Jim (J.E.) Daly

Member since 2013

J.E. (Jim) Daly is a regional painter working in the American Impressionist tradition of Cape Ann. He is a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, and also a Signature Member of the Oil Painter's 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.

Daly 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. He is 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 also spends time in 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.

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 Modern Impressionist Magazine, 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.

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