Serving the Washington, DC and Southern Maryland area since 1968.
The walls at Medart change often. What follows is a tour of the categories you'll find when you visit — original oils, gallery-wrapped canvases, limited-edition prints, local artists, and photography. Most pieces here are one-of-a-kind, and most go home the day they're chosen.
Our oil collection runs from traditional landscapes of the Bay and Tidewater to historical and figurative work from artists we've represented for decades. Every piece is an original — no reproductions, no editions. When it sells, the wall changes.
A gallery-wrapped canvas takes the painted image around the sides of a deep stretcher bar, so the work can hang on its own without a frame. The look is clean and contemporary, and it's how many of our living artists prefer to show new work.
A signed and numbered edition is the closest thing to an original an artist can offer at a working person's price. Our print library leans into subjects that resonate in this part of the country — military and aviation history, the Buffalo Soldier series, regional landscape, and early Americana.
A working gallery in a small town runs on the artists who live nearby. Some have shown with us for thirty years. Their work — Patuxent shorelines, tobacco barns, skipjacks, the back roads of Calvert County — is a record of this place. Most stop in regularly; a few drop off new pieces every season.
Photography at Medart spans from A. Aubrey Bodine's classic Chesapeake images of the mid-century to contemporary regional landscape and signed sports photography. Many are archival prints, framed in-house with conservation glass and acid-free matting.
For more than four decades Paul McGehee has been painting the landmarks of the Chesapeake region and the District — the Mall at first light, working watermen on the Bay, lighthouse keepers, town squares, a Baltimore harbor that no longer exists quite the way it did.
Medart carries a deep selection of his signed and numbered editions, along with the occasional original. New releases tend to arrive quietly; the best way to know what's available is to call or stop in.
Inquire About a Piece →If a work catches your eye, call ahead — our inventory moves. We're happy to put a hold on a piece while you make the drive to Dunkirk.
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