Featured Artwork: Carin Wagner

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Sky XV
60 x 48 in.
oil on linen
$12,000 available at Gallery Biba: 224A Worth Avenue Palm Beach, Florida 33480

My deep reverence for nature inspires everything I paint. With great attention to detail, light and mood, my paintings capture my sense of wonder and awe. Walking through a forest, looking up at the leafy green canopy and outstretched limbs of our lofty friends the trees, listening to birdsong and the wind rustling gives me great peace. Hundreds of hours of minute, detailed painting are required to bring that moment to others. Skies offer another source of wonder and help in changing our perspective, with ever-shifting formations of towering cumulous or wispy cirrus with glowing colors. Life is an experiment in ever-changing reality. Many of the things that support life on earth are in danger. The things we need to protect, in turn, if cared for, will protect us. Clean air and water, trees to help cool, filter air and keep the water cycle intact are all crucial to our survival.

Recently I have been traveling and exploring forests and wild areas to photograph vulnerable and vanishing trees. These photographs will then be used as reference material for individual tree portraits. I am taking video to capture the movement of wind and sounds of the ecosystems to accompany the tree paintings. I have been giving away native tree saplings at my exhibits for years and will continue to work to inspire others to care for our natural treasures.

Please follow my blog for updates on my endangered tree expeditions: https://carinwagnerfineartblog.com/

Gallery: Gallery Biba 224A Worth Avenue Palm Beach, Florida 33480

Instagram: https://instagram.com/CarinWagnerFineArt
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carinwagnerfineart/
Artist Website: www.carinwagnerfineart.com

Member of: The International Guild of Realism

Upcoming Exhibitions:
International Guild of Realism at Principle Gallery September 20–October 15, 2019
Natural Narrative, Cultural Council of Palm Beach, February 2020
Cornell Art Museum at Old School Square, June 2020

Featured Artwork: J. Russell Wells

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Dance of Miriam
40 x 30 in.
Oil
Available through the artist
[email protected]

Dance of Miriam is a piece I imagined after reading the history of the Israelites deliverance by the hand of God from captivity and slavery to the Egyptians as told in the book of Exodus. After crossing the Red Sea to freedom, Miriam, the sister of Aaron, takes up a tambourine and dances and sings with obvious joy for the triumph of God. In this painting I used abstracted elements and specific colors to communicate this joy and movement as I saw it in my mind. I hired several models to dance in my studio and outdoors, capturing videos and stills of their movement so I could find images that worked together, and I could interpret on the canvas to describe what I imagined. During the course of the painting I discovered the technical narrative to be most important to achieving the effect I was after. I used rollers, squeegees, rags, scrapers and even poured solvent over the painting until the action of the paint and the marks created gave the conceptual narrative its intention.

Dance of Miriam is currently in my studio!

Education
Palette and Chisel Academy of Art, Chicago
American Academy of Art, Chicago
Northern Illinois University, BSed
William Rainey Harper College

Recent Workshops
Alyssa Monks
Casey Baugh
Roger Dale Brown
Quang Ho
Bernardo Siciliano
Vincent Desiderio
Steven Assael

Recent Shows

OPA Salon 2019
NOAPS Best of America 2019
NOAPS Best pf America 2018
- 3rd Place Award for “The Gift”
NOAPS Small Works 2018
OPA Eastern Regional 2017
- Award of “Excellence” for ‘Model Break’
NOAPS Best of America 2017
- Award “Best Figurative Work” for ‘Allure’
Unlocking The Bible Fundraiser: Painting “The Sower” completed live and auctioned at the event
American Impressionist Society Small Works 2017
Portrait Society Award of NOAPS Signature Artist Group Show 2016
- Honorable Mention “Out of the Box” category for ‘Free Bird’
“Thief on the Cross” one act play by Stephen Baldwin, Painting “Redemption” featured in the performance.
“Grasshopper” movie, commissioned painting “It’s Over”
NOAPS Online International 2014
- Award of Excellence
NOAPS Best of America 2013
- Award of Excellence
American Impressionist Society 2013
OPA Salon 2013
American Impressionist Society 2012
NOAPS Best of America 2012
OPA Eastern Regional 2011
OK Art, Oklahoma
- Best of Show Award for ‘Longing’
23rd Annual Conservatory Art Classic, Bosque TX
22nd Annual Conservatory Art Classic, Bosque TX
- 1st Place Gold for “Contemplation”
Barns & Farms National Juried Competition 2007
OPA Eastern Regional Miniature 2007
OPA Eastern Regional, 2005

