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Dana Levin, Director of the ARC Approved Atelier: The New School of Classical Realism, has been approved as an ARC Living Artist™Visit the Dana Levin GalleryHydrangea and Winterberriesby Dana Le ...

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Lynne Barton And Michael John AngelCordially invite you toThe 2008 Annual Exhibition Of the Angel Academy of ArtOpeningThursday, May 22, 200818.00 to 21.00Exhibition continuesFriday, May 23red & Satur ...

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Call for EntriesThe Art Renewal Center's International 2008 ARC Salon™Win International Recognition Overnight Have your work seen by 5.5 Million Yearly Visitors. More than $44,000 in Awards Co ...

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Well, that's what happened to fine art, in the last century, when story telling for all intents and purposes was banned.Read ARC Chairman's keynote Address at the Oil Painter's of America Con ...

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The 2007 ARC Salon Catalogs are NOW AT THE PRINTERS.See Contemporary Realism at its best!The artworks submitted to the ARC International Salon continue to astonish. The ARC Salon, a virtual version of ...

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Daniel Graves and the Florence Academy of Art, an ARC Approved™ Atelier, has received the Excellence in Art Education Award 2008 from the Portrait Society of America. The Excellence in Art Educatio ...

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Dear Mr. Ross,I too am staggered by the art of Bouguereau and for the past two weeks have been obsessed with coming to grips with and redefining the "new" nature of late 19th century art and his ...

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Dear Mr. Ross,My husband hasn't start complaining yet... But if he does, you will be guilty as charged! For since I discovered your wesite, less than a week ago, I've been spending hours and hou ...

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I would like to first thank you all for providing such a huge gallery to study from and look at. I have been very pleased to see classical realism being pushed and even advertised over the years chec ...

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Letitia Lowe, winner of one of two Chairman’s Choice Awards for her still life "The Pram" in the 2007 ARC Salon, has chosen to donate her winnings back to ARC saying, "I am deeply grateful fo ...

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Another Major Sotheby’s auction is coming up April 18th, 2008. Bouguereau is increasingly the star of every important 19th century European painting auction in New York.This past October the six Bougu ...

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ARC Master, Paul McCormack will be teaching a 5 Day Watercolor Workshop at ARC Appoved™ Atelier,LAAFA-the Los Angelos Academy of Figurative Art in Van Nuys, California.5 Days: Thur-Mon, April 17-21, 2 ...

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ARC has received a $15,000 grant from the Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund for our ARC Scholarship Program 2008. ARC will match this generous grant, making $30,000 available for scholarships in 2008. We ...

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The prospectus for the 2008 ARC Scholarship Competition is now available.Deadline is June 18, 2008$30,000 in grants are available this year.Students of painting and sculpture will submit examples of p ...

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Girl With a Lantern by Han Wu ShenMarch 17, 2008Sotheby's New York, Lot 236Girl with a Lantern, by Han Wu Shen, the Great Contemporary Realist and ARC Master , will be offered at the Contemporary Ar ...

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ARC Master, Ted Seth Jacobs is leading a Three Month Intensive Portrait Program at the Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier in Belmont CaliforniaNovember 10, 2008-February 14, 2009Learn More and Register ...

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Artist Joel Carson Jones has been approved as an ARC Living Master™Visit the Joel Carson Jones Gallery ...

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ARC Approved™ Florence Academy of Art wishes to announce:The Florence Academy of Art Summer Session 2008June 30 - July 25Figure Drawing & Painting - Portraiture - Still Life - LandscapeClick here for ...

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20 February, 2008

ARC Living Master, Daniel E. Green will be teaching at the Bravura Academy in southern Spain Nov 9-15, 2008 Click here for more info.Mr. Green is the first place winner in the Landscape category of t ...

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Artist Jeremiah Stermer has been approved as an ARC Approved Living Artist™Visit the Jeremiah Stermer Gallery ...

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ARC Approved Atelier: Studio IncamminatiPhiladelphia, PA Artistic Director: ARC Master, Nelson Shanks 2008 Summer Workshops on are now available. Click here to view the Studio Incamminati Workshops. ...

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The 2007 4th Annual ARC Salon Results are in.his year the ARC Salon™ has continued its rapid growth in popularity since the 1st ARC Salon in 2004. More artists are submitting works and on average, eac ...

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Martinhho Correia, Instructor at the ARC Approved™ Angel Academy of Art has launched a new blog:Off the Coast of Utopia lets us peek into the life of a working painter living in Florence, Italy.It is ...

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ARC Approved™ Atelier Stockholm - The Swedish Academy of Realist Art, is seeking to hire a part-time instructor in drawing and painting. In addition to an hourly wage, the instructor will receive a p ...

