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6 October, 2022

Celebrated as the leading society portraitist of his era, John Singer Sargent influenced a generation of American painters. His personal captivation with Spain resulted in a remarkable body of work th ...

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5 October, 2022

Laguna College of Art + Design’s BFA program in Drawing + Painting is proud to present Parallel Disasters, an exhibition of paintings. Tornados engulfing the skies above familiar suburban landscapes, ...

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ArtNet News has recently published an article highlighting ARC's role in the resurgence of interest in Realist art. This article has come out in connection to the seven paintings currently on sale at ...

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The Durand-Hedden House presents "Sunday in the Park with Asher", a plein air painting event on Sunday October 2nd (rain day the following Sunday Oct. 9th). Enjoy this special one-day community event ...

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28 September, 2022

This exhibition features original works by 13 students of the ARC Approved® Rob Gutteridge School of Classical Realism (RGCR), resurrecting the lost skills of the traditional atelier approach to art: ...

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28 September, 2022

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood revolutionized British painting traditions. But many more artists worked in their orbit than are often recognized. Overshadowed by famous peers, artists such as Barbara ...

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ARC is pleased to announce another major event at Sotheby’s New York. Following the success of the auction “Contemporary Realism: Important 21st Century Works” associated to the 15th International ARC ...

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22 September, 2022

Congratulations to ARC Living Master℠ Thomas Kegler for winning The Spirit of the Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale Award in the 41st Annual Buffalo Bill Art Show. His painting "By the Light, Psalms 75 ...

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22 September, 2022

This exhibition, conceived in collaboration with the Oskar Reinhart Collection “Am Römerholz” in Winterthur (Switzerland), is the first to explore the artistic beginnings of Lucas Cranach the Elder (1 ...

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The Florence Academy of Art is delighted to partner with Mandy Theis and School of Atelier Arts to offer this degree program. ​With its emphasis on classical methods, the course provides training in d ...

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ARC Associate Living Master℠ Mary Ross Buchholz will be participating in the 39th Annual Roundup Art Exhibition & Sale at the Museum of Western Art. This invitational exhibition features 135 works ...

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The Art Renewal Center is pleased to announce that the roster of semi-finalists competing in the 16th International ARC Salon Competition has posted. We received over 5,400 entries this year from ...

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Approximately sixty works by Johann Heinrich Füssli (better known as Henry Fuseli), artist of the imaginary, grotesque, and the sublime, will be on view in Paris in the first monographic exhibition of ...

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This exhibition is the largest gathering of Murillo’s paintings in the United States in 20 years. While Spanish Golden Age painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo is primarily known for his representations ...

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ARC is pleased to announce another major event at Sotheby’s New York. Following the success of the auction “Contemporary Realism: Important 21st Century Works” associated to the 15th International ARC ...

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  The FCAA has created its first online program for classical painting and drawing that is not subscription-based but is a full-rounded course which takes you from basic knowledge to dr ...

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Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, Connecticut, seeks a Managing Director to start on or before December 1, 2022. Lyme Academy is an Academy of professional artists that encourages individuality a ...

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On display is a selection of eight works by Francisco Pradilla housed in the Museum. Together with the large painting Doña Juana la Loca and her sketch, exhibited in room 75, these works will enable t ...

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The ARC Scholarship Fund has awarded $31,000 in direct scholarships to aid students at ARC Approved™ art academy and atelier schools. This year our top prize, The Brian Yoder Memorial Scholarship Awar ...

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The Vosler Young Artists' Studio has added new Adult classes in Figure Drawing with Yeats Ihrig and Portrait drawing with Kerry Vosler. Both drawing classes will focus on structural, anatomical landma ...

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Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Venice was a major artistic hub for American and European artists. This exhibition features paintings, etchings and 3-dimensional objects tha ...

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For the first time in the UK, an overview of the work of Winslow Homer will be presented. Homer confronted the leading issues facing the United States and its relationship with both Europe and the Car ...