Professional Memberships
OPA, Oil Painters of America
Portrait Society of America
ARC, Art Renewal Center
American Impressionist Society
NOAPS, National Oil and AcrylicPainters Society, Signature Status

Galleries
R. S. Hanna Gallery, Fredericksburg, TX
Castle Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN

Web: www.jrussellwells.com

Instagram: jrussellwells

Email: [email protected]

In addition to his studio painting J. Russell Wells is nearing completion on a book about contemporary artist’s describing their artistic epiphanies which have impacted their careers.

Light and Shadow: Martha Spak Gallery Presents the Washington Society of Landscape Painters

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Hiu Lai Chong
Key Bridge Boathouse
30 x 40 in.
Oil on Canvas

Washington Society of Landscape Painters ~ Light and Shadow

The color and beauty of the world around us will illuminate the walls of the Martha Spak Gallery in an exhibition by artists from the Washington Society of Landscape Painters. For 106 years these artists have been united by a love of the landscape, but the current members also find inspiration and joy in florals, still lifes, and other subjects. The show, “Light and Shadow,” will feature this variety of motifs, in the style and medium of each individual artist. It runs from November 2 through December 3, 2019, with a reception on Saturday, November 2 from 3pm-6pm that includes a gallery talk from 3pm-4 pm. A special event will be held on October 27, in which WSLP painters can be seen creating plein air works on The Wharf in DC that will then be exhibited in the gallery.

“Light & Shadow” will feature the work of 29 of the 40 members: Jacalyn Beam, Marietje Chamberlain, Jean Brinton Jaecks, Web Bryant, Ray Burns, Hui Lai Chong, Bernie Dellario, David Diaz, Gray Dodson, Lisa Elegi, Harry Jaecks, Brenda Kidera, Mary Kokoski, Andrei Kushnir, Barry Lindley, Andre Lucero, Lynn Mehta, Lisa Mitchell, JoEllen Murhpy, Jack Pardue, Sara Linda Poly, Bobbi Pratte, Bill Schmidt, Jean Schwartz, Lida Stifel, Nancy Tankersley, Robert Thoren, Nancy Wallace, Meg Walsh.

For more information and to see the show visit www.wslp.org/events or https://martha-spak-gallery-at-the-wharf.com/wslp-light-shadow-exhibiton/ or contact the gallery at 301-908-4937.

Hours: Wednesday through Sunday 12-7pm; Closed Monday and Tuesday

Martha Spak Gallery is located at 60 District Square SW, Washington, DC 20024

Featured Artwork: Susan J. Klein presented by Grand Canyon Celebration of Art

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Susan J. Klein
July 1969
36 x 24 in.
acrylic on canvas

Grand Canyon Celebration of Art is celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Grand Canyon National Park. The artists participated in Plein Air at Grand Canyon September 7–14, facing the ever shifting light, the sheer vastness of the canyon and, this year, windy conditions. The work they created, along with their studio work, is on exhibit and offered for sale at historic Kolb Studio at the South Rim of Grand Canyon until January 20, 2020.

Susan J. Klein, one of the 23 plein air artists participating this year, celebrated in her studio painting, “July 1989”, a number of anniversaries as well — 50 years since she did the plein air sketch at Cape Royal on the canyon’s North Rim that
evolved into the painting, 50 years since our country’s landing on the moon, and 50 years since the birth of her daughter. Klein says of her painting:

“Choosing to use artistic license, day became night, and a full moon revealed the era-old monuments and that stalwart pinion. This magical painting, then, collapses the barriers of time in a timeless place.”

Klein has been painting and exhibiting for over forty years, first in her native Ohio and since 1990, in Sarasota, Florida. She has extensively traveled and painted in Europe and the American Southwest. Along with National Park artists-in-residencies and work exhibited at embassies in both Rome (2001–2004) and Sofia, Bulgaria (2008–2010) as part of the United States Department of State Art-in-Embassies programs, this is the fourth time she has participated in the Celebration of Art. Her unique style and vibrant palette capture the canyon on canvas in a distinctive way.

