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Want to Collect Art?

Collecting art can be a daunting and confusing challenge for the beginner or even a seasoned collector. Few things are as difficult as choosing the art to surround your life with. Art has the ability to enrich our lives. It can conjure memories of the past, give us insight to the human condition and transport us to places far beyond the walls of our homes.

In starting a collection you should decide what you would like to collect. This can be as broad as a regional area such as southern artists or it can be very narrow and specific like the Faultless Starch / Bon Ami Company’s collection of paintings depicting farm animals and pets – mostly chickens.

For beginning collectors I would suggest staying clear of anything from the Renaissance and the Hellenistic periods, as well as the old masters. These can challenge even highly seasoned collectors. As you build your collection and your connoisseurship, you will find your taste changing and your eye more discerning, demanding ever higher quality in your art selections.

Where to start? The best place to learn about and purchase art, is an art gallery. Look for galleries that have longevity and a loyal client base. Don’t be afraid to go to these stalwarts for fear that they will be out of your price league and on the snooty side. Chances are these galleries are still around because they have great customer service and treat all of their clients with respect - no matter what their budget size. Don’t avoid the younger galleries either, especially once you have a bit of knowledge under your belt. They can be great places to find emerging contemporary artists at a fraction of their soon to be skyrocketing prices.

A wonderful way to get your “art” feet wet is by attending opening receptions or other such events at a gallery. These tend to be very social events where you can talk to other clients about the artwork and their personal experiences with the gallery. These events can also be a great chance to meet a gallery’s featured artist. Making a connection with the artist can give you a bit of meaningful insight into their art and life. These events however are more for perusing rather than long term looking. Return to the gallery during a weekday when the atmosphere is quieter and you can look longer.

On your return visit to the gallery bring some paper and a pen for taking notes. When you find a piece that catches your eye, write down your first impression of the work. Try not to think about it, just react to the art. It can be a few sentences or just a couple of words. Then take a moment to write out a detailed description of what you see. A good detailed description will get you to examine the art in a matter of fact way allowing you to see the quality and any defects in the piece. This description can also be useful later if you need to communicate with the gallery via phone or email.

If possible, ask the dealer to move the artwork into a well-lighted area, free of the surrounding clutter that can detract from the work. This allows you and artwork to have some breathing room.

What should you do now? Start asking the dealer questions about the artist. Check to see if a short biography is available. Ask about the work’s provenance or who has owned it and where it has been since it was created. This is especially important in authenticating and establishing a proof of ownership in older works of art.

At this point if you are still hedging, ask if you can take the piece out on approval. Most galleries will accommodate. Taking a piece home will help you see it in your environment, with your things, under your lighting conditions. Live with the piece for a few days. Now refer back to your first impression of it in the gallery. Does it hold up to your impression of it now? Are you in love with it? Do you just have to have it? If the answer is yes, then go for it!

Lorax, I Speak for the Trees

Update, the Dr. Seuss Earth Day Lorax prints are now available for purchase.

On Earth Day April 22, 2008, Conservation International and Dr. Seuss Enterprises launch The Lorax Project, an innovative initiative to engage individuals & corporations to do their parts to conserve places and species critical to our planet. In collaboration with this effort, a series of four Earth Friendly Lorax serigraphs will be released to promote this worthwhile endeavor within the fine arts community.

The paper used for each Earth Friendly Lorax serigraph is created at mills meeting four key

factors for environmental responsibility.

• Tree-Free
• Chlorine-Free
• Mill Certified
• Alternative Energy
• Additionally, each serigraph is printed using water-based inks (Water-based inks have the permanence and brilliance of oil based inks, without the use of petroleum).

Printed on tree-free Stonehenge paper, all Earth Friendly Lorax prints are made by certified mills running on alternative energy sources while using chlorine-free production processes.

“No trees were cut down to produce this artwork”

Additionally, a contribution will be made to Conservation International through the sale of Lorax prints over the course of this project. Support from The Lorax Project will be used for critical activities needed to conserve important plants and flagship animals around the world.

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Buy Now!!!

We are proud present these original works by artist Mark Lunde. Mark Bernard Lunde was born in 1952 on Staten Island, NY. He was educated in NYC at the High School of Art and Design, Parsons School of Design, NYU, Pratt Graphics Center, School of Visual Arts and The Art Students League. In his 20's Lunde traveled to Europe, painting in Paris, the Alps and Brittany. He also traveled throughout the United States painting in Minnesota, Texas, Indiana, Tennessee and Georgia.
He relocated to Marietta Georgia with his wife in 1986 where he worked as an art director and illustrator.
When he arrived in Southern California in 2000, the scenery and clement weather influenced him to redouble his efforts as an oil painter.

