Dear Friends,

Last week I opened the studio to people who live in Narrowsburg and the surrounding towns in the Catskills. The tour of the studio began with viewing the 12 minute film "Dorothy Gillespie, In Her Own Words". After viewing the video I took people for a tour of the studio beginning in the Gallery and Living area viewing my mother's drawings from her art school years at the Maryland Institute College of Art 1938-41. The remainder of the tour was in the working studio and storage area. (See photos below)

Studio Porch

View from the Studio Porch

Below are photos of the Gallery and Living areas

Black file cabinet below contains drawings, pastels, ink on paper, posters etc.

Below are photos in Studio Bedroom #1 with my mother's drawings from her years attending Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) 1938-41.

Below are photos in Studio Bedroom #2 with some of my mother's posters.

Below are photos taken in the working studio/storage area

My mother loved to do portraits and self-portraits during her lifetime. Above are my mother self portraits (1943 & 1946) as well as a portrait my mother did of my father when they got married in 1946. (Lower right)

Salle de Champagne (Champagne Room), was a nightclub in Greenwich Village NY that my parents bought shortly after they got married in 1946.

My mother considered herself more a painter than a sculptor and in the back of the studio are early works on canvas.

The medium of paper was very important to my mother's artistic development. She believed that art on paper was compatible with our mobile society; It's easy to pack, easy to move and easy to unroll, hang on the wall and enjoy. Art historian Francis Martin wrote about my mother “She is paper, and paper is Gillespie.”  

The wood and canvas boxes above were created in the 1960's as my mother was transitioning from 2 dimensional paintings to three dimensional paper and metal. 

Photos of visitors during the "Open House"