Mabry Mill
by Donna Tuten
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14.000 x 11.000 inches
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Title
Mabry Mill
Artist
Donna Tuten
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Mabry Mill is a watermill located at milepost 176.2 of Blue Ridge Parkway in Floyd County, Virginia. It is a tourist attraction mainly for the picturesque views of the mill itself. A short trail around the mill connects historical exhibits about life in rural Virginia. The trail allows visitors to view the gristmill, sawmill, and blacksmith shop.
Mabry Mill was built by Edwin Boston Mabry (E.B. Mabry). E.B. Mabry returned to Floyd County in 1903 and began the construction of the mill. It was first a blacksmith and wheelwright shop, then became a sawmill. By 1905 it was in operation as a gristmill. By 1910 the front part of the mill was completed and included a lathe for turning out wheel hubs, a tongue and groove lathe, a planer and a jig-saw.
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April 8th, 2012
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Comments (12)
Maria Hunt
Congratulations on your fantastic finish in the contest for "Autumn Trees" Outstanding composition and color palette. Your brushwork sings, Donna F/L
Vadim Levin
Congratulations, this beautiful painting was recently selected among the top finished in the Autumn in Oil contest!
Tony Clark
I just went there a couple of months ago!! Beautiful area and you captured it with perfection!!
Donna Tuten replied:
I hope you enjoyed your visit! Thanks so much for your kind comment on this piece, Tony!
Donna Tuten
Thank you, Anne-Elizabeth, for the nice comments. I really appreciate it. As you well know, as an artist yourself and as described in your bio, words of encouragement really mean so much. I notice you are from Smithfield. I travel the state with my "real" job and just passed through a couple of weeks ago! :-)
Anne-Elizabeth Whiteway
Donna, I have been to Mabry Mill many times. I have happy memories from our family's visits there. We would always go to the restaurant there for pancakes (or as Daddy called them: "hotcakes".) This is a lovely painting. I like your description as well. (My father painted Mabry Mill many times, usually in the Fall season.)
Donna Tuten
Thanks, Roena. LOL! This one was not done en plein air, but was done from a photo we took sometime back. It just so happens that I'm heading out today for some plein air painting in this beautiful weather, though. Happy painting!
Roena King
Lovely painting Donna. Is it en Plein Air? I have a friend who painted this location so I knew it as soon as I saw it. Concerning the "things" people see in our work. I once painted a scene people found a jack-o-lantern in the landscape and a cactus with 5 toes. RITFLOL I try to look now days at it for a bit before I post so I might see these things myself. All in fun!