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Art With Purpose presents the estate collection of the remaining paintings by Joe Anna Arnett (1950–2024), offering collectors a rare opportunity to acquire works from an artist whose quiet, luminous compositions reflected a profound reverence for life, faith, and beauty. Created over decades of devoted practice, these paintings represent the final available pieces of her artistic legacy.
Details at a Glance:
Art with Purpose: A Tribute to Joe Anna Arnett
McLarry Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
April 15-29, 2026
Reception: April 17
From the Organizers:
A reception celebrating Joe Anna’s life and work will welcome collectors and community members, with Joe Anna’s sisters in attendance along with representatives from World Hope International, the humanitarian organization her family has supported in celebration of her life. In tribute to Joe Anna’s generous spirit, a portion of all proceeds will benefit World Hope International.
Works are thoughtfully priced, and reasonable offers will be considered in the spirit of placing her art with appreciative collectors. Each acquisition not only preserves Joe Anna’s work for future generations but also extends the compassion and purpose that guided both her art and her life.
For more information, visit mclarryfineart.com or call (505) 988-1161.
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Arcadia Contemporary (NY) Presents Daniel Sprick: “What Remains”
Opening April 2, 2026
From the Gallery:
For more than five decades, Daniel Sprick has been recognized as one of the foremost painters working within contemporary realism. Known for his extraordinary technical precision and deeply contemplative imagery, Sprick’s works often appear photographic at first glance, yet reveal themselves slowly through subtle distortions, poetic arrangements of objects, and luminous passages of light that transform ordinary subjects into moments of quiet reflection.
In “What Remains,” Sprick returns to many of the objects and motifs that have appeared throughout his work for decades; skulls, vessels, flowers, tools, and plants. These familiar forms appear alongside fragile remnants such as broken eggshells, bones, and wilted petals. Together they quietly echo the long tradition of vanitas painting, where objects serve as reflections on time, mortality, and renewal. Some of the objects depicted have accompanied the artist from studio to studio for many years, while others appear only briefly before fading away.
“What Remains” marks Daniel Sprick’s third solo exhibition with Arcadia Contemporary and his first since 2011.
Created from the artist’s Denver home and studio, these paintings possess a heightened sense of atmosphere as light and space move gently through the compositions. The surrounding environment becomes an active presence within the work as the objects depicted appear less like formal arrangements and more like things quietly inhabiting a lived-in space, suspended in time.
Together, the paintings in “What Remains” suggest a meditation on cycles of life and decay, presence and absence, permanence and change. Familiar objects reappear across time, while fragile fragments speak to the fleeting nature of the moment. Through this balance, Sprick transforms the still life tradition into a quietly philosophical exploration of what persists, fades and returns. In these quiet arrangements, Sprick invites viewers to consider not only the passing of time, but what remains.
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1953, Sprick studied at the Ramon Froman School of Art and the National Academy of Design before earning his BFA from the University of Northern Colorado. He lives and works in Colorado and has exhibited extensively throughout the United States for more than four decades. His works are held in numerous public and private collections, including the Denver Art Museum.
For more information, contact Arcadia Contemporary (NY, NY), 646-861-3941, www.arcadiacontemporary.com.
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Narrative and portrait paintings on view > Beloved in Nordic countries for her highly original style, Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) is relatively unknown to the rest of the world. Born in Helsinki, Schjerfbeck witnessed civil war and two World Wars as well as the burgeoning of Finland’s national identity following independence from Russian rule in 1917. Despite many personal hardships, Schjerfbeck never wavered in her determination to pursue her passion, painting for most of her life in a remote Nordic country, far removed from Europe’s centers of cultural upheaval and renewal. She once said resolutely, “All that I desire to do is to paint….there is always something to conquer.”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck” is the first major exhibition in the United States dedicated to the artist’s work. Featuring nearly 60 works on canvas—including generous loans from the Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum, other Finnish museums, and private collections in Finland and Sweden—the exhibition is on view through April 5, 2026.
“’Seeing Silence’ highlights the work of an extraordinary artist who, though long celebrated in Norway and Sweden as the most outstanding female painter of her time, has not yet achieved well-deserved visibility on this side of the Atlantic,” said Max Hollein, The Met’s Marina Kellen French Director and Chief Executive Officer. “The exhibition invites audiences here to experience Helene Schjerfbeck’s mesmerizing works and distinctive vision for the first time at a major U.S. museum, showcasing the remarkable perspective and introspection of an artist wholly dedicated to her craft over the course of eight decades.”
Dita Amory, Robert Lehman Curator in Charge of the Robert Lehman Collection at The Met, said, “Painting in remote Finland without recourse to broader culture and the exchange of contemporary ideas, Schjerfbeck created her own vernacular every day at her easel by sheer force of will. ‘Seeing Silence’ looks beyond art history’s cultural mainstream to one woman who overcame immense struggles to produce a powerful body of work, highlighting her rightful place in the story of modernism.”
