Art-A-Ron-Dack Chairs are here!

How can you make art a more relaxing part of your life?

The answer surely lies in the Art-A-Ron-Dack Chair.

After months of anticipation, The Framed Art Superstore in North Conway has received their Art-A-Ron-Dack Chairs from Dianne Mello and Sally Dinsmore.


The chairs are being auctioned off as part of a fundraiser with the Mount Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce.


Local artists have painted forty Adirondack chairs that are spread throughout town. Attached to each chair is a clip board for the silent auction.


Dianne Mello, continuing in the vintage style that has made her famous, has produced her very first Summer vintage scene.


Dianne's "People's Choice" winning chair features a couple lazily rowing along in their canoe in an image that captures the fun and relaxation that keeps visitors coming back to our valley.

Sally Dinsmore continues her tradition of capturing the true beauty of the valley with her waterfall, cascading over and down the chair and even onto the arms.

It's a scene that whisks your thoughts to the old swimming hole, enjoying pure Summer bliss (well, at least that's where it whisks my mind).

We are excited to have the chairs in our store. Since we decided to sponsor the program, we had been waiting with bated breath to see them. And they are gorgeous!

Now, we already have three bids in these chairs. They will be on display until Labor Day (Sept. 7th), when the bidding stops.

So be sure to stop by in our brand new location in North Conway Village (right next to the Sunoco station on the southern end of the village) and check them out in person.

But if you can't make it to town, you can also bid online by e-mailing to art-a-rondacks@mtwashingtonvalley.org or you can call Siiri Grubb at (603) 356-5701 ext. 312

Also, you can keep track of the bidding online as well. Go to The Mount Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce website to make sure that you still have the high bid on your chair.

Be sure to get you bids in soon. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to not only own original, relaxing work of art, but art that you can relax on.

We hope to see you in the store and good luck in the auction!

The Framed Art Superstore is located at:

2548 White Mt. Highway

North Conway, NH 03860

(603) 356-8278

info@framedartoutlet.com

What's the simplest and most contemporary way to frame art? No frame at all! The industry calls it a Gallery Wrap or a Museum Wrap. A Gallery Wrap has the image wrapped around the edges of the stretcher bars, and a Museum Wrap has white edges and the entire image is on the face of the stretched canvas. As you can see by the sample pictures here, this creates an even simpler and more contemporary art presentation than even the simplest black frame. Available at the Naked Wall Art Gallery as either a gallery wrap or a museum wrap, the canvases can still be framed in the future if styles and/or your tastes change or you decide you want a more traditional look. Be careful though, if you want the choice of future framing, not all galleries and web sites offer the right size stretcher bars for this option. The thickness of the sides makes all the difference. 3/4 inch thick stretcher bars allow for the option of framing, while the 1 1/2" think versions do not. Another issue to consider is the image itself - if the picture will hang where you cannot see the sides, then you may not want to loose any of the image to the sides - for some images this matters more than on other images. Confused? The easiest solution is to call 1 888 669 - 6167 and talk to the naked wall experts at the Framed Art Superstore - the folks behind the Naked Wall Art Gallery. There's also lots of details available at http://www.framedartoutlet.com/

Washington Green Fine Art On Sale

Some of the finest and most sought after collectible art in the contemporary art world is being offered for the first time in the US. Washington Green is the premier fine art publisher in the UK, representing a portfolio of exclusive contemporary artists. By special arrangement with the Framed Art Superstore , a limited collection is being featured at the Met Coffeehouse and Art Gallery in North Conway. Washington Green translates original artwork into the highest quality collectible limited editions. Every piece is by a highly accomplished and widely collected artist and is beautifully presented with the finest quality framing. Each special work is signed and numbered and comes with a certificate of authenticity. The quality and desirability of this art stands on its own and deserves never to be discounted - in fact, it would be best to not discuss price at all. However, times being what they are, its nice to add amazing value to the equation. Normally, gallery pricing on this collection ranges from $600 - $1500. Special engagement pricing has been negotiated in the US market only and now ranges from only $400 - $700. See this amazing collection at the Met now. For more information, ring Salvatore Michaels at 603 356-8278. Due to the special arrangement to have this collection at our gallery, we do not offer them on our website. If you're not in the North Conway area, be sure to shop a wide variety of top published artists at http://www.nakedwallartgallery.com/

Framed Art Superstore Moved

Wow! What a month it's been. I've been missing from blogging due to a trip to New Hampshire to move the Framed Art Superstore to a new home. Here's the short story. We only moved to North Conway Village last October after 8 years on "the strip". We loved being part of North Conway Village, but we lost the lease on our space when the company we were sub-letting from terminated their lease. The building owner had no interest in leasing to us without a huge increase in rent. In order to remain a value-focused retailer, we needed to find affordable retail space.
We lucked out with the former Expressions Antiques at the south end of North Conway Village. Now, as of May 1st, we are all settled in and have even added a selection of antiques to our product mix.
The new store really lends itself to art, in that the building is an old house, each wall gets one picture, instead of having long retail walls in a gallery setting. This allows you to more easily visualize how a piece of art will look in your home, typically on a wall all by itself.

