Lily Can pencil
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Paul's best buddy Original Pencil study for "Homeward oil" Framing is limited*. We miss Dolly very much. He was a great pal for Paul. They had this kind of dance or routine that would happen when Paul went to feed or harness him. Dolly would seem uninterested, then when Paul went to put the harness on he would bit it and yank it away. Finally when Paul got the harness on, while he was hooking it up, Dolly would bite his hat and take it off. This playfull banter was just some of the things that made their time together special. Only memories now. KatiJane M.
Popcorn Sutton Original Pencil
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John Proffit & Ol' Woman Pencil
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"John is a bachelor, lives on his own unless he takes to helpin' a friend in need. He is pretty handy, he can fix anything, the evidence is all over his yard. He has waited for Kathy to walk away to tell Paul "this ol' woman I got me is reliable, she helps keep me warm at night, an' hits the only ol' woman that'll git on my back again!!"
John Proffit - watercolor
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John is a bachelor, lives on his own unless he takes to helpin’ a friend
in need. He is pretty handy, he can fix anything, the evidence is all over
his yard. He has waited for Kathy to walkaway to tell Paul, “this ol’
woman I got me is reliable she helps keep me warm at night an’ hits the
only ol’ woman that’ll git on my back again.
We found later that he had no immediate family, he had taken on his siblings family as his own when the spouse was left along to cope with 5 young children. Paul sure does find kind spirits to share with ya'll. KJM
Aunt Emily Pencil Major Study
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There sat Aunt Emily by the window in her favorite chair, like a queen on her throne… her royal cape over her shoulders.. the delicate light of dawn dancing over her face. “…her all knowing glimmer …the secrets she holds …her forever majesty!” We felt as though we were in the presence of a queen; when she spoke her stories spilled out like music in a song. She told us of days long past. Still, we were awed by the strength of her presence. After a while, we said good-bye unknowingly for the last time. Emily died a short while later. Another legend lost.” PM
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The subjects depicted are actual characters, most of which still live today much like the pioneers long ago. Their choice of a peaceful solitary life is expressed in the emotional portraits of Paul Murray. Capturing living history & richness of soul, is constant passion of Murray’s. The Appalachian Mountains and rural homeland farms have been his palettes since childhoodHe spent so much time on the farms since age 10 that he quit school at age 13 to draw full time. He published his first edition at age 16. Paul was showing his originals since age 11. “Mirrored Souls a Study of Paul Murrays’ Art” was published with stories of all of these unique mountain folk of Southern Appalachia. Murray is now an accomplished veteran in his chosen field.. His work has shown with some of the world’s finest; Robert Bateman, Michael Dumas, Brent Townsend, George McLean, and more. Since 16 yrs of age he has held one man shows and in the later year’s original auctions, to sold out successes. Now around 50yrs, Paul Murray once again is releasing new areas of his original process. He will release upon request, major and raw studio and location studies. If you find your favorite original sold ask what Murray may have in his studio that may be refined for public viewing. The major originals take many years of research and studying, and much preliminary work is done. To Murray at the time, these works may seem not worthy; this often happens when an artist has a preconceived idea of his successful finished idea. In many cases these studies are wonderful, insightful and intimate to both the viewer and the artist. Please call and inquire about this option, while the opportunity lasts. Kati-Jane
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Paul Murray Peoples Choice Award in competition and gained top 10 out of 2675 artist.
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See Paul Murray's only major painting of the Smoky Mountains. See these ancient mountians through the eyes of a child that had fallen in love with this area since age 5. See how the mountains and its people feed his soul.
A local mountain man “Red”, says, “I’m just a possum eatin’ ridgerunnr”, don’t let that fool you. He is among the most wise people I know, and hard workin’ too. Red still lives as he did when he grew up in these Tennessee Mountains, off the land. He loves to talk of the past and tell tales of the mountains. His animals are like his best friends, cared for dearly. His favorite is “Dolly” his mule. Red always a happy kind soul.
Wilma always by Red’s side. They work together in all they do, The plough the garden, harvest, sell/trade their trinkits, plants, chicken and goats at the flea market.
Red was forever building his ol’time museum buildings. Red was always hoping to share his love of the old ways with others that would come to his museum. He never got to complete this dream, but Paul Murray helped him share his wisdom.
