Valerie McCaffrey 6 Chubbs Brook Lane * Beverly Farms MA 01915
valeriemccaffrey@comcast.net 978-927-8458 978-869-1277 www.valeriemccaffrey.com

Artist Biography

I am a contemporary folk artist whose work has been exhibited and collected in the United States and abroad. My work is narrative with leit motifs, concentrating, but not exclusively, of family and community events. The landscape is always manipulated to tell a story as in the painting of Paris entitled Sacre Coeur. I take commissions, primarily of weddings which are received emotionally and gratefully and enjoy a focal point in the place where it is exhibited. I have been blessed with a career spanning almost sixty years.

Galleries: GINA Gallery NYC
www.gallerynyc.com
ARA Gallery, So. Hamilton, MA 01982
www.ara-gallery.com

Juror’s Commendation Artrageous!24
May, 2010

Publications
America Magazine, January 1, 2006. Cover: Just Before Christ mas.

Curated Exhibits
May/June 2009 GINA GALLERY, New York, NY , A Summer Serenade

Exhibit
1998-2010 Montserrat College of Art Auction (most years)
2008 Solo Exhibit, St. John’s, Beverly Farms
2007 Solo Exhibit, Cutler Gallery,
Hamilton, Massachusetts
2005“An American Primitive in Monet’s Garden”
Beverly Farms Library
2002 - 2004
Art for the Cure
Solo exhibit,
June,2003
Beverly Library, Beverly
Massachusetts,
Mingo Gallery, Beverly,
Massachusetts
Project Adventure Show,
November, 2003
ARA Gallery, Hamilton, Ma,
October, 2003 (With Ann Cady)
2004, Solo Exhibit, Cloister Gallery,
Marblehead, Massachusetts 2004,Beverly Library, 2004
(With Garage School Students)
Sovereign Bank, May, 2004
Annual Library Auction, December 2004, 2005
1996 - 2001
Open Studio, November 2001
Montserrat College of Art, Arts Noel 1996 - 2000
1999 Solo Exhibit, Bloomings by M Gallery, Beverly Massachusetts, Bloomings by M Gallery, Beverly Massachusetts, 1998

Workshops
2004 ArtStudy - Giverny, France
April 2003
September 1992-Present
Garage School of Art
2004 Shelburne Museum of Art,
Shelburne, Vermont
October 2003 Our Lady House of Hope

Grants
1998 Jackson Family Grant
1999 Jackson Family Grant
2000 Friends of the Beverly Farms Library Grant

Public Collections:
Hastings House, Beverly Farms
Beverly Library

Private Collections (Partial List)
Susan Adam
Barbara Almy
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Barger
Janet Barsanti
Blair Brown
Kitty Barrand
Courtney and David Birnbaum
Mr. and Mrs. William Cabrera
Brook Collella
Steve Cohen; Andrea MacLeod
Drs. Randa and Mel Dubnic
Rebecca Douglas
Mr. and Mrs. Brenton Dickson
Teresa Dickson
Sr. and Sra. Antonio Dotto
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Driscoll
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald DiNapoli
Carol Ann Dumond
Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard Ebling
Polly Frothingham
Beth Glass
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Gallant
Mr. and Mrs. Adolfo Garcia
Louisa Gerry
Laurie Graham
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Grant
Anne Green
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Harvey
Deborah Mary Higgins
Sharon Howard
Wendy Kalas and Vernon Herzelle
Kate Ingalls
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jones
Dr. and Mrs. Mayo Johnson
Mr. and Mrs.George Kaplan
Dr. Mariska Koijmaans
Donna Krohn
Donna and Ronald Kramer Cohen
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lanzikos
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee
Mr. Francis Lehar
Dr. Mary McCaffrey
Mr. and Mrs. Walker Martin
Mr. and Mrs. Curt Meldon
Agatha Morrell
Mr. and Mrs. Ledyard McFadden
Mr. and Mrs. John McNear
Bess Newman
Mr. and Mrs. George Newman
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Philbrick
Mr. and Mrs. Chip Price
Christine Sherrill
Ruth Powers
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Powers
Carol Powers
Mr. and Mrs. Derek Rae
Mr. and Mrs. Nicola Savignano
Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Sears III
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Singer
Robin Sacco
Mr. and Mrs.John Sullivan
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Sherr
Mr. and Mrs. Derek Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Savy
Catharine Simpson
Cary Smallhorn
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Smallhorn
Louise Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. James Townsend
Laura Tyler
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Wadsworth
Lee Webster
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Williams
Mr. and Mrs. David Williams
Sr. and Sra. Nando Zampiva
Mr. and Mrs. John Updike

Teaching Positions
North Shore Community College
Beverly Recreation Department
Garage School
Shelburne Museum
Art Study/ Giverny

Education
Montserrat College of Art Museum of Fine Arts Endicott College Rockport Art Association, North Shore Community College Radcliffe Institute Seminars
College of Saint Elizabeth
Indiana University

Biography
Born, Valerie Weigand, Newark, New Jersey, 1940
Married Leo McCaffrey 1961
Six children
Nine Grandchildren