Lori Putnam, “Tidal”, oil on linen, 36 x 48 in., $20,000. Available through the artist
Lori Putnam: Like a personal invitation, Lori Putnam’s work calls its viewers to enter the setting, walk around a bit, take a seat, and enjoy the vacation. Each piece has its unique sense of movement and mood. Now she is sharing 25 new paintings from around the world in an upcoming exhibit, “Far from Home,” opening at The Customs House Museum in Clarksville, TN, on November 3. An artist’s reception is scheduled for November 17.
Lori Putnam, “Triptych, Tribute to the Eastern Sierra,” oil on linen, 18 x 72 in., $14,000. Available through the artistLori Putnam, “Barrel of Fun”, oil on linen, 20 x 24 in., $5900. Available through FoR Fine Art, Tucson, AZ
David Lussier, “Breaking Light,” oil on linen, 20 x 24 in. Available at Mary Williams Fine Arts in Boulder, Colorado 23rd Annual National Juried Exhibition September 15- October 22
David Lussier: David Lussier is an award-winning impressionist and nationally recognized plein air painter and workshop instructor. He is a painter in the purist sense of the word. In his poetic and intimate oil landscapes he strives to capture the essence and sense of place of his subject matter. His use of bold broad brushwork brings the surfaces to life and begs the viewer to return for a second look. David is known for his sophisticated color sense, poetic brushwork and his ability to convey emotion in a painting. His ‘Less Is More’ approach to painting has garnered him numerous accolades throughout his long career in plein air painting.
David Lussier, “Harbor Sunset,” oil on linen, 16 x 20 in. Available through the David Lussier Gallery, 66 Wallingford Square, Kittery MaineDavid Lussier, “Evening,” oil on linen, 20 x 24 in. Available through the David Lussier Gallery, 66 Wallingford Square, Kittery Maine. Best Nocturne award 2022 Wayne Plein Air Festival
As part of our effort to continue to help artists and art galleries thrive, we’re proud to bring you this week’s “Virtual Gallery Walk.” Browse the artwork below and click the image itself to learn more about it, including how to contact the gallery.
Be Still, Roger Dale Brown, oil, 40 x 30 in; Anderson Fine Art GallerySugar Importers, John Stobart, oil on canvas, 20 x 30 in, Signed; Rehs ContemporaryMeopham Farmyard, John F. Herring, Jr., oil on canvas, 24 x 36 in, Signed; Rehs Galleries, Inc.El Matador Light, Eleinne Basa, oil on linen, 30 x 40 in; American Tonalist SocietyCrack of Dawn in the City, Richie Vios, watercolor, 7 x 9 in, 2022; LPAPA Art Gallery 4th Annual “From Dusk to Dawn” Juried Art Show August 1- August 29, 2022Morning Waves, Mark White, oil on canvas, 20 x 40 in; Mark White Fine ArtShimmer On The Dunes, Mark Shasha, oil, 16 x 20 in; Huse Skelly GalleryArizona Gold, Robert Peters, oil, 36 x 60 in; ArtzLine
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Always New: The Posters of Jules Chéret
Milwaukee Art Museum mam.org
through October 16, 2022
Jules Chéret (1836–1932), “Folies-Bergère: Loïe Fuller,” 1897, color lithograph on paper, 46 1/2 x 32 1/4 in., Milwaukee Art Museum, James and Susee Wiechmann Collection, M2021.163, photo: John R. Glembin
On view at the Milwaukee Art Museum is “Always New: The Posters of Jules Chéret,” the first U.S. exhibition devoted to the “father of the modern poster.”
Curator Nikki Otten has drawn more than 100 posters from the permanent collection, now America’s largest Chéret holding thanks to a 2021 donation by James and Susee Wiechmann. In the late 19th century, Chéret transformed Paris’s walls into what some called a “museum in open air,” designing and printing thousands of large advertisements for every possible product and service.
Ultimately he elevated commercial lithography to an art form and in 1890 was rewarded with a knighthood in the Legion of Honor. The accompanying 240-page catalogue is the first English-language publication on him.
