My nautical paintings and prints are inspired by my years at sea on a Navy destroyer(DD-709) and owning ans operating my art stores in Faneuil Hall Marketplace on the waterfront  in Boston,Ma.In addition ,I spend time each year at my sons' homes on Cape Cod and in San Diego.

 All of the nautical prints come in the frame sizes 11x14 inches or 16x20 inches.They are delivered mounted in acid free matts ,ready to frame.The frames ,in these standard sizes,are readily available in any store.The 11x14 sells for $28.00 and the 16x20 sells for $65.00,incluoding insurance and shipping. Make a check or money order payable to: Jim Parker Clapsaddle Farm 437 Otsego Street,Ilion,NYS 13357.Allow two weeks for delivery via US mail.

Otsego Lake at Cooperstown,N.Y. Watercraft in 1900.

Friendship Sloops at Friendship ,Maine 1860's

Erie Canal Freight and Packet Boats in Central N.Y.1850's

Bateaus and Durham Boats at The Little Falls,N.Y. Locks in 1795

Fishing Schooner leaving port in Maine 1870's

A Gaff-rigged Sloop on Buzzard's Bay at Marion,Ma. 1900

Early Sloops and a Lobster Boat at Brant Point on Nantucket Island,Ma.

A Regatta Race off the Maine Coast.

Early Watercraft at Skaneateles Lake in the Finger Lakes of N.Y.1900

USS Hugh Purvis DD-709,in a fast carrier task force with the Carrier Saratoga and the Battleship  New Jersey -1960's

An old veteran that will never go back to sea.A US Navy Fast Frigate on the horizon.

Homeward Bound at Hyannisport,Ma.1900

A Gloucester Schooner Going to Sea

An Osterville Catboat off of Cape Cod

A Friendship Sloop off the New England Coast

The Clipper Ship "Lightning" entering Boston Harbor

Bateaus at General Nickolas Herkimer's Home on the Mohawk River in Upstate N.Y. -1770's

The Erie Canal at German Flatts,N.Y.in the 1860's.The first steam launch on the Erie from Mohawk,N.Y.

Clipper Ships and Schooners at Barnstable Harbor on Cape Cod 1890's

The Erie Canal Aquaduct at Little Falls,N.Y.1820's

You may order any of the above full color prints ,matted,ready to frame,in the 11x14 in. matt at $28.00 or the 16x20 in. matt at $65.00.Matt colors are forest green,slate blue or ivory.You can send a check or money order to me and delivery is within two weeks.Send to: Jim Parker Clapsaddle Farm,437 Otsego Street,Ilion,Herkimer Co. NYS 13357

A traditional sloop on Otsego Lake in Cooperstown,NY during the early 1900's

Donald McKay's Boston Clipper Ship "Young America" off New England.

Robert Fulton's first successful steamer "Clermont" passing the Pallisades as it comes down the Hudson River from Albany to New York City.

Medievel Lady of Shalot in her boat adrift.

One of the steamers on the Marion River in the Adirondacks carrying passengers and freight from Raquette Lake Village to the Marion River RR to Blue Mountain Lake.

The paddlewheeler Nantucket off of Martha's Vineyar at the turn of the Century.

The Destroyer Escort "Slater" now a musuem ship at the  port of Albany,New York.Shown in the painting escorting a task force of supply ships,oilers and repair ships during World War 2.

The painting shows bateaux and durham boats waiting on the east side of the new lift locks at Little Falls ,NY,on the Mohawk River.These locks were built in 1795 to lift these polled freight boats 44 feet ,around the natural water falls located here.They carried cargo to and from Albany to Fort Stanwix at Rome.

The painting depicts the fast Boston Clipper Ship"Soveign of the Seas" leaving Boston Harbor in the late 1800's.

This is the first of the fast sharp bowed ships that became a popular design of the French,English and American Privateers before and during the American Revolution.Designed in Baltimore,but eventually built all along the East Coast to oppose Britian's blockade of our ports and to capture British shipping at sea.

The painting depicts a Wiano Sloop that became a racing class all over the East Coast.It was gaff-rigged and extremely manueverable.

The early turn of the Century watercraft on the Mohawk River between Mohawk and Herkimer ,NY.Shown in the background is the later developed Gems Along the Mohawk.

The aircraft carrier Oriskany at sea during "flight ops" in a fast carrier task force.In the center top is the battleship New Jersey and on the surrounding circular "screen" are the destroyers of Desron 12.This is how this group appeared as they headed south from ports in southern Europe to join in to the Suez War of 1956.The jets above are from the two different squadrons that the Oriskany carried.DD-709 is off the starboard quarter of the Oriskany on "plane guard" duty.