Plein Air Collector

The tree-lined twists and turns of narrow country lanes hold the promise of adventure and discovery, and, for some, the feeling of coming home. The 12 bucolic landscapes featured here leave us wondering what lies just over the hill or around the next bend.

Symbols of freedom, innovation, and adventure, automobiles have long captured the imagination of American artists. For some ...

Who did judge Jeff Legg choose for Best of Show in New Mexico?

Awards in Plein Air Brandywine Valley were announced by judge M. Stephen Doherty during the October 21 opening reception held at the Visitor Center...

When officials at the Saginaw Art Museum were planning their multiple Quick Paint events for the Great Lakes Bay Plein Air event, they decided to inject some excitement by staging one at the old ballgame.

Five of Milwaukee’s smaller museums reside on the historic east side of the city along Lake Michigan, and museum officials wonder if sometimes residents...

Kentucky artist Kathleen B. Hudson reports on the highly competitive and wholly enjoyable Lighthouse ArtCenter Plein Air Art Festival, which wrapped up recently in...

“Although young emerging artists are not rare in and of themselves, within the contemporary plein air community, we are not very common,” says Joanna...

L. Diane Johnson "Rome Winter" Oil on Linen 20 x 30 in.LDianeJohnson.com   The works of American artist L. Diane Johnson convey an intimacy with the pure landscape, whether...

The New Hampshire Art Association is hosting a plein air competition in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, July 17-19.    Carol Aronson-Shore, a professor emeritus at the University...

An annual selling exhibition of quality contemporary realism features the artists and alumni of Studio Incamminati. The Artists and Alumni of Studio Incamminati Exhibition and...

The 14th Annual Night of Artists at the Briscoe features Scott Burdick, Teresa Elliott, Tim Solliday, and a host of other well-known painters and...

Leading national and international plein air painters will take to beautiful Bermuda for inspiration.   The Bermuda Plein Air Festival, a week-long painting event that culminates...

On the North Carolina portion of the Piedmont plateau, in a town famous for furniture manufacture and, incidentally, the childhood home of jazz saxophonist...

Looking for a Parisian cityscape by Edouard Leon Cortes, a snow scene by Aldro T. Hibbard, or a harbor painting by Emile Gruppe? One...

Almost 40 paintings meeting the theme of defining higher beauty are on display through August 17 at the Carnegie Art Museum, in Oxnard, California,...

Bouguereau, Sorolla, and Courbet headline Christie’s forthcoming sale of 19th-century European art.   Christie’s 19th-Century European Art auction will take place April 28 from the auctioneer’s...

Charles Yoder's paintings selectively capture the peaceful scenes of a winter's night, encouraging their viewers to appreciate the aesthetic interest of these quiet moments.   The Mattatuck...

A plein air painter and a silversmith join up to create a collaborative exhibition at Sorrel Sky in Santa Fe, May 5-31.

My first introduction to the world of plein air was about three years ago, when I just happened to be standing near the campground host at Red Bluff Park in Davisville, Missouri, when three men from Steelville Arts Council approached the host to inquire about bringing 50 artists to the park for a day of painting. It had been over 30 years since I picked up my paintbrushes, but immediately I was drawn into the conversation when I interjected, “I wanna paint.”