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Needlewatcher Editions announces the forthcoming publication of PALISADES: North River Suite Volume Two in a suite of seven (7) numbered, signed and dated archival digital prints. Loosely bound in a fine cloth-covered Solander (clamshell) box. The edition is produced with 100% archival materials and limited to fifty (50) copies. Advance subscribers receive a significant discount (33%) on the purchase price. Scroll down for details and to download a PDF fact-sheet.

PALISADES: North River Suite Volume Two is now on view in James McElhinney: Discover the Hudson Anew, at Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York. (September 13, 2019-February 16, 2020) Following the success of McElhinney’s Hudson Highlands: North River Suite Volume One (2017) and O.T.W. The Schuylkill River (2018). McElhinney’s prints 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
City of Philadelphia. Water Department Archives.
University of Denver. Library Special Collections. Denver Colorado
Free Library of Philadelphia. Print and Picture Collection
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers New York
Huntington Library and Museum, San Marino, California
Independence Seaport Museum
Newberry Library. Chicago, Illinois
New York Public Library. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photography
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Archives and Special Collections
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,
And in private collections in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New Zealand.

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The exhibition features works by Joan Wadleigh Curran, David Fertig, Rebecca Gilbert, James McElhinney, Sarah McEneaney and Bill Scott

Last year during the preparations for my installation O.T.W. On the Water, at Philadelphia’s Independence Seaport Museum I worked with master printer Cindi Royce Ettinger to explore some new processes for producing intaglio prints, using a process known as Chine-colle,(Chinese pasting) combined with digital printing technology. Drawing directly into copper plates in the form of linear sketches, the printed image was traced onto watercolor paper, where a color scheme was developed. This was then scanned, resized and printed onto thin Japanese washi (mulberry-paper). These were then trimmed down to the same size as the plate, laid face down upon this sandwich of copper and paper and lightly dusted with powdered rice starch paste. 100% acid-free archival rag etching-paper was then placed over top and run through an etching-press. The result was in effect the same as a hand-colored etching, with line and color married to one another at the same time. In most hand-colored intaglio prints the color is added after the print has been pulled and dried.

Cindi Ettinger’s studio is located in an historic storefront at 2215 South Street in Philadelphia. The printing shop is located behind a small gallery space in which Cindi presents rotating exhibitions of the artists with whom she works. This year she will include in her end-of-the-year exhibition a series of test-prints we did together, while exploring the process of digital Chine-colle. What makes these prints unique is that while we were waiting for the archival pigment prints to arrive, as an experiment Cindi printed a few of her own on her office inkjet printer. Archival pigment prints–sometimes known on the photographic world as Light Prints–are water-resistant, whereas traditional color inkjet prints are not. When Cindi used these instead of the more permanent pigment prints, wonderful things happened. Surprising patterns appeared in the prints. Colors bled, setting up a visual tension between the reasoned line and the randomness of the color, making each print a unique image.

The exhibition will also feature works by wonderful (and prominent) Philadelphia artists like Joan Wadleigh Curran, David Fertig, Rebecca Gilbert, Sarah McEneaney and Bill Scott. All of the works in the gallery will be available. Cindi describes it as a neighborhood event, a way for locals to acquire works by notable artists at affordable prices. Some may regard prints like these as the equivalent of lab-rats, preferring to acquire nothing but finished works. I salute Cindi’s enterprise of making in-process-works available at modest prices. Like drawings, prints such as these offer the collector a kind of intimate experience that brings them into the artists’ personal thought-processes.

I might dare to add that Cindi’s shop is at most a ten-minute UBER ride from Philadelphia’s 30th Street AMTRAK station.