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We are pleased to announce that the winners of the 22nd ARC Scholarship will be posted to the ARC website on Friday, September 2, 2022. The ARC Scholarship Competition is devoted to supporti ...

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The Guild of Boston Artists is proud to present this year's New England Regional Juried Exhibition at it's gallery on 162 Newbury St, Boston, MA from September 3 - October 1, 2022. Each year, the exhi ...

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25 August, 2022

This exhibition is a tribute to Signorina Nerina Simi. Works by former Studio Simi students will be exhibited in Villa Bertelli, Viale Giuseppe Mazzini 200, Forte dei Marmi, Lucca, 55042 Italy from Se ...

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To commemorate the post-renovation reopening of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, and in collaboration with the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, this exhibition traces the development of mo ...

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Juliette Aristides teaches the classical methods in her online intensive atelier.  Start your art training this Fall! The Atelier program is a sequential curriculum led with live instruction by J ...

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15 August, 2022

Congratulations to ARC Living Master℠ Vicki Sullivan, and Associate Living Masters℠ Jaq Grantford, Elizabeth Barden, and Anne-Marie Zanetti for being selected as finalists in the Kennedy Prize. The Ke ...

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Joanna Hiffernan’s close professional and personal relationship with artist James McNeill Whistler lasted more than two decades—yet who was she? She is featured in numerous works by Whistler, includin ...

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September 26 - December 9Taught remotely from the Florence campus November 28 - December 9 In-person option in Florence If you would like to write with mastery about figurative art, or simply further ...

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9 August, 2022

The first major retrospective of Sickert at Tate in over 60 years, this exhibition explores how he had an often radical, distinctive approach to setting and subject matter. From working off detailed s ...

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This exhibition explores the importance of nature in Catalan art. With a focus on the 19th century Romantic Movement which was spreading throughout Europe at that time, a selection of about& ...

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For the English Romantic painter, watercolorist and printmaker, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), the elements of nature are abstract forces, with their own symbolism and meaning. This exhibi ...

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Pastels enjoyed considerable popularity in the 18th century when many works were created, especially in France. But what are the reasons behind the technique’s blossom at the time, what advantages did ...

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2 August, 2022

ARC Associate Living Master℠ Debra Keirce won Best in Show for her painting "Nurdles and Ghost Nets and Flotsam" (Clean Up in Hawaii) in the U.S. Coast Guard Art Program. Thirty-eight works by 27 arti ...

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An exhibition of the winning works in ModPortrait will be on view at the MEAM, 5 Carrer de la Barra de Ferro, Barcelona 08003, Spain from July 1 - September 22, 2022. ModPortrait is the international ...

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The castles, knights, battles, and imaginary creatures of the Middle Ages perpetually inspire art, literature, photography, film, and reenactment. These later fantasy works blend historical source mat ...

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27 July, 2022

Featuring paintings and sculpture by the finest contemporary Western artists working today, the 50th annual Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition & Sale at the National Cowboy & Western Her ...

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In this first monographic exhibition on Paret organised by the Prado, Paret’s professional career is examined with the aim of singling out the excellent technical level and striking originality with w ...

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Nathan Bertling's self-portrait Quick to Listen (oil on linen) was recently awarded Best in Show at the annual open painting, sculpture, and graphics exhibition at the Salmagundi Club. This competitiv ...

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Master Painter Yuqi Wang will teach a week-long workshop on painting the figure in its environment. Yuqi Wang was born in China, 1958. He now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been c ...

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September 26 - December 9Taught remotely from the Florence campus November 28 - December 9 In-person option in Florence If you would like to write with mastery about figurative art, or simply further ...

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This workshop focuses on the principles essential to transforming abstract flat shapes into fully dimensional forms. Students will study the figure in a way that allows the translation of a 3-dimensio ...

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Brooklyn-based sculptor Justin Ryan Kendall is making affordable plaster drawing casts available to students, teachers, and lovers of art and art history. With a collection of over 150 pieces and grow ...

