Thomas Maclay Hoyne Biography

Hoyne had a naval career in the Pacific Theatre as a gunner officer. He created paintings that reflect his experience and his poetic feelings about the sea and its sailing and fishing. His greatest strength was his realistic depiction of vessels, something that he worked at meticulously.

In 1983 Hoyne received the Rudolph J. Schaefer Award at the Mystic International Show. Between June 16th and September 30th 2005, the Independence Seaport Museum of Philadelphia held an exhibition of forty-eight of Hoyne’s paintings. Then, in mid-life, after cancer diagnosis, he decided to follow his love of marine art, something he did until his death in 1989.

His interests in marine subjects began during his childhood when he spent summers at his grandmother’s place at Ogunquit, on the southeast coast of Maine. His grandmother introduced him to the famous painter, Gordon Grant, and he later visited his studios in New York and Gloucester. Hoyne became a founding fellow of the American Society of Marine Artists.

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