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Coming Soon: Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival

For 30 years running, one fall arts festival has shifted the landscape for American Western art collecting as a town of less than 10,000...

Ocean City, MD Winners

Nobody saved anybody’s life this year, as far as we know, but by other measures the 2016 Artists Paint OC event dazzled as brightly...

EXHIBITION: Ron Larson, in Page, AZ

Ron Larson has been the subject of a solo show titled “Vistas & Visions of the Colorado Plateau” at the John Wesley Powell Museum...

November 4: Impressionist Masterpiece at Auction

Star lots from Camille Pissarro and Auguste Rodin headline an upcoming sale of Impressionist and Modern art. Bonhams’ forthcoming auction of Impressionist & Modern Art...

EXHIBITION: New Work by Doreen St. John and Chuck Marshall, Ohio

Two stalwarts of the Ohio Plein Air Society, Doreen St. John and Chuck Marshall, are in the spotlight in this exhibition, which will be...

Competition Winners “On the Western Slope of the Tetons”

Winners were announced at the Driggs Digs Plein Air event, held July 25 through August 2 in Driggs, Idaho. The Downtown Driggs Community Association...

Featured Artwork: Michelle Murphy-Ferguson

 "Posey Perspective" Oil  8 x 10 in.  About the Artist: ‘Posey Perspective was painted during the five day Frank Bette Plein Air Paint Out event in Alameda, CA....

EXHIBITION: Plein Air Painters From the Big Island in Hawaii

Through December 23, plein air artists on the island of Hawaii will be featured in a show at Kahilu Theater in Waimea. “This is...

EXHIBITION: “Impressions of New England XIV,” at the Bennington Center for the Arts

Plein air paintings of Vermont landscapes are among the offerings in a show on view at the Bennington Center for the Arts, in Bennington,...

Featured Artwork: John MacDonald

“Berkshire Sunrise” Oil on linen 12 x 16 in. Available at the Walsingham Gallerywww.jmacdonald.com Represented by:The Harrison Gallery. Willamstown, MARich Timmons Studio & Gallery. Doylestown, PAThe Walsingham Gallery....

May 30: Marlene Wiedenbaum & James Coe

Pastels by Marlene Wiedenbaum and oil paintings by James Coe memorialize the lush and historic landscape of the Hudson Valley. Mark Gruber Gallery in New...

The Past and the Present in Plein Air, in Eureka Springs, AR

The town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas has a history of plein air painting, and a current passion for it as well. This week, both...

July 10: “Legacy of the Southwest” Art Show

Fine works in art of the American West will be on display at Legacy Gallery for a summer display exploring the “Legacy of the...
Plein air painting events

2018 Paint the Beach Winners

Judge Joe Palmerio deliberated carefully as he selected the winning paintings from those presented by the artists after two days of painting outdoors around the town of Fort Myers Beach.

Artist as Collector: Carol L. Douglas

The first painting on Carol L. Douglas’s list of favorite pieces in her collection is one she wanted to buy, but didn’t.   It’s an acrylic...

Results at Mountain Maryland

Mountain Maryland Plein Air, sponsored by the Allegany Arts Council, recently awarded its prizes in Cumberland, Maryland. And the winners are.... The event, which is...

Bears and Elephants, Painted En Plein Air

A wild animal won’t sit still for a portrait, but many of the best wildlife artists nevertheless do their most important work en plein...

Artist As Collector: Judson Brown

Western New York artist Judson Brown chooses pieces for his collection that please him, but as he talks about his collection, a couple of...

September 18: Jackson Hole Art Auction

Albert Bierstadt, Carl Rungius, Tom Lovell, G. Harvey, and Richard Schmid headline the 2015 Jackson Hole Art Auction.   The ninth annual Jackson Hole Art Auction...

April 10: Figurative Painters at Mountainsong Galleries

A group of distinguished figurative painters will exhibit their works and demonstrate their skills at Mountainsong Galleries in Carmel-by-the-Sea.   On April 11-12, Zhiwei Tu; Clayton...

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