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Jim Gray Gallery is located in the Great Smoky Arts and Crafts Community of Gatlinburg, Tennessee and features not only the watercolor, oil, pencil, pen and ink, and sculpture of renowned American artist Jim Gray, but also his signed limited edition giclee and lithograph prints and reproductions. Located in the midst of the GSACC in a 100 plus year old former church building and sitting next door to the wonderful old Cliff Dwellers Gallery, this fine art and handmade craft gallery hearkens to the years past in Gatlinburg when painters and other crafts folk could be found in the downtown.
Today, Jim Gray Gallery is located at 670 Glades Road in Gatlinburg, on River Road in Pigeon Forge, and in west Knoxville on Park West Blvd just across from the Cracker Barrel at Cedar Bluff. Our Gallery at the old Polly Bergen’s building at traffic light #3 in Downtown Gatlinburg was lost to fire on Dec 7, 2007. This fine art and craft gallery on Glades Road was once called the Church Mouse Gallery, but we changed to Jim Gray Gallery a few years ago when we decided that name better describes who and what we are. This gallery features the entire range of Jim Gray art that reaches out in ever widening circles, including painting and prints from the Great Smoky Mountains, Sevier County, East Tennessee, and the Southeastern United States from the coast of Alabama and Florida, to the cities of New Orleans, Louisiana and Charleston, South Carolina. Jim Gray has painted in parts of Georgia and South Carolina, and across the state of North Carolina from the Blue Ridge Parkway and Piedmont, to the Outer Banks around Hatteras and Nags Head. Painting trips of ten days to two weeks took this Tennessee artist to Norfolk, Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay, across the Bay Bridge to eastern shore islands of Maryland. Other trips led Jim to the rocky coast of Maine at Acadia National Park and back down east to Camden and Rockport, before the trip home would eventually encompass parts of Vermont and New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Western trips to the Sheaffer Art Bronze Foundry in Arlington, Texas put Jim in range of other points west like Zion National Park, and the Grand Canyon and parts of New Mexico, before the call back east took him home through Arkansas, through Memphis and his birth town of Middleton, Tennessee, near Bolivar. Jim’s wife Fran has a brother in Ely, Minnesota near the Boundary Waters, so trips to the land of ten thousand lakes have taken them to Lake Superior to see the Split Rock lighthouse. A wandering path through the Midwest would take in Door County Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois, and the shore of Lake Michigan at Dunes State Park in the northern most part of Indiana. Son Matt Gray and his wife Amy live in Nashville, Indiana, in the heart of the art community of Brown County, so painting a trip becomes a chance to see the grandkids too. Cincinnati, Ohio is a place the Gray’s have enjoyed often and the trip back through Kentucky reminds them that the hills of East Tennessee are not far away. The circle widens with special wedding anniversary trips that have included Montreal Canada one year and Paris France another. Several trips to Italy took in Rome, Venice, Assisi, Gaeta and the Isle of Capri. They say it is a small world, but it has taken Jim Gray a lifetime to paint it, and he is not finished yet.
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