To see more of Klein’s artwork and the other participating artists’ work, please visit:
https://www.grandcanyon.org/get-involved/events/celebration-of-art-2019/online-gallery-2019/

For more information contact Kathy Duley at [email protected] or
480-277-0458.

Featured Artwork: Laurie Kersey

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Tres Amigos
24 x 30 in.
oil on linen
Available through the artist at www.lauriekersey.com.

Much of Laurie Kersey’s work focuses on her life-long love, horses. After riding for many years, an injury ended that activity, and the direction of her work turned to equine-themed subjects as a means of maintaining that relationship and keeping horses in her life. Her work has, for many years, included the dramatic coastline and quiet countryside of California, as well as elegant florals.

“Tres Amigos is part of a series inspired by a week spent on a ranch in Colorado with a herd of domestic horses who roamed freely when they were not working,” says Kersey. “I was taken by the affectionate bond and familial closeness of the herd.”

Upcoming exhibitions include the Oil Painters of America Western Regional Juried Exhibition at Sorrel Sky Gallery in Santa Fe, NM; the American Women Artists Exhibition at the RS Hanna Gallery in Fredericksburg, TX; and the Mountain Oyster Club Contemporary Western Art Show & Sale in Tucson, AZ.

Kersey is a Signature Member of the California Art Club, Oil Painters of America, and American Women Artists, an Artist Member of the American Impressionist Society and the American Academy of Equine Art, and is represented by Jones & Terwilliger Galleries in Carmel and Palm Desert, CA, and K Nathan Gallery in La Jolla, CA.

She has been honored with awards in the OPA National Juried Exhibition, Greenhouse Gallery Salon International, Carmel Art Festival, American Women Artists National Juried Exhibition, Hudson Valley Art Association National Juried Exhibition, San Luis Obispo Plein Air Painting Festival, and Torrey Pines Plein Air Invitational. She has been featured in Art of the West Magazine, Southwest Art Magazine, PleinAir Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, American Artist Magazine, USEF’s Equestrian Magazine, Horses in Art Magazine, and has been a first place winner in the Artist’s Magazine’s annual competition.

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Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World

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Meredith Marsone, “Loveloss – Surrender,” 2018, oil on board, 19.7 x 15.7 in.

In collaboration with author and curator John Seed, Stanek Gallery presents “Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World”

“Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World” features works from more than 30 artists based across the United States and internationally.

Stanka Kordic, “Bridges Turn #1,” 2017, oil on wood panel, 36 x 48 in.

In January 2018, Stanek Gallery presented “Disrupted Realism,” an exhibition of 16 artists whose work is begetting the emergence of a new movement in contemporary painting. With that exhibition catching the eye of local publisher Schiffer Publishing, John Seed has since written “Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World.” The book, which was published in September, contains artists and artworks from six countries and over a dozen states coast to coast.

Now, Stanek Gallery’s upcoming exhibition by the same name brings together those highly accomplished artists, all of whom possess a far-reaching influence.

Zoey Frank, “Window at Night,” 2017, oil on linen on panel, 61 x 38 in.

“This is no ordinary group exhibition,” says gallery owner and director Katherine Stanek. “The fact that nearly every artist in the book is participating in this exhibition speaks volumes about the stature and influence they have in the artistic community. Each one possesses such remarkable skill that their paintings reflect an energy and life that is palpable and can only be experienced in person.”

Contemporary oil paintings - FineArtConnoisseur.com — Valerio D’Ospina, “Dr. DeFurio,” 2019, oil on panel, 48 x 36 in.

Featured in this exhibition are the works of Stanek Gallery artists Valerio D’Ospina and Stanka Kordic, along with other Philadelphia-based artists Alex Kanevsky and Santiago Galeas, highlighting the importance of Philadelphia art institutions on an international scale. In addition to these indomitable artists, “Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World” will include:

Mia Bergeron ~ Ryan Bradley ~ Zoey Frank ~ Anne Harris ~ Maria Kreyn ~ Meredith Marsone ~ Wyatt Mills ~ Kirtsine Reiner Hansen ~ Kai Samuels-Davis ~ Wendelin Wohlgemuth ~ Daniel Bilodeau ~ Colin Chillag ~ Ann Gale ~ Karen Kaapcke ~ Aiden Kringen ~ Alex Merritt ~ Alyssa Monks ~ Lou Ros ~ Dorian Vallejo ~ Zack Zdrale ~ James Bland ~ Paul Cristina ~ Catherine Kehoe ~ J Louis ~ Joshua Meyer ~ Gage Opdenbrouw ~ Nick Runge ~ John Wentz

Karen Kaapcke, “Raft III (Moored),” 2018, oil, 36 x 36 in.

