{"Id":8354,"Name":"Rick J. Delanty","Biography":"\u003Cp\u003ERick J. Delanty is a Californian by birth and in spirit, finding in this state a love for nature and wonder of Creation which he has continued to explore in his colorful and expressive oil and acrylic landscape paintings. Born in Santa Rosa, Ca, he attended UC Santa Barbara, obtaining a secondary teaching credential in 1974, and degrees in English Literature and Studio Painting and Drawing.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERick joined the faculty of San Clemente High School in southern California as Painting and Drawing instructor and department chair, his career spanning 32 years until his retirement in 2006. Subsequently, he taught drawing, studio painting, and plein air painting to adults until the onset of Covid. During the past year, Rick created a body of work for his solo show at the Casa Romantica Cultural Center in May-June 2021, and wrote a book entitled \u0022Beauty Unites Us\u0022 (ISBN no. 978-0-578-872-87234-6), with foreword by Jean Stern.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERick is a national award-winning artist in plein air competitions around the West, and in exhibitions across the United States, including the California Art Club\u0026rsquo;s Gold Medal show.\u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERick has practiced his craft professionally over forty years, painting from Big Sur to Niagara Falls, and teaching and demonstrating in a variety of venues. In 2019 he was selected for the faculty of the National Plein Air Convention. Delanty paintings are in the permanent collections of two prominent museums, with twenty originals in one of the largest private collections of California art in the nation. Feature articles concerning his work have appeared in Plein Air and Southwest Art magazines, as well as American Art Collector, and Fine Art Connoisseur.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis artworks are included in several books, among them; \u003Cem\u003EPainting California, Seascapes and Beach Towns\u003C/em\u003E, by Jean Stern and Molly Siple; \u003Cem\u003EPainting In Acrylics, The Indispensable Guide,\u003C/em\u003E by Lorena Kloosterboer; and \u003Cem\u003EA California Woman\u0026rsquo;s Story\u003C/em\u003E, by Joan Irvine Smith and the Irvine Museum.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERick is a Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists, Pacific Rim Institute of Marine Artists, Signature member of the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, Signature Member of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Assn., and Signature Member of The American Impressionist Society, as well as an Artist member of the California Art Club. As of 2022, Rick was selected as an ARC Associate Living Artist. He is represented by two of the nation\u0026rsquo;s top galleries, Mission Fine Art in Utah and Waterhouse Gallery in California.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDelanty Studio-and-Gallery is located in San Clemente, California. His works are represented at www.delantyfineart.com.\u003C/p\u003E","BiographicalImageUrl":"/Artist/835/8354/Images\\fe699997-21be-4f91-90b0-651170dd8949.jpg","Awards":"\u003Cp\u003ESelected awards from the past two-and-a-half years include Plein Air Finalist in the Art Renewal Center\u0026rsquo;s 15th Salon, 2021; Finalist, Gateway International Painting Competition, both July and April of 2020; Best Impressionism Award, NOAPS \u0026ldquo;Best Of America Small Paintings,\u0026rdquo; 2020; Finalist, Boldbrush International Painting Competition, February 2020; Finalist, Gateway International, December 2019; Best Acrylic, Plein Air Salon international, November 2019; Artistic Excellence Award, Honorable Mention, Southwest Art Magazine, October 2019; and the Holbein Award of Excellence in Landscape Painting, International Society of Acrylic Painters, August 2018.\u003C/p\u003E","HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":false,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":false,"TotalArtworks":22}