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'Jamestown Discovery' depicts the settlers' landing on Jamestown Island on May 14, 1607.
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Artist Dale Glasgow, who painted a bird's-eye view of Fredericksburg, turns his attention to a new subject.
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FROM DALE GLASGOW'S NARRATIVE FOR HIS NEW SERIES: "The hope of King James was more than just to claim land for England. He was hoping to evangelize the Gentile world through the grace of God and his explorers/missionaries. Jamestown was the beginning of a Heaven on earth. We know the end of the story. We live the American dream 400 years later."
Landscape painter digs deep into Jamestown's past, brings settlers' heroism into the light.
Date published: 4/28/2007
By CLINT SCHEMMER
HISTORIANS aren't the only ones excit- ed by the new discoveries about English-speaking America's earliest days.
Jamestown's story, now better understood than ever before, has inspired Stafford County artist Dale Glasgow to undertake an ambitious new series of works.
He's completed the first of them just in time for America's 400th birthday next month. They were unveiled last week at downtown Fredericksburg's Grey Ghost Gallery.
Glasgow, who lives on a Hartwood farm, began the project nearly two years ago, setting aside other work so he could devote his time to what he calls "this amazing chronicle."
Originally an illustrator for the Richmond News Leader, USA Today and National Geographic, the landscape painter was last in the spotlight here for creating a remarkably detailed bird's-eye painting of modern-day Fredericksburg that shows every building in the city. Other works of his, all sharing a passion for history and precise detail, have been reproduced in the Geographic, the Smithsonian Institution's Air & Space magazine and Webster's Illustrated Dictionary.
Extensive research
For this new undertaking, Glasgow devoured 10 books about the colonists, traveled to Jamestown Island six times on research and consulted curators there.
The result is a trio of bold, atmospheric oil paintings that Glasgow said attempt to depict "the birth of our country and its natural beauty, unhindered by modern invention." Using a rich palette, he floods the scenes with early morning and late afternoon sunlight.
"My vision of what those people experienced, when they first set foot on Jamestown's shore, was like no other moment in time," he said. "They were the ancestors who gave us the Christian nation of freedom we have today."
Each piece in the "Jamestown Discovery" series focuses on America's founding settlers, their loyalty to Britain's King James and their devotion to Christ.
The first work, "Divine Providence," depicts the four vessels sailing up the James River for the first time, lit by a May sunrise, with friendly natives on the river bank.
| WHAT: "Jamestown Discovery," a series of limited-edition prints by internationally known artist Dale Glasgow
WHERE: Grey Ghost Gallery, 720 Caroline St., 899-0622
UPCOMING: Glasgow will sign his works during exhibit openings at Gallery on Merchant Square in Williamsburg from 6 to 8:30 p.m. May 4 and at the Library of Virginia from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. May 15.
ON THE WEB: greyghostart.com daleglasgow.com
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Date published: 4/28/2007
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