“The experiences of contemporary artists are diffuse and diverse. They encompass, and reframe, every kind of experience,” writes John Seed. “What I have come to realize is that the diverse forms of disrupted realism have to do with everything in each artist’s life: the real, the remembered, the digital, the imagined, and the dreamed, all filtered through the artist’s perceptions.”

Paul Cristina, “How to Play Jazz in Hell,” 2018, charcoal, oil, acrylic, pastel, and string on paper mounted on canvas, 51 x 47 in.

Exhibition:
“Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World”
Public Opening Reception, First Friday, November 1st, 6:00–9:00PM
Book Signing with John Seed, First Friday, November 1st, 6:00–7:00PM
Exhibition continues through December 28, 2019

Location:
Stanek Gallery
242 N. 3rd Street
Philadelphia PA 19106

Ann Gale, “Shannon in Passage,” 2016, oil on canvas, 48 x 42 in., Courtesy of Dolby Chadwick Gallery

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American Landscape Paintings: After the Rain

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American landscape paintings - John Moore - FineArtConnoisseur.com — John Moore, “Tuesday,” 2018, oil on canvas, 54 x 72 in.

Hirschl & Adler Modern (New York City) is currently showing “After the Rain,” a solo exhibition of thirteen recent paintings by John Moore (b. 1941).

John Moore, “Midday,” 2018, oil on canvas, 44 x 36 in.

From the gallery:

With these works, the artist reveals the vestiges of industry around his adopted home state of Maine and places a marked emphasis on the landscape that seeks to reclaim them. Moore’s luminous handling of land, sky, and water opens the space beyond his signature depictions of factory windows and bridges and, with this heightened atmosphere, recalls the rich tradition of American landscape painting.

To assume these paintings are about the continuing decline of industry limits their reach. These paintings are about the beauty and quiet power of the true American landscape — one of cyclical growth and intervention between man and nature.

John Moore, “High Water,” 2019, oil on canvas, 44 x 36 in.

In his essay for the exhibition catalogue, Christopher Crosman delves deep into the conceptual and formal structure of John Moore’s work. Crosman focuses on Moore’s signature layering of time, space, and composite imagery from sites both real and imagined, as well as his embrace of Maine’s authentic beauty. The new paintings in “After the Rain” are steeped in the artist’s new-found sense of place in Maine, but do so through the artist’s characteristic sense of mystery and timelessness. Crosman perfectly encapsulates this innate sensibility toward painting:

“Cultural and historical allusions aside, Moore is clearly interested in paintings that are simultaneously real and abstract and alive to meanings individual viewers can find within their own experience — how art touches and informs our sense of being in the world and what place means to each of us now and over time. This is what I believe Moore’s bridges and windows posit: linkages between past and present, familiarity and strangeness, rural and urban, idea and feeling. Moore’s paintings join with and extend a continuing American landscape tradition, its post-industrial denouement opening to different, newer, more complex, deeper realms of beauty and transformative promise. Moore’s art connects quiet intersections and passages of distance, time, and memory.”

John Moore, “After the Rain,” 2019, oil on canvas, 36 x 54 in.

John Moore, “Fountain and Footbridge,” 2019, oil on canvas, 72 x 54 in.

This exhibition is accompanied by a 24-page catalogue, with 13 full-color illustrations and an essay by Christopher Crosman, founding Chief Curator of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, and Director Emeritus of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine. For more information, visit www.hirschlandadler.com.

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TEFAF New York Fall Reveals First Look

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Jules Breton (Courrières, 1827 – Paris, 1906), “Gardeuse de Dindons (The Turkey Tender),” 1864, oil on canvas, 82.6 x 101.6 cm (32.5 x 40 in.) Signed lower right ‘Jules Breton’ and dated ‘1864’

As the fourth iteration of TEFAF (The European Fine Art Fair‎) New York Fall approaches, the Fair reveals a “first look” at a selection of works to be unveiled at the Park Avenue Armory, November 1–5, 2019. The event covers a staggering 7,000 years of art history.

