Art of the Dive/Portraits of the Deep

ART OF THE DIVE/PORTRAITS OF THE DEEP catalogues a museum exhibition featuring work by leading artists who portray underwater life and habitat. ART OF THE DIVE/PORTRAITS OF THE DEEP includes color photographs of paintings, sculptures, murals, and monuments by the world’s leading dive painters and sculptors, and biographies of each artist. These begin with Stanley Meltzoff (1917-2006), who, as author/curator Dr. David J. Wagner explains, was given his art-of-the-dive start with a commission from National Geographic Society in the 1960’s and who is now generally recognized as the progenitor of the genre. Others include Charles Allmond, Al Barnes, Renée Bemis, Eric Berg, M.J. Brush, Ian Coleman, Jean-Louis Courteau, Guy Harvey, John Kobald, Diane Peebles, Randy Puckett, Don Ray, George Schelling, Randall Scott, Rachelle Siegrist, Wes Siegrist, Mark Susinno, Fred Thomas, Kent Ullberg, Ronnie Williford, Wyland.