Dorothy S. Gannon

Oil, acrylic, watercolor, etching & sculpture · 1929–2018

Dorothy Gannon was the founder of Gannon Art Center and a co-founder of In-Town Gallery. She worked as a professional artist for more than 50 years and moved fluidly between oil, acrylic, watercolor, etching and sculpture.

Her paintings remain at the heart of the gallery — the reason a frame shop on Brainerd Road has always been, first, a place that loves art.

As I begin to work on a painting, I feel that I am building or constructing a finished work… Painting is one of the most satisfying and the most frustrating of vocations, but I wouldn't trade it for anything!