J. Russel Jinishian Gallery is a spacious two-story art gallery specializing in 19th, 20th and 21st century marine and sporting art. The gallery has been in its Fairfield location since 1997 and showcases a large selection of maritime-themed paintings as well as sculptures of sea life and miniature wooden models of sailboats and such historic vessels as Napoleon's barge. It is one of the nation's largest galleries of its kind, and the gallery's owner, J. Russel Jinishian, has 25 years of experience in marine art, having been the former director of the Maritime Gallery at the Mystic Seaport Museum.