{"id":9434,"date":"2022-12-10T20:14:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T20:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/?page_id=9434"},"modified":"2026-02-11T15:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:05:22","slug":"about-test-page-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/about-test-page-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT James Lancel McElhinney"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"James Lancel McElhinney<\/strong> is a visual artist, author, oral historian, and fine-press publisher. He is the recipient of a Pollock Krasner <\/a>2017 artist-grant. McElhinney attended Tyler School of Art (MFA Painting), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and Yale University (MFA Painting). He has received numerous honor including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. McElhinney is also a published author<\/a> who has conducted numerous oral histories and interviews for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art<\/a>, Colecci\u00f3n Patricia Phelps de Cisneros<\/a>, the Frick Center for the History of Collecting<\/a>, Columbia University INCITE<\/a> for the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation<\/a>, Center for Southern Jewish Culture<\/a>, Vermont Studio Center, VoCA, Voices in Contemporary Art<\/a>, other foundations and private patrons. McElhinney is a member of the Hudson River Museum<\/a> Board of Trustees, and the Artist & Industry Council of the Arthur Miller Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

VISUAL ARTIST<\/strong><\/p>\n

From 1991 to 2003,<\/strong> McElhinney created a series of artworks exploring historic battlefields as flash-points in new conflicts between historic preservation and commercial development.\u2028Since 2005, painting in book-form has afforded McElhinney greater mobility. Identifying with traveler-artists such as John-James Audubon, George Catlin, Seth Eastman, and William Guy Wall, McElhinney regards his paintings as interventions, encountering the landschaft a<\/em>s a palimpsest of simultaneous narratives; terrain organized by memory and desire; conditioned by topography, climate and other natural processes.<\/p>\n

From 2003 to the Present, <\/strong>McElhinney shifted his painting practice from Eurocentric substrates such as canvas, to the pages of books. Inspired by historic expeditionary artists, the Hokusai Manga, and other non-western book illuminators, McElhinney has become an advocate of deeper engagement with nature through drawing and writing, in ways that promote environmental awareness, historical knowledge and ecological civics. His sketchbook paintings are sometimes reiterated in the form of monoprints, intaglio prints, and fine press limited editions.<\/p>\n

AUTHOR<\/strong><\/p>\n

McElhinney is the author of the Sketchbook Traveler<\/strong><\/em> trilogy from Schiffer Publishing, 2020-2022. Previous books include Art Students League of New York on Painting<\/em><\/strong>, Ten Speed Press, 2015; The Visual Language of Drawing<\/strong><\/em>, Sterling Publishing 2012, and Classical Life Drawing Studio,<\/strong><\/em> Sterling Publishing 2010. Other published writings include essays and reviews for American Arts Quarterly, Fine Art Connoisseur, Hudson River Valley Review, New Art Examiner, Orientations, Urban Glass, <\/em><\/strong>and the U.S. Capitol Historical Society journal T<\/em>he Capitol Dome<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

