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- R. Tom Gilleon is one of a
handful of artists that can look back at 2009 as a year that all the
hard work and persistence paid dividends. I don’t believe a month
passed that an art magazine did not choose him for its cover, run a
feature story or review a show. He was the 2009 Jackson Hole Arts
Festival’s Feature Artist. In a year that that desirability and
potential value drove the art market, owning one of Gilleon’s
contemporary western paintings rose to the top of many collectors’
lists.
- Of those works, his 60” x 120” paintings like
Tribal Tripartite disappeared as quickly as he could paint them. While
we haven’t published a Fine Art Edition quite that large (yet), at
over six feet long and three feet high, our MuseumEdition™ Fine Art
Giclée Canvas of Tribal Tripartite is perhaps the most significant
fine art value in the market today.
- To begin with, it is big and beautiful. At, 37”
x 74” you are looking at 2,738 square inches of the finest in
contemporary art. It is designed, as many contemporary paintings are,
to be presented in the gallery wrap format which means no frame cost
is required to display the art. There are only 15 fine art canvases in
the MuseumEdition™, fewer than the number of originals at his one-man
show in Jackson Hole last September where, good news/bad news, you
would not have found an original for $2750. Most importantly, it is an
R. Tom Gilleon produced by The Greenwich Workshop.
- “Tribes on the plains survived by forming
alliances, not unlike the nation-states through history,” begins Tom.
“The tipi was very universal in nature, as were the ways of the Plains
Indians’ lives. You’d be hard pressed at a glance to know whether one
or multiple tribes were present in a village and sometimes something
as minor as an entrance flap representing the style of one tribe as
opposed to another was needed to determine it. Tribal Tripartite is as
much about the shared necessities and influences of Plains’ life as it
is color and design.”
