Spaightwood Galleries, Inc.

About

Sat 10-5, Sun Noon-5, other times by appointment.
Call: 1-800-809-3343

Story

We have been very blessed in our two professions. We both taught English for many years and we fell into collecting and then selling art when our house in Madison WI went on the National Historic Landmarks registry and the Madison Landmarks committee, noticing the art hanging on our walls, suggested that we become an art gallery and let people in to see the building.

On a trip to Massachusetts to visit our elder son, we fell in love with a deconsecrated church, and after an extend period of contemplation (of at least 15 seconds), we decided to buy the building, rehab it, and move our lives, our art, and our books from Madison WI to Upton MA, where we have been since we received our certificate of occupancy on Christmas Eve 2004.

Spaightwood Galleries, Inc. is an art gallery in Upton MA that sells mostly via our website, www.spaightwoodgalleries.com. From 1980 to 2004, we were located in a Victorian mansion on the National Historic Register in Madison WI. Our owners, Sonja and Andy, were both college teachers, she at Madison Area Technical College (recently renamed Madison College) and he at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he taught English literature (mostly Renaissance).

Our current show, now hanging in the gallery through the end of March, is an exploration of over 150 Marc Chagall original etchings and lithographs. The show features large groups of etchings commissioned by Ambroise Vollard in the 1920s and early 1930s (though not published until later in the late 1940s and early 1950s) including large groups of etchings from The Dead Souls (1948), The Fables of La Fontaine (1952), and The Bible (1956). We also feature Chagall’s original color lithographs commissioned by Verve in 1956 and 1960 for special numbers on the themes of the Old Testament. We also present a number of works commissioned by Galerie Maeght (Chagall’s dealer from 1952 until his death) and published both in limited signed and numbered editions and in larger editions in their deluxe art review, Derriére the Miroir, between 1946 and 1981. This part of the show features some of the themes to which Chagall returned regularly: lovers, Paris, the country and the town. You can browse the works in our inventory on our 700-web-page site at spaightwoodgalleries.com; you can see the Chagalls starting at http://www.spaightwoodgalleries.com/Pages/Chagall_coming_attractions.html

We have an extensive reference library on art from the late 15th century to the present as well as over 2000 art books (new and used) available for purchase. If there are books about which you have an interest, please let us know. If we have them we will be happy to ship them directly to you. If you seek information about our art inventory, please feel free to call at 1-800-809-3343.

Spaightwood Galleries is located at 120 Main St. in Upton on the corner of Main St (Highway 140) and Maple Avenue in a deconsecrated Unitarian Church. We are open on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. and weekdays by arrangement. We welcome visitors!