I carry Anne Packard because her scenes are the kind of thing I'd hang in my own house — beaches, dunes, a boat left alone on the sand, all in that hazy coastal light. Over fifty years of looking at marine and outdoor work, much of it from my own time sailing and diving around these islands, and Packard's is still some of the quietest work we sell.

What you're buying: a giclée, not a photograph of one

Every Packard piece in this room is a limited-edition giclée on canvas, and we ship it rolled inside a tube. What surprises people is that the edition sizes aren't uniform across her work — some titles run as tight as 20 copies, others go up to 295, and "Dunes" sits at 25. A few titles also carry a "Deluxe Edition" variant alongside the standard giclée — "Calm Day" is one, and its Deluxe copies have already sold through. None of that shows up in a thumbnail online, which is exactly why it's worth a call before you commit to a specific title.

"Giclée" just means the print was made on a fine-art inkjet printer, spraying pigment-based ink at high resolution onto canvas rather than running it through a mechanical press. Done properly, the pigment holds its color far longer than a standard print, and the canvas weave shows through under the ink instead of sitting flat under a laminate. That's the difference between a serious reproduction and a poster — it's a controlled, direct copy of the original brushwork, not a scan blown up and printed cheap.

Format matters more than people expect

Ten of the 58 pieces here are square canvases, and a square painting holds a wall completely differently than the long horizontal or vertical scenes that make up the rest of the room. Sizes on offer run from 11x14 up through 36x48, so before you buy I'd rather talk through which shape and size actually fits your wall than have a piece arrive and fight the space.

Right now this room runs 58 pieces, $1,250 to $5,000, median $2,250 — and most of it, 54 of the 58, actually falls between $1,000 and $2,500; the $5,000 high end is the exception, not the rule. A handful are close to gone — "Dunes" and "Inland Marsh" are both down to two copies, "A Place Leric" the same. "Wharf" and "Tucked Away" have already sold out in their listed sizes. If a specific title or size interests you, call the gallery and I'll tell you exactly what's left before you order.

— Steve Schlag, founder, Dolphin Galleries