FOR GENERAL RELEASE: FEBRUARY 22, 2019
GRAND RIVER SKETCHBOOK: Visions and Voices
by James Lancel McElhinney ©2019
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In 2009, James Lancel McElhinney revived the historic expeditionary practice of painting in travel journals, focused on waterways, rivers, and coastlines. In 2015 McElhinney formed Needlewatcher Editions, a new art-publishing company.
In 2017, Needlewatcher Editions produced its first book: Hudson Highlands. North River Suite Volume Onemcelhinney, which was acquired by a number of notable museums and rare book libraries across the United States.
A new project O.T.W. On the Water: The Schuylkill River, was published on October 26, 2018. It too has been well-received. It is now the focus of a new multimedia installation organized by McElhinney, now on view through September 2019, at Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia,
McElhinney now turns his attention to the Rio Grande, following the historic waterway across New Mexico. Works from his Grand River Sketchbook will be on view at Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, from June 20, to August 4, 2019. In preparation for the exhibition, McElhinney will visit New Mexico, to travel the length of the Rio Grande, collecting images and stories, with the goal of contributing to a growing number of conversations around a great American waterway.
James Lancel McElhinney is an author, publisher, oral historian, visual artist, and public speaker. Now based in New York, he is the recipient of a 2017 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, and previously a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His artworks can be found in the following collections:
Albany Institute of History and Art
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville NC
Avery Fine Art and Architecture Library Columbia UniversityBoscobel House and Gardens, Garrison, New York
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk VA
Denver Art Museum, Denver CO
University of Denver Library. Special Collections
Free Library of Philadelphia Print and Picture Collection
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers New York
Huntington Library and Museum, San Marino, CA
Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia
Newberry Library. Chicago, Illinois
New York Public Library. Wallach Collection of Art, Prints and Photographs
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Special Collections and Archives
Temple University, Samuel L. Paley Special Collections Research Center, Philadelphia
West Point Museum, United States Military Academy
Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. New Haven CT
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Mailing address: Needlewatcher Editions. PO Box 142, West Haverstraw, New York 10993-0142
James Lancel McElhinney in the field above Coachella Valley
at Key’s View. Joshua Tree National Park. California
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