Curriculum Vitae: James Lancel McElhinney James Lancel McElhinney is a public scholar, curator, visual artist, author, publisher and oral historian. In November of 2017, Needlewatcher Editions published his Hudson Highlands, a suite of archival prints inspired by expeditionary artists such as John-James Audubon, Joshua Rowley Watson, William Guy Wall, George Catlin and Seth Eastman. McElhinney embarked on new explorations of Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River in 2019. In 2019, he turned his attention to the Rio Grande, as it traverses northern New Mexico. Born: Bucks County, Pennsylvania Residence: New York, New York Website: www.mcelhinneyart.com, Email: [email protected], Entities: Needlewatcher LLC, dba: Needlewatcher Editions Address: PO Box 142. West Haverstraw, NY 10993-1042 Website: www.needlewatcher.com, Bio: Who’s Who in America. Marquis Publishing. Education MFA: Yale University, School of Art BFA: Tyler School of Art, Temple University Other: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Appraisers Ssociation of America CASP program Passed the Appraisal Foundation USPAP test Gallery Representation: Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe. NM William Havu, Denver CO Vamp & Tramp Booksellers, Burmingham AL PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS 2019: James McElhinney: Discover the Hudson Anew. Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York. September 13, 2019 - February 16, 2020. Reimagining New Mexico. Gerald Peters Gallery. Santa Fe New Mexico. June 28-August 3, 2019 OTW: On the Water: The Schuylkill River. Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 24, 2018 - January 5, 2020 2008: New Arts Gallery, Litchfield CT. October. 2005: “Reconnaissance” The Painting Center, New York; March 2003: “Life, Death and In Between” William Havu Gallery, Denver, Colorado “James McElhinney” Letterkenny Arts Centre, Donegal, Ireland; June 1 “Western Palimpsest” Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX: April 2002: William Havu Gallery, Denver, Colorado; April-June 2001: William Havu Gallery, Denver; November 2001-January 2002. 2000: "Harper's Ferry Paintings" Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh NC "Crowded Prairie" Curated by Gordon McConnell; 4-person exhibition at Ucross Foundation, Sheridan WY and The Nicolaysen Museum and Discovery Center, Casper WY “Human Figure" Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada CO. “Gallery Artists” FAN Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1999: On the Road with Artists" Arvada Center for the Arts, Colorado “"The Capitol Paintings" Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC; March 1999 1998: "Recent Painting" F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia PA: September "Sacred Sites" Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk VA; April-August curated by Brooks Johnson. Reviewed in "Art and Antiques", summer issue. "Hampton Roads Palimpsest"; on-site artwork produced during the "Sacred Sites" exhibition by 1997: "Notes and Palimpsests", F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA "Palimpsests", Beaufort Arts Council, Washington, NC "From the Driver's Seat", Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC "Palimpsest". Carillon Space. Charlotte, NC. Curated by Jane Kessler 1996: "Battle/Ground", Craven Arts Council, New Bern, NC "Civil War Battlegrounds", Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC "Battle/Ground", Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC "Battle/Ground", Greenville Art Museum, Greenville, NC "Remote Sensing" West Virginia University, Morgantown WV "Annual National Juried Exhibition" Community Council for the Arts, Kinston, NC 1995: "Observations", F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA "James Lancel McElhinney" Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA"Art on Paper" Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNC Greensboro "New South, Old South, Somewhere in Between" Winthrop Univ., Rock Hill, SC 1994: "Recent Work" Jack Blanton Fine Art, Richmond, VA "Landscapes", Waterworks Art Center, Salisbury, NC "Location", (exhibitor and co-curator); Frederick Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI 1993: "American Battlegrounds" F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA "Natural Defenses" Danville Museum of Fine Art and History, VA "Natural Defenses", Peninsula Fine Art Center, Newport News, VA "Natural Defenses" Knox College, Galesburg, IL "Seeing the Elephant"(Selected works from solo exhibition at the Peninsula Fine Art Center) Carol Reese Museum, Eastern Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN; Eastern Shore Art Center, Fairhope, AL 2 “The Body” (exhibitor and co-curator); Frederick Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI “Figures” Brady Gallery, Milwaukee, WI "Battlefields", Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI 1992: "Natural Defenses", Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA "Landscapes" F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA “Artists Who Teach” J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois 1991: “Polyptychs” Goforth