New Paintings by Jim Laurino Arrive at Gregory James Gallery

Litchfield artist Jim Laurino recently dropped off several new paintings at Gregory James Gallery, bringing  to 13 the number of the artist’s works available to collectors. Laurino, who paints both in the studio and en plein air, favors a bold style for his evocative landscape paintings that appear faithfully representational at a distance and more…

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Gregory James Gallery Showing Landscapes by Ira Barkoff

Forest Series Glowing by Ira Barkoff

Gregory James Gallery is now showing a small suite of Litchfield artist Ira Barkoff’s paintings of landscapes that are more imagined than actual. The artist’s bold paintings, which seize viewers’ attention, reflect a heightened aesthetic as Barkoff favors an intuitive response to the power of place, time, and conditions over fidelity to a specific scene.…

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Jim Laurino’s Anglophile Commission Via Gregory James Gallery

Jim Laurino commission, Cornwall, England

  A collector reached out to Gregory James Gallery owner Greg Mullen this spring with a request for a commission that had a twist. “One of my favorite artists is Walter Schofield (deceased) and Jim Laurino’s work is in some ways similar, and in some ways unique,” the collector wrote in inquiring if Laurino, who…

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Robert Ferrucci Abstract Paintings Arrive at Gregory James Gallery

Robert Ferrucci is best known for his contemporary American folk art paintings that pay homage to the rural landscape and its iconic structures, but as his work has embraced a stronger palette, richer colors and bolder shapes and forms, the Putnam County, N.Y., artist has also turned to abstraction. “The new work can best be…

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New at Gregory James Gallery: Neufeld Linocuts of Ontario

Gregory James Gallery now has original Woldemar Neufeld linocuts of Waterloo, Ontario, available to collectors. See the Ontario Linocuts on the Neufeld Page “Neufeld (1909–2002) emigrated with his Mennonite parents from Ukraine to Canada in 1924. By the late 1920s, he had begun his lifelong project as documentarist, responding especially to the built environment, whether close to…

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The Allure of Autumn Landscapes

Autumn officially arrived this week—the season of harvest celebrations, shorter days ennobled by golden light and flushed sunsets, and artwork celebrating the colorful landscapes that tug at our emotions and inspire deep reflection as winter approaches. Poets have written odes to autumn throughout the ages, and Robert Louis Stevenson concludes his brief poem Autumn Fires…

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Gregory James Gallery Offering Signature Frank Metz Landscapes

Pemaquid Point by Frank Metz, Gregory James Gallery

Two of landscape painter Frank Metz’s strongest works from the early 1970s are now on display and available at Gregory James Gallery. Metz, who has a home in Roxbury, CT, and recently turned 96 is known for impeccable draftsmanship that provides the foundation for highly evocative works that have evolved over the years from an…

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