Garry Gilmartin

 

About Garry Gilmartin
Garry Gilmartin
Garry Gilmartin
   
   

 

Garry Gilmartin was a realist painter who captured the spiritual in everyday life. He died on Sunday, October 10, 2010 after a long and valiant fight.

According to Elizabeth Ives Hunter, Executive Director of the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Garry Gilmartin’s paintings are “a magical window into a world of tranquil beauty.” He managed “to capture the essence of light falling across form and, by passing that image through a personal filter of emphasis and subordination, brought the viewer along to share his inspiration.”

 

Black Duck
Print
Image 7.5 x 12
Framed 13 x 17
$175

Garry Gilmartin

   

 

Truro Bonnet
Print
Image 18 x 13
$100

Garry Gilmartin

 

Garry Gilmartin

 

Garry Gilmartin was born in Palmer, Massachusetts in 1949. He attended Paier School of Art in Hamden, Connecticut and spent a postgraduate year studying under Ken Davies. For the next 15 years, Garry pursued an award-winning commercial illustration career in New York City and Boston.  

Mr. Gilmartin fell in love with Cape Cod while visiting friends and commercial illustration became a thing of the past as he became immersed in painting New England, its structures and its people. The positive response to his fine art work came immediately. His work is in the permanent collection of the Ashville Art Museum,
Ashville, NC.

 
Garry Gilmartin
Garry Gilmartin
 Studying the weave of clothes basket
Garry at work
   

EXHIBITIONS

  • 2008 ~ One Man Retrospective Show, Cape Cod Museum of Fine Art
  • 2006 ~ AddisonArtGallery Three-man show
  • 1996 ~ 2001 One Man Show, AddisonArtGallery, Orleans
  • 1996 ~ 1998 N. American Open    Watercolor 
  • 1994 ~ New Horizons Gallery
  • 1994 ~ Duxbury Art Association
  • 1993 ~ Cape Cod Art Association
  • 1991 ~ Provincetown Art    Association 
  • 1991-1996 ~ Academic Artists    Annual, National Exhibition    Contemporary Realism  in Art

AWARDS

  • 2007 ~ New England Watercolor Society Members Show: Award of Merit
  • 2001 ~ North American Open Show
  • 2000 ~ North American Open Show
  • 1998 ~ North American Open Show
  • 1998 ~ New England Watercolor Society
  • 1998 ~  N E Watercolor Society Member
  • 1991, 1992, 1997 ~ First Place Oils Chatham Creative Arts Center 
  • 1997 ~ First Place, Duxbury Art Association
  • 1996 ~ Best in Show, Leo Diehl
  • 1993 ~ First Place, Cape Cod Art Association
  • 1993 ~ First Place Watercolor, Leo Diehl
  • 1992 ~ Award of Merit in Watercolor, Academic Artists 42nd Annual National Exhibition of Contemporary Realism

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