THE RED BARN ART GALLERY

2023 EVENTS

Saturday July 1st 5:30-7pm
Red Barn Art Gallery Season Opening

Friday July 14th 5:30-7pm
Music Series
with Jon Suters, Jason Ennis and Natalia Bernal

Saturday September 30th 6:30pm
Harvest Dinner

History of the Red Barn Art Gallery

Fishers Island artist Charles Thomas O’Neil purchased the Red Barn Art Gallery in 2018, formerly owned by fellow painter Charlie Ferguson. O’Neil and Ferguson were neighbors with a life-long friendship. While very different in painting styles, themes, and mediums, the two Fishers Island artists shared a relationship of mutual respect and admiration.

The Red Barn was built in the 1880s as a stable for the historic Lyles Cottage and was located across from the Fishers Island Post Office. It was subsequently moved to its current location and used as a paint shop for the Fishers Island Farms. Ferguson and his wife Alice purchased the building in 1950. Ferguson owned and operated the Red Barn Art Gallery for 67 years, exhibiting his paintings, etchings, and drawings every summer. In addition to being a painter, he was a teacher of Fine Art and Art History, as well as the director of the New Britain Museum for American Art.

Tom has an open working studio and exhibition space where visitors can see finished paintings that span his 30+ year career, as well as see works in progress.

Feel free to stop in and visit.