About the Artist
J.E. Daly - An American Impressionist
Jim Daly is a regional painter working in the American Impressionist tradition. He is a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society and Oil Painters of America. Daly was born in Glens Falls, NY. He grew up in rural upstate New York where he spent summers as a boy on his family’s 5th generation dairy farm in NY state's Washington County, and developed a personal connection to the many and varied bucolic environments. Early on, he received drawing instruction from his mother, lifelong regional artist Patricia Minnis Daly. Daly's later formal art training came under Michael Dowling at the UMASS Danforth Museum School of Art, in Framingham, MA. He has also studied with some of the most prominent American artists working in the last half century, including Kenn Backhaus, Scott Christensen, Don Stone N.A., Charles Sovek, Bruce Backman Turner, and Charles Movali. Daly's style further emanates from the Cape Ann and Boston Schools of American Impressionism. His historical influences include Van Gogh, Renoir, Homer, Hopper, Sargent, Metcalf, Hibbard, Carlson, Gruppe, and Payne. After 4 years as a rated US Air Force officer, Daly settled in Hudson Massachusetts with his wife and three children. A chance visit to the Boston Museum of Fine Art for a blockbuster exhibit of Renoir awakened a creative side that Daly continues to evolve. He works primarily in oils, but enjoys the occasional watercolor and pastel change of pace. Although his subject matter is largely the landscape, he occasionally turns to figure and still life subjects for alternative inspiration.
In the Landscape, Daly is drawn to the ebbs and flows of light and the sense of mood that results. He became attracted to the Cape Ann art community where the rocky shores and harbors provided ample history and many locations from which to grow his artistic approach. He now maintains a 3 season home and studio in the High Peaks region of the Adirondack Mountains There he finds access to the North Country and Champlain Valley of New York and Vermont, in which the unique and ancient pathways, streams, lakes, mountains and valleys have a singular mystique. This is where much of his outdoor painting takes place. He usually begins his landscape paintings on site, and often finishes in the studio.
Daly has painted in much of the US. He has traveled and painted in the UK and Ireland, Western Europe, Asia, Mexico and Canada. His paintings are in private and corporate collections around the US, Europe, Africa and Canada.He has won national and regional awards, and Daly’s work has appeared in Southwest Art, American Art Collector, and Art Connoisseur. He spends the winter full time at his studio in Hudson MA, and is a member of several national and regional art associations.
Current Professional Memberships
American Impressionist Society (AIS, Signature member)
Oil Painters of America (OPA, Associate)
Rockport Art Association (RAA, Juried Member)
North Shore Art Association (Juried Member) Board of Trustees 2017-2021,
Hudson Valley Art Association (HVAA, Juried Member)
American Artists Professional League (AAPL, Juried Member)
Southern Vermont Art Center (SVAC, Juried Member)
The Jeffersonville Rendezvous Invitational Member
California Art Club (Associate Member)
Current Galleries
The Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville VT. https://www.bryangallery.org
The Blackburn Gallery, Queensbury NY https://www.blackburngallery.com
Recent Exhibitions
2025 OPA 2025 Eastern Exhibition
Rockport Art Association and Museum National Exhibition
Guild of Boston Artists Regional Juried Exhibition
HVAA 92nd Annual Exhibition
2024 OPA 2024 Juried Salon Show
AIS 25th Annual National Juried Exhibition
Bryan Memorial Gallery – 40 Years Together
Bryan Memorial Gallery Land&Light&Water&Air Exhibition
HVAA 91st Annual Exhibition (Rayma Spaulding Memorial Award)
Rockport Art Association and Museum National Exhibition
2023 OPA National Juried Exhibition
OPA Eastern Regional Exhibition (Award of Excellence)
AIS National Exhibition
AIS National Small Works Exhibition
Guild of Boston Artists Regional Juried Exhibition
HVAA 90th Annual Exhibition (Rayma Spaulding Memorial Award)
2022 OPA Eastern Regional Exhibition
Rockport Art Association National Juried Exhibition
HVAA 89th National Juried Exhibition
2021 OPA National Juried Exhibition
AIS National Exhibition
HVAA 88th National Juried Exhibition
Bryan Memorial Gallery Land, Light, Water, Air Juried Exhibition
2020 Rockport Art Association National Juried Exhibition
2019 HVAA 86h National Juried Exhibition
SVAC Summer Juried Exhibition
Awards
2012 Academic Artists Association Exhibition Honorable Mention
2016 Friends of Marlboro (Library) Annual Juried Art Exhibit Best in Show Gold Medal
2016 North Shore Art Association - 4h Summer Exhibition Guild of Boston Artists Award
2016 Rockport Art Association - 2nd Summer Exhibition Maribee Swift Memorial Award
2017 North Shore Art Association - 1st Summer Exhibition Mararite Phillips Neuhauser Phillips Award
2017 Rockport Art Association Silver Medal For Outstanding Painting
2017 Rockport Art Association Berna and Joseph Warner Butler Award
2017 Rockport Art Association - 2nd Summer Exhibition George O and Jean Davies Silver Medal
2017 Rockport Art Association Genevieve Wilhelm Memorial Award
2018 Rockport Art Association Guild of Boston Artists A.T. Hibbard Award
2018 Oil Painters of America Eastern Exhibition Honorable Mention
2019 North Shore Art Association Summer Exhibition 2019 ASW Award
2020 Hudson Valley AA 87th Annual Juried Exhibition Herbert and Rosetta Bohnert Award
2021 Hudson Valley AA 88th Annual Exhibition The Mamaroneck Artists Guild Award
2023 Oil Painters of America Eastern Exhibition Award of Excellence
2023 Hudson Valley Artists Association 90th Annual Exhibition Rayma Spaulding Memorial Award
2024 Bryan Memorial Gallery Land&Light&Water&Air Exhibition Second Place Medal ($750)
2024 Hudson Valley AA 91st Annual Juried Exhibition Jane Peterson Memorial Award ($400)
2024 Rockport Art Association National Exhibition Paul Goodnow Memorial Award ($500)
Previous OPA and AIS Exhibitions
2018 OPA Eastern Regional Exhibition
2017 OPA Eastern Regional Exhibition
2015 OPA Eastern Regional Exhibition
2012 American Impressionist Society National
Magazines
Southwest Art November 2012 AIS National Juried Exhibition
American Art Collector November 2012 AIS National Juried Exhibition
Fine Art Connoisseur December 2012 AIS National Juried Exhibition
Fine Art Connoisseur August 2024 OPA 2024 National Juried Salon
"Nearly Halfway To West Rupert"
2013 North Shore Art Association
Constance Mullen Memorial Award For Excellence In Painting
