Lou Messa

Painter of America's Rural Heritage

Meet Lou on March 24, 1-4pm
"Looking Back: Memories" show
March 24 - April 14, 2013

Proud to Fly
Acrylic 7 x 18
Framed $600
Old Hay Rake
Acrylic 7 x 13
$500
Big Red
Acrylic 7 x 18
$500
Hayfield
Acrylic 6.5 x 20.5
Framed 15.5 x 29.5 $545

Big John
Acrylic 7x13
$500

Waterview
Acrylic 7x15
$385

Fresh Air

Acrylic 7.25 x 4.25
Framed 14x11 $210

Red, White and Blue

Acrylic 7.25 x 4.25
Framed 14x11 $210

Half Moon

Acrylic 7.25 x 4.25
Framed 14x11 $210

Dogwood Blossoms

Acrylic 6.5 x 20
Framed 15.5 x 29.5 $545


Lou Messa

A native of Pennsylvania, Lou Messa studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In the late l960's he moved to Virginia, to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. He has been painting for 30 years, showing his watercolors and acrylics in numerous local and national exhibits. Winning awards has been the norm for Lou Messa.... first in show at the Woodbridge Art Guild, Coral Gables Florida, and Rappahannock Realism Shows to name a few.

Autumn Gold
Acrylic 4 x 7
Framed 11x14 $210
Meandering Stream
Acrylic 4.25 x 7.25
Framed 11x14 $210

Beach Shadows
Acrylic 3 x 9
Framed 9x15 $210

Lou Messa Biography


Lou prefers the country, both to paint and to live in. He says he's a country boy at heart and his paintings reflect that love. Old weather-beaten barns, winding country roads and overgrown pastures are favorite subjects for his detailed paintings. He is also recording some vestiges of rural Americana that are fast disappearing, the barns painted with "Mail Pouch Tobacco" or "Coca Cola" and also some of the structures carefully built with stone and mortar or handhewn timber by immigrant hands.

Lou Messa works with watercolor or acrylic, rendering his images with great precision and detail. His preferred palette is monochromatic browns and earthtones enlivened by concentrated bursts of localized color.

McBride Gallery has hosted four major shows for Lou Messa as well as the group show he participates in each October at the gallery. Lou Messa is an exceptionally fine painter whose work can be found in many private and corporate collections nationally. Over thirty of his paintings have been published into limited edition prints.

Lou Messa Prints



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