Bonnie Marris News & Commentary Giclee Canvas FRAMED Description *New Pre-Release offering from the Greenwich Workshop *Artist: Bonnie Marris. NEW pre-release for late April-to-early-May 2009! *Title: "News and Commentary"(New Smallworks Edition for Spring 2009) * Limited Edition "Canvas Giclee" signed and numbered by the artist. Limited to a very low edition size of only 100 images (on canvas) worldwide. Image size is 8" x 16".Outside framed size: 11" x 19". *Custom framed in an Italian walnut flat burl moulding 1 1/2" wide. We do all the Museum quality custom framing here at the gallery in Vermont with over 25 years experience in the field of fine art picture framing. *An average retail price for this peice including the artwork and framing is $349.00. Offered here on this "buy-it-now" listing framed for only $38.00 above the cost of the artwork alone which is $225.00 *This is a savings of $86.00 off the price of the quality custom framing! * Mint Condition! Brand new stock shipped directly from the publisher(Greenwich Workshop). We are an authorized dealer for Greenwich. *Be one of the few clients who can own this piece on canvas! Buyer gets FREE! shipping and insurance. Shipped flat for your best protection in transit. *This canvas comes already mounted on Museum quality stretcher bars, and framed. Thank you. Jim Duff~ Early River Gallery.My Stores Logo View The Slideshow: See the latest slideshow presentation from the Greenwich Workshop of Bonnie Marris artwork at this link: www.greenwichworkshop.com/marris/slideshow.html (Please use you back button after viewing the slideshow to return to this listing page) About the Artist: Bonnie Marris has taken an unusual path into art; she developed her talent by portraying animals “from the inside out.” While she was a student at Michigan State University, Bonnie illustrated several major books. One volume she worked on was a leading expert’s mammalogy text that contained several hundred drawings and detail studies. This massive project attracted the attention of noted zoologist George Schaller, who invited Bonnie to prepare the art for posters that would support his worldwide rare animal relief programs. Beyond academic training and emotional involvement, art requires another element for which there is no substitute: experience. Each year, Bonnie makes two major trips, and countless smaller ones, to observe and learn about the wildlife she loves. In 1980, one such voyage took her to Alaska, where she lived in the wilderness for six months. She recounts, “To get into a natural environment and see the animals on their own terms is as important as knowing the animals themselves. For instance, gray wolves on the tundra—the vast, vast tundra with the wind and other forces of nature at their most extreme—that’s what makes them what they are. To stand not far from a grizzly that is so overpowering, so beautiful and so large . . . to watch it pull up a small tree with a swipe of its paw and just a few minutes later see it delicately picking blueberries with its black lips. . . Alaska changed me; it gave me the biggest incentive to paint and increased my interest in the predators: the cats, bears, coyotes, wolves and foxes. They exist on so many levels. Their moods show in their eyes and we can learn so much from them.” About Early River Gallery: Greetings from Vermont. We have been in business since 1977 offering Fine Art, Antiques,Period Victorian Lighting, Museum Quality Custom Picture Framing,Antique and Limited Edition prints.Also offering one of the most comprehensive selections of Fine Art Giclee Canvas and Lithographic prints on the web by major publishers such as The Greenwich Workshop, Hadley House Publishing,Mill Pond Press,Wild Apple Graphics and more...