$350 Untitled signed pastel 21" x 29"
SOLD Water Falls (So Dah Leavey) signed pastel 21" x 23.5"
SOLD Autumn Landscape signed pastel 17" x 28.5"
SOLD Untitled ( winter lake shore) signed 1962 oil on board 17" x 22"
SOLD Untitled Landscape signed pastel 21" x 25"
SOLD Toward Snail Lake at Dusk signed pastel 17" x 23"
SOLD Solid Oak signed 1991 pastel 17" x 23"
SOLD Autumn Afternoon signed 2007 pastel 17" x 23"
SOLD North Shore signed 1977 oil on board 20" x 28"
SOLD Moonrise at Long Lake signed 1996 pastel 21" x 29"
Gerald (Jerry) Hjelm (1936 - 2010)
Jerry Hjelm was born on June 19, 1936. After more than thirty years as a commercial artist, illustrator, graphic designer and art director, artist Gerald Hjelm turned over a new leaf and became a serious Minnesota landscape representative.
Influenced by French and American impressionists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, his paintings are impressionist renderings of midwestern landscapes. Romantic creations of imagery and natural expression, his view of nature enhanced the concept of a land unspoiled and pure - the treasured inheritance of America.
"I dream about the lost world as everyone dreams about his or her childhood - and that is why I paint: to retrieve and preserve some of the images of the unspoiled world I remember. Certainly, I know that it still exists, but there is less of it, and it is getting steadily harder to find. I hope my paintings capture a little of a less urbanized time, when technology was less pervasive and intrusive, and 'Nature' wasn't something you watched on PBS."
Hjelm passed away on July 22, 2010.