If you are an artist, we are now accepting entries to the 2012/2013 ARC Salon and will be through December 31st.

To review the prospectus click here.

To order your copy today, click here.

To read a review of the show that was recently published on the Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center website, click here.

The first sale is October 29th, at Chrisite’s, and is featuring William Bouguereau’s Marchande de Grenades, a rare orientalist work, estimated to sell for between 2.5 and 3.5 million US dollars.

Many ARC fans may remember we had a competition some time ago to identify this painting from a detail of the background. The competition demonstrated that impressionists did not invent impressionist techniques, which is what is often taught in college and university art courses. Bouguereau and many other of his contemporaries used impressionist techniques that pre-date the impressionist movement; the impressionists made it the entire canvas while the academic painters used it in the background as a way of creating selective focus.

For non-collectors, we still encourage you to view the public auction presales which are one of the best ways to see important works from a given period that are in private collections and are otherwise not on public view. Most if not all of these paintings are sold back into private collections and many are never put on public view again.

Bonham’s Preview – Saturday, October 27 – Tuesday, October 30
To view the full online catalogue click here.

Sotheby’s Preview – Friday, November 2 –
Wednesday, November 7
To view the full online catalogue click here.

Frederick Ross – Founder and Chairman of the Art Renewal Center, Ross is the leading authority on William Bouguereau and co author of the recently published Catalogue Raisonné William Bouguereau: His Life and Works.

Dr. Vern Swanson – Director of the Springville Museum of Art, Utah, for over 30 years. Swanson is the leading authority on Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and John William Godward and author of the Catalogue Raisonnés for both artists, as well as several books on Soviet Impressionism.

Michael John Angel – Angel is an ARC Living Master™ and regarded as one of the foremost figurative painters alive today; with his paintings hanging in both public and private collections on both sides of the Atlantic. His school the Angel Academy of Art is now one of the most successful Atelier Schools in the world.

B. Eric Rhoads – Rhoads is the Founder and Chairman of Streamline Publishing, Inc., publisher of Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine which provides art collectors and enthusiasts with in-depth editorial coverage of historical and contemporary representational art and Plein Air, a magazine focused on representational landscape painting. The company also produces artist videos with many masters including ARC Living Master™ Max Ginsburg and ARC Living Master™ Erik Koeppel.

Patrick Wilshire – Patrick Wilshire is the Director of the Association of Fantastic Art, dedicated to the promotion, recognition and elevation of the art of imaginative realism. In addition he is the author of Visions of Never: The Collection of Fantastic Art, (2009), The Art of the Dragon: The Definitive Collection of Contemporary Dragon Paintings (2012), and the upcoming History of Imaginative Realism, slated to be released in September 2013.

To read more about our esteemed judges click here.

About the portrait, Mr. Ross said the following: “My family and I all felt that this painting was more than a good representation of what I look like; it captures my soul.”

The painting is now a part of the Fred and Sherry Ross Collection.

To view Cesar’s gallery on ARC, click here.

To view Garin Baker’s gallery on ARC, please click here.

Open Range Gallery – 7077 East Main Street, Scottsdale, AZ

To view more pictures from the show click here.

We are very excited to announce the implementation of a share button for every artist page and every painting in the ARC Museum so that you can show your friends your favorite works or ones you want to say something about. Come visit the ARC Museum and start to share the great works of history and of today!

To visit our Facebook page click here.

1. He is going to be featured in the Volume III Fall issue of American Painting Video Magazine!

2.He has been included as one of American Artist Magazine’s “25 Artists of Tomorrow” in their 75 Greatest Artists of All Time issue.

3. He is in a featured article in International Artist’s Magazine in their up-coming October/November 2012 issue, and the 2011/2012 ARC Purchase Award of “Headwinds” was chosen for the cover.

To read the speech click here.

“Many people view art as a luxury, something to decorate a home with or simply something for people to view or create for fun or relaxation. In truth, art lies at the core of human existence, and with it has the power to not only influence an individual’s thoughts or beliefs, but can actually shape nations.”

For more information on this and other shows, click here.