This work is custom framed and ready to hang.


Framed size: 23 X 19 inches
Image Size: 16 X 12 inches
Media: Oil on Canvas Panel
Price: $150 USD not including Shipping and 7 % Sales Tax for GA residents only.

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Rising Art Star

Christina Snyder Doelling

New Works

Sat. January 26th

Reception 6-9pm

Local Georgia artist Christina Doelling is a rising new talent. Please join us for the reception of her new works, Saturday, January 26th, from 6 to 9pm.

Show Statement:

“An artist needs to continually evolve. It shouldn’t be frequent or dramatic changes,

nor attempts to purposefully reinvent oneself, but rather slight, small tweaks along the way. Experimentation is necessary to grow as an artist, and to ward off monotony. Sometimes these steps into new territory are tentative, sometimes it happens with the aggression (and enthusiasm!) of a charging bull. This show represents just such a foray.

Perhaps it is the seasonal influence, but for this show I went much more muted and earthy in my palette. There are no bright pastels or screaming, unnatural colors here.

I am using only rich, deep, “real” colors. More than ever before, I wanted to bring the colors of the outside world, in.

I still want to avoid a perfectly flat, smooth canvas. I create a rough, chunkier tooth

(that acts to “grab” the color) by using a substantial texture paint applied thickly as the base surface. Then I build up the multiple layers of color on top of that. Layer after layer of acrylic paint are subsequently added in various degrees of thin and thick, and heavily manipulated (scratched through, rubbed out, applied with palette knife, etc.). This multi-stepped process, which gives depth and luminosity to a painting, usually takes several weeks. True to most abstract work, the composition reveals itself gradually throughout the painting process. The titles, too, usually occur to me towards the end, when something about the painting leaves me feeling a certain way, or reminds me of a particular place, or evokes a mood.

For many of the paintings in this grouping tonight, I pushed my desire for more texture further by experimenting with touches of collage elements as the first layer. This is the first time I have done this to this degree on large canvases. I used photographic images, strips and squares of raw canvas, cardboard of all kinds, tissue paper, brown paper bags, paper towels, in addition to gel mediums and blended fibers. I also did quite a bit of drawing on top and within the layers too, using graphite, conté, oil sticks, grease pencils and charcoal. Not only is the cumulative result a much more exciting, active, mixed-media surface, but I love the fun little surprises that seem hidden throughout, revealing themselves only upon closer inspection. By adding so many paint layers, most of the graphic, original collage elements actually became covered up. But it is the peeking through I love; the hints, the teases, the ghost images, the nuances, the playful little surprises.

This was the most fun that I have had to date in preparation for a show, and I hope that on some level, some of this enjoyment and lighthearted spirit comes across.” - CSD

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Dr. Seuss, Gosh!, Do I Look as Old as all That!

Gosh!, Do I Look as Old as all That! is from a special series of “La Jolla Birdwoman” paintings that Ted Geisel created in the early 1960s. This string of artworks is described in the November 1964 issue of McCall’s Magazine – “It delights Geisel, a bird watcher on the social scene, when he isolates the not-too-rare local species he calls the La Jolla Birdwoman as it functions in its native habitat of luncheons, parties, and charity balls.” (p. 201)

Other celebrated “La Jolla Birdwoman” images include I’d Love to Go to the Party but I’m Absolutely Dead, Martini Bird, My Petunia Can Lick Your Geranium, Not Speaking, Sunbathing Bird, Client with Architect, Raising Money for the Arts and View from a Window of a Rented Beach Cottage.
Gosh! is the perfect companion piece for Self Portrait of a Young Man Shaving.

Left: Gosh!, Do I Look As Old As All That!
Release Date: Sept. 4, 2007
Medium: Serigraph on Canvas
Image Size: 16 X 12 inches
Price: $895

Right: Self-Portrait as a Young Man Shaving
Release Date: 1999
Medium: Serigraph on Canvas
Image Size: 16 X 12 inches
Price: $895

A limited quantity of matched numbered suites of Young Man Shaving & Gosh! are reserved at the special price of $1695

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Labels: Ann Jackson Gallery, art, dr. seuss art

Inspired

Kanayo Ede

Inspired
Opening Reception
Sat. September 8th, 2007
6 to 9pm

Please join us for wine and hors d'oeuvres and meet the artist Kanayo Ede.

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New work by Nigerian born artist Kanayo Ede.

