Welcome to the New Online Store and a Video !
These pages present an overview of some of the historical paintings of Richard Burke Jones (see new painting description below). Additionally, there are examples of some of the giclees of these paintings (and now an NEW online store), a short biography, and a contact sheet in the event you wish to order from or communicate with the artist. Click here to hear an audio introduction to the site. Click here to go directly to the new store!. Richard Burke Jones has finished the oil painting "Upper Green Street..." (see description below) and would love to hear from you if you have an idea or suggestion for the next view of Newburyport, or another locale. Click here to send him an email with your suggestion.
Here is a close-up of the facade of the Immaculate Conception Church showing a recently married couple leaving the church to the waiting carriage.
Newburyport, Upper Green Street - New
Richard Burke Jones has recently completed an oil on canvas, 28" x 48", entitled "Upper Green Street and Beyond, Newburyport, 1880". It was commissioned and will be delivered to the owner on September 18, 2010, at which time giclee prints will be available. Orders may be placed now through the online store for delivery after September 18, 2010.
After researching old maps, photographs, street layouts, historical treatises and the remaining buildings themselves, the view was chosen and the initial drawing in pen and ink was executed. It is a crow's nest view showing twilight activity on upper Green Street in the 1880s.
In this time period, there was much activity in the area with the Superior Courthouse on the Mall, the Putnam Free School (the high school), the Immaculate Conception church with the original steeple, and the Theophilas Parsons house (where John Quincy Adams studied law as a young man). The scene shows a wedding taking place at the church and the surrounding excitement in the street. Beyond the church and the Parsons' house is the large Parochial Hall, the original St. Paul's Episcopal Church, the Eastern Railroad, the area between Summer and Winter Streets (removed to make way for Rte 1), the original train station between Strong and Winter Streets, and much more.