The American Artists Professional League is holding their 93rd Grand National Exhibition and virtual show honoring the finest in representational and traditional realism art.

The Awards Judge will be Peter Trippi, editor-in-chief of Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine. Awards will be announced after the opening, however the reception has been cancelled out of concern for the safety of our Patrons and Artists.

In its ongoing effort to promote and encourage artists specializing in realistic art forms, the AAPL has staged a Grand National Exhibition for 93 years. Each year, hundreds of applicants from all 50 states in all media submit their work for review by a selection committee consisting of professional artists in the fields of oil, water-media, pastel, graphics and sculpture.

The exhibition is being held at The Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY from November 8, 2021 to November 19, 2021.

A preview of all the work in the Exhibition is available on AAPLinc.org.

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ARC Living Master Anna Wypych has recently been interviewed by John Dalton on his podcast "gently does it".

To listen to the podcast, please click here.

ARC is pleased to welcome Kazuya Ushioda as an ARC Associate Living Master!

"I decided to become a painter when I was in high school. The high school I went to was in Mashiko-cho, famous for ceramic art, and I had the opportunity to touch on the basics of ceramic art in class...The expression of tempera painting is similar to the Japanese style of painting and there is also a warm touch like ceramic art. They are at the base of my expression and make my paintings attractive."

To view his gallery on ARC, please click here.

ARC is pleased to welcome Rosemarie Armstrong as an ARC Living Artist.

"Rosemarie is a painter of landscapes and seascapes; her paintings convey the constant transformation of the natural world. Her skilled and purposeful technique results in a multi-dimensional, illuminated quality of atmosphere, earth and water. The creative process begins in nature; plein air studies, sketches, photographs and memories which provide the foundation for studio work. In order to witness and paint nature's reality, Rosemarie explores Canada's majestic and often remote locations."

To see her gallery on ARC, please click here. 

The Guild of Boston Artists is proud to present Sisters of the Brush and Palette: Woman Artists of the Guild. In this moment rich with discourse concerning diversity and gender equity in every industry, this special exhibition will celebrates the significant contributions of the Guild's contemporary female members to the cultural life of the city of Boston. The Guild's women artists bring immense skill, considered thought, and unflagging passion to their work and have found enduring success within an organization that was built on the belief in the democracy of art.

In conjunction with the exhibition, The Guild will host a Panel Discussion on November 6th to provide the opportunity for dialogue between the artists and the public. The featured artists will discuss their various paths within the profession while touching on their role as women artists and offering their opinions on issues of inclusion and gender equity in the arts.

The exhibition runs from October 30 - November 27, 2021 at The Guild of Boston Artists, 162 Newbury St., Boston, MA 02116.

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The Southern Atelier is proud to present their apprenticeship program under the direction of ARC Associate Living Master Charles Miano, designed as a 4-level program with a completely unique 2-fold course of study. In addition to traditional long term projects such as casts, master copies, portraits and figurative works, the apprenticeship curriculum highlights rigorous short, intermediate and long practice from the live model. This balanced approach develops hand eye coordination quickly and improves an artist's ability to see and capture life and movement dramatically while at the same time learning to finish works of art to the highest standards of excellence.

Spaces are limited to provide one-on-one instruction and detailed attention, so students can thrive in their study no matter their entry level. Throughout the apprenticeship program, students may also attend workshops at Southern Atelier given by visiting master artists from around the world.

The Miano Apprenticeship is broken into trimester terms, for $3800 per term. Apprentices may benefit from having their own individual work area, teaching opportunities, public gallery representation, and a key to the Atelier studio, located in luminous Sarasota, Florida. For application and enrollment information visit: Home | Southern Atelier 

This year the San Antonio Museum of Art celebrates its 40th anniversary, and to mark the occasion their fall exhibition, 40 Years, 40 Stories: Treasures and New Discoveries from SAMA’s Collection, will focus on the unique works in the Museum’s own collection. From 1981 to now, SAMA’s collections have grown to include nearly 30,000 works of art from around the world. These objects reflect a broad range of human experience, and each has a tale to tell about cultures, communities, and history. 40 Years, 40 Stories brings together a selection of artworks that have not recently been on display and shares their fascinating stories. Like the Museum’s collection, the works in this exhibition span the globe, representing cultures on six continents and thousands of years of human endeavor, from the oldest work in the collection, a female figure made in northern Mesopotamia more than six thousand years ago, to the present day.

The exhibition runs from October 16 2021 - January 2, 2022 at the San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 W Jones Ave, San Antonio, TX 78215.

To learn more about this exhibition, please click here. 

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ARC Associate Living Master Elizabeth Barden is a finalist in the The Lester Prize competition.

The Lester Prize focuses on portraiture and all of humanity's traits. Capturing what it means to be ‘them’, to be ‘me’ and to be ‘us’, the works selected are intended to allow viewers to relate by seeing characteristics of themselves reflected back at them. With the history of this ancient artform behind it, The Lester Prize looks out while welcoming the world in.

