February 2025
Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature
Published on February 14, 2025
Presented in honor of the 250th anniversary of Friedrich’s birth in 2024, Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature is the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the artist held in the United States. The exhibition will present approximately 75 works by Friedrich. Oil paintings, finished drawings, and working sketches from every phase of the artist’s career, along with select examples by his contemporaries, will illuminate how Friedrich developed a symbolic vocabulary of landscape motifs to convey the personal and existential meanings that he discovered in nature. The exhibition will situate Friedrich’s art within the tumultuous politics and vibrant culture of 19th-century German society and, by extension, highlight the role of German Romanticism in shaping modern perceptions of the natural world.
The exhibition runs February 7 – May 11, 2025 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028.
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The Masters Academy of Art News
Published on February 11, 2025
The Conru Art Foundation announced the Seattle Prize Masters Fellowship, a new two-year immersive educational program to cultivate early-career artists dedicated to classical, representational painting. The Seattle Prize comprises a $50,000 annual stipend, free studio space in Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square, expert mentorship and a program to support their professional success.
The Seattle Prize is the centerpiece of a broader initiative around arts education featuring the relocation of ARC Approved atelier, The Masters Academy of Art, to Seattle and the appointment of its founder, internationally renowned artist and educator Ryan Brown, as its first director.
Under Brown’s leadership, the Academy will administer the Seattle Prize and build new capacity for education, advocacy and support for representational art.
“We believe great representational art should engage with the entirety of the human experience - our joys and triumphs, as well as our struggles and sorrows,” said Brown, who created the Academy in 2008 in Utah. “In a world where so many people feel isolated, we need artists who can create paintings that empathize and connect with people in a manner that provides solace and invites contemplation.”
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Swedish Academy of Realist Art Livestream
Published on February 10, 2025
Join SARA teachers and students for an hour to find out more about the program, student life, finding housing, funding etc.
Viewers are welcome to send questions during the stream.
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - Swedish time: 18:00 - 19:00 (EST 12 - 1 pm) https://www.youtube.com/live/M3EY3A64_xo

From Shadow to Form: Portrait - David Kassan
Published on February 7, 2025
This comprehensive four-day workshop is designed for artists who want to deepen their understanding of portrait drawing from life, using charcoal as the primary medium. Over the course of four immersive days, participants will work directly from live models, exploring advanced drawing techniques to capture the human portrait with accuracy and emotion.
Each day will feature a balance of demonstration and personalized coaching, starting with a 3-hour morning demonstration followed by a 3-hour afternoon session dedicated to hands-on practice with individual feedback. Whether you are a beginner or more experienced, this workshop will provide a solid foundation for developing essential life-drawing skills.
The workshop runs from May 22-25 (Thursday-Sunday), 9am-4pm at Studio Incamminati - 1901 S. 9th Street, BOK, 7th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19148.
Visit https://studioincamminati.edu/workshops-and-classes/ or email info@studioincamminati.edu for more information.

Transcending Tradition: Selection of Works from The Bennett Collection of Women Realists
Published on February 4, 2025
Transcending Tradition celebrates women figurative realist painters who have changed the landscape for women in the arts. Featuring iconic paintings from The Bennett Collection, this exhibition highlights work by both historical and contemporary women painters, such as Artemesia Gentileschi, Mary Cassatt, Elaine de Kooning, Andrea Kowch, Zoey Frank, Katie O’Hagan, Anna Wypych, and many more.
The exhibition runs from February 6 – May 11, 2025 at the Muskegon Museum, 296 W. Webster Avenue, Muskegon, MI 49440.
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Dawn and Dusk: Tonalism
Published on February 3, 2025
This exhibition explores Tonalism in the United States from the 1880s to the early 20th century, through artists from the Northeast such as George Inness, John Henry Twachtman, James McNeill Whistler, and John Francis Murphy. Tonalism is a transitional movement that grew out of and reacted to the Hudson River School of painting and laid the groundwork for modernism. Evocative landscapes, evoking a spiritual connection to the natural world, often painted from memory, are the primary genre of this movement. The more than fifty artworks in this exhibition are drawn from private and institutional collections.
The exhibition runs from January 17 – April 12, 2025 at Fairfield University Art Museum, 1073 N Benson Rd, Fairfield, CT, 06824.
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