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Thomas J. Shelford Art
@shelfordart.social
Artist building on the techniques of 19th-century Naturalism. Exploring modern allegorical subjects in oil painting and printmaking.

📍 Norwalk, CT USA
🔗 https://www.shelfordart.com
“Balsam Farms Tractor,” 2025
Monotype print, watercolor and colored wax pencil on paper
10 x 8in

Based on a landscape painted at Balsam Farm Stand in Amagansett, NY.

“It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power”
- Jean-Françoise Millet
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"Gilles Larrain," 2012
Monotype print, 1 of 1
8 inches x 6 inches

A monotype print portrait of renowned photographer Gilles Larrain who has left this world.

REST IN ART, Gilles. I thank you for the memories from our many years of hosting amazing Art Salon Parties together in your studio in Soho.
October 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“Save The Montauk Whales,” 2025
Monotype print (1 of 1)
10.0 x 8.0 inches
🐋🛸👾👽🌊

On exhibition at the art auction & party to benefit the Center for Contemporary Printmaking (CCP), at The Carriage Barn Arts Center in New Canaan. Saturday, November 1, 2025 – 6-9 PM

contemprints.org/monothon-2025/
October 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Value Study for “Save The Whales," 2025 (Detail), Oil on board, 10.0 x 8.0 inches

Open grisaille value study for a future etching and monotype printmaking series.

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September 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
“Saugatuck River”, 2024. Monotype print 8 x 6 inches, 1 of 1. Exhibited at The Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT during the MONOTHON 2024 Auction & Party.

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January 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM