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American Art Collector Features ALFA’s “Fleeting Moments: Works en Plein Air” November 2017
The tradition of plein air painting is one that has lasted over the centuries, with artists setting up their easels and reinterpreting the sights of the great outdoors firsthand. In …
Continue Reading »Michael Obermeyer in Southwest Art Magazine October 2017 Issue
A LITTLE OVER a century ago, a burgeoning colony of plein-air painters began populating Laguna Beach, so enraptured were they by its unparalleled beauty and light.
Continue Reading »Joe Paquet in Western Art & Architecture Magazine August/ September 2017
Following principles laid by the Ashcan School and famed Modernists, contemporary artists paint America’s industrial landscapes. In a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, cemetery, on a gray, sleety morning, Joe Paquet stood working …
Continue Reading »John Cosby in Western Art & Architecture Magazine, 2017
In Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, cemetery, on a grey, sleety morning, Joe Paquet stood at his French easel. The cemetery offered the best view of the subject Paquet had come to paint: …
Continue Reading »George Gallo Featured in California Art Club’s Newsletter, Summer 2017
George Gallo is the writer/director of the three-time award winning movie, Local Color, the first film to portray modern-day artists dedicated to painting realistically. Gallo, a landscape artist himself, also …
Continue Reading »Christopher Slatoff in The Los Angeles Times August 17, 2017
Since the 1930s, the life-size bronze warrior Tommy Trojan has been the unofficial mascot of USC and a central campus gathering spot. Now he has a female counterpart at USC …
Continue Reading »David Dibble Featured in Southwest Art Magazine, August 2019
“Art is a vehicle that I think God has given us to understand Him and ourselves and others better, to be better as a world. It is a means to …
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