Chelsea D'Andrea

Mr. D'Andrea was a graduate of the Massachusetts School of Art. He was a well-known marine artist and illustrator, who began his career as an illustrator with the Boston Post. He then was employed with the Boston Globe as an illustrator for 30 years before retiring in 1978. During his career, he also drew more than 2,000 illustrations for children's text books.

He was also a well known Marine combat artist, commissioned by the U.S. Marine Corps to cover tank and artillery training in the Mojave Desert. Mr. D'Andrea wrote and illustrated "The Gloucester Men" which was about the life aboard a fishing dragger on Georges Bank, and was an "artist in residence" at the U.S.S. Constitution Museum at the Charlestown Navy Yard for 10years. He won numerous awards, including the Hudson Valley Art Association Gold Medal Best in Show and received a lifetime achievement award from the Rockport Art Association.

His work is represented in many private collections and museums, including the U.S.S. Constitution Museum and the U.S. Marine Museum in Washington, D.C. His painting, "Moonlight Seiner," was purchased by the Peabody Museum for the Russell Knight American Fisheries Collection, and his painting of the U.S.S. Constitution at Brunei Harbor on April 6, 1845, now hangs in the Royal Palace of the Sultan of Brunei as a gift from the American government. Another painting, "Visit of the Pope to the Constitution of July 1849", hangs at Emmanuel College in Boston.

Mr. D'Andrea was a member of the Rockport Art Association, the Academic Artist of America, the American Society of Marine Artists, the International Society of Marine Artists, the North Shore Arts Association and the Hudson Valley Art Association.