Plan to attend an outstanding juried art show… Art Fair on the Green… in La Crosse, Wisconsin, July 26/27. Mississippi River map artist, Lisa Middleton, will be featuring her hand-painted historic Mississippi River maps, including the “IOWA/WISCONSIN TERRITORY” map shown here.
Today we are featuring our NEW 1878 Door County Wisconsin Atlas Map–it notes the location of each lighthouse at that time, all townships, villages, and sections, and a street plan for Sturgeon Bay in the upper left inset.
While the original map featured Jenny, Wisconsin (of Lincoln County), in the lower right, we have provided a list of names and construction dates for each of Door County’s Lighthouses.
Door County was named after the passage between the tip of the Penninsula and Washington Island. The French called it, “Door of the Dead,” and the English/American sailors shortened that to “Death’s Door.” Locals will notice that today’s township of Sevastopol was intended to be Sebastopol, named after a Russian town.
Our map is available as either an 11×17″ map for $24.95 or a beautiful ivory 16×20 print for $50. Both are easy-frame versions for standard-sized frames. Call 888-255-7726 to order direct from Great River Arts, or click the SHOP link above and go to the FINE ART AMERICA link to purchase the print in every imaginable size and medium! Normal trade discounts apply to retailers.
It started last summer.
Got a call for 2 overnight Giclees…
OH NO only 1 in stock…Had to disassemble a personal framed copy!
Then I discovered….the customer wanted them both abused, beat up and mangled! This required special attention! They were to be a prop in a MOVIE!
OUT came the coffee grinds! OUT came the steel wool!
I rubbed them in dirt, doused them with grime, creased them outside in, inside out, upside down. Soaked them, dried them, soaked soaked again.
I was so excited and I was happy to spend the rest of the evening manhandling them. Usually I handle the museum quality giclees with such tenderness…this felt like a violation! Abomination!
I woke up early the next morning and roughed them up some more and met the overnight deadline. Now months later I’m able to see the maps as props in the Music video! Great music by the way. You can see it here.
I’m so proud! I love the little surprises of being an artist and contributing to a larger story!
Welcome to our Monthly ART AT HEART Newsletter. New Maps, New Show Schedules, and so much more from Lisa Middleton. Hereafter, Newsletters will be posted under the NEWSLETTER SIGN UP button! Sign Up and be entered into the monthly raffle of an 11×14″ Easy Frame Gift Print of a hand-painted historic map by Lisa Middleton!
 Welcome back from the Holidays! I don’t know about you but I’m ready for spring! 
Show Schedule!
Tell your neighbors! Tell your friends!
March 7-9 Jim Custer Spring Show, Spokane
March 21-22 Made in Montana, Helena March 29-30 Best of the Northwest, Seattle April 25-27: Art Under the Elms, Lewiston Idaho New Maps! To see my new maps as they are produced please join GRA’s Facebook
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   New on You Tube! Great River Arts is NOW ON YOUTUBE!!!Every month I will be releasing one new video as an educational tool to help share the stories in our old maps. Please feel free to share this video with friends who may be interested in my historic map collection.Please view my newest video by clicking on the link below, or right here! To help my stats just take 1:08 minutes and please let it play all the way to the end! http://youtu.be/4P8ZlsLnOhY I a
 m a new feature artist on www.fineartamerica.com!Fine art America offers our Historic map prints in multiple, easy to choose sizes, or as canvas prints, metal prints, custom note cards, and framed prints available too! Visit my page here!
New Product! We have PHONE SKINS with Stylus and Bumper! Just $29.00!
     Visit our BOOK PAGE for reviews each month of several MAP related books!
BITS and PIECES from My SCRAPBOOK!!
I had an interesting start to the year…I was pictured in a national magazine in January,Sunshine Artist! The maps look great in the picture but they captioned it with the wrong name! The Jim Custer show director Cheryl Branz called to give me the good news and bad news…and said she’d save me a place in the spring show! We are both hoping for a reprint in the March publication. I am still secretly amazed and this is Super special to me…I hold it dear in the pockets of my heart (you know, the places where you keep pebbles and feathers and fairy dust.)
 Mom and I had a special time at the Minneapolis Marketplace at the end of January. I’m very lucky to have such a supportive and talented mom. We may not attend any more big shows, but we did interest a Rep to take our products to other markets. As much as I love to go to art shows there aren’t enough of me to go around to attend as many as I’d like to! I welcome wholesale orders so the maps can be celebrated around the country.
Warmest wishes for the greatest success on your journeys,
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