Marshall Woodside Joyce

American (1912-1998)

A painter and teacher best known for his coastal scenes, was born in Medford, Joyce was born Massachusetts in 1912. His interest in the sea was nurtured by his sea captain father and the time they spent together on his three-masted schooner.

Joyce studied at the Art Institute of Boston, after which he began a career as a freelance artist in a studio overlooking the Boston Gardens. His marine illustrations, based on the whaling industry and the famous ships of Mystic, Connecticut, were used on calendars for many years.

Joyce’s memberships include the American Society of Marine Painters; the Rockport Art Association; the Boston Watercolor Society; the Guild of Boston Artists; the North Shore Art Association in Gloucester, MA; the Braintree Art Association; the Duxbury Art Association; the Cape Cod Art Association in Barnstable, MA; the Brockton Art Association; and the Key West Art Association. His work is in the collections of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA; the Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, AL; the Kingston Public Library; the Museum of Fine Arts in Anchorage, AK: and the Ventura County Maritime Museum in Oxnard, CA.