A Special Feature Dedicated to the Works of Pat McCarthy
Tallmadge Ave
Never Once
Commissioned
The paintings of Pat McCarthy, rabbits, mostly, and whatever she's painted since we last looked.
On this page: Bunny in Blue Willow Bowl, oil on Florentine gilt plaque — $239 Take it home
Meet Pat McCarthy
She's never once been commissioned, and it shows.
If anything with an animal on it has come from us and it wasn't a print, there's a good chance her hand made it. Look in the corner and you'll usually find it, P. McCarthy, sometimes just initials, in the same unhurried script every time. Rabbits sitting in blue and white china. A fox curled into an oval Florentine board like the frame was built around him. A terrier keeping watch nobody asked him to keep.
We buy from her near Adamstown, and we've never once caught her between projects, there's always a new stack, always something we haven't seen a version of before. Nobody commissioned any of it. She just keeps painting animals, on whatever surface is in front of her, because that's apparently what the hours are for.
A print repeats a decision someone else already made. A painting like this is a decision happening again, animal after animal, for no one in particular. That's most of why we keep bringing her work home.
Her pieces currently in the shop are below, worth a slow look if you haven't seen them together. It's a rotating handful, because she keeps working, and so do we.
The Rabbits
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The Rabbits · eleven pieces
- 1Reclining White Rabbit. Oil, Florentine gilt plaque. $239Take it homeFound a home
- 2Bunny in Ribbon & Rose Cachepot. Watercolor, gold beaded frame. $150Take it homeFound a home
- 3Resting Bunny, Green Majolica Heart. Ornate gold frame. $179Take it homeFound a home
- 4Bunny in Red Chinoiserie Beaker. Watercolor, gold beaded frame. $150Take it homeFound a home
- 5Bunny in Blue Willow Bowl. Watercolor, gold frame. $239Take it homeFound a home
- 6White Rabbit, resting in loose grasses. Watercolor. $195Take it homeFound a home
- 7Rabbit, Blue Garden Scene. Watercolor. $125Take it homeFound a home
- 8Rabbit Topiary. A rabbit clipped out of a hedge. $85Take it homeFound a home
- 9Blue Butterfly. Wings still out. $125Take it homeFound a home
- 10Bumblebee. One bee, gilt frame. $125Take it homeFound a home
- 11Bunny Holiday Plaque. Comes out of a box each December. $160Take it homeFound a home
Beyond the Rabbits
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Beyond the Rabbits · five pieces
- 12Leopard, signed P. McCarthy. Beaded black frame. $275Take it homeFound a home
- 13Corgi Portrait. Oil on Florentine board, antique gilt frame. $275Take it homeFound a home
- 14Westie with Leash. Octagonal Florentine board. $275Take it homeFound a home
- 15Fox in Meadow. Oval Florentine board. $250Take it homeFound a home
- 16Setter with Pheasant. Gilt lace-border frame. $285Take it homeFound a home
One to note
Bunny in Sèvres Blue Cachepot
Thirteen by eleven inches, oil, oval gilt frame. A white rabbit standing tall in a cachepot painted after old Sèvres porcelain, two bright ears the only thing breaking the blue. It's the largest of hers we've had, and the one we'd keep if we kept one.
$325
Take it homeAlready Found Homes
One of one means the record is the only thing left. A page that shows only what's still here is telling you half of what it is.
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Before you go
She keeps painting. We keep bringing them home.
Nothing here gets restocked, exactly, it gets replaced, by whatever she's finished next. If a piece above is already gone, or the next rabbit hasn't turned up yet, tell us what you're after and we'll write the moment it does.
Michele & Christine