James Lancel McElhinney has revived the historic practice of journal-painting, unpacked as print-suite in the tradition of William Guy Wall, Jacques-Gerard Milbert, William Birch and John-James Audubon.
Tonight at Boscobel House and Garden in Garrison, New York, McElhinney will deliver a sweeping overview of this expeditionary art-form, including the tools, techniques and material culture of traveler artists.
The talk will begin promptly at 6:30 pm

DETAILS AND DIRECTIONS: https://www.boscobel.org/events/lecture-travels-tools-and-techniques-of-19th-century-artist-expeditions/

William Guy Wall

Albrecht Durer

Jacques le Moyne

John White

Albert Eckhout

Frans Post

Early modern explorers developed expeditionary book-painting, which were later published as prints. Created to accompany official reports, public appetite for visions of faraway places fueled a growing printing industry, which expanded the art-market from the ruling elite to a rising merchant-class, and others of more modest means.

James Lancel McElhinney will unpack this history, and the revival of expeditionary journal-painting and publishing in his own creative practice, both as art and enterprise.

Reserve a spot. Open-air journal-painting with James Lancel McElhinney. Check with Greenwich Art Society. The meeting-place has changed

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“Fieldbooks to Prints, Expeditionary Art” October 10 from 5:30-6:30, at the Greenwich Art Society, 2nd floor. Attendees will learn about how artists maintain a practice of exploring the terrain through the use of fieldbooks and journals, and how these images can be expanded into print editions. Free for G.A.S. members / $20 for non-members.

Writing grew out of drawing. With the rise of civilization and expanded personal mobility, writing, drawing and painting developed portable media to accompany travelers abroad. Knowledge has always been portable, whether in clay tablets or E-readers.

Early modern explorers developed expeditionary book-painting, which were later published as prints. Created to accompany official reports, public appetite for visions of faraway places fueled a growing printing industry, which expanded the art-market from the ruling elite to a rising merchant-class, and others of more modest means.

James Lancel McElhinney will unpack this history, and the revival of expeditionary journal-painting and publishing in his own creative practice, both as art and enterprise.

For more information, please consult this downloadable PDF

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O.T.W. On The Water THE SCHUYLKILL RIVER: A suite of seven archival digital prints of journal-paintings by James Lancel McElhinney> Official publication date: October 25, 2018.

Inspired by expeditionary artists, from Jacques le Moyne and John White to J.M.W. Turner, John-James Audubon, Seth Eastman and Thomas Moran, Delaware Valley native James Lancel McElhinney has revived the practice of journal-painting during trips to Europe, Hawaii, Ecuador, Peru, California, the Rocky Mountains, the American Southwest, the Hudson Valley, and now the Schuylkill River, as it flows through Fairmount Park.
Reviving practices employed by such traveler-artists as Benjamin Henry Latrobe, William and Thomas Birch, Joshua Rowley Watson, Nicolino Calyo, James Lancel McElhinney now returns to Philadelphia to explore its Hidden River, call attention to its environmental priorities, explore its history and celebrate its beauty.
Works from the project O.T.W. The Schuylkill River will be featured in an exhibition at Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, opening on October 24, 2018. The show will be on view for one year.

Preview of an animation by Graham White, featured in the forthcoming exhibition at Philadelphia’s Independence Seaport Museum, that will allow visitors to experience McElhinney’s Schuylkill River Sketchbook without actually handling it.

Click here to play the video: teaser_sample_a

Following the examples of these late-18th and early 19th-century artists, McElhinney’s works have been reinterpreted as suites of prints, which can be enjoyed in the form of an unbound book, or framed for display on the wall.
O.T.W. The Schuylkill River, the limited edition, follows the success of McElhinney’s Hudson Highlands: North River Suite Volume One, which can be found in the following collections:

Albany Institute of History and Art
Avery Fine Art and Architecture Library, Columbia University
Boscobel House and Gardens, Garrison, New York
University of Denver. Library Special Collections. Denver Colorado
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers New York
Huntington Library and Museum, San Marino, California
West Point Museum, United States Military Academy
Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. New Haven Connecticut
Newberry Library. Chicago, Illinois
New York Public Library: Wallach Division or Art, Prints and Photography.

And private collections in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

PREVIEW

Needlewatcher Editions announces the publication of O.T.W. The Schuylkill River, a suite of seven (7) numbered, signed and dated archival digital prints. Loosely bound in a fine cloth-covered Solander (clamshell) box, this suite of prints is accompanied by a descriptive chapbook, with an introduction by Adam Levine, historian and archivist for the Philadelphia Water Department. The limited edition, composed of 100% archival materials and limited to fifty (50) copies, was printed and bound by Brilliant Graphics of New York, New York, Exton, Pennsylvania and Shenzhen China.