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Valued at $4500, this is a rare opportunity to acquire an original work by John MacDonald.
MacDonald has donated “Dusk Light” (oil, 12 x 16 in.) to the American Tonalist Society (ATS), of which he is a member. Please contact the ATS for more details on this opportunity.
Proceeds benefit the ATS’s upcoming show, “Shades of Grey II” at the Salmagundi Club in New York City, April 28-May 7, 2023.
“Dusk Light,” framed, by John MacDonald
Tickets may be purchased via PayPal: [email protected].
The amount paid will indicate the number of tickets purchased:
1 ticket = $15
2 tickets = $25
5 tickets = $50
The email drawing will be held November 1, 2022 by ATS Club President Mary Erickson. All questions should be directed the email listed above.
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Artist with her work, Renascent, oil on linen panel, 8 x 16 in, 2021. The Franklin mountains in El Paso, Texas, seeing these amazing sunrises and sunsets.
What is the best thing about being an artist? Nina Cobb Walker: One of the best things about being an artist, after spending many years working at honing my skills is to be able to paint from my surroundings and convey the beauty of the day.
Nina Cobb Walker, Joy In My Heart, oil on linen panel, 11 x 14 in, 2022 An early summer morning sunrise walk revealed a brilliant orangish sky behind heavy rain cloudsNina Cobb Walker, Moon Of Dawn, oil on linen panel, 9 x 12 in, 2021 A rare soft beautiful early morning moment in December.
Alison Elizabeth Taylor (b. 1972), "Anthony Cuts under the Williamsburg Bridge, Morning," 2020, marquetry hybrid (wood veneers, oil paint, acrylic paint, inkjet prints, shellac, and sawdust on wood), 73 1/16 x 53 3/8 in., collection of the artist
Portrait Paintings On View > The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today
National Portrait Gallery
Washington, D.C. portraitcompetition.si.edu
through February 26, 2023
This April, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) announced the winners of the 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.
This is the sixth edition of an initiative launched in 2006 thanks to the bequest of Virginia Outwin Boochever, a long-time docent at the NPG.
Essentially a triennial (despite the pandemic’s best efforts), the program seeks to reflect the ever-changing nature of American portraiture.
In this latest cycle, the NPG received more than 2,700 open-call submissions, all made since 2019 by established and emerging artists throughout the U.S. and its territories. The jury ultimately selected 42 artworks as finalists, with just eight of them as nominees for three prizes.
NPG director Kim Sajet announced that the $25,000 first prize would go to the Brooklyn-based artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor.
Through the process she has developed and named “marquetry hybrid,” Taylor used vivid paints, inkjet prints, and the natural grains of more than 100 veneers to create a multilayered portrait of the Brooklyn hair groomer Anthony Payne.
With his workplace shuttered by the pandemic, Payne offered donation-based haircuts to support Black Lives Matter, and Taylor proceeded to make drawings and photographs of him that informed her winning work. (Her prize also encompasses a new commission to create a portrait of a living individual for the NPG’s collection.) Second prize went to Tom Jones of Wisconsin, and the third to Pao Houa Her of Minnesota.
Now that the competition is over, visitors can enjoy the exhibition titled “The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today.” Organized by NPG curators Taína Caragol and Leslie Ureña, it presents all 42 finalist works, which range from traditional to conceptual in every possible medium: painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, video, even performance.
Further reflecting the democratization of portraiture in our time, the winner of the People’s Choice Award will be announced this October, and next spring the exhibition will begin a lengthy national tour.
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How to Inventory Your Art Collection > Even seasoned collectors may not realize how disorganized their records are. We buy art, we enjoy it, the years roll by, and suddenly we have a home full of treasures not inventoried properly. Our accountants would not let us “get away” with this if these assets were bonds, but artworks often mystify them.
For those of us who don’t have a professional art adviser, now is the time to banish the disorder. Some of us are planning our estates, or documenting our possessions so the insurance company will know how much to compensate for damages after the next natural disaster. Others of us are just curious to remember exactly what we have — to go down Memory Lane and recall the moment when we acquired that special artwork.
