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Kevin Short in the Santa Barbara Independent, July 2022
An affinity for the ocean obviously rus deep in Kevin A.SHort, a renowned artist whose water-themed landscapes are the subject of a solo exhibition at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum.
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Jove Wang in Hue and Eye Online Publication, August 2024
Gallery Director Elaine Adams comments about the exhibition: Jove Wang’s ‘Spirit of the American West’ is more than an exhibition; it is a bridge between two worlds, illustrating how the …
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Mian Situ Featured in American Art Collector Magazine June 2022 Issue
Artists revisit how the past informs the present, casting unexpected light on the Chinese-American experience. By Michael Pearce
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Jennifer Moses Featured in Art of the West Magazine, Spring 2022 Issue
Walking with Grace has become a way of life for landscape artist Jennifer Moses. “I have always had an affinity for the word,” she says. “For me, grace encapsulates so …
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Peter Adams Featured in California Art Club Newsletter, Spring 2022
Afghanistan has exploded into the national consciousness again. Our twenty-year military presence, with short bursts of ferocious action, often lulled Americans into complacency. That national trance momentarily obscured the fact …
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Nikita Budkov Awarded Top of Class “Artist Under 30” in Plein Air Magazine, December 2021 Issue
Diane Waterhouse, owner of Waterhouse Gallery, gives high marks to these paintings from the August Plein Air Salon competition.
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Chuck Kovacic and Michael Obermeyer featured in Plein Air Magazine, December 2021
This fall, Ellen Howard, Paul Kratter, James McGrew, Michael Obermeyer, and Chuck Kovacic took a group of artists to paint one of the most beautiful and pristine wildernesses in California. …
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Pioneers of Artists’ Alley (Victor Clyde Forsythe, Frank Tenney Johnson, Jack Wilkinson Smith, Eli Harvey, Norman Rockwell) by Elaine Adams, California Art Club Newsletter, Summer 2007
At the start of the twentieth century, California attracted an eclectic array of creative and philosophical thinkers who were lured out west in search of the spirit of adventure that …
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Edgar Alwin Payne (1883-1947) – In Pursuit of Poetic Grandeur, by Elaine Adams, California Art Club Newsletter, Winter 2012
Edgar Alwin Payne was born on March 1, 1883, possibly in the rural small town of Washburn, Missouri, somewhere near Cassville in Barry County located in the southwest part of …
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Jean Mannheim (1861-1945): Cultivating Colour and Versatility in California by Elaine Adams, California Art Club Newsletter, Fall 2011
The early twentieth century was an incredibly dynamic period for California and in particular, for southern California and Los Angeles. The allure of a mild climate, the beauty of the …
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