Visit to Autumn
Making our annual trek to New England. The leaves are in the full change with yellows and golden reds. A renewed memory is the smell fallen leaves and an autumn woodland. Wonderful!
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October 20, 2013
Jim Christley
New works up at PASTA Gallery
Its the start of a new cycle at the PASTA Gallery. That means my location in the gallery has changed and along with it a change in the works being shown. This month some of my marsh scenes done in oils are being exhibited such as the one shown below.
“Looking West” Oil on canvas, 20×16. POR.
Stop into the gallery at your leisure any day from 12 to 4, weekends from 12 to 5 or on First Friday (this Friday) for our Art Walk Celebration from 5 to 9 PM.
For inspiration try the Lyme Art Association website (link at the right)
Incorporated in 1914, the Lyme Art Association continues the tradition of presenting fine art exhibitions and sales by its artist members in the historic gallery. Exhibitions of Lyme Impressionist paintings began in 1902 and were held every summer in the Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library in Old Lyme until August 6, 1921, when the present Lyme Art Association gallery opened.
American Impressionist painters Gifford Beal, Louis Paul Dessar, Childe Hassam, and Willard L. Metcalf joined with Will Howe Foote, Henry Rankin Poore, Allen B. Talcott, and Carleton Wiggins in the early exhibitions of the Association. The Lyme Art Association gallery was the culmination of seven years of planning by artists Frank Bicknell, William Chadwick, Harry Hoffmann, Wilson Irvine, Lawton Parker, William Robinson, Edward Rook, and Gregory Smith.
The building site was adjacent to Miss Florence Griswold’s Late Georgian mansion, today a renowned museum of American Impressionism , where many of the artists gathered each summer season. The land was purchased from Miss Florence in 1917.
The building committee chaired by Lawton Parker, worked with architect Charles A. Platt, designer of the Freer Art Gallery in Washington , D.C. and the Lyman Allyn Museum in New London , CT.
Afternoon Tea at Lyme Art Association, 1921
The plans for the gallery called for perfect lighting and architectural compatibility with the other buildings in the New England village of Old Lyme . In its review of the opening exhibition, the New York Times praised the gallery as, “an embodiment of art in harmony with its natural surroundings.”
A fourth spacious room, the Goodman Gallery, was built in 1938. It was donated by Mrs. William Owen Goodman in memory of her husband, a Chicago art patron and the Association’s third president. In 1986 the building was named to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Historic District of Old Lyme, Connecticut.
In addition to the artist members’ Annual Summer Exhibition, in 1925 the Art Association held the first “Water Color” show. The season schedule expanded again seven years later with the first Annual Autumn Members’ Exhibition. In 1938, the Annual Summer Exhibition added water colors, pastels, prints, and drawings to a display previously restricted to paintings and sculpture. The first Annual Associate Members’ Exhibition was held in 1992.
Painting by Frederick Sexton, circa 1930’s
The mission of the Lyme Art Association is to advance the cause of representational fine arts by owning, maintaining, and preserving an historic building and galleries in Old Lyme, Connecticut, holding art exhibitions, and conducting educational programs for the benefit of the local community and the general public.
Today the Lyme Art Association hosts a diverse schedule of juried art exhibitions with all works for sale by its Member Artists. Further, in keeping with the Association’s commitment to provide a showcase for the exhibition and sale of fine art, the spacious gallery is offered periodically as a gallery for the works of some of the region’s finest and newest representational artists.
I have been honored to be an Elected Artist at Lyme since 2007.
Outside studying marshes and clouds
Took a small watercolor rig to a wonderful pull-off next to the Moltrie Creek mouth to do some painting this morning. The weather was agreeable. Mike and Jean went further into the copse under the big live oaks to work on their things.
I sat in my comfortable chair.
My rig consists of a small clipboard for watercolor paper (scraps from cutting larger sheets), a Windsor and Newton traveling set of half-pans, a pencil box for brushes and pencils, a small jar for water (these things in a backpack) and finally a folding camp chair. Great way to spend a morning.
Next Sunday, 9AM, St Augustine South.
Inspirational Collection of the Week
Want to browse through an online collection of art work for inspiration? Try the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery site at http://www.jrusselljinishiangallery.com (the site is linked at the right).
First Friday of September
8×10 oil on canvas “Old Town Sunset II”
The Art Walk yesterday drew good crowds and a steady stream of visitors to the historic district and the PASTA Gallery. The rains held off to the west and the sea breeze cooled the evening.
Art Walk in St Augustine
The art work has been changed at the PASTA gallery in St Augustine ready for the monthly Art Walk on Friday ( 5 July 2013). You all are invited to stop in to the gallery any time from 12 to 4 on weekdays, 12 to 5 on weekends and from 4 to 9 on the first Friday of the month. 
Enjoying the Day 8×10 Oil on Canvas Price upon request.
Time for new art at the P.A.St.A gallery in St Augustine
Its nearly July — New paintings are about to be hung at the gallery in St Augustine. The art walk is on Friday. I am hanging the start of a new series which emphasizes the serenity of the sea. In addition the first of a series which will continue through the end of the year showing some new scenery — Golf!!
Come down and see the new work.
One of my fellow artists from PASTA has a wonderful You Tube video
It is a real treat from on of the finest gentlemen I know.
What Flows From Spain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yWwYMNwkA0
Enjoy!!!
The Crooked Cane Gallery 