 Kerry Hallam, a Chalk & Vermilion artist well known for his nautical images painted on actual naval charts, has created a series of pieces that gives new meaning to the phrase "Everything old is new again."
Hallam normally paints on brand new nautical charts, but this series was painted on vintage WWII Navy charts. The charts were recently found in an attic of a home in Rhode Island together with a log book of a voyage taken by the USS Nordic, a minesweeper, in the summer of 1942 from Sandy Hook, N J through the Intercoastal Waterway to Pensacola, FL.
There are 51 of these charts, and their geographical range follows the Atlantic coast route of this voyage. Having been actually used, many years ago, and since stored in an attic, they are not in pristine condition; they are a little creased, with a stain here and there, a bit of a musty smell, and a genuine vintage feel to them – even stamped with the date of April 1942. The names of the charts are equally evocative of the points along the journey; Charleston Light, Mosquito Lagoon, Delray Beach, and Dismal Swamp Canal.
Hallam's work—serigraph prints on paper and canvas, original acrylic paintings, and nautical charts—is published by Chalk & Vermilion Fine Arts, the parent company of Martin Lawrence Galleries. His latest book, Artistic Visions, features all of his published work and is available with a choice of five different dust jackets.
Martin Lawrence Galleries, America's premier gallery of fine art, represents many of today's most important artists including Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Fanny Brennan, Erté, Kerry Hallam, Liudmila Kondakova, Thomas McKnight, and Bruce Ricker.
Recently David and Leslee Rogath, owners of Chalk & Vermilion, have loaned original works by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Rene Magritte, Alexander Calder, Sam Francis, and Andy Warhol to major museums worldwide including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, and the Museo Picasso in Barcelona.
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