EVENTS

April 13, 2011

featured artist at the Washington D.C. Awards Dinner of the
National Maritime Historical Society

December, 2010

O'Brien delivers a lecture about his work at
The Maryland Club in Baltimore

September, 2010

The 31st Annual
Mystic International Marine Art Exhibition


O'Brien's painting "The Great White Fleet in the Straits of Magellan"
wins the most prestigious award of the event, the MUSEUM PURCHASE AWARD.
Mystic Seaport Museum has purchased the painting for its permanent collection.

March-April, 2010

The Naval Academy Museum, at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, is hosting a solo-exhibition of O'Brien's work.

April , 2010

O'Brien delivered a lecture about his work at THE ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM.

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September, 2009

O'Brien delivered a lecture about his work at Tide Point in Baltimore.

August, 2009

O'Brien completed two large paintings for the Gaylord National Resort at the National Harbor near Washington D.C.

click here to see the painting in progress.

April, 2009

O'Brien delivered an illustrated lecture at
The Maryland Historical Society

 

December, 2008

The Annapolis Marine Art Gallery hosted a one-man-show of O'Brien's work, entitled "The Age of Sail"

 

December, 2008

O'Brien was interviewed in his studio by a local news channel.

September, 2008

The Union League Club in New York City hosts a solo-exhibition of O'Brien's work entitled New York in the Age of Sail.

April, 2008

O'Brien delivers a lecture entitled Recreating the Age of Fighting Sail at the opening of the Modern Marine Masters show at the Mystic Seaport in Connecticut.

March, 2008

A production crew for The History Channel films O'Brien in his studio.

February, 2008

Three of O'Brien's paintings are shown at the Union League Club in New York City.

December, 2007

A fire at a gallery in Portsmouth, VA destroys some of O'Brien's work.

October-December, 2007

A gallery in Virginia hosts a solo-exhibition of O'Brien's work entitled The Civil War at Sea.

March, 2007

Baltimore's NPR station, WYPR, produces a 14-minute radio segment about O'Brien and his work.

February, 2007

O'Brien's book The Mutiny on the Bounty is published. It is his tenth nonfiction picture book for children.

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