For any of these objectives, find an easy-to-use inventory system. Artwork Archive is a Denver-based firm of artists, entrepreneurs, developers, writers, and designers collaborating since 2010 to give artists, collectors, and organizations better ways of managing their art. Led by Justin Anthony and John Feustel, this outfit launched one of the first cloud-based art inventory systems and now serves clients in 130 countries.
This initiative launched under less than ideal circumstances. When the collector Justin Anthony’s basement flooded, he did not have a clear handle on which works were actually down there. While researching his options for the future, he realized that most commercially available software systems were either too costly or too complicated for a “regular person” to run. Because necessity is the mother of invention, he and John Feustel created their own, and in 2020 marked their 10th anniversary.
Embracing the Details for Your Art Collection
The most important field in any artwork’s profile is its title. Once it’s established, everything else falls into place: you can then input the size, materials, date, source, condition (including damage caused by the movers), and location inside your home — right down to which wall it’s hanging on. The system makes it possible to scan and upload relevant documents such as purchase receipts, certificates of authenticity, and appraisal histories, and there are fields for works already sold or donated. The notes field allows users to, for example, reminisce about how the artwork was acquired.
It is easy to share all (or parts) of your Artwork Archive account with professionals who work with you. For example, the attorney handling your estate can be shown fields to do with which artworks go to which heir or museum. This is accomplished by running a customized report for him or her, or by granting access to relevant parts of the system to trusted attorneys, insurers, advisers, assistants, and dealers. These individuals can make changes or notations in your records, or they can have read-only rights.
As one should expect of any data-set software, reports can be sorted and run in various formats: lists, illustrated lookbooks, pie charts, and graphs — digitally, on paper, and for downloading to your hard drive. The system even allows you to print a customized gummed label (on Avery products) that can be adhered to the back of your artwork.
Artwork Archive users have the capacity to create private “viewing rooms” where all or some of their works can be “visited” by selected outsiders. Anthony adds that just under 10 percent of his clients take this further by creating a public profile that makes their collection searchable on Google.
A Small Marketplace
Artwork Archive is not the only firm active in this space, though it is the least expensive and most user-friendly. Large galleries, museums, artist-endowed foundations, advisers, contract registrars, and other art professionals also turn to such providers as Gallery Systems (founded in 1981), Artsystems (1989), Artlogic (1994), and Collector Systems (2003).
These firms are experienced in integrating the inventory system to websites and auction consolidator databases (such as 1stdibs) and, for commercial art galleries, to the tracking of which artworks are sold. These services are generally not needed by most private collectors, yet are worth knowing about.
How do you inventory your art collection? Share it with us in the comments below.
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Michael Obermeryer, 9 x 12 in., Oil, "Cove Overlook"
This exhibition features 20 nationally known California artists and revolves around each one’s interpretation of transitional elements in our lives.
“Transitions: The Beauty of Life’s Journey”
Firehouse Art Center, Harrington Gallery
Pleasanton, California
Through October 22, 2022 firehousearts.org/gallery
From the organizers:
Artists Tia Kratter, Inna Cherneykina, and Kim Lordier all explored the organic world through their work with still life and different mediums, watercolor, oil, and pastel respectively.
Tia Kratter’s painting “Aging Gracefully” reflects the beauty of the aging process by “showing the flowers exquisiteness beyond the edge of excellence as they fade, wilt, and lose their petals.”
Kim Lordier uses sunflowers to illustrate the transitions in mood and feeling. “Sad Sue” reflects a “state of decline for the sunflower, but the sun still chose to shine on her crown of falling petals.” Kim recalls that the subject called to her to paint her, to honor her gifts of beauty as she transitioned through life.
Inna Cherneykina’s painting “Spring” reflects her “vision of the world, and her emotions brought to life by beautiful flowers.”
Inna Cherneykina, 18 x 24 in., Oil, “Spring”
Several other artists chose to look at the theme of transitions by viewing our landscape as it changes throughout the day and by the season.