Here is a preview of our test-prints that will be on view:

Columbia Bridge Number One. 2018. 500

Columbia Bridge Number Two. 2018. 600

Columbia Bridge Number Three. 2018. 600

Columbia Bridge Number Four. 2018. 400

Columbia Bridge Number Five. 2018. 600

Black Mesa Number One. 2019. 600

Black Mesa Number Two. 2019. 600

All prints are priced between 400-600, each numbered 1/1, titled, signed and dated, with CR Ettinger blind-stamp

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FOR GENERAL RELEASE: April 2, 2019

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GRAND RIVER SKETCHBOOK: Visions and Voices
by James Lancel McElhinney ©2019

The Rio Grande passing through White Rock Canyon, Los Alamos County, New Mexico. SSE from 35.8215-106.1845. March 9, 2019. 3:30 pm

In 2009, James Lancel McElhinney revived an historic form of expeditionary drawing, painting and writing in travel journals, focused on waterways, rivers, and coastlines, promoting environmental sustainability through a deeper personal engagement with nature.

In 2015 McElhinney formed Needlewatcher Editions, a new publishing company specializing in fine-press art-books. Read the feature article by Peter Trippi in Fine Art Connoisseur magazine. In 2017, Needlewatcher Editions produced its first book: Hudson Highlands. North River Suite Volume One, 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.
Assembled around McElhinney’s Schuylkill River Sketchbook, and a limited edition of archival pigment prints drawn from its pages, the installation brings together a group of living and historic artists engaging the river, including a series of podcast interviews.

Late Light. The Rio Grande Passing Through White Rock Canyon. SSE from 36.8261 -106.1802. March 7, 2019. 5:30 pm

McElhinney now turns his attention to the Rio Grande, following the historic waterway across New Mexico. Works from his Grand River Sketchbook project will be on view at Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, from June 20, to August 4, 2019.

Recently McElhinney has been working in New Mexico, to explore the Rio Grande Rift, collecting images and stories, with the goal of contributing to a growing number of conversations around one of America’s greatest waterways. A suite of paintings and color intaglio prints are now underway. A new limited edition of archival pigment prints drawn from the pages of McElhinney’s painting journals is planned.

Looking East from the Western Rim of Rio Grande Gorge. 36.4765 -106.7353. Journal-painting. 3.5 x 10 inches

McElhinney is also currently in the process of creating a series of pocket field-guides to mindful travel through drawing and writing for Schiffer Publishing, the first three of which will focus on The American Southwest, Hudson Valley, and the New England Coast.

Looking SSE from SSE from 36.8261 -106.1802. March 11, 2019. 5:00 pm. Watercolor and pen on Arches block paper. 3.9 x 9.8 inches.

James Lancel McElhinney in the Field

Rio Grande Gorge. Photograph by the author.

James Lancel McElhinney is an author, visual artist, oral historian, independent scholar and publisher. He is also the owner of Needlewatcher LLC, a bonded New York State Limited Liability Company specializing in artist estates, art appraisal, art publishing, education and cultural affairs. He who passed the USPAP (Uniform Standards and Practices for Appraisal Professionals) exam, and is an Associate member of the Appraisers Association of America. He holds an MFA in painting from Yale, a BFA from the Tyler School of Art, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He is the author of numerous essays, articles and several trade books on art. McElhinney has conducted numerous oral history interviews for organizations such as the Archives of American Art, Columbia Center for Oral History, Coleción Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Frick Center for the History of Collecting, University of Charleston, and the Vermont Studio Center. McElhinney is listed on the Master Artist Advisory Council of The Arthur Miller Foundation. He is the recipient of several fellowships and grants, including a 2017 Pollock Krasner Foundation grant, and a prior Visual Artist fellowship from National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been the subject of nearly fifty solo exhibition and numerous group shows. McElhinney’s work can be found in numerous private collections, and:
Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville NC
Avery Fine Art and Architecture Library Columbia University, New York, NY
Boscobel House and Gardens, Garrison, New York
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk VA
Denver Art Museum, Denver CO
University of Denver Library. Special Collections, Denver CO
Free Library of Philadelphia Print and Picture Collection, Philadelphia PA
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers New York
Huntington Library and Museum, San Marino, CA
Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia PA
Newberry Library. Chicago, Illinois
New York Public Library. Wallach Collection of Art, Prints and Photographs, New York, NY
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Special Collections and Archives, Philadelphia PA
Temple University, Samuel L. Paley Special Collections Research Center, Philadelphia PA
West Point Museum, United States Military Academy. Highland Falls, NY
Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. New Haven CT

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