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Seed for gallery was planted years earlier
Middle Street officially marks its start as the fall of 1981, but its beginnings really came much earlier when commercial artist Dan Lewis decided to abandon the D.C. urban scape for the rural landscape. “I left the city to come to the country to paint, to be a fine artist,” Mr. Lewis said, explaining that the search for a place to display his work made him see the need for a gallery.
It took several years of moving ever farther out for him to reach the Blue Ridge foothills of Rappahannock, where he found the inspiration to paint, an opportunity to go into business with a friend and the space for a gallery in the former gift shop next door to what became an internationally-acclaimed restaurant, The Inn at Little Washington.
For three years Mr. Lewis ran the gallery, but the demands of his framing business coupled with the time devoted to planning, publicizing and hanging shows and to other management responsibilities left few hours for his personal artistic endeavors. “Here I’d come to the country to paint, and now I didn’t have the time to do it,” Mr. Lewis reSee
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