Welcome to Lyzon's where the waft of linseed oil meets you at the door and tells you politely but emphatically that this is more than just an art gallery. In fact, it is an artist's gallery, where for the last 50 years Nashville has come to pore over the thousands of canvasses, etchings and sculptures lining the walls and tucked into every conceivable extra space. What started in 1949 as a shop for making handcrafted furniture has evolved by way of our exceptional framing skills into the city's best known-art address.

Our gallery displays the works of Sterling Strauser, Phillip Perkins, Tommy Allen, Bill Sawyer and Kasimir. Red Grooms first job was at Lyzon's in the 50s and his first show was displayed here with the work of high school mate Walter Knestrick. So it has been with many others as well, including the neo-Impressionist Malva; folk sculptor William Edmondson; the American Van Gogh, David Burliuk; and Paul Lancaster whose gemstone-tinted etchings and painted wood carvings have made their way into international collections and the White House.

As for framing, nowhere else in Nashville--and perhaps even in the Southeast--is there such a concentration of woodworking and frame restoration skills. Like the artisan members of an Old World guild, each craftsperson at Lyzon's has a time-honed specialty: carving florid rococo moldings, for example; or applying hair thin leaves of pure gold to specially prepared frames. Lyzon inventories more than 900 different moldings and the rest we carve on site. And for broken or damaged frames, there are complete facilities for restoration in a number of ways, from careful re-carving to modern casting.