The Wallace Ervin Gallery

Charlotte artist Wallace Ervin, featured in Friendship Trays' recent holiday appeal, has agreed to display his work in the Friendship Trays lobby. Friendship Trays may display the work of other Friendship Trays recipients as it becomes available.

Ervin, a Charlotte native, says the three men who inspired the 1997 painting above had gathered at Remount Road and South Tryon Street, just two blocks from Friendship Trays' current location.

In his senior year at Myers Park High School, Ervin studied under renowned art teacher Dean Barber. After high school and Army service in Vietnam, Ervin turned from sculpture to acrylics. From the mid-’70s until a severe stroke in the late ’90s, he lived off his earnings as an artist.

Ervin’s work hangs in many homes and at the Veterans Center in Charlotte.

The painting above, which is for sale, may be viewed at 2401-A Distribution St. For more information, call Lucy Bush at 704-333-9229.

More photos of Ervin's work are below.