Kanayo Ede was born in the eastern region of Nigeria and now resides in northern Georgia. He went to college in the northern part of Nigeria and worked as an instructor, designer and illustrator in the west before leaving to paint full time in America. Early influences come from the colorful African textile he was exposed to as the son of a fabric dealer.

" This is why I love painting landscapes. . I can move trees, clouds, houses and other elements around and they never complain".

Oh no, say it isn't so. Not the big 5-0!

Come celebrate the 50th birthday of the Cat In The Hat.
2007 marks 50 years since the release of Dr. Seuss’ the Cat In The Hat, a revolution in the way children learn to read. In honor of the Cat and Dr. Seuss, we are throwing a Big Birthday Bash! It will be a weekend filled with face painting, story telling, and loads of fun for the whole family. Don’t miss this chance to see our entire collection of Dr. Seuss Art as well as a few NEW Seuss releases.



Friday, June 29th, 6pm to 9pm - Preview Party

*Saturday, June 30th - 12 noon to 8pm
*from 12 to 3pm we will be having face painting & story telling

Sunday, July 1st - 12 noon to 5pm
*from 12 to 3pm we will be having face painting & story telling

All dates are FREE and OPEN to the Public

Ann Jackson Gallery, 932 Canton Street - Roswell GA 30075 click here for a map

Joan Hillard honored by Bank of North Georgia

Bank of North Georgia's "Celebration of the Arts"
10446 Alpharetta Hwy, Roswell GA 30075

June 1-30, 2007 - Joan Hilliard & Friend
A special reception tonight June 26, 2007 from 6 - 8pm
Featuring art, musical entertainment by members of the Michael O'Neal Singers, and refreshments.
Gallery artist and Roswell GA resident Joan Hilliard is being honored for her artistic accomplishments and her dedication to the art communities of Roswell & Atlanta.
Her accomplishments include being the first recipient of the Roswell CABY Award in the visual art category and seeing her vision of a Roswell Arts Festival come to fruition and become one of the finest festivals in Georgia.

The Lost Sculptures of Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss embarked on an ingenious project in the early 1930s as he evolved from two-dimensional artworks to three-dimensional sculptures. What was most unusual for these mixed-media sculptures was the use of real animal parts including beaks, antlers and horns from deceased Forest Park Zoo animals where Seuss’s father was superintendent. Unorthodox Collection of Taxidermy was born in a cramped New York apartment and included a menagerie of inventive creatures with names like the “Two Horned Drouberhannis,” “Andulovian Grackler,” and “Semi-Normal Green-Lidded Fawn.” Shortly after Seuss created this unique collection of artworks, Look Magazine dubbed Seuss “The World’s Most Eminent Authority on Unheard-Of Animals.” To this day, Seuss’s Unorthodox Collection of Taxidermy remains as some of the finest examples of his inventive and multi-dimensional creativity.


THE GOO-GOO-EYED TASMANIAN WOLGHAST

On the heels of last year’s enormously popular Kangaroo Bird, the “Wolghast” represents the second release from the Lost Sculpture Series. While eight of Seuss’s original taxidermy sculptures were documented in the 1995 publication, the Secret Art of Dr. Seuss, extensive research has revealed nine additional sculptures. These works, often referred to as the Lost Sculptures, were documented via photographs, television footage, or through firsthand authentication.

Theodor Seuss Geisel is shown here as a young man in his late twenties in a circa 1933 photo, with two of his prized taxidermy creations. With his left hand, Ted proudly pats the Goo-Goo-Eyed Tasmanian Wolghast while his right arm cradles the Sea Turtle.

THE GOO-GOO-EYED TASMANIAN WOLGHAST

Release Date: August 15, 2007
Sculpture Dimensions: 17.75”H x 15.25” W x 15” D
Edition size: 850 Arabic, 155 Collaborators Proofs, 99 Patrons, 5 HC’s

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John James Audubon

May 5th and 6th is the Spring Roswell Art Walk here in Roswell, Georgia. This year we are presenting a special edition of the John James Audubon, Birds of America. The edition is the Centennial Edition, celebrating the 100th year Anniversary of the National Audubon Society.

The Centennial Edition is only the third comprehensive collection produced in 178 years since Audubon himself created the original, Birds of America. Of notable significance is that the Centennial Edition is the first edition to be meticulously restored embracing the detail and brilliance emerging as when they were first revealed to art patrons in 1827. The Centennial Edition is created with extraordinary care to every vital characteristic of the original masterpiece’s coloration, image and paper size.