Wilma always at his side, Red will give her prices for items to be sold; he just walks around ‘n spouts the prices to her. Wilma says “Yes” after each price. Then Red walks off to go see what else he can buy for his museum. Wilma, left to sell all of their wears, with a list of prices stored away in her head.
Hadea Mae & Ol' Persuader Original Pencil
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Boot Hill (Work in Progress)
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Boot Hill call to be put on our "keep informed" list for "Boot Hill" He is a favourite of many.
Glades Cabin
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Original Pencil
Maxi prints available $55
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Red & Wilma are our storytellers at our Gatlinburg, TN Gallery. They sit on the front porch and tell stories of the old ways, the ways they still live today. True moutain folk, they love to visit, tell yarns and stories. They love people and the sharing of important things, like the way to grow sweet taters, and the help of a good neighbour. A way of our forfathers, soon to be lost forever. People and simple times like this will not even be a memory for folks soon. The last flicker of the light of the past. PM
All Mine Original Pastel
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"you've seen their faces; you've heard their voices. Always, they'll stand solemn and aloof as a stranger approaches. They tell me' ...if you ain't bin born in these here mountins, yer a furriner ferever'. They are hopefull faces, shy faces. This is a place of melancholy beauty and bucolic melancholy. In such isolated hollows live the remaining so-called "Hillbillies of Appalachia" and my new series. I will take you to places in the Southern Appalachians that few outsiders have ever seen." .... ... She is “Li'l Cumberland's” little sister, always trying to keep up with her big sister. When she saw Paul sketching her sister, this little one would put her bonnet on and run away, saying "This one"s all mine.”
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She is “Li'l Cumberland's” little sister, always trying to keep up with her big sister. When she saw Paul sketching her sister, the little one would put her bonnet on and run away, saying "This one"s all mine.”
Crossing major study
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museum quality oil glazing technique for major upcoming release of Zoe' by water falls. She is trying to cross the water falls without getting her cape wet.
Awake Asleep Original Pastel
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Coal - Kentucky Coal Original
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Popcorn Sutton Original pencil and color pencil
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Paul & I had met many a moonshiner over our 40+years research in the Appalachian's. We have never met such a gregarious character as Popcorn Sutten. Here is just a snipit about his life and death. A great remembrance of Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton from this weekend’s edition of the Wall Street Journal. Obituary Of Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton, A Tennessee Moonshiner
March 22, 2009
A scrawny, long-bearded mountain man with a foul mouth and a passing acquaintance with copper tubing and kettles, Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton seemed the embodiment of moonshiners of yore.
Brought up in rural Cocke County, Tenn., identified as one of four “moonshine capitals of the world” in the corn-whiskey history “Mountain Spirits,” Mr. Sutton learned the family trade from his father. The practice goes back to the Scots-Irish, who brought it to the New World, and it wasn’t illegal until after the Civil War, says Dan Pierce, chairman of the history department at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
“This is something that legitimately is an expression of the culture of this region,” Mr. Pierce says.
Like his forebears, Mr. Sutton had brushes with the law, and was first convicted of selling untaxed liquor in the early 1970s. He mostly kept out of trouble after that, though friends say his nickname came from an unfortunate encounter with a balky barroom popcorn machine. But he was well known as a distiller around his native Parrottsville.
He was a familiar figure at the Misty Mountain Ranch Bed & Breakfast in nearby Maggie Valley, N.C., wearing faded overalls and with a back stooped, he said, from decades of humping bags of sugar into the hills. He picked the banjo and serenaded guests on the inn’s porch. He helped decorate the $155-a-night Moonshiner suite at the inn with some still hardware.
Mr. Sutton put a modern spin on his vocation, appearing in documentaries and even penning an autobiography, “Me and My Likker.” Souvenir shops in Maggie Valley sold his video, “The Last Run of Likker I’ll Ever Make,” and even clocks with his image on them.
Other moonshiners have gone legit and cashed in; a former Nascar driver and moonshiner now offers Junior Johnson’s Midnight Moon in Southern liquor stores. But Mr. Sutton insisted on earning a living the old-fashioned way, and in 2007, agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives busted him with 850 gallons of moonshine, stored in an old school bus on his property.
He was convicted in 2008 and was due to report to prison Friday, his widow, Pam Sutton, told the Associated Press. Instead, facing the verdict and ill health, he was found dead by Ms. Sutton at the age of 62 on Monday, and authorities suspect carbon-monoxide poisoning, according to the AP. The Cocke County district attorney’s office said it is investigating the death.