The exhibition runs from October 16 - November 29, 2021 at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, William St., Northbridge WA 6003, Australia.

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ARC is pleased to welcome Frederick Brosen as an ARC Associate Living Master!

"Frederick Brosen’s watercolors have been featured in over 30 solo museum and gallery exhibitions across the country, most recently at Hirschl and Adler Modern in NYC in February 2020.

His watercolors have been the subject of numerous solo museum exhibitions, in 2012 at the South Street Seaport Museum, in 2006 at the Museum of the City of New York and in 2002 at the Frye Museum in Seattle. The exhibition American Dreamland: Coney Island featured two of his large works and traveled to several museums across the country, ending in 2016 at the Brooklyn Museum."

To view his gallery on ARC, please click here. 

ARC Associate Living Master Gezien van de Riet will be exhibiting "Autumn Dome" in the 23rd Independent Realists Exhibition. Over 500 works of art by 120 artists will be on display.

The exhibition runs from October 10 - December 19, 2021 at the Museum Møhlmann, 102-104 Westersingel, Appingedam, Netherlands.

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Congratulations to ARC Associate Living Master Vicki Sullivan for winning the 2021 Annie Davison Oliver award for her painting "Wild One". The prize is given every year at the MSWPS (Melbourne Society of Women Sculptors and Painters) Changing Perspectives Exhibition.

Founded in 1902, the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors (MSWPS) is Australia’s oldest specialist organization for women artists. The Melbourne Society of Women Painters & Sculptors (MSWPS) raises the profile of women artists by exhibiting their works in the Annual Exhibition Changing Perspectives, now in its 112th year. During the Covid pandemic, the exhibition was replaced by MSWPS Annual Exhibition online for the first time.

The exhibition is on view from October 1 - 31, 2021.

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On the morning of the crowning event of the 15th ARC Salon Competition, the Official Award Ceremony and Grand Opening at the Museum of European Modern Art (MEAM), it was with shock and great sadness that Jose Manuel Infiesta, the Director and Founder of the MEAM, passed away suddenly, just hours prior to the event on October 8, 2021.

As per Jose Infiesta’s wishes, the opening and joint award ceremony of ARC and Figurativas took place as planned. Artists were present from all over the world to both celebrate another achievement of the Representational Art Movement but also to mourn the loss of one of its leaders and visionaries. 

Pursuit of Beauty: The May Family Collection offers a look at the exemplary Dallas-based collection of American art that was built over nearly 60 years by Thomas and Eleanor May and their children Christopher, Sterling, Meredith, and Laura. Twenty-four works, whose dates span approximately a century, touch historical and aesthetic highpoints in American art and are united by a visual sense of harmony, tranquility, and beauty. The exhibition features oil paintings, watercolors, and sculpture by influential artists, including Cecilia Beaux, William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer, and John Singer Sargent.

The exhibition runs from October 10, 2021 - January 9, 2022 at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N Harwood St, Dallas TX 75201.

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Laguna College of Art + Design’s BFA program in Drawing + Painting is proud to present THE ART OF NELLIE GAIL MOULTON, a retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings created by Nellie Gail Moulton (1878-1972).

An avid en plein air painter, Nellie belongs to a larger movement of female artists who have recently gained significant recognition for their contributions to the arts. Nellie created art throughout her entire life and studied with renowned artists such as William Wendt, Anna Hills, Frank Cuprien, and Edgar Payne (also showcased within this exhibition). Her work captures the rich beauty of nature, expressing her keen eye for detail and impressive use of color.

The exhibition runs from October 7 - November 21, 2021 at LCAD Gallery, 374 Ocean Ave, Laguna Beach, CA, 92651.

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In Venice, shortly after 1500, Titian began to produce great paintings in which women were depicted in a new light. Informed by contemporary love, poetry and literature, Titian and his contemporaries – including Palma Vecchio, Lorenzo Lotto, Paris Bordone, Jacopo Tintoretto and Paolo Veronese – began to create poetic, sensual, idealizing and ground-breaking depictions of women that inspired European painting for centuries.

This important exhibition examines the Venetian image of women in the context of sixteenth-century ideals and contemporary society.

The exhibition takes place from October 5, 2021 - January 22, 2022. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Heldenplatz, Vienna, 1010, Austria.

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From the late 1400's to the present day, people sitting for portraits were keen to be presented in the most favorable manner possible. All aspects of the composition – the facial expression, symbolism, pose, background and clothing – were carefully planned out. Where one portrait prioritized beauty, the other focused on exuding authority. "Remember Me" sheds light on how people wanted to be seen, in themes such as beauty, authority, ambition, love, family, knowledge and faith.

This exhibition runs from October 1, 2021 - January 16, 2022 at the Rijksmuseum, 1 Museumstraat, Amsterdam, 1071 XX, Netherlands.

To learn more about this exhibition, please click here. 

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