A gala opening reception will be held for On Location in Malibu 2012 on May 19, 2012 at the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art. Find out whose paintings will be hanging in the museum show.

If you didn’t immediately subscribe to PleinAir when it was brought back last year, you may not have read the Spring, 2011 article Elizabeth Black’s plein air painting adventures. Black spent more that 20 years as a river guide during which time she developed an interest in outdoor painting in watercolor and oil. Her most recent paintings are now on exhibition (May 4-23, 2012) at the Arroyo Gallery in Santa Fe, NM.

The Portland, ME Museum of Art will be presenting several summer exhibitions of interest to plein air painters. One features the work of Mildred Burrage (1890-1983) from April 21 - July 15, 2012; a second presents a private collection of paintings of the Normandy region in France (June 14 - September 3, 2012); a third highlights the relationship between Winslow Homer and The Portland Society of Art (July 28, 2012 - January 13, 2012); and a fourth show is titled “Maine Sublime: Frederick Edwin Church’s Landscapes of Mount Desert and Mount Katahdin (June 30 - September 30, 2012).

An impressive group of the country’s most talented artists will have their paintings on view at the Bennington Center for the Arts from June 9 - July 14, 2012. Included in the exhibition are several prominent plein air painters, among them are Daniel F. Gerhartz, Stephen C. Datz, Charles Muench, Amery Bohling, Josh Elliott, and Rusty Jones.

If you weren’t yet a subscriber to PleinAir when the Summer 2011 issue was available, you missed the article on Bill Cone and the employees of Pixar Animation Studio who regularly paint outdoors so they can create more realistic digital images for movies. Now you can see 33 of Cone’s pastel paintings on exhibition at the Studio Gallery in San Francisco (until April 29, 2012)

From May 19 to October 21, 2012, The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) will present an exhibit titled “Monet’s Garden” that will include two original paintings by Claude Monet as well as films, concerts, poetry readings, and hands-on children’s programs related to the famed Impressionist artist. Photographs by Elizabeth Murray documenting Monet’s garden in Giverny, France over the past 25 years will also be on view in the Bronx borough of New York City.

The Bosque Arts Center in Clifton, Texas will present an exhibition of paintings by Nancy Boren and her father, the late Cowboy Artist of America member, James Boren (1921-1990). Several plein air paintings will be included in the display, including two of the watercolors shown here. The show will be on display starting May 4 through the end of June.