Hirschl & Adler Galleries / Stand 366
Thomas Ridgeway Gould (Boston, 1818 – Florence, 1881), “The West Wind,” modeled circa 1869–70, executed 1874, marble, 83.8 cm (33 in.) Signed on the back ‘THE WEST WIND / T.R. GOULD. INV. Et FECIT / FLORENCE / 1874’ Provenance: Private Collection, New York, until 2012

Illustrating TEFAF New York’s breadth and depth will be pieces such as a George III Carved Giltwood Chimneypiece, 1760, attributed to Matthias Lock, in Giltwood and Marble at Ronald Phillips LTD / Stand 357, from Stedcombe House, Devon, England; Man with a Brush Cut by Karel Appel (Amsterdam, 1921 – Zurich, 2006), oil on burlap, at new exhibitor Galerie de la Béraudière / Stand 104; and a rare Pair of Japanese Six-Fold Screens with Cherry Trees and Chrysanthemums on a Gold Ground from the Hasegawa School in ink, color, gold leaf, paper, Momoyama period, 16th-17th Century at Gregg Baker / Stand 353.

Hazlitt / Stand 376
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness, 1734 – Kendal, 1802), “Study for the Leveson-Gower Children,” England – 1776–77, pen and brown ink on paper, 23 x 24.3 com (9.1 x 9.17 in.)
Provenance: Xavier Haas (1876-1937); stamped lower left (Lugt 4542)

TEFAF has been widely recognized for introducing new ways of looking at, thinking about, and experiencing art. Building on the success of the past three editions, the Fair reinforces the continued relevance of historic art in the current art market, bringing together an international community of the most discerning art collectors, curators, interior designers, and specialists. For the first time, the historic works which make up the core of TEFAF New York Fall will be complemented by works from modern and contemporary dealers in unique booth collaborations, set in select historic rooms of the Armory.

Galerie Chenel / Stand 212
Unknown, “Head of Bacchus,” Roman – 2nd century AD, marble, 23 x 23 x 20 cm (9 x 9 x 7.9 in.) Provenance: Collection of Lucien Mellerio (1879-1943); Collection of Hélène Mellerio (1909-2001)

“We are proud to be working with a globally and stylistically diverse range of 90 specialist dealers,” says Sofie Scheerlinck, Managing Director of TEFAF New York. “The breadth of this Fair is even greater this year with the addition of some exciting new exhibitors, alongside an already eminent roster of specialists, all of whom represent the top of their fields in quality and taste. At each Fair we work to bring visitors a truly extraordinary experience at the Armory through outstanding programming, special exhibitions, installations, design, and events. This year is no exception.”

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Valencia, 1863 – Madrid, 1923), “Playa de Valencia,” 1910, oil on canvas, 48 x 56 cm (18.9 x 22 in.) Signed lower right ‘J Sorolla’ and dated 1910

Jean Beraud (St. Petersburg, 1849 – Paris, 1935), “Un Figaro de Rêve,” circa 1875, oil on canvas, 64.8 x 54.6 cm (25.5 x 21.5 in.) Signed lower left ‘Jean Béraud’

Of those 90 galleries, TEFAF New York welcomes 17 new exhibitors to TEFAF New York Fall 2019. Here is a first look:

• Anne-Sophie Duval (Stand 203), specialists of Art Deco furniture and applied arts of the early 20th-century is based in Paris, France, where it has been in operation since 1972.
• Artvera’s (Stand 373) is a Geneva-based gallery specializing in European masters of modern art since 2007. To complement its 20th-century Modern masters, Artvera’s also showcases noteworthy nationally and internationally established and emerging contemporary artists.
• Bacarelli & Botticelli, a gallery based in Florence, gives special consideration to the relationship between human physiognomy and animal depiction in ancient art.
• Founded in 1986 in Milan, Bottegantica (Stand 367) specializes in 19th- and 20th-century paintings from the most distinguished artists of the time.
• Brun Fine Art (Stand 377) is a Milan-based gallery with locations in Florence and London, specializing in Italian and continental sculpture, antique furniture, and decorative works from the 15th to the 19th century.
• Cortesi Gallery (Stand 211) was founded in 2013 in Switzerland, specializing in European artistic movements from the 1960s to the present day. The gallery is known for its collaborative exhibitions with specialists, including guest curators and educators.
• Galerie Alain Marcelpoil (Stand 207) Alain Marcelpoil is a renowned expert in the field of Art Deco and is recognized internationally as the leading specialist in the work of designer Andre Sornay (1902–2000). The gallery was founded by Alain Marcelpoil and Nicole Marcelpoil in Paris, France, in 2006.
• Founded in 1992, Galerie de la Béraudière (Stand 104) is a renowned Paris-based gallery with locations in Geneva and Brussels. Its collection gives particular focus to the surrealist movement, providing top quality paintings and sculptures to collectors and institutions.
• Established in 1998, Galerie Zlotowski (Stand 318) is dedicated to modern and avant-garde art of the early 20th century, including European paintings, drawings, and sculpture from 1870 onwards.
• Hazlitt (Stand 376) is a leading firm of London-based art dealers specializing in Master Paintings and Drawings from the 16th to the 20th century.
• Deriving its name from the ancient Greek word for “beauty,” Kallos Gallery (Stand 352) is a London gallery founded in 2014 specializing in antiquities and ancient art.
• Montreal gallery Landau Fine Art (Stand 337) is focused primarily on the great masters of the early to mid 20th century.
• Spanish gallery Mayoral (Stand 202) focuses on informalism as well as on Catalan and Spanish post-war art as well as the great avant-garde artists of the 20th century.
• Michael Goedhuis (Stand 313) established in 1989, offers Chinese contemporary art, with a particular focus on ink paintings, as well as Chinese and Japanese bronzes from the 11th century A.D. onwards.
• Nicolás Cortés (Stand 303) Madrid-based specialists in European painting and sculpture and arts of the Spanish-speaking world.
• Shibunkaku (Stand 101) was established in Kyoto in 1937. Initially specializing in early modern and modern Japanese fine art with an emphasis on calligraphy and painting, the gallery later expanded its expertise to postwar and contemporary art.
• Stuart Lochhead Sculpture (Stand 376) offers the best in all media from antiquity to the 20th century, featuring celebrated and little-known sculptors alike.

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Winners of the 34th Annual American Plains Artists Exhibition

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Best of Show: “Dance to the Buffalo” — Best of Show: “Dance to the Buffalo,” bronze, 22 x 24 x 8 in., $4,300, by Stephen G. Jones, Woodward, OK

The American Plains Artists 34th Annual Juried Exhibit & Sale opened October 10 to a large crowd at the Pearce Museum at Navarro College in Corsicana, TX, where the exhibit continues through January 4, 2020. Realistic and representational artworks of the American Great Plains are on exhibit by sixty-five APA members from across the U.S.A.

Awards Juror Sonya Terpening awarded the following:

Best of Show: “Dance to the Buffalo” by Stephen G. Jones, Woodward, OK
1st Place Award: “Spirits Within” by Jammey Huggins, Seminole, TX
2nd Place Award: “Attending Sheep” by Felicia, Edwards, CO
3rd Place Award: “Noble Quest” by Susan Temple Neumann, Rowlett, TX

“‘Dance to the Buffalo’ is part of the Sun Dance ritual of the Cheyenne,” says Stephen G. Jones. “While the pledgers are dancing inside the lodge, these pledgers dance around the outside of the lodge. The Cheyenne felt that the only thing they had to give or offer to the spirits were themselves, which was the only thing they truly owned; their pain and suffering were their tithes so to speak. The skulls that this pledger is dragging are tethered to his legs. They are sometimes tethered to their backs, but this particular dancer has made this pledge many times before and his back is too scarred, so he chose his legs instead. At the end of the ritual if the skulls did not pull loose, the children would ride on each of the skulls for added weight to help them to tear loose, completing the pledge.

“‘Dance to the Buffalo’ was a very heartfelt piece for me to sculpt. To have that much dedication and belief to perform such a task is awe inspiring. I hope it strikes a chord on the viewers’ heartstrings as well.”

About Stephen G. Jones: Born 1957

Stephen and his wife, Kathy, live in the historical community of Keenan, which is located on the family ranch, in northwest Oklahoma.

Jones spent over 30 years in the commercial art field and was a successful fashion designer for 10 of those years before becoming a full-time sculptor. Jones is mostly self-taught and has augmented his training by studying under some of the nation’s greatest sculptors. Along with his lifelong hands-on experience in ranching, being a working ranch cowboy and having Cheyenne heritage adds to his in-depth knowledge of the American West as it is today and is what helps breath life into his art. Art has been his lifelong education, and he says he will always remain its student.