PUBLISHER<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2017<\/strong> McElhinney established Needlewatcher Editions<\/a>. Following the subscription model, the small press produced four fine press limited edition suites of intaglio & archival pigment prints that have been acquired by museums and rare-book libraries across the country.
\nOne of these, O.T.W. The Schuylkill River<\/em>, was the centerpiece of an installation organized by McElhinney for Independence Seaport Museum in<\/a> Philadelphia, which opened October 24, 2018 and continued through January 5, 2020. His work was also the focus of James McElhinney: Discover the Hudson Anew<\/em><\/a>, at the Hudson River Museum <\/a>from September 13, 2019 to February 16, 2020. McElhinney is represented by Gerald Peters Gallery<\/a> in Santa Fe. His books and limited editions are presented by Peters Projects<\/a>, and Lux Mentis Booksellers<\/a>. His work is represented in Denver, Colorado by William Havu Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Public Collections: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Asheville Art Museum<\/a>, Asheville, North Carolina
\nAvery Fine Art and Architecture Library<\/a>, Columbia University. New York, New York
\nBoscobel House and Gardens<\/a>, Garrison, New York
\nChrysler Museum<\/a>, Norfolk, Virginia
\nCity of Philadelphia. Water Department Archives.<\/a>
\nDanville Museum of Fine Art and History<\/a>, Danville, Virginia
\nDenver Art Museum<\/a>. Institute for Western Art. Denver Colorado
\nUniversity of Denver<\/a>. Library Special Collections. Denver Colorado
\nFree Library of Philadelphia<\/a>. Print and Picture Collection
\nGreenville Museum of Art<\/a>, Greenville, North Carolina
\nHistorical Society of Pennsylvania<\/a>. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
\nHudson River Museum<\/a>, Yonkers New York
\nHuntington Library and Museum<\/a>, San Marino, California
\nMedical College of Virginia<\/a>. Art Collection. Richmond, Virginia
\nMuseum of the Southwest<\/a>. Midland, Texas.
\nNewberry Library<\/a>. Chicago, Illinois
\nNew York Public Library<\/a>. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photography
\nOsher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education<\/a>. Portland, Main
\nPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts<\/a>. Archives and Special Collections\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Plattsburgh State Art Museum<\/a>. Plattsburgh, New York.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Swarthmore College<\/a>, Swarthmore PA
\nTemple University<\/a>. Samuel L. Paley Library Special Collections
\nWest Point Museum<\/a>, United States Military Academy
\nYale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library<\/a>. New Haven Connecticut” \\<\/p>\n

Other Professional Activity<\/strong><\/p>\n

CONSULTANT<\/strong><\/p>\n

McElhinney is a skilled communicator engaged with the world of art, museums, environmentalism and historic preservation. He is the owner of Needlewatcher LLC<\/a>, a bonded New York State Limited Liability Company ,offering consulting services related to fine arts, artist estates, historical and technical expertise to the motion picture industry. He is a candidate member of the Appraisers Association of America<\/a>, and is current with USPAP. USPAP<\/a> (Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice)<\/p>\n

PUBLIC SPEAKER\/PERFORMER<\/strong><\/p>\n

Venues include:<\/strong> Chrysler Museum, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library, Greenwich Art Society, Harpers Ferry National Historic Site (and other NPS locations), Hudson River Valley Institute, Independence Seaport Museum, Hudson River Museum, John Burroughs Association, Museum of Modern Art, National Academy of Design School,) New-York Historical Society, Olana State Historic Site (and other New York State venues), Thomas Cole National Historic Site, University of Iowa School of Art, Yale School of Art. McElhinney also appears in a speaking role in the film She Came to Me<\/a>,<\/strong><\/em> directed by Rebecca Miller<\/a> (2022).<\/p>\n

MEMBERSHIPS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Armor and Arms Club of New York, Audubon Society<\/a>, Ecoartspace<\/a>, Fine Press Book Association<\/a>, Company of Military Historians<\/a>, John Burroughs Association<\/a>, Nature Conservancy<\/a>, New York State Parks & Trails Association<\/a>, Sons of the American Revolution, Yale Club of New York<\/p>\n

McElhinney’s biography<\/strong> has been published in Marquis Who\u2019s Who in America<\/em>. McElhinney lives in the Champlain Valley and Manhattan with his wife; art historian, author and curator Dr. Katherine E. Manthorne<\/a>, noted scholar of art of the United States and Latin America and Full Professor in the Doctoral program in Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.<\/p>\n

Contact:<\/strong> PO Box 233. Essex. New York. 12836-0233<\/p>\n

Email: <\/strong> ja***<\/span>@***********<\/span>rt.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Websites:<\/strong> www.mcelhinneyart.com<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Follow him on Facebook<\/a>, Linkedin<\/a>, Twitter<\/a> and Instagram,<\/a><\/p>\n

Current CV<\/strong> (Highlights)
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