Robert glenn ketchum posters and prints

“The first time I saw my work in action, I took a picture from the Beacon rail yard one morning in a hard rain and it was a really blue-grey day and the fog was down on the river, and the rail yard right there was just a mess. It was full of scrap metal and old tires and just a complete mess, and I was up on a rail bridge, looking down on it and I had a pretty interesting perspective and I realized from studying the history of the Hudson Valley that this was formerly, in the 1800s, a famous ferry park which meant that people from Manhattan ferried up for the weekend and picnicked in the park and stayed at the bed and breakfasts in the town of Beacon and now it looked like an abandoned mineral dump. I took the picture and took it back and showed it to the general council and he said, ‘So why was this important?’ and I explained about how in the 1800s it had been a ferry park. After I left he went back to the Wallace Fund and as

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The smaller we come to feel ourselves compared to the mountain, the nearer we come to participating in its greatness. ~Arne Naess

In an art world that values originality, this collaboration between Robert Glenn Ketchum and members of the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute was a dazzling eye opener. ~Los Angeles Times Art Critic, Suzanne Muchnic, reviewing RGK¹s exhibit of embroideries for ARTnews magazine

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics. ~Albert Schweitzer

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. ~Sir Winston Churchill

We can’t say that we want better lives for our children and ourselves and then not become active in the legal and political system. Personal responsibility for lifestyle is only a single component of a

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• THE COAT OF MANY COLORS, 1988

  THE COAT OF MANY COLORS, 198816" x 20" / $95020” x 24” / $1,50024” x 30” / $2,25030” x 40” / $3,500The signed, limited edition of 33, includes all of the above sizes. Print will be shipped directly to client's framer.3-prints are available at 48" x 65". Current price: $6,500.

• TREES, FROSTED BY RIVER STEAM, 1988

  TREES, FROSTED BY RIVER STEAM, 198816" x 20" not available. Suggested retail: $7,00020” x 24” / 1-print available @ $12,00024” x 30” not available. Suggested retail: $18,00030” x 40” not available. Suggested retail: $24,000The signed, limited edition of 33, includes all of the above sizes. Print will be shipped directly to client's framer.3-prints are available at 48" x 65". Current price: $15,000.

• BLAZING BENEATH LOW CLOUDS, 1989

  BLAZING BENEATH LOW CLOUDS, 198920” x 24” / $1,50024” x 30” / $2,25030” x 40” / $3,500The signed, limited edit