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These popular Fine Art Prints from the ARC Store are now available at our Very Large Size on Fine Art Paper or Fine Art Canvas (Archival Media Size:36 x 44 inches):La Jeunesse de Bacchus (The Youth of ...

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Thank you for the gift of Bouguereau. Without your efforts I would know nothing about the greatest painter of human beings in history. The world is a better place because of your work.Fred SimonJanuar ...

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28 January, 2008

The Art Renewal Center is proud to present the award winners and finalists in our fourth International ARC Salon™ Competition. This year we had 1,643 entries by 596 artists. We are encouraged by the ...

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ARC Master, Ted Seth Jacobs is leading a Master Residency Workshop at the Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier in Belmont California January 14-February 22, 2008Follow the light and learn the style of hu ...

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28 December, 2007

The following letter was in response to a request for comment from Joseph Nechvatal regarding an article full of modernist "artspeak" titled Our Digital Noology: Catherine Perret in conversation with ...

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The 2007 4th Annual ARC Salon Catalogs are available for Preorder. See Contemporary Realism at it's best! The 4th Annual Salon proved a difficulty for our judges as the quality was so impressive that ...

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The Tenth-Anniversary Exhibition of the Angel Academy of Art, recently held in London, was a great success. Click here to see the show and catalogue. ...

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ARC Fine Art Prints, DVD's and Books make great last minute Christmas gifts.A Gift Certificate is the perfect gift for that hard to shop for friend or relative – allow them to choose their favorite ar ...

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Two new paintings by ARC Living Master™, Allan Banks have been added to the Allan R. Banks Gallery in the ARC Museum. Click here to see The Village Girl and The Blue Silk Scarf. The Village Girlby Al ...

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American Artist Magazine Fall Drawing Issue has published a 12 page article on ARC Approved™ Atelier, BACAA, the Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier.The article provides an in depth description of what ...

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The judging for the 4th ARC International Salon Competition will be completed on Monday. As stated in the prospectus, only winners and finalists will be notified. The ARC International Salon Competi ...

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19 November, 2007

ARC is an IRS Recognized 501C3 Educational Foundation.Tax exempt, ARC Aids 60 Academy and Atelier Art SchoolsTeaching Traditional Humanist Realism in the Fine Arts.Support ARC: Buy Your Holiday Gifts ...

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ARC has announced that it will be donating ten copies of Virgil Elliot's recently released book Traditional Oil Painting to a series of academic libraries and museums in order to help promote the idea ...

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12 November, 2007

I recently found your site and I really am very moved by it.I go to school of visual arts in Manhattan and I am in my third year studying illustration. I definitely find it very funny because a lot o ...

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6 Paintings by William Bouguereau dominated Sotheby's 19th Century Auction on October 23rd. Amazingly, of 276 paintings sold, the 6 Bouguereaus represented fully 35% of the $25,000,000 sale.The pace a ...

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10/27/2007: Added Ernest Hebert [9]; 10/27/2007: Added George Owen Wynne Apperley [1]; Ernest HebertLouise Lefuel, Epouse HochonOil on Canvas(24 x 19 cm cm)Musee Ernest Hebert. Paris ...

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   A GoodArt post by Fred Ross:I do not dismiss Impressionism.Impressionism is a valid technique for making works of art. But it is only one of a number of possible techniques.Depending ...

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MAJOR SALE OF 19TH CENTURY PAINTINGS For more information contact the 19th Century European Art Department at 212-606-71408 Paintings by William Bouguereau, some of them major works and including L' ...

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Three Great Paintings by ARC Living Masters All Sold at Sotheby’s Mid-Season Event for American Paintings, October 10, 2007All Three Painting Sold Above the High EstimatesEmerald and Rose by Allan Ba ...

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ARC is extremely pleased to announce that ARC’s Chariman and other administrators have met with the leaders of the International Guild of Realism (http://www.realismguild.com/), Don Clapper and Vala O ...

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Unprecedented Realist Auctions Coming to Sotheby'sAllan Banks, Stephen Gjertson, and Daniel Gerhartz have all been accepted into the very narrow club of living artists whose works are of sufficient ma ...

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Drawing the Human BodySix Week Residency ProgramWith ARC Master Ted Seth JacobsNovember 5 - December 14, 2007Click here for more information. ...

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Students Receive $20,000 in Scholarships and Seven Purchase AwardsThe Art Renewal Center is very pleased to announce the winners of the 2007 Annual Scholarship Competition. Now in its seventh year, th ...

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Mario Robinson, an ARC Living Master has been added to the list of "Artists Making Their Mark" by Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine. The feature article will appear in their November/December issue.by Ma ...