Below is a selection of journal-paintings included in the deluxe limited edition.

You are invited to support this project with a subscription to the deluxe limited edition at $1200.00 per copy.
Subscribers who pledge prior to October 7, 2018 will be thanked in the limited edition, and acknowledged in the exhibition at Independence Seaport Museum, opening on October 24, 2018. The show will remain on view for one year.
On October 25, 2018 (the official release date) remaining copies of the limited edition will be offered with tiered pricing, starting at $1,600.00 per copy. Personal check, PayPal and credit cards are accepted by Needlewatcher Editions. For further details, or to reserve a copy, please enquire at

ot*@ne***********.com











, or call 347-266-5652

James Lancel McElhinney with project manager Susan Trickle, at Brilliant Graphics

James Lancel McElhinney is a visual historian, author and publisher, known for his investigations of American rivers and battlefields. The Delaware Valley native attended Tyler School of Art, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Yale.
He is a recipient of a 2017 Pollock-Krasner Grant., and an artist fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
McElhinney is listed on the Master Artist Council of the Arthur Miller Foundation. O.T.W: The Schuylkill River will be on view from October 24, 2018, at Independence Seaport Museum, as the inaugural exhibition in a contemporary art-space complementing the museum’s new River Alive galleries. McElhinney lives in Manhattan with his wife, historian, author and curator Dr. Katherine Manthorne, and a feline named Maeve. His website is www.mcelhinneyart.com

For more information, or to purchase, download this PDF:

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Greenwich Art Center is sponsoring a journal-painting workshop in northern Manhattan on October 16. This will be preceded by a lecture in Greenwich on October 10, at 5:30 pm.

After a hiatus of several years, James Lancel McElhinney is returning to teaching, with the world as his classroom. Developing a completely mobile painting practice, McElhinney has taken scenic plein-air painting to new levels. Apart from a purely visual response to terrain, light and weather, the landscape is explored in terms of history, science and environmental priorities–as an ongoing process of human intervention into the processes of nature

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October 2, 2018

O.T.W. On The Water THE SCHUYLKILL RIVER: A suite of seven archival digital prints of journal-paintings by James Lancel McElhinney due to be published October 25, 2018. Subscription sales have been brisk, but six days remain for you to support this project at the subscription level. Subscribers will be thanks on the acknowledgments page in the limited edition, and listed among the contributors on a wall-panel in the exhibition opening October 24 at Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia.

Inspired by expeditionary artists, from Jacques le Moyne and John White to J.M.W. Turner, John-James Audubon, Seth Eastman and Thomas Moran, Delaware Valley native James Lancel McElhinney has revived the practice of journal-painting during trips to Europe, Hawaii, Ecuador, Peru, California, the Rocky Mountains, the American Southwest, the Hudson Valley, and now the Schuylkill River, as it flows through Fairmount Park.
Reviving practices employed by such traveler-artists as Benjamin Henry Latrobe, William and Thomas Birch, Joshua Rowley Watson, Nicolino Calyo, James Lancel McElhinney now returns to Philadelphia to explore its Hidden River, call attention to its environmental priorities, explore its history and celebrate its beauty.
Works from the project O.T.W. The Schuylkill River will be featured in an exhibition at Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, opening on October 24, 2018. The show will be on view for one year.

Preview of a video display featured in the forthcoming exhibition at Philadelphia’s Independence Seaport Museum, that will allow visitors to experience McElhinney’s Schuylkill River Sketchbook without actually having it in hand.

Click here to play the video: teaser_sample_a

Following the examples of these late-18th and early 19th-century artists, McElhinney’s works have been reinterpreted as suites of prints, which can be enjoyed in the form of an unbound book, or framed for display on the wall.
O.T.W. The Schuylkill River, the limited edition, follows the success of McElhinney’s Hudson Highlands: North River Suite Volume One, which can be found in the following collections:
Avery Fine Art and Architecture Library, Columbia University
Boscobel House and Gardens, Garrison, New York
University of Denver. Library Special Collections. Denver Colorado
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers New York
Huntington Library and Museum, San Marino, California
West Point Museum, United States Military Academy
Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. New Haven Connecticut
Newberry Library. Chicago, Illinois
And private collections in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

PREVIEW

Needlewatcher Editions announces the forthcoming publication of O.T.W. The Schuylkill River, a suite of seven (7) numbered, signed and dated archival digital prints. Loosely bound in a fine cloth-covered Solander (clamshell) box, this suite of prints is accompanied by a descriptive chapbook. The edition is composed of 100% archival materials and limited to fifty (50) copies. Below is a selection of journal-paintings included in the deluxe limited edition.

