STUNNING NEW YORK HARBOR OIL PAINTING

Oil on Canvas - "Tall Ships Parade” - July 1986" in beautiful handcrafted frame, by Peter Layne Arguimbau Signed "Layne" 28 x 48, 37x 57 framed. Recently restored and varnished. About the painting: From UPI News April 7, 1986: NEW YORK -- Twenty-two tall ships will sail into New York Harbor on July Fourth for a national birthday party almost double the size of one in 1976, Operation Sail officials said Monday. 'We're giving a party and we have asked the nations of the world to come,' said Howard Slotnick, director of the non-profit organization planning Operation Sail 1986 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty. 'We want to thank them for sending us the people that make up our nation.' Sixteen tall ships cruised through the harbor and down the Hudson River in the 1976 Operation Sail, drawing an estimated six million people and 20,000 private boats to the New York area. This year, an estimated 11 million people and 40,000 private crafts will attend the four-day event. Slotnick said many of this year's tall ships -- from Oman, Israel, Indonesia, Europe, Canada and South America -- have already set sail toward New York Harbor's newly rennovated Statue of Liberty and should arrive sometime in June. Another 230 sailing ships representing 30 nations will also participate in the parade, which will be lead by the U.S. Coast Guard tall ship Eagle on the morning of July 4. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Liberty Weekend was a four-day celebration of the 1984 restoration and the centenary of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) in New York City. It began on July 3, 1986 and ended on July 6. On the morning of July 4, 1986 the battleships and sailing ships of old took part in a naval revue down the Hudson River, including the largest flotilla of tall ships to assemble in modern history. Reagan viewed the ships from USS Iowa. He described the ships as a personification of freedom and liberty: “Perhaps, indeed, these vessels embody our conception of liberty itself: to have before one no impediments, only open spaces; to chart one's own course and take the adventure of life as it comes; to be free as the wind – as free as the tall ships themselves. It's fitting, then, that this procession should take place in honor of Lady Liberty.“ Price upon request. Serious inquiries only, please.