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1 October, 2007

Dear Fred and Paul,It is with enormous gratitude that I am writing to you to - not only thank you for your wonderful support of our students, Teresa Oaxaca and Shane Wolf in awarding them second and ...

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GAMESA showing of works by ARC Master Daniel GreeneGallery Henoch555 West 25th StreetNYC, NY 10001917-305-0003October 11- November 3, 2007 ...

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The Catalog Raisonne includes information on all of William Bouguereau's 826 known paintings, as well as most of the 600 page biography written by Damien Bartoli, along with an introduction by Fred Ro ...

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18 September, 2007

Entries for the International 2007 ARC Salon are in and the judging has commenced. Look for the upcoming announcements of Salon Winners here at ARC. ...

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The Legacy Exhibition which was co-produced by Evan Wilson, an ARC Salon Bouguereau Award winner and including works by Wilson and Daniel Graves, Director of the Florence Academy, has now traveled to ...

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   A GoodArt post by Fred Ross:Why do you have to be a painter of your time?The greatest artists speak to all people of all times.They capture aspects of what it means to be human which ...

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6 September, 2007

You can help ARC support our approved ateliers and provide scholarships for students who study the techniques of the past, thereby acquiring the tools needed to create great contemporary works! Your ...

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Paul W. McCormack5-Day Watercolor Portrait in Watercolor WorkshopOctober 8-12, 2007Take this opportunity to learn from nationally recognized portrait artist and ARC Master, Paul W. McCormack.Students ...

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UPCOMING WORKSHOPSight-sized Portrait PaintingIn addition to our successful still life painting workshop, the Harlem Studio is offering, for the first time, a portrait painting workshop taught by the ...

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Mario Robinson, an ARC Living Master will be at Ann Long Fine Art on Thursday 20 September 2007 from 6-8pm at a show of recent work.Click here to see some of the works from the show.Contact:Ann Long ...

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The Quent Cordair Gallery Arts Cruise sails in 5 months. This Western Caribbean cruise with 24 full hours of fine Arts, leisurely paced over the 6 days and 7 is nearly full. The Arts Program features ...

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Call for EntriesThe Art Renewal Center's International 2007 ARC Salon™Win International Recognition Overnight Have your work seen by 5.5 Million Yearly Visitors. More than $44,000 in Awards Co ...

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For each 3rd Annual ARC Salon Catalogue that you order, get 20% off on a 2005 2nd ARC Salon Catalogue.Order more than ten catalogs and you will receive a 20% discount and a 2005 2nd ARC Salon Catalogu ...

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"Return to Florence" is an award-winning documentary about American & British art students in Florence, Italy. Filmed at the Charles H. Cecil Studios, an ARC Approved Atelier, we share their experien ...

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Dan Thompson, artist, teacher and co-founder of Grand Central Academy of Art has been approved as an ARC Master.Look for Dan's ARC Masters Gallery in the upcoming weeks.Dan will be teaching a 10-day w ...

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David Kassan, a finalist in the 2nd ARC Salon Competition of 2005, will teach a two day intensive painting workshop at the Salmagundi Center for American Art at 47 Fifth Avenue in New York City.For mo ...

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   A GoodArt post by Brian van der Spuy:I just saw a film on DVD, titled 'Art School Confidential.' It is a satire lampooning modernist art schools, and is both hilarious and infuriatin ...

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Linda Dulaney, artist and founder of the Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier, or BACAA has invited several ARC MASTERS to the BACAA studio in beautiful Belmont, California.Dan Thompson, Paul McCormack, ...

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Paul W. McCormack5-Day Watercolor Portrait WorkshopAugust 27-31, 2007Study the fine art of portraiture with ARC Living Master™ Paul W. McCormack in beautiful Santa Fe New Mexico at the world ren ...

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Including works by... Edward William Cooke [1] William Gale [1] Thomas Musgrove Joy [1] Rosa Koberwein [1] Stephen Lewin [1] Edward Pritchett [1] Ernest Rosen [1] James Webb [2] Edwin Lord ...

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Dan Thompson, color theorist, will give a live portrait demonstration on American Artist On-Line Magazine, Wednesday, June 13 at 3pm PST/ 12pm ESTPlease register prior to the chat at www.myamericanart ...

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The Arc Catalogs for the 2006 International ARC Salon Competition are now available. These catalogues record the resurgence of the classical art tradition with beautiful color reproductions. The ARC S ...

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Type of art displayed: Contemporary RealismDates: June 19-23, 2007Location: 16th Century Stables of the Corsini family home, via Il Prato, 58 Florence,Italy60 Alumni Artists spanning 17 Countries will ...

