What Art Can Do for Johns Hopkins Scholars
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore enjoys a sterling reputation as a research university. But the institution has learned to value artistic expression as well. ...
A Great Model for Improving Arts Education in a Community
A lot of the paintings produced during the recent Sonoma Plein Air Festival were dazzling, but the success of the festival's mission overshadows the...
Forty Top Artists, One Gallery
A group of highly accomplished representational painters and sculptors are exhibiting together in a display of rare talent. This marks opening week for American Masters 2014,...
Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters Award Winners
The Rocky Mountain National Park turned 100 this year, and the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters helped celebrate it with a Centennial Paint Out...
EXHIBITION: “The Untamed Landscape: Theodore Rousseau and the Path to Barbizon”
The Morgan Library & Museum, in New York City, is showing 60 pieces by Théodore Rousseau, a leader of the Barbizon School of art,...
November 14: West Select Western Art Sale
West Select features artworks by 37 leading artists of the American West, including George Carlson, Len Chmiel, Glenn Dean, T. Allen Lawson, and Dean...
November 13: Paris Tableau
An art fair for the Old Masters, Paris Tableau brings together some of the world’s leading galleries and their available Old Master paintings, sculptures,...
November 7: International Guild of Realism Exhibition
The members of the International Guild of Realism will exhibit at an annual show in November. The 9th Annual Exhibition of the International Guild of...
November 5: Bonhams 19th-Century European Paintings Sale
A sale of 19th-century European paintings features highlight works from Montague Dawson, Edmund Blair Leighton, and Frederick Arthur Bridgman. Bonhams’ auction house in New York...
November 4: Kristy Gordon Paintings
Figurative painter Kristy Gordon exhibits recent works at a solo exhibition coming soon. “Flux,” a one-woman show for Kristy Gordon, opens November 4 at Cube...
Can’t-Miss California Art Auction
One anticipated auction this month provides an opportunity to own California painting legends like Guy Rose and Granville Redmond. Firmly established as one of the...
Best of Impressionists
A major annual exhibition for the American Impressionist Society is leaving powerful impressions on viewers. Find out who took home awards from the show. A...
Fine Art Connoisseur & PleinAir Editors Lead Art Week
The historic Greenbrier resort in scenic West Virginia is the site for a week of premium artist demonstrations, presentations, and sales. Held in White Sulphur...
Painting Life on the Ranch
Grant Redden's landscapes capture the rhythm and hue of life in the American West -- a place with which the artist is quite familiar. The Grapevine...
EXHIBITION: Frances Gaffney in the Adirondacks
Blink and you'd miss it, and that would be a shame. Frances Gaffney is showing some pieces from her summer residency at the SUNY...
Winners in Utah
For six days, plein air painters worked in the canyons and gulches around Escalante, Utah, in a premier plein air event. In the end,...
What Is Learned on the Road?
Jeff Markowsky spent about three months on the road, painting America and attending the Plein Air Convention & Expo. Here's what it did for...
Winners at an Island Event in Maryland
PleinAir magazine editor M. Stephen Doherty served as judge at the recent Solomons Plein Air Festival on Solomons Island, Maryland. Who took the top...
Do You Want a List of 2015’s Plein Air Events to Help You Plan?
With plein air painting's increasing popularity, it's easy to overlook an event in your area or in a place you plan to visit in...
OPPORTUNITY: Oil Painters of America Paint Out in Cincinnati
The Cincinnati Art Club is hosting an Oil Painters of America Paint Out for the second year in a row on Saturday, October 4. ...