The Johnson Collection

Early mornings before yoga at the Gallery, when the sun is just hitting the trees right? That’s our favorite. TJC Gallery is back open this week, make sure to check out “Sweet Home Spartanburg” before it closes at the end of this month!

Tomorrow!
Have you made your TJC dollhouse yet? If not stop by TJC Gallery for ArtWalk to make yours! The evening will feature a guided session on how to build the paper craft. Kids of all ages welcome; the craft is best for ages 6+.

Can't make it to ArtWalk? Pick up your dollhouse to make at home and follow our tutorial on Youtube!

This is a roughly true-to-life depiction of what had once been the George and Hattie Dean home on North Church Street, recast by the economics of the day into a service station and boarding house. What a subject for an artwork with such a swirling and dizzying sense of space and juxtaposition! At one point in the 1920s, a period of massive transformation in downtown Spartanburg, five large historic homes served as filling stations.

In its 1850s beginning, the Nesbitt/Dean home stood across from Central Methodist and the Walker/Montgomery home, with old First Baptist and plenty of other grand homes nearby. Big changes came to the neighborhood when the 1892 Courthouse, 1895 Law Range, and 1905 Post Office all came north of the square. As a boarding house, this remained something like a home longer than most.

Homer Ellertson (1892 – 1935) • The Dean House, Spartanburg, S.C., • circa 1932 • On view at TJC Gallery