Thomas Aquinas Daly paintings

Vince Pagliaroli

Vince Pagliaroli

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For those duckboat members who admire Tom Daly's art work. "The Daly Show" opened last night at the ACWC Main Gallery, in Perry, N.Y. www.artswyco.org

The show features recent works by Tom, his wife Christine, and son Jonathan. You will not be disappointed. If you enjoy flowers and still life paintings, Christine's work will knock you out. Tom's work is still jaw dropping Good, and Jonathan's work goes his own way. It's All Good.

Anytime that I can go to a gallery opening and guys are wearing fishing shirts, one carrying a fly rod. Plus talk to one of the best painters of our time, he shows me a box of flies, and we talk fishin' and huntin'. I'm in the right place at the correct time.

If you happen to be in western NY, the show runs through July 24, 2015.
 
Vince: I subscribe to "Sporting Classics" magazine. They feature a good amount of Mr. Daly's artwork to accompany their stories. His name has always stood out to me due to an association with the catholic saint, Thomas Aquinas. After your post, I checked out his website which has a large collection of artwork in different media (watercolor & oils), along with links to his wife and son's sites. Dabbling a bit in flat art myself the past few years, all I can say is WOW!!! An artistically talented family. Wish I could see the show. Thanks for sharing with us.


Ken Zaborski
 
we'll need to swing over there and take a looke Vince

I should get to meet him later in the month when the Genesee Village Museum's Wehle sporting gallery open the new fishing art exhibit
 
Ken & Rick

If like me, a original TAD painting is beyond your reach, I strongly suggest you get a copy of his book - "The Art Of Thomas Aquinas Daly The Painting Season".

Read the chapter ABINO BAY, and you will learn how he came to make his own decoys, screening boat and all trappings of a die hard waterfowl hunter. With the advent of steel shot, he stowed his rig.

Having seen and handled his hand carved decoys on a few occasions, two words come to mind - Utilitarian Excellence. He told me once that no glass eyes could match the true color of the birds he hunted, so he painted them. I sat, listened, learned and felt very fortunate to be where I was.

He picked up a a Old Squaw that I was carving and said. "That's a good decoy". That decoy will become a family heirloom.

Like many of the old masters, he is one of a kind, and the like's of which we shall not see again. He is a Helluva MAN.
 
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