Good Company — New Paintings by Patti McCarthy
Tallmadge Ave
Good
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Patti McCarthy, past the rabbits now. Dogs, cats, and whatever the same steady hand turns to next.
On this page: Cat in Blue & White Delft Plate, watercolor — $275 Take it home
Still Patti McCarthy
The rabbits weren't the whole animal. Just the one she'd gotten to first.
Every rabbit in Never Once Commissioned came out of the same studio near Adamstown, and so does everything below — a Cavalier seated on a blue cloth with a book close by, a spaniel gone gold in the light, a cat who fell asleep in the middle of somebody's library and got painted exactly like that. Same unhurried signature in the corner. Same Florentine boards and gilt plaques she's always worked on.
We went back for more because the rabbits went fast, most of a full room of them in five days once we put a little money behind the reel. So we asked what else was sitting in the studio. The answer, this time, was dogs, mostly, plus one cat who's clearly decided the place is hers now.
Nobody commissioned any of this either. She just painted what was in front of her, and this time it wasn't rabbits.
The Dogs
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The Dogs · six pieces
- 1Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Oil, Florentine board. $280Take it homeFound a home
- 2Golden Spaniel. Oil, Italian Florentine plaque. $295Take it homeFound a home
- 3White Dog, blue bow and brass bell. Florentine gilt plaque. $285Take it homeFound a home
- 4Corgi Portrait. Oil on Florentine board, antique gilt frame. $275Take it homeFound a home
- 5Westie with Leash. Octagonal Florentine board. $275Take it homeFound a home
- 6Setter with Pheasant. Gilt lace-border frame. $285Take it homeFound a home
Cats & Company
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Cats & Company · three pieces
- 7Cat Painting, asleep among books. Ornate antique frame. $475Take it homeFound a home
- 8Cat in Blue & White Delft Plate. Watercolor. $275Take it homeFound a home
- 9Rabbit, Florentine board, Italian gilt frame. $275Take it homeFound a home
One to note
The Setter's Retrieve
Oil on board, in a gilt lace-border frame — a step up from the plain gilt everything else here wears. A liver-and-white setter holds a pheasant mid-retrieve, one wing still catching the light against a dark tree line. He's been waiting the longest of anyone on this page: held over from Never Once Commissioned, through five days of rabbits and now most of a room of dogs, without a buyer until now.
Found a home
Before you go
Same painter. Wider net. Same rule once it's gone.
Eight of these are already gone. The cavalier, the golden spaniel, the white dog, the corgi, and the westie left together in one order; the cat among the books went not long after, and the setter and the rabbit since. The Delft cat is what's left — one piece, still one of one. If something above is already spoken for by the time you're reading this, or you're after an animal she hasn't gotten to yet, tell us and we'll write the moment it turns up.
Michele & Christine