The Gordon Gallery

The Gordon Gallery Napa Valley artist Steven Gordon presents his landscape paintings based on his travels and scenes in wine country. http://www.TheGordonGallery.com

THE ART OF STEVEN GORDON • http://www.thegordongallery.com

I started drawing at a young age and with encouragement from my teachers and family, pursued a future as an artist. After high school, I enrolled in the University of Wisconsin, Madison where I received a Bachelors degree in Art in 1973. I went on to graduate study at Washington University in St. Louis and received my Master of Fine

Arts degree in Painting in 1976. I originally took artistic inspiration from my local surroundings, painting everyday objects, people and street scenes. My photo-realistic paintings expressed my perspective; how things look to me, the color and the light of a commonplace scene. In 1977, I travelled west to settle in the Napa Valley but before being able to open my own studio and gallery, I started a job with Domaine Chandon winery. I had yearly showings of my work at the winery selling my work to customers and staff who fell in love with my work. These shows enabled my wife and I to travel annually to Europe for a month to study various museum and gallery collections and have a generally wonderful time exploring and seeing the sights. Certain insights were gained during these travels, but it is the unique character of the landscape of California that encouraged my artistic development, transforming my imagery into a personal translation of the natural environment around me. My paintings are an attempt to translate the dynamic, lyrical, real and abstract qualities of our environment that I observe in the unending variety of shapes, colors and textures I find in the landscape. After a number of years of showing and selling my work in galleries across the country, I opened my own space, The Gordon Gallery, in Yountville in the heart of Napa Valley in 1996. For 15 plus years this combined public gallery and studio space offered my oil and pastel paintings and limited edition giclée prints and gave the public the opportunity to view both completed paintings and works in progress. My pastel and oil paintings have been exhibited in galleries from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Chicago and New York. My work has also been shown at the Members’ Galleries of the Philadelphia and Delaware Art Museums, the Oakland Museum and at the Albright-Knox Museum in Buffalo, New York. My pastel and oil paintings are represented in private and corporate collections worldwide and have been exhibited in numerous one-person and group shows.

I knew there was a reason why I liked these 1961 Beverly Hills Sports Programs!
09/28/2025

I knew there was a reason why I liked these 1961 Beverly Hills Sports Programs!

Just sold “The Dunes” - 40” square pastel. Thank you Erdreich White Fine Art -Boston
08/25/2025

Just sold “The Dunes” - 40” square pastel. Thank you Erdreich White Fine Art -Boston

I came across this scene in Golden Gate Park on Sunday during the Opera in the Park Concert.Reminded me of "The Bathers"...
09/12/2024

I came across this scene in Golden Gate Park on Sunday during the Opera in the Park Concert.
Reminded me of "The Bathers" by Seurat from 1884. Art History!

Something from the Archives. 6 Views of Mt. St. Helena from the reservoir on the ranch in Rutherford where I lived for 1...
04/28/2024

Something from the Archives. 6 Views of Mt. St. Helena from the reservoir on the ranch in Rutherford where I lived for 10 years. Different times of year and different times of day. 9" Pastel Paintings. My favorite is Mt. St. Helena in snow. It happens every few years.

I finished a 40" square pastel Winter Painting today. Snowy, foggy, and subtle. It will look great in its new home - whe...
12/09/2023

I finished a 40" square pastel Winter Painting today. Snowy, foggy, and subtle. It will look great in its new home - wherever that may be.

New painting completed today! "In Blue" 40" x 40" Pastel on paper.
06/01/2023

New painting completed today! "In Blue" 40" x 40" Pastel on paper.

Starting New Mega-Jumbo Pastel. 1) The Sketch and 2) The Rub. Next is Detail. Check back!
05/08/2023

Starting New Mega-Jumbo Pastel. 1) The Sketch and 2) The Rub. Next is Detail. Check back!

Compare and contrast:Chinese Spy Balloon vsRaft of the Medusa
02/26/2023

Compare and contrast:
Chinese Spy Balloon
vs
Raft of the Medusa

I've completed another 40"x40" commissioned painting for a newer winery in Carneros. Can you tell what the winery might ...
01/31/2023

I've completed another 40"x40" commissioned painting for a newer winery in Carneros. Can you tell what the winery might be?
HINT: Check out the profile of the mountain range!

Found my 1975 oil painting today in the Three Oaks, MI gallery, Nina Hancock Studio. "Day Work Down the Line", 48" x 72"...
10/10/2022

Found my 1975 oil painting today in the Three Oaks, MI gallery, Nina Hancock Studio. "Day Work Down the Line", 48" x 72". Originally sold by a gallery in St. Louis when I was a 23 year old graduate student at Washington University School of Fine Art. $30,000 takes it home.
https://ninahancock.com https://thegordongallery.com

Commission finally framed and ready to ship to Topanga Canyon. I think this oil portrait turned out great!
07/15/2022

Commission finally framed and ready to ship to Topanga Canyon. I think this oil portrait turned out great!

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1346 Oak Street
Napa, CA
94559

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Monday 11:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 11:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 11:30am - 5pm
Thursday 11:30am - 5pm
Friday 11:30am - 5pm
Saturday 11:30am - 5pm
Sunday 11:30am - 5pm

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