The City Museum’s first-rate marine paintings collection features nearly 300 works: seascapes in oil, watercolor, and gouache. It includes paintings by celebrated artists such as James Buttersworth, James Bard, Antonio Jacobsen, and Fred Pansing, and superb single examples by Fitz Hugh Lane, Samuel Walters, and John Tudgay. New York’s greatness as a city is solidly based on its seafaring past, and these paintings vividly document that illustrious history, from naval celebrations, to the sporting yachts, packets, and steamships that were once ubiquitous in New York’s Harbor and rivers. The paintings online were recently conserved with generous support from the J. Aron Charitable Foundation.