Gilleon Booth Museum Show

R. Tom Gilleon has a one man exhibition opening January 28, 2012 at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville Georgia. The exhibition will run through May 27, 2012 and includes over 30 paintings, a number of which have been released by The Greenwich Workshop as Fine Art Editions.

The Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA

Tom will be attending a reception for the exhibition March 8, 2012 and a catalogue of the show will be available. You can visit the Booth website at www.boothmuseum.org

Autry Masters Show Sets the Stage

Curious as to what the 2012 year in art will bring? The doors open in one week on the first major museum art show of 2012 and the Family of Greenwich Artists will be well represented: sixteen are showing at this invitation only event! You can visit the show's comprehensive website http://theautry.org/masters-of-the-american-west-2012/overview. Better yet, visit the Autry National Center in Los Angeles and see the show yourself from February 4 to March 18.

Here's a taste of what you'll see:

Returning to the Bay, Christopher Blossom

Window to the Arctic, Greg Beecham

 

Going to Treaty, John Buxton

Wild Onions, Don Crowley

Pouncer, Luke Frazier

 

Trading for Moccasins, Z.S. Liang

Tsunami, Bonnie Marris

Cattle Land in Winter, Dean Mitchell

The Grand Expedition, William S. Phillips

Street Fair, Mian Situ

Alpine Aura,  Dan Smith

Return to the Prairie, Tucker Smith

The Spanish Shawl, JoAnn Peralta

Traders Among the Crow, Howard Terpning

Winter Sun - Isis, Curt Walters

The Doll Laundry, Morgan Weislting

Old Santa Fe Trail, Kim Wiggins

And as a special reward for following this post this far, you are one of the first to know that The Greenwich Workshop will be publishing Terpning: A Tribute to the Plains People in conjunction with his one man retrospective that opens at the Autry May 12, 2012.

Stay tuned for details...



Bask in the Warm Mediterranean Sun

Wouldn't you love to be on the sun drenched shores of the Italian Coast right now. We know June Carey would, but, she is here in the States preparing for her annual show at American Visions in Folsom, CA. Her featured new original work for the event is The Amalfi Coast, and June has invited us into her studio to watch this original work of art come to life .

Click Here to see the Study and all the updates for June Carey's Amalfi Coast

The painting places us high in the hills of Ravello, looking east towards Minori down on the Amalfi coast. Age-old towns, villas and vineyards sit above a tranquil, aqua-blue Mediterranean Sea that is truly one of the most magical destinations on earth. By following this link Take Me to The Amalfi Coast you be able to see this tantalizing work of art take form. We will update June's progress twice a week leading up to the show itself and give you a little peek into June's creative process.

Underpainting

If basking in a little warm Italian summer sun every day sounds good to you, reserve your own copy of the Fine Art Giclee Canvas Amalfi Coast from your authorized dealer.

A painting takes form

Smith: Peoples' Choice (again and again) in Wildlife Art

The people have spoken, and they are saying they love wildlife artist Dan Smith's art. Our most recent Fine Art Edition from Dan, Raven Rhetoric, was selected for the People's Choice Award at this year's Western Visions Art Show at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole.

More recently, Smith's Riverside Siesta was chosen by attendees at The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum's Small Works, Great Wonders show for the Cynthia Post Buyers' Choice Award.

This is all in the same year that the Autry National Center awarded Dan with their Bob Kuhn Wildlife Award for Heavy Hitters which debuted at this year's Masters of the American West. This work is also available as a Fine Art Edition from the Greenwich Workshop.

Collectors will also have the chance to learn more about Dan in the January issue of Western Art Collector. We understand not only is there a feature article, but that one of Smith's paintings will be featured on the cover. Additionally, Western Art & Architecture is including Dan and son Adam in an upcoming feature that focuses on successful parent/child artist families.

 

  

"Desirable Above All Other Fruit"

Artist James C. Christensen’s newest book, Lehi’s Dream, has just been published by Deseret Book. The Greenwich Workshop is proud to publish a Fine Art Open Edition print of the book’s featured painting: Desirable Above All Other Fruit, signed by the artist and available now.
      “Tree of Life imagery and its symbolism are present in almost every world creation myth and mythology,” explains artist James C. Christensen. “References, in one form of another, can be found in the Book of Genesis, Chinese and Norse mythology, Hinduism and pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures.”
     “Lehi’s Dream (1 Nephi 8) is a wonderful example of this and the Tree of Life is a powerful image. The story and the painting remind us that the fruits of the tree are available to everyone that tries to live a good life. There is a path to be followed and at the end there is the Tree, the love of God, and his fruits are there for all of us to enjoy.”

Greenwich Workshop collectors will also have access to a very limited, collector’s edition of Lehi’s Dream, bound in leather and accompanied by an original stone lithograph that is signed, titled, and numbered by James C. Christensen. The lithograph, 9 ¾ x 7 ¾ , is titled The Fruit of the Tree (left). Only 200 copies of the collector’s edition will be made. Visit http://www.greenwichworkshop.com/ to locate an authorized Greenwich Workshop dealer.

     Lehi’s Dream is the second book collaboration between Christensen and author Robert Millet. Their first book was Parables, produced by The Greenwich Workshop Press for Deseret Book in 1999.

Dean Mitchell- A Modern Day Vermeer

No fine art medium takes to Fine Art Giclee reproduction like watercolor, and this November we release our first Dean Mitchell Fine Art Giclee Editions. We will be offering a landscape, Early Spring in St. Louis and a figurative piece, Forgive Us Lord. If we didn't make the Giclees a different size from the originals, you'd never be able to tell the original from the reproduction.

 “Mr. Mitchell is a virtual modern-day Vermeer of ordinary black people given dignity through the eloquence of his concentration and touch,” wrote The New York Times’ Michael Kimmelman. “Mr. Mitchell's works are subtly tuned character studies with an eye toward abstract form and charismatic light.”

“Eloquence of concentration and touch” expresses perfectly the entire scope of Dean Mitchell’s work. He can divine in a landscape a setting’s soul as clearly as he portrays the depths of human spirit. He is able to uncover in any subject he addresses a central sense of faith, trust and perseverance.

Up and Running (Again!)

Just letting everybody know that the power has been restored to our area and we are running at full speed again! Thank you for your patience if the storm has interrupted our service to you in the past week.