“On The Roof” Full-color Lithograph. Raccoon.
Signed
& Numbered - Circa 1978
Edition
Limited to 750 – Image Size 16x18 (overall 20x26)
By: Jerry Ellis, Wildlife Artist
Inspired by the majestic beauty
of the mountains and the rural country around Ashville, North Carolina this
lithograph depicts a pair of raccoons exploring an old barn. Mr. Ellis captures
the subtle graying of the barn and the blue shadows it casts across snow
covered ground in a tranquil moment in nature.
- - - Born in 1950, Jerry Ellis grew up
on the Lower Peninsula in Tidewater Virginia. As a youth he spent hours along
the banks of the James River exploring the tidal woodlands. Mr. Ellis’ work has
been published by the National Wild
Turkey Federation, Virginia Wildlife Magazine, North
Carolina Wildlife Magazine (cover); he
illustrated the book Wildlife Neighbors
of the Williamsburg Area (a regional nature guide), and the limited
printing of 29 copies of Beloved Waters
by Paul Ford, privately published by Meadow Run Press in 2000. He has also been
a contributor to Ducks Unlimited.
His work has been displayed in the gold room of the Easton Waterfowl Festival. Critics have called Ellis “A Major
Talent.” Jerry has fished and photographed nature across North America.
Jerry Ellis, contemporary
East Coast naturalist painter. - - -
Copyright by the artist.
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