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Laurie Kersey Featured in Southwest Art Magazine, Summer 2022
When asked how long she has been an artist, Laurie Kersey always answers, “Since crayons.” The resolute acceptance that art was part of her from the beginning fuels her creativity …
Continue Reading »Mian Situ’s “Spider Rock, Canyon de Chelly” featured in Western Art Collector’s “Collectors Focus; Canyons & Deserts” by John O’Hearn, June 2023
Ancient Puebloans lived in Canyon de Chelly on the Navajo Nation of Arizona over 4,000 years ago. The cliffs of the canyon are about 30 feet high at it mouth …
Continue Reading »David Griffin Feature in Western Art & Architecture April/May 2023 Isuue
Art is a team sport. Perhaps this sounds counter-intuitive, but in reality, the cliched vision of the tortured artist working alone in a bleak, drafty studio is a bit more …
Continue Reading »Michael Obermeyer Featured in The California Club Quarterly Magazine, Spring 2023
The California Club’s painting, Opening Day 1958: Dodger Baseball Comes to LA by Obermeyer, was a 2018 Art Patrons’ Fund purchase and winner of the Irvine Museum Award at the …
Continue Reading »American Legacy Fine Arts Featured in American Art Collector Magazine, May 2023 Issue
In its definition of “still life”, the Tate museum in London states, “In the hierarchy of genres (or subject types) for art established in the 17th century by the French …
Continue Reading »John Buxton Selected as Plein Air Salon 1st Place Winner, January 2019
Congratulations to the winners of the December-January 2019 Plein Air Salon! The 1st Place Overall winner is “An American Heritage” by John Buxton. Tim Newton is Founder and Curator of American Masters, an …
Continue Reading »Kevin Macpherson Featured in Plein Air Magazine April 2022
Art in one of the first things to leave curriculum, yet it’s one of the few things that survives throughout cultures,” says renowned plein air artist Kevin Macpherson. The non …
Continue Reading »Jeremy Lipking Featured in American Art Collector Magazine, March 2023 Issue
Widely Recognized as one of the leading realist painters alive today, Jeremy Lipking has more that earned his place among the great contemporary masters. His works, combining naturalism and beautifully …
Continue Reading »Adrienne Stein Featured in American Art Collector Magazine February 2023 Issue
As we gaze into the beautiful world of Adrienne Stein’s imagination, we are transported to a mysterious, almost fabled time and place. Stein’s works evoke the splendor of nature, the words of writers John Keats and Shakespeare, and romantic masterpieces by 19th century artists John William Waterhouse and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Continue Reading »Bill Anton Featured in Southwest Art Magazine February/March 2023 Issue
One winter’s afternoon, Bill Anton and two friends-a father and son, both ranchers-headed into the Granite Mountain Wilderness, behind the house where Anton and his wife, Peggy, live on five acres in Prescott, AZ.
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