Saturday June 8th, 11-2p

As part of the Character in Context Illustration Exhibit opening June 7th, the A.R. Mitchell Museum is honored to have Gregory Manchess painting live onsite at the museum in Trinidad.

Award-winning painter, Gregory Manchess, has created work for covers and feature stories of National Geographic Magazine, Time, Atlantic Monthly, and The Smithsonian. The National Geographic Society sent Manchess on expedition, and chose his work to illustrate the adventures of the first discovery of an actual pirate ship for the traveling exhibition, Real Pirates: The Untold Story of The Whydah, from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship.

His figure and portrait work has led to numerous commissions for stamps by the US Postal Service, including the Oregon Statehood Stamp, The 1963 March On Washington Stamp, Mark Twain Stamp, Exploring the Great Outdoors Series, Snowy Beauty, and the 2023 Christmas stamp, Snow Globes.

His large portrait of Abraham Lincoln and seven major paintings of key moments from Lincoln’s life are highlighted in the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois.

The Coen Brothers showcased Gregory’s work in their latest film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.

Manchess wrote and illustrated his first ‘widescreen novel’ Above the Timberline, released in (Read full bio here)