New Gallery Representation

I am proud to announce that Iris Gallery of Fine Art, Great Barrington / Boston, MA, has added me to the diverse group of contemporary fine artists they represent.

The Iris Gallery now offers a large selection of my original oil and watercolor paintings. Large format signed giclée prints of all my paintings are also now available through The Iris Gallery.

Gallery Director Alison Collins has been helping clients place beautiful art in their homes and offices since 2004.

In addition to art sales, the gallery also provides the following services:

Art Advisory and Consulting for Personal and Corporate collections

Coordinated Framing Assistance

Coordinated Delivery & Installation Direction

info@irisgalleryfineart.com, irisgalleryfineart.com

413-429-6878

Neumann Signed Giclée Prints Now Livin' Large

I am pleased to announce that my signed giclée print product line has been expanded to include prints in any size up to the size of the original art. In addition to the popular standard paper sizes of 13 x 19 and 17 x 22, customers may now order prints in larger sizes custom printed to their preferred dimensions.

These new size options open up new home and office decor options for those looking for archival quality art reproduction prints, a.ka. giclée prints, to fit larger wall spaces.

Special sized prints can be ordered via the Contact Us page at www.jeffreyneumann.com. Pricing for custom sized prints will be on an individual quote basis.

Echoes of America, Solo Exhibition and Artist Residency at Greg Moon Art, Taos, NM

New Work: Wagon Wheel Motel, oil on linen, 24 x 36 ©2023

My first trip on Route 66 was in 1956 when my family moved from my birthplace in Cedar Rapids, IA to Albuquerque, NM. I was three years old. We moved again to California in 1960, and then back to New Mexico in 1963, traveling on Rt. 66 each time. It was on these road trips that some of my earliest memories were formed. These memories continue to influence my artwork to this day.

Upcoming Solo Show: This painting will be part of my 13th Solo Exhibition, which will open September 23, 2023 at Greg Moon Art, 109 Kit Carson Road, Taos, NM. The show will be on view in the Gallery’s front room through October 17, 2023.

Artist in Residence: I will be painting in the Gallery’s studio space for the duration of the show. Save the dates and come see me for the opening, or any time during the four weeks I’ll be there.

The Keller Prize

I am pleased to announce that I am First Runner Up in The Keller Prize, a Colorado based art competition. The winners are featured in this 2 page spread in Aspen Sojourner, which is a glossy magazine that you get when checking into your swanky hotel in Aspen for a ski vacation, among other cultural and shopping destinations in the area.
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Alexandria Museum of Art Photos from the 35th September Competition

Many thanks to the museum staff, who gave me a warm welcome and front and center placement of my two paintings in this terrific show! My pieces are the first ones visible when entering the exhibition.

I had a wonderful time in Alexandria attending the exhibition’s reception. My special thanks to Collections Manager Madeline Anderson for presenting my work so prominently and to Cindy Blair, Manager of Virtual Engagement, who produced a video artist profile that runs in the gallery for the duration of the show, which runs through October 8, 2022.

Alexandria Museum of Art 35th September Competition Exhibition

I'm honored that Juror, Elizabeth Chubbuck Weinstein has selected two of my paintings for the Alexandria Museum of Art's 35th September Competition show. Lunchtime at the Dog House, wc, and Vista del Rancho, oil, will be on view now through Oct. 8, 2022 at this beautiful museum in Alexandria, Louisiana. https://alexandriapinevillela.com/.../alexandria-museum.../ This will be the fourth time I have been in this annual exhibition and the first time I have had 2 paintings accepted. In 2018 Juror, William Eiland, Director of The Georgia Museum of Art, awarded me Third Place for my painting Sands Motel. Wish me luck this time!

https://themuseum.org/35th-september-competition/


Lunchtime at the Doghouse, watercolor, 22 x 30 ©2020

Vista del Rancho, oil on linen, 24 x 40 ©2022

Down at the Sunset Grill

The Sunset Grill is Back on the Market! After enjoying this painting for 27 years, the owner, a private collector who wishes to remain anonymous, has decided to sell it. Due to a change in decor it no longer fits in his home. Since I am in contact with the largest number of fans of my work, I am pleased to announce that the owner has entrusted me to be his agent in the sale. I’m excited about this because it’s a special painting and, yes, I will earn a commission.

At 30 x 50 this is one of the largest oil paintings I have ever done.

I took the reference photos for the painting in 1986 or ‘87 while on a business trip to California. This was my first trip back to California since I had lived there as a child in 1960 - ‘63. Los Angeles had changed since the ‘60s but there were still many vestiges of my childhood era to be found in L.A., including the ever present yellow-gray smog which diffuses the Hollywood Hills in the background.

I never went out of my way to paint famous places. In fact, I have tried to avoid painting certain places that have become roadside America clichés. I wasn’t sure that this was the same Sunset Grill in the Don Henley song. I just painted it because it spoke to me. I was aware of the song but there were lines in the song that didn’t make sense with the reality of the image. It wasn’t until the Internet came along that I was able to discover that this is the actual place immortalized by Henley. He just took some artistic license to make a broader statement. I took some artistic license myself in including the figure behind the counter. I invented him and put him in there to add the human element and provide a focal point to the composition. In my reference photo the place is closed and devoid of life. As I learned in the article linked below, his name was Joe. This is uncanny because while I was painting him I imagined him being named Joe.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-01-02-ca-23690-story.html It is interesting to read in this L.A. Times article from 1986 that Henley was addressing the same themes that have run through my work for the last 45 years:

"It's just the disappearance of a certain way of life and of doing business and of people relating to each other on a one-to-one, personal level," he said. "It's about living in a world of corporations and franchises. The small shopkeeper in the city is being put out of business.”

“To me, Joe simply symbolizes one of the last outposts or vestiges of the mom-and-pop business operation . . . the family-owned and -operated business. And the really sad thing is that the generations of kids who were born in the past 10 or 20 years don't know the difference. People  accept Wendy's."

Don Henley, 1986. Well said, Don.

Like so many of my subjects, this place is no longer there. It was torn down years ago and replaced by a much glitzier establishment of the same name. The original Sunset Grill is a part of vanished America.

This painting can be viewed by appointment. Serious inquires only please.

Sunset Grill, oil on canvas, 30 x 50 ©1992

Thora Jensen Memorial Award

I was honored to receive The Thora Jensen Memorial Award for Oil Painting at the 89th Annual Juried Exhibition of the Hudson Valley Art Association. My painting Vista del Rancho earned this cash award in a show featuring 70 other highly accomplished artists working in realism. The Exhibition is on view through June 2nd in the beautiful gallery of the Lyme Art Association at 90 Lyme St., Old Lyme, CT.

Recent paintings now available as giclée prints at Fine Art New Mexico

You can now order museum quality open edition print reproductions from a large selection of my paintings through my exclusive publisher, Fine Art New Mexico. Prints are available on archival paper or canvas in 8 different sizes from 9 x 14 up to 27 x 42. Archival greeting cards are also available.

State of the art visualization tools in Wall View at Fine Art New Mexico

Are you are wondering what size to order, or how your Neumann print might look on a wall? Fine Art New Mexico offers a great tool called Wall View. This cool software allows you to see your selected size in scale over a virtual couch. You can see difference between paper and canvas prints. You can even preview your print on different wall colors. This takes the guesswork out of interior design decisions.

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