Paul Kratter’s painting “Up into the Sky” depicts the beauty of Yosemite in Winter and Linda Mutti focuses on the changing light of the California coast at sunrise and sunset which is seen in her work “California Gold.”
Elizabeth Tolley chose to focus on the time of day in a particular location and see the effects each season brings to the scene.
Linda Mutti, “Afternoon Delight,” pastel, 12 x 16 in.
The figurative work of Nancy Seasmons Crookston, Carole Rafferty and Durre Wassem reflect the beauty of transitional moments in our human experience. Nancy’s theme focused on our ability “to dance through every stage of our life.”
Nancy Seamons Crookston, 24 x 36 in., Oil, “Graffiti Grandma”
Carole’s work reflects the intimate moments in time where she has spotted people on the street or on the beach in both real and comical situations.
Durre Wassem’s work focused on the spiritual nature of our lives as human beings.
Bill Cone, Michelle Jung, Carolyn Lord, Randy Sexton, and Barbara Tapp explored the effects of time on the changing elements of our landscape and our communities.
Bill explores some of the environmental elements of local creeks and the effects of climate change.
Bill Cone, 18 x 24 in., Pastel, “Shallow Creek”
Michelle Jung’s work explores the environmental impact on our coastal communities while Randi Sexton focused on the revival and rebirth of Ruth Bancoft’s vision for her gardens over 10-year period.
Carolyn Lord and Barbara Tapp explore the transitory nature of certain areas. Carolyn shows the “corrosive effect of fossil fuels that is evident in global, political strife, degradation of the landscape, and comprised health and fecundity of all organisms.” Her painting “Googie Relic” depicts a mid-20th century gas station, where “low mileage cars would fill up before cruising the endless highways.” Barbara’s work focused on changing environment of the Salinas Valley from its functioning and derelict farms.
Terry Miura and Dug Waggoner took a totally different twist on the theme by interpreting transitions as “applied to the creative process, rather than a depiction of change of time, seasons, etc… Miura states that “an initial study is done in gouache, which becomes a reference and the jumping off point for the next piece, which in turn becomes the catalyst for the one following. In this way, the creative process continues to evolve and the vision transitions from something based on a photo of an actual place, to a much more personal expression of an environment borne of imagination and introspection.”
Terry Miura, 5 x 8 in., Gouache on Paper, “City Clamor”
Dug has also focused on the transitional elements of his painting process which recently “utilizes a textured surface that is enhanced by the pastel as it finds harmonious passages and movement within the composition.”
Brian Blood, Ellen Howard, Richard Lindenberg, and Michael Obermeyer’s work reflected the beauty of the California coast. Brian’s work focuses on the beauty of a specific place and how the changing light during each moment of the day highlights the uniqueness of this site. Ellen and Richard’s work focus on the metaphor of the changing elements and drama on the coast which is reflected in our own human condition.
Michaels’ work reflected his curiosity in finding new ways to paint his iconic scenes from transitional elements of light to the changing activity on the beach.
Michael Obermeryer, 9 x 12 in., Oil, “Cove Overlook”
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As part of our effort to continue to help artists and art galleries thrive, we’re proud to bring you this week’s “Virtual Gallery Walk.” Browse the artwork below and click the image itself to learn more about it, including how to contact the gallery.
Be Still, Roger Dale Brown, oil, 40 x 30 in; Anderson Fine Art GalleryMarshfield Pond In Early Summer, Andrew Orr, oil on panel, 9 x 12 in, Signed; Rehs ContemporaryL’Arc de Triomphe, Edouard Leon Cortes (1882 – 1969), oil on canvas, 13 x 18 in, Signed; Rehs Galleries, Inc.Perfect Summer Day, Mary Erickson, oil on linen, 20 x 24 in; ATS Mary EricksonThe Lifting Mist, Mark White, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 in; Mark White Fine ArtPt Lobos Morning Shadows, Karl Dempwolf, oil, 14 x 18 in; Huse Skelly Gallery
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