Creator of the Centennial Edition, Robert E. Hall, will be here in the gallery to speak about the edition and the life of John James Audubon. Hours for the Art Walk are

Saturday, May 5th, 12 noon to 8pm and Sunday, May 6th, 12 noon to 5pm.

For more images from the Centennial Edition collection: Audubon

AUDUBON DOCUMENTARY TO AIR NATIONALLY: July 25, 2007
AMERICAN MASTERS John James Audubon: Drawn From Nature will be broadcast nationally on PBS on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at 9:00 PM. Check your local listings for details. This excellent documentary was produced by Florentine Films/Hott Productions, and provides a wonderful introduction to Audubon's life and art.
Mr. Larry Hott, Producer/Director of this newly released PBS Documentary Film “John James Audubon: Drawn From Nature,” utilized the Audubon Centennial Edition's restored imagery in this high definition film production.

A short video about the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Audubon, PA

From 1801 to 1806, Mill Grove, Montgomery County, was the first home in America of artist and naturalist John James Audubon. Today, the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove preserves one of the nation’s largest collections of Audubon art.

Alive After 5

Tonight,Thursday April 19th, marks the kick-off of Alive After 5 here in Roswell. Every third Thursday of each month the galleries, restaurants, and other merchants in the Roswell Art District & SoCa stay open late, providing free entertainment, refreshments, and shopping specials.
The event officially runs from 5pm to 9pm with many of the restaurants staying open even later. There is also a free Trolley you can catch that will take you to all of the event locations. If you are in the area stop by to see us at Ann Jackson Gallery. We are giving 10% off on purchases during the event.

Official website: Alive After Five

Dr. Seuss Art

We have scheduled our annual Dr. Seuss show this year for the end of June. To be more specific June 29th, June 30th and July 1st. Our three day event should be outstanding this year. The 50th Birthday of Cat in The Hat and the release of the Green Eggs and Ham bronze along with some other very special additions, promises to make this year's show memorable.

Here is a nice Dr. Seuss Art video we found on Google:



Here is a link to some Seuss related items on NPR:
Happy Birthday Cat in the Hat

The National League of American Pen Women

We are pleased to announce that long time gallery artist and Roswell Georgia resident Joan Hilliard has been nominated as one of the top 3 Georgia artists for 2007 by the Atlanta chapter of the National League of American Pen Women.
Joan has an extensive exhibition history and is many prominent collections including: Emory University, Coca-Cola USA, Bank of North Georgia, Marriott Hotels, Mercer University of Medicine, Atlanta Jewish Community Center and Home Depot Corporate Offices.

Green Eggs And Ham

Do You Like Green Eggs and Ham?
New bronze sculpture.

The second release in the Dr. Seuss Tribute collection has arrived at the gallery, the "Green Eggs And Ham" bronze sculpture. Artist Leo Rijn was selected as the sculptor for the Dr. Seuss Tribute Collection I, a series of four bronze sculptures featuring Seuss' most beloved books and characters.

The "Green Eggs And Ham" bronze maquette stands
20.5 "H x 9 "W x 8 "D including the base.
It is a limited Edition of 195.

Leo Rijn was instrumental in the art direction for many of the sculpted characters and buildings now on display at Universal Studios Islands of Adventures, Seuss Landing.
He was selected for this project due to his work in film, entertainment and the visual arts. He has worked with such notable directors as Tim Burton, Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg.

Here is a link to a 360 degree view of the sculpture
Green Eggs 360

This is an interesting link to the bronze casting process: Bronze Casting

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We Looked! Then We Saw Him Step in on the Mat!

We Looked! Then We Saw Him Step in on the Mat!

A new arrival at the gallery. Another limited edition print in honor of the Cat's 50th Birthday.
This diptych print shows Seuss' original sketch above the the published illustration. It is amazing to see the hand of Dr. Seuss. He has such an elegant line, it is simple yet can convey so much meaning. The sketch portion of the print also shows the typed out words that will eventually go with the finished illustration.

Ted's Cat

2007 marks the 50th Birthday of the Cat In The Hat and to celebrate, the publishng company, The Chase Group, is presenting a very unique and special limited edition print. This print known as Ted's Cat, was an original drawing of The Cat In the Hat that Ted ( Theodore "Dr. Seuss" Geisel ) kept in his studio. Faithful to the original drawing, this print measures 55" x 26" with an image size of 47" x 20". That puts the Cat at nearly 4 feet tall.

Since it's release in early March, this print has been an incredible hit with longtime collectors as well as those just starting out and as of last week, the print is sold out. We are lucky enough to still have one print in stock, with a few more to arrive to us sometime soon. Stop by the gallery to see us or give us a call if you are interested purchasing one.