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Wednesday, June 7, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Animation art gallery open in Sisters
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
Walt Disney once said, “I
don’t pretend to know any-
thing about art. I make pic-
tures for entertainment, and
then the professors tell me
what they mean.”
For a man who claimed
to know nothing about art,
he certainly had a knack for
inspiring some of the best art-
ists the world has ever seen.
Nick Ghosoph, an autho-
rized Disney Fine Art Gallery
dealer, recently opened
the doors to his new gal-
lery, Disney Fine Art by
Animation Art Masters, in
Sisters Town Square. He
is proud to carry the torch
for this legacy of artistic
inspiration.
“We carry Disney signa-
ture artwork. They are all
licensed artists that work for
the Disney animation stu-
dios,” Ghosoph said. “They
are either former or current
artists under Disney employ.
We also represent ‘Star
Wars,’ ‘Looney Toons,’ and
other animation art.”
From Thomas Kinkade
to Tim Rogerson to Heather
Theurer to James Coleman,
artists throughout the decades
have been bringing Disney’s
stories and characters back to
life in their paintings.
“Each Disney canvas
print is signed, numbered
and a limited edition,” said
Ghosoph.
Disney artwork has the
unique ability to establish an
emotional connection with
multiple generations of art
collectors, from children of
the 1930s who experienced
The Mickey Mouse Club in
their local movie theaters, to
a generation of baby-boomer
“Mouseketeers” who have
passed their love for Disney
on to their children and
grandchildren of today.
Ghosoph and his wife,
Vetta, originally owned a gift
gallery in Silverton, Oregon,
but when they contracted to
sell fine art by Disney artist
Thomas Kinkade, it became a
strong part of their business.
“Ironically, I had never
been drawn to art my whole
life,” Ghosoph said. “But in
1995 when we came across
art work by Thomas Kinkade
at a gift show, I told Vetta
that I would love to sell
Kinkade’s art.
“So, the next year we
signed up to sell his art.
You must get approved and
licensed to sell the Thomas
Kinkade brand. It was a big
risk, and a big commitment.
But we got approved.”
They sold the gift gallery
in 1997 and moved to the
Fresno, California, area to be
closer to family and opened
a Thomas Kinkade Signature
Art Gallery.
In 2002, the Ghosophs
expanded their art line to
include more major art pub-
lishers and changed the
gallery name to “Masters
Gallery.”
By 2004 the gallery
included several publishers
featuring art work from hun-
dreds of Disney signature
artists.
They re-located their gal-
lery to Clovis, California, in
2009 and became even more
diversified with the art work
they carried. Five years ago,
Masters Gallery became
an official Disney Fine Art
Gallery.
Masters Fine Art Gallery
now prepares to close its
doors at the end of the June
at its location in Old Town
Clovis.
“It was a tough deci-
sion to close the longtime
2,000 square foot gallery,”
Ghosoph said. “I’m supposed
to be retiring.”
The smaller, more man-
ageable gallery in Sisters is
just the right fit for Ghosoph.
“But we’ve expanded our
representation online to ship
product all over the world,”
Ghosoph added. “Vetta is
managing the store in Clovis
until it closes. And I am
residing in Sisters.”
The couple frequently
vacationed in Sisters. When
they lived in Silverton they’d
come out to camp and hike
the mountains. They skied at
Mt. Bachelor and rafted the
rivers and fished.
“We love this area,”
Ghosoph told The Nugget.
Ghosoph also does custom
PHOTO BY JODI SCHNEIDER MCNAMEE
A Disney animation gallery is open in Sisters, operated by Nick Ghosoph,
an authorized dealer.
framing orders as a favor to
clients.
“We will consult with our
customers to what their indi-
vidual needs are by a specific
artist,” Ghosoph said.
“We are developing into
one of the most successful
Disney art dealers, and the
Disney animation studios
has asked us to open more
art galleries on the West
Coast.”
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