Rittenhouse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA “James McElhinney” Guilford College, Greensboro, NC 1990: “James McElhinney” Hahn Gallery, Philadelphia PA 1989: “James McElhinney” Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown NJ 1988: “New Paintings” J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois 1987: “City Life” Jessica Darraby Gallery, West Hollywood, CA “New Works” Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington DC Circle Gallery, Washington Studio School Jennifer Almquist Gallery, New Preston CT 1986 Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia 1985 Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia 1983: Challenge Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia Museum of Art 1982: More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1981: The Silo Gallery, New Milford, CT 1980: Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Albany Institute of History and Art Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina Avery Fine Art and Architecture Library, Columbia University Boscobel House and Gardens, Garrison, New York Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia Council on the Arts, Kinston, North Carolina City of Philadelphia. Water Department Archives. Danville Museum of Fine Art and History, Danville, Virginia Denver Art Museum. Institute for Western Art. Denver Colorado University of Denver. Library Special Collections. Denver Colorado Free Library of Philadelphia. Print and Picture Collection Greenville Art Museum, Greenville, North Carolina Historical Society of Pennsylvania Hudson River Museum, Yonkers New York Huntington Library and Museum, San Marino, California 3 Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia Newberry Library. Chicago, Illinois New York Public Library. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photography Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Archives and Spial Collections Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA Temple University. Samuel L. Paley Library Special Collections Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia West Point Museum, United States Military Academy Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. New Haven Connecticut OTHER EXHIBITIONS 2019: Speaking to the Imagination: Contemporary Artists’ Books. Peters Projects. Santa Fe, New Mexico. 2018: Campaign Furniture: The March of Portable Design. Boscobel House and Gardens. Garrison, New York. August 25 - November 4, 2018. Wish You were Here: Journals, Journeys and Expeditions. The Institute Library, New Haven Connecticut. Curated by Martha Willette Lewis. June 7 – August 31, 2018 2008: “Color Key” The Painting Center, New York. Curated by Patrick Webb. November. Various groups exhibitions of gallery artists at Shain Gallery, Charlotte NC; Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh NC; New Arts Gallery Litchfield CT; William Havu Gallery, Denver CO 2007: “Drawing Now”, New Arts Gallery, Litchfield CT Faculty exhibitions: Art Students league of New York and the School of the National Academy of Design. 2006: “Institute of Western American Art” Installation of collection in new Hamilton Wing, Denver Art Museum, designed by Daniel Liebskind “Why the Nude?” Art Students League of New York “Shifting Terrain” Organized by Robischon Gallery, Denver CO 2005: “Gallery Artists” Gallery 100, Saratoga Springs NY; February Drawing Now, New Arts Gallery, Litchfield CT 2003: “Old South, New South, Somewhere in Between” Levine Gallery of the New South, Charlotte NC. William Havu Gallery, Denver CO “Art I Have Loved” Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC “Winter Group Show” Gallery 100, Saratoga Springs, NY 2002: Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC 2001: “EXPO Muerte sin Fronteras, Imagenes de Colorado” Teatro Jose Peron Contreras, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico; October-November “Art for the New Millennium” Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC 4 2000: "Crowded Prairie" Curated by Gordon McConnell; 4-person exhibition at Ucross Foundation, Sheridan WY and The Nicolaysen Museum and Discovery Center, Casper WY “Human Figure" Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada CO. “Gallery Artists” FAN Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1999: "On the Road with Artists" Arvada Center for the Arts, Colorado “The Capitol Paintings” Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC 1998: "Sacred Sites" Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk VA; April-August curated by Brooks Johnson. Reviewed in "Art and Antiques", summer issue. "Hampton Roads Palimpsest"; on-site artwork produced during the "Sacred Sites" exhibition by James McElhinney. 1997: "Visual Verbal" Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory NC; fall "Our Connections to the Land" Greenhill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, North Carolina; June 6- August 17 1997: "From the Driver's Seat", Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC "Palimpsest", Installation at Carillon Space at the Carillon Building in Charlotte, NC 1996: "Remote Sensing" West Virginia University, Morgantown WV "Annual National Juried Exhibition"