About the artist:

Recognized by maritime historians and curators as outstanding in his field, artist Bill Muller's historical paintings accurately capture and preserve selected visual moments and events from our nation's rich maritime heritage. His paintings are imbued with a sensitivity and scholarship that largely come from first hand experiences, and historical research, and his lifelong love and understanding of his subject matter.

Bill was a founding director and is a Fellow of the American Society of Marine Artists and is an advisor to the National Maritime Historical Society.

"I was inspired, in my 1940's early childhood, from watching majestic sidewheel steamboats on the Hudson River, and the bustling shipping traffic of New York Harbor. I felt compelled, from the outset, to draw pictures of the many graceful vessels that delighted my 'artist's eye'. And what a joy for me, years later, to gain youthful employment with the famed Hudson River Day Line, and becoming quartermaster of the big passenger steamer Alexander Hamilton, the last of the great sidewheelers!"

Before his mid-twenties, Bill yielded to his rising desires for an art career. After studying at Pratt Institute, The School of Visual Arts and the Art Student's League, all in New York, he spent fifteen years employed as an artist/illustrator with major New York advertising agencies and design firms. By the 1980's Bill was creating maritime oil paintings, and following a successful one-man exhibition at a Madison Avenue gallery, turned full time to his current career as a professional maritime historical artist.

Bill's work has been exhibited in many maritime museums, and is represented in numerous private and corporate collections, including the Forbes collection, McAllister Towing Co., United States Lines, Farrell Lines, the New York City Hall collection, The Twenty-One Club, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Corp., the Danish Embassy, NY, the United States Coast Guard Academy Museum, World Yacht, Inc. and others. His work has been published in a wide variety of historical books and periodicals over the years, including the major maritime art book "Liners in Art", by Ken Vard. More recently, he is a featured in the premier contemporary art book, "Bound for Blue Water", published by Greenwich Workshop Press.

A collector art book of Bill Muller's historical ship paintings, with his personal narrative, is presently under development by a New England publishing firm.