20in x 16in | 50.8cm x 40.6cm
Oil on mahogany board
Collection of Gail Darling
For the story behind the painting, scroll down or click here
Available for Purchase
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The Marionette Shop Post Card
$1.50Add to cartFlat post card. Blank on the back. Measures 6in x 4in.
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The Marionette Shop Note Card
$4.00Add to cartFolded note card. Blank inside, ready for any occasion. Measures 7in x 5in closed and includes an envelope.
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Oil Painting Note Card Set (set of different 8 images)
$20.00Add to cartSet of 8 folded note cards including, “The Blessing of the Animals”, “The Marionette Theatre”, “The Connoisseur”, “La Maison de Poupées”, “Christmas in Paris”, “The Marionette Shop”, “Day’s End”, and “The Fisherman Mending His Net” Blank inside for any occasion. Measures 7in x 5in folded, including 8 envelopes.
Awards
The Director’s Award
The American Artist Professional League 69th Grand National Exh., Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
Katherine A. Lovell Memorial Award for Oil
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 102 Annual Open Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY
Second Prize Oil or Acrylic in Oil Technique
Women Artists of the West Fourth International Juried Competition, Biloxi, Mississippi
Honorable mention
10th Edition Cover Contest for the Encyclopedia of Living Artists
Exhibition Posters
34e Salon National d’Art de l’Automne Societe Regionale des Amis des Beaux Arts, Issoudun, France
Women Artists of the West Fourth International Juried Competition, Biloxi, Mississippi
Cover
Exhibition catalog, 34e Salon National d’Art de l’Automne Societe Regionale des Amis des Beaux Arts
Reproduced in
Books
10th Edition Encyclopedia of Living Artists
(won full page listing with the honorable mention in their 10th Edition Cover Contest)
Magazines
“Ann James Massey” article by Joseph Burgess, El Paso Life (March/April 2002)
Mensa Bulletin, The Magazine of America Mensa(Apr 1999) Cover
ArtCrowd (Vol 3, No 1) won full page listing in their competition.
Behind the painting
Photo © 2001 Jody Polk Schwartz
Though I’ve changed the configuration of the entrance and other details, The Marionette Shop is based upon a real shop on rue Saint-Louis on the Île Saint-Louis in Paris. My rendition of the shop has remained the same, but Clair de Rêve has changed its façade, though not its purpose, often over the intervening years. As for the participants, cloth is as individual and alive to me as is the face or body, thus the rendering of the leather and jeans. The helmets illustrate a change in my life after I came to Europe, becoming a “biker” seated behind my better half, Henri Bérenger, as we traveled around Europe in the off season with even multiple crossings over the alps. I have never been so cold and so awed.
Photo © 1996 Ann James Massey
Photo © Ann James Massey
Photo © 2000 Ann James Massey
