Looking for a traditional American painting for your home or office?
Searching for quality art prints for a housewarming or birthday gift?
You’ve come to the right place.
Formerly a brick-and-mortar gallery space in Savannah, Georgia’s Historic District, Ray Ellis Gallery is now exclusively online. Our staff is here to help you select the perfect paintings and prints for your home, business, or gift. We’ll pack and ship your orders weekly and keep you coming back whenever you need more Ray Ellis art anywhere in the United States.
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Ray Ellis Original Unframed Sketches
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This group of sketches ranges from rough ideas jotted down on paper, to preliminary and even more fully realized drawings intended to explore composition, color, scale or point of view. Ellis went on to execute paintings from many of these sketches.
These sketches are unframed. We offer two views of each: the full sheet of paper and the image as it might be cropped for framing. There is no one way to mat and frame these. It is possible to leave all the artists marks exposed or mask them with the mat, leaving just the image exposed. It is a personal choice.
Many of the sketches are painted on lightweight drawing paper. The watercolors can cause an undulation in the lighter paper. When framing, the imperfections can be left unaltered or, if desired, the sketch can be mounted. We recommend using a reversible acid free mounting board. Again, it’s up to you.
