478 USS STANLEY FALL, 1945 — gouache, 8 x 19”, 16 3/4" x 27 1/4" framed — $5,500
"The Other Enemy Was Weather" DE-578 USS ROBERT I. PAINE, 1944 — gouache,16 1/2 x 23”, 27" x 33" framed — $6,000
"One of the First" BB-3 USS OREGON — gouache, 10 1/2 x 15”, 20” x 26” framed — SOLD
"Walk Softly, but…" USS ARIZONA, c.1930 — gouache, 12 ½” x 19”, 21 ½” x 27 ¼” framed — $5,500
"With the Fast Carriers" CV-10 USS YORKTOWN, March, 1945 — gouache, 12 1/2 x 19”, 21 1/4" x 27 1/4" framed — $5,500
"Pouring on the Coal" The Second MAINE, BB-10, 1907 — gouache, 10 ½” x 15”, 21” x 24 ½” framed — $5,500
"The TUSCALOOSA by Moonlight" CA-37, January, 1945 — gouache, 10 x 19”, 18 3/4" x 27 1/4" framed — $5,500