First Place Award: “The Spirits Within,” bronze, 20.5 x 8.5 in. diameter, $6,500, by Jammey Huggins, Seminole, TX

Second Place Award: “Attending Sheep,” bronze, 22 x 6.5 x 6 in., $4,000, by Felicia

Third Place Award: “Noble Quest,” oil on linen panel, 36 x 24 in., $5,300, by Susan Temple Neumann

Other awards sponsored by the APA included:
Clyde Heron Award: “Comanche Moon” by T.W. Vanya, Somerville, TX
Best Plains Wildlife: “Greetings” by Mary Lou Pape, Monument, CO
Mystery Award: “Good Water” by David Dorsey, Valentine, NE
Texas Award: “Atterbury Grain” by Tim Oliver, Lubbock, TX
Arrowhead Award (Hosting Facility’s Choice): “Looking for Work” by Victor Blakey, Plano, TX
Golden Spur (Artists’ Choice) Award: “Comanche Moon” by T.W. Vanya, Somerville, TX.
The Plainsman Award (People’s Choice) will be announced at the end of the show.

The American Plains Artists exhibition is on view at the Pearce Museum at Navarro College in Corsicana, TX. Learn more at www.americanplainsartists.com.

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November 5 Auction: Old Master Drawings

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Ludovico Carracci drawing - “St. Luke” — Lot 15: Ludovico Carracci, “St. Luke,” red chalk, circa 1585-88. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000.

In addition to Swann Galleries’ biannual sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints, the house will offer a curated sale of Old Master Drawings on November 5. The auction traces the development of draftsmanship over several centuries from late-Gothic, early-Renaissance works of the 15th century, to Baroque and Rococo drawings of the 17th and 18th centuries.

The Italian Renaissance is represented by early-16th-century studies of eagles ($4,000-6,000); “Christ’s Charge to Peter” from the circle of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, based on one of Raphael’s cartoons painted as designs for tapestries ($5,000-8,000); and Ludovico Carracci’s “St. Luke,” red chalk, circa 1585-88 ($8,000-12,000).

Baroque works of note include “The Holy Spirit Appearing to St. Gregory,” red chalk, late 1640s, by Il Guercino, offered at $8,000 to $12,000; and “Scenes from the Battle of Vienna: A Pair,” pen and wash, circa 1685, by Francesco Monti, Il Brescianino—expected to bring $10,000 to $15,000. Pietro Antonio Novelli’s “A Young Woman Washing Linen”, pen and ink, is estimated at $15,000 to $20,000.

Lot 127: Théodore Géricault, “Le Giaour,” pen, ink & pencil, 1820. Property from the Eric Carlson Irrevocable Trust. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000.

A collection of 19th-century French works on paper from the estate of the esteemed New York art dealer Eric Carlson, who specialized in French academic and realist drawings, complements the offerings of earlier works. Highlights from the selection are Théodore Géricault’s preparatory drawing for the same-titled lithograph “La Giaour,” pen, ink, and pencil, 1820 ($7,000-10,000); “Notre Dame and the Île de la Cité, Paris,” watercolor, 1864, by Louis-Adolphe Hervier ($2,000-3,000); and an 1859 color pastel work “A Landscape at Dusk with Rolling Hills” by Joseph Alfred Bellet du Poisat ($1,000-1,500). Of particular note is an 1833 ink, wash, and pencil study by Eugène Delacroix ($3,000-5,000). The preparatory work was created for the allegorical decorations of the Salon du Roi in the Palais Bourbon in Paris—his first large-scale government commission.

Lot 222: Henri-Edmond Cross, “The Sower,” watercolor and pencil, circa 1890. Estimate $15,000 to $20,000.

Additional French works include two circa-1820 pencil drawings by Delacroix, apparently loosely based on figures in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes, offered at $7,000 to $10,000. Laurent de la Hyre’s black chalk and pencil preparatory drawing “St. Peter Healing the Sick,” for his 1635 painting “May de Notre Dame,” is available at $15,000 to $20,000. Henri-Edmond Cross’s pointallist watercolor “The Sower,” circa 1890, is expected to bring $15,000 to $20,000. Dutch, Flemish, German, and English draftsmen round out the stellar offering.

Exhibition opening in New York City, October 25. The complete catalogue and bidding information is available at swanngalleries.com and on the Swann Galleries App.

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