The Lynnfield Art Guild is proud to announce that well-known local oil painter Jim Ryan is its featured artist for two months beginning May 1 on LAG’s website www.lynnfieldarts.org. A native of Revere oil painter Jim Ryan graduated from Vesper George School of Art in Boston. His gifted teachers include Jack Callahan, Don Stone, and Bill Flynn. Mr. Ryan began his career with Bradlees Department Store as a fashion illustrator. Later he worked as a commercial artist at the MacKellar Art Studies in Boston before joining Raytheon in 1968. At Raytheon, Mr. Ryan supervised Raytheon’s Creative Services Group of Publications. Mr. Ryan’s murals, dioramas, and limited-edition military prints are highly collectible, with many hanging in the Pentagon and in military installations worldwide.
Jim has received numerous awards, including the Allied Artist of America’s Grumbacher Gold Medal. Mr. Ryan’s fine art oil on canvas paintings are often seascapes and landscapes and he can be found painting around Gloucester Harbor, Cape Ann, and the North Shore. A past president and a popular demonstrator of the Lynnfield Art Guild, he has donated several paintings to the Guild’s permanent collection, with two currently on display at the Lynnfield Library. The guild is proud to feature Jim’s paintings and invites the public to visit this gallery on its website www.lynnfieldarts.org and https://lynnfieldarts.org/jim-ryan/. For additional information, see the artist’s website: https://jimryanfineart.com/ or email the artist at: JimRArtist@comcast.net.
