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McGee & Co. Artwork Guide

Start curating your personal gallery with everything you need to know about our museum-quality artwork collection.

High-Quality Features

Made with techniques that elevate artwork beyond a standard print, these handmade details and premium craftsmanship showcase the quality that makes our collection so special.

Artist Enhanced

Technique Overview: Artist-enhanced pieces often begin with a giclee print which artists then paint over by hand to mimic the movement and texture of the original piece.

What We Love: The added level of detail from artist enhancement brings the artwork to life. Because the enhancement is painted by hand, the artwork becomes more textural and personal. 

Materials: Most often, artist enhancement is featured on canvas.

Hand-Deckled Edges

Technique Overview: Adding a deckled edge to artwork is done by gently tearing high-end, textured paper to create an uneven, raw edge. It requires expertise and a steady hand.

What We Love: Deckled edges have a charming, feathery look that pays homage to handmade paper, adding a nostalgic, material-forward touch to artwork. 

Materials: Most often, deckled edges are applied to fine art paper mounted in a frame. 

Museum-Grade Paper

Material Overview: Museum-grade paper best presents and preserves photographs and fine art prints. McGee & Co. artwork uses several kinds of paper from fine art photo paper—both glossy and matte—to textured fine art paper made with natural fibers such as cotton. 

What We Love: Museum-grade paper is acid free and archival quality, meaning the artwork is protected against light and is humidity proof. Select pieces are made with handmade paper when the texture enhances the artwork.

Framing & Matting Treatment

Material Overview: Including weighted mats and everything from solid wood moulding to shadow boxes and inset canvases, these carefully selected artwork treatments elevate and add interest to each piece. 

What We Love: Because our teamhand-selects premium moulding and framing, each piece has a high-end feel that pays respect to the artwork itself while elevating the styling throughout the home.  This attention to detail makes each piece of art gallery quality. 

A Look Inside Our Process

Intentionally selected and intricately crafted, each McGee & Co. art piece is curated with the personal touch of Shea McGee and our product design team.

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Curation

Taking inspiration from each season’s palette and mood, Shea McGee provides the concept for all artwork and works with the McGee & Co. product design team to curate pieces from artist partners, exclusive collaborations, and vintage markets.
Each piece is hand-selected for its palette and composition.

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Sizing & Print

Next, Shea and the design team determine what size and medium best complement and highlight the artwork. From small giclee to large canvas prints, each piece undergoes careful consideration so the final product best serves the artwork itself. 

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Framing & Features

The processes for sizing, print type, and framing work hand-in-hand. Depending on print-type, size, and the artwork itself, additional features may be selected by the McGee & Co. design team to create a gallery-quality experience. Additional features include artist enhancement, hand-deckled edges, floating, or weighted mats. 
The design team likewise hand-selects the moulding for each piece to ensure the artwork is properly and thoughtfully framed.

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Final Touches

Both Shea and the design team meticulously review each sample piece with respect and appreciation for the artwork. Making comments, approvals, and adjustments, the team makes necessary changes to ensure each piece is just right. The final product is a stunning piece of artwork, given personal touches at every step of the process. 

Our Expanding Collection

From captivating landscapes to evocative abstract paintings, each piece in our curated collection has been thoughtfully chosen as a striking focal point or beautiful backdrop for any space.

Landscape

Behind the Genre: Depicting the natural world through an artistic lens, landscape paintings, photographs, or drawings allow nature to set the mood and ground you through the places you love most.  

Styling Tips: Use landscapes to bring a natural color palette into your space. Style them in horizontal spaces, such as above a bed or console table, or layer them into a gallery.  

Photography

Behind the Genre: Photographs add a distinct realism to the space, blended with an artistic composition and perspective that adds palette, interest, and movement. An easy way to infuse your personality into a room, photography reflects passions and interests.

Styling Tips: Style photographs within a gallery, displayed on shelves and console tables, or mounted above a mantel to give the home a more curated feel.

Abstract

Behind the Genre: Abstract pieces create a mood and feeling through the composition of line, shape, and palette. Expressive and emotive, this style gives visual interest to a space and sets the overall tone of the room.

Styling Tips: Layer abstract artwork with landscapes and other pieces featuring a structured subject. This creates small, balanced vignettes on mantels, in entryways, or in home offices.

Botanicals

Behind the Genre: Botanical artwork brings the outside indoors. Whether a painting, photograph, or drawing, these pieces capture the organic essence of florals, trees, and leaves and interpret them through palette and composition.

Styling Tips: Layer botanicals into entryway consoles, bathrooms, or dining hutches or mount them in seating vignettes and in pairs in a home office.

Drawing

Behind the Genre: Generally monochromatic and neutral in palette, drawings have a uniquely personal feel that showcases the artist’s thought process with every stroke. Ranging from simple but thoughtful sketches to richly detailed scenes, drawings allow the lines and subject matter to speak for themselves.

Styling Tips: Drawings are great for layering with other artwork. Layer them with a mirror or artwork on hutches and entryway consoles, incorporate into bathroom shelves and countertops, or mount them in breakfast and seating nooks.

Still Life

Behind the Genre: Still life pieces interpret beauty in everyday scenes. Telling color stories through fruit and florals, these pieces are both expressive and contemplative.

Styling Tips: Layer still life pieces on kitchen countertops, on shelves, in pantries, and in entryways or incorporate them into gallery walls.

Kids

Behind the Genre: Charming and whimsical, kids’ artwork prioritizes playful subject matter with loose lines and endearing palettes to transform the room into a space where imaginations can reign supreme.

Styling Tips: Incorporate kids’ artwork either solo or in sets throughout the room, styled near seating vignettes or above dressers.

Vintage

Behind the Genre: Each one-of-a-kind vintage piece is hand-selected for its composition, palette, and natural patina that gives the piece an added layer of charm and appeal. Occasionally mounted in a vintage frame that’s as much art as the piece inside, these are heirloom-quality finds.

Styling Tips: Style vintage artwork in seating vignettes or layered onto consoles and shelves stacked alongside other art pieces.

Artwork Care

To extend the life of your artwork, limit sun exposure. Although we have a robust selection of plexiglass styles that help mitigate sun damage, keep your framed glass artwork away from direct sunlight to maintain the color vitality. Canvas and wood-printed pieces are more durable against areas of direct sunlight.
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