Original paintings and drawings by Connecticut impressionist, landscape painter Thomas McLean

Rose Blush Morning (o/c 16” X 20”) $1600

Crooked Tree Studio and Gallery

Cobalt CT USA 860-267-8410 Thomas@thomasmclean.com

A fine art gallery featuring contemporary paintings and drawings of the moods and atmospheric expressions

of the Connecticut River valley and its surroundings.

Mr. McLean is a self taught artist motivated by the love of art and a
lifelong romance with the aesthetic sublime. He paints en plein air but also
enjoys working in the studio and believes it is the art of the painter to
bring life to the canvas, to give it a personality, without which a painting
is just paint and canvas.

Upcoming Shows

On July 8,9,10, 2011, Mr. McLean will participate in a special three man show

with Ron Olansen and Jim Riccio at The Herbery, Rt. 153 in Chester, Ct.

Wine and Hors D'Oeuvres Friday night.

The Herbery is located on the left, approx. 1/2 mi. west of the junction of Rt. 154.

On Saturday August 13, 10AM-6PM and Sunday August 14, 10AM-5PM, Mr. McLean will participate in the

Mystic Outdoor Art Festival on the streets of Historic Mystic, Ct.

Scroll down and enjoy!

Three Graces (o/c 16” X 20”) $800

By the Pond (o/c 20” X 24”) $1000

Woodland Stream (o/c 8” X 10”) SOLD (Dennis Burke Collection)

Diffused Light (o/c 10” X 14”) $600

Day’s End (o/c 10” X 14”) $300

Our Lane (o/c 16” X 20”) $600

Autumn Pond (o/c 12” X 15”) $600

Looks Like Snow (o/c 11” X 14”) $350

Afterglow (o/c 12” X 16”) SOLD

Midwinter (o/c 10” X 14”) $300

November Morning (o/c 8” X 10”) $300

Edge of the Woods (o/c 30” X 36”) SOLD

Autumn Rain (o/c 16” X 20”) $500

Autumn Sunset, Hadlyme (o/c 14” X 24”) $900

Morning (o/c 11” X 14”) $650

“All art is most perfect in so far as it keeps the just medium between literal imagination of outward nature and that ideal conception which haunts the imagination. Art is neither wholly material nor wholly spiritual, [ but rather ] the beautiful child of the wedlock between nature and the soul; and she is the most beautiful, the more she bears a resemblance to both parents.”

Cristopher Pearse Cranch

First Snow (o/c 20” X 25”) $1000

Twilight on the Meadow (o/c 18” X 24”) SOLD (Dennis Burke Collection)

Fallen Brother (o/c 12” X 16”) $550

The New Pasture (o/c 18” X 24”) $900

Selene (o/c 24” X 30”) SOLD

Winter Woods (o/c 16” X 20”) $850

“Nature contains the elements, in form and colour, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes to all music. But the artist is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful—as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his cords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony.”

James Abbott McNeil Whistler