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CHAMPLAIN VALLEY SKETCHBOOK: Limited Release of Archival Pigment Prints

NEEDLEWATCHER EDITIONS announces the publication of three new archival pigment prints, each released in a signed limited edition of 200 copies. Drawn from the painting journals of James Lancel McElhinney, author of the Sketchbook Traveler trilogy, these prints celebrate three canonical sites along the Adirondack Coast of Lake Champlain. Views include Camel’s Hump mountain from. Westport, Wadham’s Falls on the Boquet River, and Lincoln Pond, in New Russia.  Printed by Orion Studios in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

A limited number of prints will shortly be available locally at Kit & Syl Studio in the Whitcomb’s Community Center  on NY Route 22 in Whallonsburg, New York. They can also be ordered online LINK from Needlewatcher Marketplace. For online orders, allow  3-4 weeks for delivery.  For additional information, contact editions@needlewatcher.com

Work by James Lancel McElhinney are represented by Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico; by William Havu Gallery in Denver, Colorado, and by New Arts Projects in Litchfield, Connecticut. is featured in the new book The American West in Art, published by the Denver Art Museum in 2021. His work s an be found in numerous public and private collections including:
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina
Avery Fine Art and Architecture Library, Columbia University. New York, New York
Boscobel House and Gardens, Garrison, New York
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
City of Philadelphia. Water Department Archives.
Danville Museum of Fine Art and History, Danville, Virginia
Denver Art Museum. Institute for Western Art. Denver Colorado
University of Denver. Library Special Collections. Denver Colorado
Free Library of Philadelphia. Print and Picture Collection
Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, North Carolina
Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers New York
Huntington Library and Museum, San Marino, California
Medical College of Virginia. Art Collection. Richmond, Virginia
Museum of the Southwest. Midland, Texas.
Newberry Library. Chicago, Illinois
New York Public Library. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photography
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education. Portland, Main
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Archives and Special Collections S
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Temple University. Samuel L. Paley Library Special Collections
West Point Museum, United States Military Academy
Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. New Haven Connecticut”>Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

 

Now available to own: Sketchbook Traveler: Hudson Valley

Coming Soon: Spring 2022: Sketchbook Traveler: Southwest

Explore my Pandemic Bog:  Quaranteam Dispatches, from April 1-June 8, 2020

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MIDWINTER CABIN FEVER CONFAB. January 29, 2022. 12 Noon. Eastern Standard Time (New York, Montreal & Lima, Peru)

Recalling with pleasure last year’s workshops sponsored by Albany Institute of History and Art, Greenwich Art Society, Hudson River Museum, Whallonsburg Grange, and other venues, these learning experiences helped get us through trying times. While I hoped to run workshops in Ireland, New Mexico, and here in the Northeast, it’s hard to plan without knowing what course the current pandemic may take. Having a community of mindful travelers, pursuing a deeper understanding of art, history and the environment, let’s throw another log on the fire, jump online, and explore what’s in store for 2022.           =

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NEW PAGE ADDED TO MARKETPLACE WEBSITE

Among the services we provide is what a friend in the business has termed “retail therapy”. As we populate this new website with goods and services, we are proud to offer well-researched objects and artifacts, as well as appraisal services.  The ANTIQUES page will make its debut with Asian Export Sword Guards, a rare and fascinating field of collecting.

Asian Export Sword-Guards and Nanban Tsuba

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Reflecting the profound influence the medieval Japanese weapons industry exerted across Asia, metalworkers from Sri Lanka and Tibet, and from Monsoon Asia to China produced decorative hand guards in Japanese form, embellished according to local taste. These played a significant role in maritime trade during the early and mid-modern eras, being used as greeting-gifts in commerce and diplomacy. Modest in size and affordable in price, these historic objects exhibit delightful artistry, relics of an age of swashbuckling mariners.

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An Experiment

This page will feature regular updates about our products and events, as well as insights and commentary about developments of interest to entrepreneurship in the arts, publishing and education.
With a global pandemic reshuffling the deck, artists, writers, publishers and their intermediaries are are struggling to get ahead of the curve, wherever it might be. One this is certain. The world of tomorrow will be very different than the one we all knew back in 2019. With social distancing, mandatory lockdowns, furloughs, layoffs and lengthy closures, individuals and business have suffered devastating losses. Brick and mortar galleries and bookstores may survive here and there, but their primacy as marketing tools is no more.
Creative makers and their promoters must now take the initiative, to invent new ways of keeping people on touch wth the artworks, books and cultural experiences they love. My plan is to use Needlewatcher Marketplace as a kind of laboratory to develop and test pro-se marketing strategies for artists. Input and feedback is welcome

–James McElhinney. Essex, New York. August 26, 2020