Although Tennessee was once a hotbed of moonshine and federal “revenuers” pursued bootleggers through the hills, an attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee in Greeneville says he couldn’t remember the last federal prosecution of a moonshiner.
“Modern-day moonshining is the manufacture of methamphetamine,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregg L. Sullivan says. “Tennessee is in the top five states nationally.”
Ms. Sutton discovered her husband in his green Ford Fairlane. “He called it his three-jug car,” she told the AP, “because he gave three jugs of liquor for it.”
This is an amazing picture, very powerful. You captured way more than a physical resemblence of Aunt Emily. Her very essence seems to be with you when you view the painting. If you never painted another painting this alone would qualify you as a most gifted painter. I envy the person who will be the caretaker of this painting for future generations.
Many years ago I came across a young artist in a barn in the Harrow, ontario area. That young man was Paul Murray,I fell in love with a clown and purchased it. |my sister bought 2 small oil paintings, one of a racoon and the other of a winter village. She begged you to do a clown for her, which you did later. These clowns are large wnd well framed and with acid free paper. We had this done and the artist who did it was very impressed as was Dorothy Oxborough (a beautiful artist of aboriginal children).I also have a first edition of Mirrored Souls. Please give me an idea of the approximate value. We are elderly \(87 &84) and I want the family to appreciate the value when they inherite them,
Thank you so very much and continued good luck with your lovely works, Gloria Boudreau 905 894 3482
Paul it’s so nice to see the advancement of your craft and that you stuck with it for all these years. I heard some years ago from my old art teacher that our old public school still had a piece of my art on display. It was a great feeling to know that it still around. Of couse I proudly gave it to the art teacher who showed me how to enjoy the act of creating. I thought you would be pleased to know I still have your clown pastel. It’s odd, but every time I look into it I always observe myself and never had a need to look any deeper.
Hope it makes your day.
Your Friend
Randy
Dear Randy,
Paul says you went to school with his older brother Doug. Thanks for the compliment. It is a blessing to be able to continue his art and pass on the history and give back to communities. I feel strongly that the people I preserve are rich in many ways, and that they have been shelter from lifes supperficial trials. Their hearts are innocent to our self imposed drudge of progress, the rat race. I hope others continue to enjoy my work for many years as you have. Paul Murray, re Kati-Jane Murray
Absolutely wonderful, I saw this in Cowboys and Indians and had to check out
your website. WOW! would I ever love to have this ability. Thank you for sharing
I have an original of yours I believe and I would love to know the story because it looks so much like my little girls
Please browse the website and tell me which pictures it looks like, then I may be able to know which you are talking about. Kati-Jane Murray or call 1-888-728-5687
I have a few artist proof called sleigh bells it is 5/65 ap.also the centuries old harness bell with it . It’s in it’s original shipping cardboard. Also little fanny too. I would just like to know the value on the two, I love the pieces I have but I could part with them. Thank you!
Hi Paul,
How’s it going Paul, its been a very long time. Some of your recent works are very impressive, who knew you would be so successful. I hope all is well with your brother and sister.
I’m curious about a painting you did for may parents back in 1979. For insurance purposes do you have any ideas of its approximate value, if any.
It was scenic painting of some mountains and a river, I could provide a picture if required.
I hope all is well.
Mike.
705-969-8750
Sorry Mike I just got this notice from the website the picture , if it is an original will take a while to appraise. the miminal cost is $45-75. It is actually a fair bit of work. We hope you enjoy it. YOu can call the office at 1-800-567 -3220
Kati-Murray
I bought the original pencil used for the “pie makers” prints. I believe their were 125 prints in the original printing. Do you know if there are any of these prints still for sale. I still have the original but a friend would dearly love a print. I think they were first issued about 25 years ago – seems like yesterday!
Robin
Hi Robin: My husband & I have a print of the “Pie Makers” & it is for sale.
Actually, we have two Printer’s proofs # 8/10 and 10/10.
Both are remarqued.
We also have many other pieces of Paul’s work for sale.
Please contact at the above address.
