For tickets to Friday’s fundraiser, go to /auction. A perennial favorite in the Noble Art Auction’s, don’t miss your chance to bid on this important painting. Eventually he set up an easel in his office at the restaurant where he created more than 2,000 works of art. Often appearing in a tuxedo or costume, he personalized the restaurant, gave select regulars their own booths with name tags, and designed an underground room as a ship's hold and dedicated it to John Noble. In 1954, he opened Demyan's Hofbrau, a favorite watering hole for judges, public officials, and artists drawn by his cooking and his personality. Demyan was a legendary restaurateur and a prolific painter known for capturing nostalgic scenes of Staten Island. Jack Demyan (1923-1999) painted this landscape featuring the Richmond County Courthouse at Historic Richmond Town in 1993 (acrylic on canvas, 29” x 39”). Noble Art Auction this Friday, November 10 at 6:30 PM. We are honored to have this piece of local history in The 35th Annual John A. Bid now via LiveAuctioneers at or in person this Friday evening at 6:30 PM. Working with skilled printers, he supervised each edition, and many of these masterpieces are getting increasingly harder to find. He began making limited edition prints from his paintings in 1974. He was Noble's friend and joined the Board of Trustees of the Noble Maritime Collection in 2001. Hailed as “the premier maritime artist of our time” by the New York Times, Stobart was a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Art with an international reputation, and his work is in major maritime collections. Included amongst the 44 lots to be sold to benefit the museum is the limited edition print New York: The Abner Coburn Leaving the East River for San Francisco in 1886 (edition 750, 1984, 20 1/2” x 29 1/2” donated by Michael Cusack, in a frame donated by Kathy Cracchiolo) by longtime museum trustee John Stobart (1929-2023). Noble Art Auction is this Friday, November 10, and if you would like last-minute tickets, go to /auction. Bid in person, or leave a bid now online via LiveAuctioneers at He has unhooked the topsail sheet (partially chain) and carried it down with him to the gaff jaws where he is attempting to hook it onto the ring of the lower throat halyard block, partially to get it out of the way and more importantly to unimpede the lower sail in case it has to be taken in.” This will be one of the most soughtafter lots in tomorrow night’s auction. The solitary seaman has just finished tying it up. “The fore topsail, because of weather conditions or otherwise, has been clewed up from the deck by the crew.

The artist explained the action depicted in this composition in an essay that he wrote in 1970. Topsail Sheet Hook, Mast and Man #4 (lithograph, edition 200, 1970, 17 ¾” x 13 7/8”) has never been in a Noble auction before. Noble lithographs in this year’s auction fundraiser. We thank Matthew Goodheart for donating the final lot, and the last of three John A. Noble Art Auction is tomorrow night, Friday, November 10 at 6:30 PM.

Noble maritime collection