You are invited to support this project with a subscription to the deluxe limited edition at $1200.00 per copy.
Subscribers who pledge prior to October 7, 2018 will be thanked in the limited edition, and acknowledged in the exhibition at Independence Seaport Museum, opening on October 24, 2018. The show will remain on view for one year.
On October 25, 2018 (the official release date) remaining copies of the limited edition will be offered with tiered pricing, starting at $1,600.00 per copy. Personal check, PayPal and credit cards are accepted by Needlewatcher Editions. For further details, or to reserve a copy, please enquire at

ot*@ne***********.com











, or call 347-266-5652

James Lancel McElhinney is a visual historian, author and publisher, known for his investigations of American rivers and battlefields. The Delaware Valley native attended Tyler School of Art, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Yale.
He is a recipient of a 2017 Pollock-Krasner Grant., and an artist fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
McElhinney is listed on the Master Artist Council of the Arthur Miller Foundation. O.T.W: The Schuylkill River will be on view from October 24, 2018, at Independence Seaport Museum, as the inaugural exhibition in a contemporary art-space complementing the museum’s new River Alive galleries. McElhinney lives in Manhattan with his wife, historian, author and curator Dr. Katherine Manthorne, and a feline named Maeve. His website is www.mcelhinneyart.com

For more information, or to purchase, download this PDF:

Download (PDF, 947KB)

September 27, 2018

O.T.W. On The Water THE SCHUYLKILL RIVER: A suite of seven archival digital prints of journal-paintings by James Lancel McElhinney due to be published October 25, 2018. Continuing sales approach more than one-third of the limited edition of fifty.

Inspired by expeditionary artists, from Jacques le Moyne and John White to J.M.W. Turner, John-James Audubon, Seth Eastman and Thomas Moran, Delaware Valley native James Lancel McElhinney has revived the practice of journal-painting during trips to Europe, Hawaii, Ecuador, Peru, California, the Rocky Mountains, the American Southwest, the Hudson Valley, and now the Schuylkill River, as it flows through Fairmount Park.
Reviving practices employed by such traveler-artists as Benjamin Henry Latrobe, William and Thomas Birch, Joshua Rowley Watson, Nicolino Calyo, James Lancel McElhinney now returns to Philadelphia to explore its Hidden River, call attention to its environmental priorities, explore its history and celebrate its beauty.
Works from the project O.T.W. The Schuylkill River will be featured in an exhibition at Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, opening on October 24, 2018. The show will be on view for one year.

Following the examples of these late-18th and early 19th-century artists, McElhinney’s works have been reinterpreted as suites of prints, which can be enjoyed in the form of an unbound book, or framed for display on the wall.
O.T.W. The Schuylkill River, the limited edition, follows the success of McElhinney’s Hudson Highlands: North River Suite Volume One, which can be found in the following collections:
Avery Fine Art and Architecture Library, Columbia University
Boscobel House and Gardens, Garrison, New York
University of Denver. Library Special Collections. Denver Colorado
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers New York
Huntington Library and Museum, San Marino, California
West Point Museum, United States Military Academy
Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. New Haven Connecticut
Newberry Library. Chicago, Illinois
And private collections in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

PREVIEW

Needlewatcher Editions announces the forthcoming publication of O.T.W. The Schuylkill River, a suite of seven (7) numbered, signed and dated archival digital prints. Loosely bound in a fine cloth-covered Solander (clamshell) box, this suite of prints is accompanied by a descriptive chapbook. The edition is composed of 100% archival materials and limited to fifty (50) copies. Below is a selection of journal-paintings included in the deluxe limited edition.

You are invited to support this project with a subscription to the deluxe limited edition at $1200.00 per copy.
Subscribers who pledge prior to October 7, 2018 will be thanked in the limited edition, and acknowledged in the exhibition at Independence Seaport Museum, opening on October 24, 2018. The show will remain on view for one year.
On October 25, 2018 (the official release date) remaining copies of the limited edition will be offered with tiered pricing, starting at $1,600.00 per copy. Personal check, PayPal and credit cards are accepted by Needlewatcher Editions. For further details, or to reserve a copy, please enquire at

ot*@ne***********.com











, or call 347-266-5652

James Lancel McElhinney is a visual historian, author and publisher, known for his investigations of American rivers and battlefields. The Delaware Valley native attended Tyler School of Art, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Yale.
He is a recipient of a 2017 Pollock-Krasner Grant., and an artist fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
McElhinney is listed on the Master Artist Council of the Arthur Miller Foundation. O.T.W: The Schuylkill River will be on view from October 24, 2018, at Independence Seaport Museum, as the inaugural exhibition in a contemporary art-space complementing the museum’s new River Alive galleries. McElhinney lives in Manhattan with his wife, historian, author and curator Dr. Katherine Manthorne, and a feline named Maeve. His website is www.mcelhinneyart.com

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