Ruth
I have one of the prints framed and matted that I would sell. Write me back at jwild40059@gmail.com if still interested
I have a framed matted one if you are still interested
In the 90’s I was buying a few prints, when you were still in Ontario.Your work is still amazing and you found your place in this world, that was your calling. We are the same age, I bought my first at a show in Wilberforce??? I am still looking for the clown poster.I love it.Could you maybe e-mail me if one becomes available.Thank you, have a great summer. Maybe, if Justin Trudeau wins our election, his Dad, Mom and Justin, could become an instant seller. Pierre was such a gentleman. It turns out the one guy, that was charged for claiming/overcharging expenses,was another child of Mr.Trudeau, Mike Duffy.Don’t you just love Canadian politics. Have a great summer Paul, I will be watching your site for the next little while. Yours Sincerely, Susan Wilson.
We have a couple of “how Many Clowns” call me so I can reserve you one 865-436-8445
In regards to Robin Briggs request looking for Pie Makers for sale, I have the prints 26/275 available for sale.
I am from a company in Ontario and I had a print of yours come in for a charity event to sell. When I came across it I was just not comfortable putting a price on it and putting it in a garage sale. The Charity event was a large garage sale and the proceeds are going to Hopewell Children’s Homes. The print is # 174 of 275 of Baking Flour & 1884 – 1984 Pastel faces Zoe & Joey.
I guess my question is what should I do with this beautiful piece of art?
Please call me at our Tennessee gallery before November 10 at 865-436-8445. You were right the value could cave as high as $2500 if it has been kept outside of the sunlight and framed with acid free mats and backing. Hope this helps. Sorry for the delay, but this review function does not trigger a notification to me the best way is to email or call. Info@ paulmurray.com
what is the name of the ruggaber girl?…i live on elmstead rd as does my sister in law who is a ruggaber…she doesnt recognize her…i recently read your book mirrored souls and would like to pass it along to someone in the ruggaber family
ANDREA is the Ruggaber girl she should middle age. Paul met her in 70-80’s when she worked at Lyles produce in St Clair Beach near Brighton. Pauls book is sold out and worth $350 now, just thought I’d let you know. Say hey to ANDREA and tell her to give us a ring when you find her 865-436-8445. Kati & Paul
looking at a lithograph by paul murray hand signed any information on it would be great its called ragman i can be reached at jrutkowsky@hotmail.com also what its value would be
Ragman was a labour of love for Paul Murray. The drawing itself was created from an unique situation. Paul’s family church had a play with the minister “Chuck Congram” playing “The Ragman” from a christian story. THis story was published and was put with the picture if I remember right. The church gave Paul Murray a small black & white photograph of Chuck Congram at the age of 18 and asked him to make the given picture. We were glad to offer the prints that we paid for its publishing, hoping this would help the church raise money for their new church building. ALthough we worked closely with the church to help them sell this print, this edition was never sold out. This therefore makes the image value at the issue price of $100. I hope this helps you, any further question please call us 865-436-8445 KatiJane Murray
I saw a painting of an Appalacian woman holding a gun an wish that I had bought a print. Is it available as a postcard?
Enjoyed visiting your gallery last october
We have a “Joseph n bells” print we purchased from Gay Ann’s store
Visited with Paul’s wife that day
We would love to buy more but with limited busget andspace
We look forward to our next visit
Thank you so much for spending time with us and sharing stories and information on Paul and his works
I have a Tennessee Bonnet Print #251/450. It looks like a water colour, but your website shows it is oil. I’m looking for the current value to insure it. Can you confirm that it’s oil and that the value listed on your website is current?
Joan, You do have a limited edition of the “oil painting of Tennessee Bonnet” by Paul. He uses old world masters techniques that are called “Glazing” this is finely applied transparent layers of oil. Rembrandt used these techniques. So although this may look like a watercolor it is an oil and the value shown on the insurance guide on the order/inquire then click on our insurance guide. The amount listed is the most current value. Let me know if I can help you further. I am sorry about the delay in responding, please email me in the future with any questions or support needs. info @ paulmurray.com or call 800-567-3220
Thank you for having such a wonderful body of work, shining a light on the history of the area. Love your pieces that I picked up in 2017. They make a beautiful gallery wall in my new home and bring back happy memories of my road-trip through Tennessee. You will be missed, but I wish you a bright future in your future endeavors!
Thanks for your appreciation of Paul’s art. Please keep in touch with our emails and new projects that will bring the mountains and its people closer to you with intimate reality experiences. Paul and Legendary musicians will share their talents as well. You can also call or email us to make sure you are taken care of. Thanks for your patronage.