Gallery UpdatE [8-26-2020] | COVID-19

Gilded Pear Gallery is available during normal business hours. We’re continuing to meet with all of our existing and new clients digitally and in person to provide all of our services. Non-contact deliveries can be made locally as well as shipping coast to coast.

We want you to know that we are taking your health, and ours, seriously. Here’s what we’re doing behind the scenes prior to your visit and what to expect during your time in the gallery.

• The gallery is sanitized everyday when staff arrives and after every appointment. Sanitizer is available to guests inside the gallery.
• The gallery is limiting the number of in-gallery visitors. Please ring the door bell for service.
• Appointments can still be made for any number of services at this time: Viewing the current exhibit and/or the rest of the represented artists on display, project development, commissions, custom framing, purchase pick-ups, fine art appraisals…etc.
• We are set up for virtual meetings and will provide devoted time to clients working on projects at their convenience.
• We ask that all patrons be masked during their visit and take common-sense health precautions recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), such as frequent hand washing, common hygiene etiquette, and physical distance.
• Staff will be screened for signs of fever prior to arrival and are masked.
• Free local delivery is currently being offered until further notice for purchases made on the website. Our service area for “local” is considered 30 miles in proximity to the gallery. 
• Purchases can be made online by submitting an inquiry- available on each artists’ page as well as the current exhibit page on our site. A digital invoice will be sent to you and we will connect with you about how you would like to receive your purchase.
• Gift certificates are available in any denomination. Contact the gallery to purchase.

Hours for availability:

• Mon-Friday: 10am-5pm
• Saturday: 10am-2pm
  
• Sunday: CLOSED

Contact the gallery to plan your visit or project
Email:
suzy@gildedpeargallery.com (fine art appraisals, commercial/corporate consulting [art and installation], custom framing)
lauren@gildedpeargallery.com (residential consulting, website purchasing, gift certificates, scheduling, general),
or give us a call 319-366-0205

May art provide you respite from this overwhelming time.
Sincerely,
Suzy, Lauren & Linda

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The Promise of Life
Stephen Metcalf
Oil on paper

Stephen Metcalf (1948-2020)

​"Simply put, I believe my work is about the act of painting.”

Born in Chicago, Stephen Metcalf grew up in the Midwest. As a child he practiced drawing and painting and by the time he started art school at the University of Illinois his drafting skills could mimic photographs. Frustrated by the tedious nature and predictability of this process, he decided to reinvent himself as an artist and as a graduate printmaking student at the university of Illinois he produced mixed media paintings and large scale works on paper that were recognized by their inclusion in major exhibitions like drawings USA 77 at the Minnesota museum of art and works on paper at the art institute of Chicago.

After having received his MFA in art and design, Stephen produced hundreds of paintings which are currently represented in public, private, and corporate collections throughout the United States, including the Illinois state museum, the Minnesota museum of art, the Kirkwood center hotel, the U.S. Military hospital on Nellis airbase, and the Cleveland clinic.

S. Metcalf Obituary

We are heartbroken to have been notified that our longtime artist and friend Steve has passed. Our deepest sympathies go out to his family and his wife Jane. We hope that they are surrounded with love in this time. We will miss him dearly.
-Gilded Pear Gallery

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