Our “NEW MAP OF LAKE PEPIN ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER” is now available!

Posted on May 14, 2014 by admin

Our beautiful “New Map of Lake Pepin” drawn and illustrated by Wisconsin Map Artist, Lisa Middleton, is shown here framed. The 11×34″ gift prints are now available at better gift shops along both shores of Lake Pepin for about $24.95. Or call us at 888-255-7726 to order!

The map, based on current USACE river charts is both historical and geographical in nature, with no commercial notations. The original painting and one full size giclee are available at Abode Gallery in Stockholm, Wisconsin. The original is close to 40″ long and 12″ wide. The gift prints which are a quality offset print product sized 11″x34″

Abode also carries the large format original of Lisa’s Pike Historico-Geographical Map of notations from Pike and other explorers traveling from north of Minneapolis to Lake Itasca.

Middleton also painted the 1887 Historic Reproduction of Glazier’s ribbon map, “The Father of Waters.” Gift prints of this map are also available at many fine gift shops along the river. Or call 888-255-7726 to order.

1878 Historic Door County Map Features Lighthouse Inset

Posted on May 7, 2014 by admin

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.

A NEW MAP OF LAKE PEPIN on the MISSISSIPPI RIVER is now Available from Great River Arts!

Posted on April 1, 2014 by admin

“A NEW MAP OF LAKE PEPIN” by Lisa Middleton is now available for order or purchase from Great River Arts and many fine gift shops and galleries along the Mississippi River. Our popular gift print product with label describing this map is just $28.95. Beautiful when framed!

36″ long and 8″ wide, with totally original design and illustration, this map features both historical and geographical landmarks visible to those cruising by land or river between Wabasha and Redwing. Many islands and sloughs are named.

CLICK HERE to see a high resolution image of this map in our Art Gallery!

Please phone 888-255-7726 to make your order! We have two original paintings and signed and numbered Giclee Reproductions available as well as the Gift Prints!

The map artist on the road!

Posted on April 1, 2014 by admin

There's always a crowd and always a story to tell when you are around MAPS!

Lisa at Seattle’s BEST OF THE NORTHWEST. Coming soon, Lewiston, Idaho, and Seattle over Memorial Day Weekend. Check out the current show schedule under the SHOP button. NEW for Lake Pepin on the Mississippi River… Lisa has designed and illustrated her first art map from scratch!

Getting Excited about Missoula Show!

Posted on March 18, 2014 by admin

This Weekend at Adams Center March 22 and 23!

Montana 1906 map used as a prop in a beautiful music video.

Posted on March 12, 2014 by admin

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!

The Vinland Map

Posted on March 4, 2014 by admin

In 1957 this map surfaced in rare map circles, and offered anonymously for sale to the British Museum. Significantly it included an accurate depiction of Canada, the storied Vinland of the Icelandic Sagas.

The map predated Columbus by 50 years and a Viking map had never surfaced prior to this time.

The map was purchased for $300,000 and donated to Yale’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

In 1974 it’s authenticity was questioned due to a modern chemical used in the ink.

The question remains to this day: was this a Viking map?

Watch this video for yourself and leave your responses below.

I would personally LOVE for this to be a Viking Map! I would love to imagine a library of information destroyed by the Vikings themselves or buried at sea with the Viking kings, their secret oceanic pathways taken with them to Valhalla.

March at Last! And a special offer on our beautiful IRELAND 1906!

Posted on March 1, 2014 by admin

Until March 18!! SALE! 25% off!
Our Ireland 1906, hand-painted by Lisa Middleton

This is a beautiful historic map of all the major rivers and cities in Ireland circa 1906 by one of my favorite cartographers, John Bartholomew of Edinburgh.
11×14″ Gift Print, 18×24 Giclee, and 24×36 Giclee 25% until March 18!
Please visit this Etsy listing to order the 11×14″ gift print
Here to order the 18×24″-Choose Ireland on the drop down list
Here to order 24×36″-Choose Ireland on the drop down list
Use coupon code IRELANDSALE at checkout.

We also have one 24×36 ORIGINAL FRAMED Ireland map in stock. Please call Pat at Great River Publishing 1-888-255-7726 for information or email her here.

Please click here for an in introduction to John Bartholomew!

February Newsletter 2014

Posted on February 19, 2014 by admin

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 Sho w, 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!
We are welcoming some beautiful new maps to our collection! Welcome to a beautiful New Montana and Nevada! Idaho, Wyoming, Oregon, and Iowa Territory are ON DECK!

To see my new maps as they are produced please join GRA’s Facebook

Page!

For folks new to my maps here is a Q/A site!

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

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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.

My maps and I will be challenged by all the juried shows we’ve been accepted this year. I have an impressive pile up the next 10 months. Please send me your good mojo for safe travels since my shows will include Wisconsin, Utah, and the big city.

Warmest wishes for the greatest success on your journeys,
Lisa

Books and notecards available for the map, steamboat, and railroad fan too! Please visit our mothership www.greatriver.com for ideas!
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