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Ignored by the quickly changing tastes of the art critics, Godward became the climatic figure of English classical-subject painting as this genre itself shriveled under the blaze of the 20th century a ...

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Peter Trippi, Editor of Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, will lecture at the ARC Approved™ Atelier:The Harlem Studio of Art508 East 117th StreetNew York CityJune 11, 2007 6-8:30pm.There will be time ...

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We have extended the deadline for entry in the annual ARC Scholarship contest to June 18, 2007. This year we will be increasing the number of scholarships available, in part because of a generous gra ...

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The Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala Florida has an exhibition of 65 paintings by William Bouguereau and his students (going on since February 10). The title of the exhibition is In the Studios of Par ...

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GoodArt post by Fred Ross:When my son was 6 years old, his arts and crafts teacher in first grade had the children paint abstractly, and Gregory painted something that was rather colorful but as instr ...

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The collection of Fred and Sherry Ross has expanded again, this time with a combination of 19th century and contemporary works:Emerald Dreams by Morgan WeistlingDawn of Hope by Daniel GerhartzEve by C ...

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The Florence Academy of ArtSummer Session 2007July 2-27, 2007Florence, Italy&Molndal, SwedenPortraiture - Still Life - LandscapeDrawing, Painting, and SculptureVia delle Casine 21r, 50122 Firenze, Ita ...

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Each month the Art Renewal Center will add a new artwork by William Bouguereau never shown on our website to the ARC Museum. Posters made from these new files along with several other images of paint ...

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We are pleased to announce the 2007 ARC Scholarship Contest. We will award at least $10,000 in scholarships to winners with over $80,000 awarded to date. Entries will be accepted through May 31, 200 ...

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3/19/2007: 9 new works of art by the following artists were added to the ARC Museum:Mose Bianchi [1]; Carlo Brancaccio [1]; Pasquale Celommi [1]; Eugene Delacroix [1]; Henri Duvieux [1]; Egisto Lancer ...

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As one of the primary academic painters of the nineteenth century, Jules Breton evolved a painting style that combined a realist selection of thematic material with an interest in creating figural typ ...

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The Florence Academy of Art has announced that it will offering Summer Workshops in Florence and Molndal, Sweden. ...

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Daniel Graves, founder and director of the Florence Academy of Art will have his first one-man exhibition at Eleanor Ettinger Gallery March 8, 2007 - April 1, 2007. ...

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ARC is delighted to announce that is has received a grant of $10,000 from the Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund to be used for the 2007 ARC Scholarship Program. This grant will allow ARC to double the fu ...

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2/19/2007: Added 25 works of art: Charles Baugniet [1]; Camille Felix Bellanger [1]; Jean Beraud [1]; Gaetano Chierici [1]; Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot [1]; Gustave Courbet [2]; Arthur John Elsley [1] ...

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2/16/2007: 15 new artist letters (totaling 22 pages)Gustave Achille Guillaumet [2]; Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet [3]; Albert Herter [1]; Constant Mayer [1]; Luc-Olivier Merson [1]; John Everett Mi ...

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2/16/2007: 32 new artist letters (totaling 56 pages)John White Alexander [1]; William Holbrook Beard [2]; John Collier [4]; Paul Michel Dupuy [2]; Luke Fildes [2]; Eugene Fromentin [3]; Frederick Good ...

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2/16/2007: Added Jose Alsina [1]; Francesco Ballesio [1]; H. G. Birchall [1]; Maurice Bompard [1]; Frederick Arthur Bridgman [3]; A Buzzi [1]; Felix Auguste Clement [1]; Rudolf Ernst [1]; F. A. Ferrar ...

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The book Classical Drawing Atelier (recently reviewed by ARC) is now available through Amazon.com. It is a fabulous overview of the methods taught in contemporary ateliers and includes a great set of ...

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12 February, 2007

8 new artist lettersAdded Louise Abbema [3]; John George Brown [1]; John Bagnold Burgess [1]; Edward Burne-Jones [4]; Horace de Callias [3]; Frantz Charlet [1]; Leon Cogniet [1]; George Vicat Cole [1 ...

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y first impression of Dana Levin on beginning our phone interview was that she was a young woman filled with enthusiasm and energy. Dana loves what she does...she paints, she teaches, and she does bot ...

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12 February, 2007

2/7/2007: 25 new works of artAdded Geraldine Jacoba Van De Sande Bakhuyzen [1]; Alexandre Calame [1]; Joseph Clark [1]; Hans Dahl [1]; William Turner Delonde [1]; Arthur John Elsley [1]; William Powel ...

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