Oil Painters of America
2021 Salon Show
Quinlan Visual Arts Center
Gainesville, Georgia
Through August 7, 2021
![Shizhong Yan, OPAM, "Mountain Man," 20 x 16 in., oil on canvas, 2020](https://fineartconnoisseur.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Yan-OPAM-Shizhong-Mountain-Man-20_-x-16_-7000-oil-on-canvas-2020-814x1024.jpg)
![Albert Handell, OPAM, "Moving Along," 18 x 24 in., oil](https://fineartconnoisseur.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Handell-OPAM-Albert-Moving-Along-18_-x-24_-12500-oil-1024x774.jpg)
![Christopher Zhang (b. 1954), "Tibetan Girl," 2019, oil on canvas, 16 x 12 in.](https://fineartconnoisseur.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Zhang-OPAM-Christopher-Tibetan-Girl-16_-X-12_-2500-Oil-on-canvas-2019-768x1024.jpg)
![Nancy Crookston, OPAM, "Charades," 14 x 11 in., oil on linen panel, 2020](https://fineartconnoisseur.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Crookston-OPAM-Nancy-Charades-14_-x-11_-3790-oil-on-linen-panel-2020-810x1024.jpg)
Oil Painters of America (OPA) is now presenting its 2021 Salon Show — more than 225 paintings in a range of styles and subjects, created by OPA members from across the U.S. and Canada.
All of this is occurring at the Quinlan in Gainesville, Georgia, a town of 40,000 residents in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. OPA is a nonprofit organization founded by the artist Shirl Smithson in 1991 and has more than 3,600 members.
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