“Seeing Silence” traces Schjerfbeck’s artistic development from her early years in Helsinki to the end of her life in Sweden, illuminating the artist’s evolving style from traditional subjects in a realist vein to a painterly language of spare imagery, often densely worked in thick and diluted paint. Schjerfbeck sanded and scratched through layers of paint, sometimes exposing the dense weave of her canvases as she experimented with her materials. As a valuable voice among the many strands of modernism at play throughout the world in the early 20th century, her unique visual language deserves recognition in the codified narratives of art history.
For more information, please visit www.metmuseum.org.
Laurel Daniel:
PA Today: Plein Air Today: How do you find inspiration?
As a landscape painter living on an island, anticipating the newness of each day keeps me poised for inspiration. From seaside to marshlands, there is a predictable unpredictability to the rhythm of coastal life. The shoreline constantly shifts, the marsh fills and empties, plant life blooms and fades, and the birds are always searching. My current body of work is rooted in a sense of expectancy that comes from watching the fickle dance between marsh and sea… the wonder of swirling skies, the fascination of colorful vegetation, and the ever-intriguing coastal light… never the same, but always compelling.
To see more of Laurel’s work, visit:
The Briscoe Western Art Museum will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its Night of Artists Exhibition and Art Sale with a celebratory opening weekend, March 27–28, 2026, followed by a public exhibition and sale March 29–May 10. “Night of Artists” spotlights new works by today’s leading contemporary Western artists while supporting the Briscoe’s exhibitions, education, and community programs.
Launched in 2001, Night of Artists has helped define the Briscoe’s national reputation and grow the field of contemporary Western art. Each year, the exhibition and sale feature more than 300 new works — paintings, sculpture and mixed media — by more than 80 top artists, offering collectors and fans a rare opportunity to acquire fresh works and meet many of the artists in person. The event draws artists, collectors, and Western art enthusiasts from across the nation for a weekend of art, inspiration and community.
“Twenty-five years of Night of Artists reflects an extraordinary legacy – thousands of works created, shared and celebrated, as well as the founding of the Briscoe itself – that has strengthened and grown the genre of Western art,” said Liz Jackson, President and CEO of the Briscoe Western Art Museum. “This milestone honors the artists whose vision brings the West to life, as well as the collectors, supporters and friends whose commitment sustains the Briscoe’s mission for future generations.”
The 25th anniversary lineup features an exciting mix of returning favorites and new talent, including: Thomas Blackshear II, Greg Beecham, G. Russell Case, S.M. Chavez, Scott Christensen, Kevin Chupik, Todd Connor, Teresa Elliott, Jon Flaming, Martin Grelle, William Haskell, Quang Ho, Donna Howell-Sickles, Mark Kohler, Joe Kronenberg, Jerry Jordan, Joshua LaRock, Kyle Ma, Bonnie Marris, Walter Matia, Dean Mitchell, Ed Natiya, Don Oelze, Dustin Payne, Chad Poppleton, Howard Post, Grant Redden, Paul Rhymer, Gladys Roldán-de-Moras, Matt Smith, Daniel Sprick, Jim Vogel, Morgan Weistling, Kim Wiggins, Jeremy Winborg, Xiang Zhang, and more.
What to Know: Opening Weekend and Exhibition Details
The Briscoe’s two-day celebration (March 27–28) of Western art includes special programs, guided tours, artist demonstrations, artist awards, preview events and sale opportunities. The weekend includes the Briscoe Collectors Summit, a preview dinner and live auction, an artists’ awards breakfast, the exhibition opening and the popular “Luck of the Draw” sale, as well as the museum’s new Small Works Sale.
Launched in 2025, the Small Works Sale offers collectors and art enthusiasts an opportunity to acquire exquisite, smaller pieces from talented contemporary Western artists.
For those who cannot attend in person, the live auction will be streamed online, and bidding is available by proxy, by phone and online. Works in the “Luck of the Draw” and Small Works Sales may be purchased by proxy as well.
Public Exhibition & Sale: March 29 – May 10, included with museum admission. The public exhibition is a unique opportunity to see a fantastic array of the best of today’s contemporary Western art – and purchase works.
For more information about Night of Artists and the exhibition, please visit briscoemuseum.org.
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Contemporary Art On View at the Miller Art Museum:
PATRICK FARRELL: EVER AFTER
Miller Art Museum
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
millerartmuseum.org
Through March 28, 2026
The Miller Art Museum is about to open the exhibition “Patrick Farrell: Ever After,” which celebrates the life and work of Patrick Farrell (1940–2016). A native of Cudahy, Wisconsin, equipped only with an 8th-grade education, he taught himself to paint like a virtuoso, ultimately mastering the highly detailed, illusionistic trompe l’oeil technique and making it his own.
The show starts with Farrell’s early studies, then traces his career through still life and butterfly compositions, then his memorable “silver screen” scenes, and finally mythic portraits alive with theatrical gravitas. He won national recognition for his maximalist, highly playful worldview, which invites viewers into a world where creation becomes revelation.
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