Stefano Ferreri Canvas Art

Still one of our favorites, artist Stefano Ferreri paints the most amazing pictures of wine and martini art. These are perfect as bar art, or for a contemporary dining area or as kitchen art. The colors are rich - made for today's popular decorating trends.

You can read the Stefano Ferreri biography from an earlier entry on this blog. You can't get more authentic than Stefano Ferreri for Italian or wine themed art, now can you?!

Bordeaux, shown here to the left, along with Franch Grand Cru, Chianti Classico, Grandi Gianchi Italiani, Grandi Rossi Fancesi, Cocktail Hour, Martini Bar or Una Bella Serata all by Stefano Ferreri are all available as canvas transfers, ready to hang with free shipping and our prices are lower than the big web sites like art.com or imagekind.com. So why not support the small business, get small gallery customer service from the Naked Wall Art Gallery and save yourself some money in the process!

Vintage Advertising Posters

A little History Lesson on Posters

In the 15th century, posters were hand drawn and painted, so you can imagine the time and patience it would take to create even a few posters.

In 1628, a physician named Tehophraste Renaudot created the first advertising poster, displaying items available for sale.

The art of Lithography was invented by a Czech named Alois Senefelder in 1798 in Austria. By 1848, the process had been refined to the point that it was possible to print 10,000 sheers per hour, however, Jules Cheret was the first person to produce posters in mass through lithography.

1867 brought us the first poster for a play, depicting an actress in a play. Artistic commercial posters were born. Now we see advertising posters everywhere! The small are seen in store windows and the ultimate of large are displayed on billboards. Either way, they both have the same effect: Your business message to the masses.

Today you can enjoy vintage advertising posters as fine art on walls of your home or office. Typically, you expect to see these framed under glass, but they look spectacular as a canvas transfer, and with finished edges you don't need a frame Not only does this make the nicer presentation actually cost less than poster framing, but give a clean contemporary that is very appropriate for vintage posters. See some of our favorites at the Naked wall Art Gallery.

Shopping or Art Online

It can be a bit overwhelming. What search terms do you use? We ask our friends and customers what they would search for if they had naked walls in their house and wanted to decorate them - amazing the terms people come up with... art is way too general, canvas art, posters, prints, paintings... how do you skinny it down to the find the artwork a normal person would hang on their wall? You know you want better than the mass-produced look of a Kirklands, or Target, but you don't want too edgy artsy-fartsy things that will scare children and animals. If you visit local galleries for posters, the framing costs a fortune, and can you afford an the original of "Landscape of the Muse" shown above by John McCormick? Where do you go?

Now it's easy to Dress Your Naked Walls... without losing your shirt!

Let's start with how this art business really works:
When an artist paints a picture - that's the original. An art gallery may sell it, or the artist may sell it at an art show or their own gallery. Simple enough. If that artist gets "discovered" like a writer, the artist gets "published" - a publisher will contract to produce reproductions (posters, lithographs, giclees, etc) and the artist will get a royalty from every print sold. Those reproductions can be prints on paper or canvas, and can be from any number of methods of printing, but basically its ink on paper or ink n canvas.

There are over 100 publishers of significance, with over 100,000 art images published - nearly all of them can be seen at http://liebermans.net/.
They only sell wholesale, but you can look, and now you see what the frame shops and art galleries see when they go shopping for art. It's a great place to search using their advanced search capabilities, and if you find something you like there, let us know and we'll order it for you! Just email us info@nakedwallartgallery.com .

So now you know why so many websites like art.com and allposters, etc. offer so much art. They also offer too many choices when it comes to framing - do you get glass or plastic, is the matting acid free? what color mats? how many mats? do you want the words to show? what frame? what about canvas? it can make you crazy. Most websites give too much selection of modern canvas art and endless complicated options.

We only offer canvas transfers with finished edges. That's the most popular contemporary option, where we take the paper print and transfer it from the paper to canvas, so it look most like the original artwork, at a fraction of the cost. In fact, by focusing exclusively on canvas transfers, our prices are lower than most frame shops charge to put a poster under glass!

At the Naked Wall Art Gallery, our Naked Wall Experts have carefully selected over 500 of the best works of contemporary canvas art from top artists and have chosen the most appropriate finish options. Every art print on canvas we make is an exact replica of the artist's original work - the closest you can get to the original without spending a fortune, they're made in America and we always provide FREE Shipping!