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  ARC Living Master Joke Frima is holding a solo exhibition of works at Galerie Nakaï, 32 Rue du Docteur Privey, Tournus, France from July 8 - August 15, 2022. Every year Joke Frima wins prestigi ...

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Van Gogh particularly admired the painterly innovations of the Hague School–a group named for the city in the Netherlands where its core artists lived and worked beginning about 1870. Van Gogh spent t ...

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For 20 years, the Faculty at Studio Incamminati has been teaching students whose art and teaching inspire others. Come witness their vision. The exhibition includes works by such artists as Kerry Dunn ...

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The American Artists Professional League Studio Auction features original artwork directly from the studios of their members. The exceptional selection of artwork includes paintings, drawings and scul ...

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The Miano Academy of Art is pleased to unveil a new studio, located on 5320 Lena Rd Unit 105, Bradenton, FL 34211. There, students can learn under the full time tutelage of ARC Associate Living Master ...

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  Tracing the evolution of the practice of drawing in Britain from the 17th through the mid-20th century, "100 Great British Drawings" presents rarely seen treasures from The Huntington's collect ...

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The Art Renewal Center is no longer accepting entries to the 16th International ARC Salon. Over 5,400 entries have been received from 75 countries. A list of the semi-finalist artists and works for th ...

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As part of their commitment to art, our allied organization ARTDATAintel, scouts, curates, coaches and sponsors -every year- a few talented artists from around the world to compete for the first time ...

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Born in Ferrara, Italy in 1842, Boldini spent most of his career in Paris. He was a close friend of Degas and also of Proust, and moved in aristocratic and upper middle-class circles. During his lifet ...

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September 26 - December 9Taught remotely from the Florence campus November 28 - December 9In-person option in Florence If you would like to write with mastery about figurative art, or simply further y ...

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Congratulations to ARC Living Master Louis Alvarez Roure for winning the William F. Draper Grand Prize and People’s Choice Award at the 24th Portrait Society of America’s International Portrait Compet ...

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This new exhibition, organized with the Ateneum Art Museum of Helsinki, is dedicated to Albert Edelfelt, one of the stars of Finnish painting. Some 100 works retrace his career and illustrate how the ...

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Rehs Contemporary, ARC Select: INSIGHT, presents new works by the winners of the Rehs Contemporary Galleries Award in the 15th ARC Salon Competition. INSIGHT sets out to explore our con ...

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Due to a large number of requests for more time and individuals needing last minute technical assistance, the deadline for the 16th International ARC Salon Competition will be extended until the ...

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The virtuoso and prolific artist Louis-Léopold Boilly became an enthusiastic chronicler of Paris for sixty years, from one revolution to the dawn of another (1789 and 1848). He is both the portrait pa ...

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The Miano Academy of Art is pleased to unveil a new studio, located on 5320 Lena Rd Unit 105, Bradenton, FL 34211. There, students can learn under the full time tutelage of ARC Associate Living Master ...

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IGOR is proud to announce that their 16th Annual IGOR Exhibition will be at the prestigious McBride Gallery, 215 Main Street, Annapolis, Maryland from June 10 - July 24, 2022, with a preview opening o ...

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If you are ready and plan on entering, we strongly suggest entering now and not waiting until the last moment. A full 20% of ARC Salon entries (last year about 1,000 works) are submitted within the la ...

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7 June, 2022

More than 100 works of students and teachers of the Academy of Fine Art Germany are on display at the English Church Cultural Center, Ferdinandstrasse 16, 61348 Bad Homburg, Germany. During the openin ...

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Between the late 16th century and the early 18th century, artists working in the Netherlands—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of landscape drawings. Many of these work ...

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The Salmagundi Club is accepting entries for their 2022 Annual Painting, Sculpture and Graphics exhibition. This exhibition of original oils, watercolors, pastels, colored pencils, acrylics, mixed med ...

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Over $130,000 in cash awards, 13 publications participating with awards, inclusion in the Lunar Codex, a chance to exhibit your work at Sotheby’s NY and LA, Rehs Contemporary Galleries, Fashion Week S ...

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Edinburgh Atelier of Fine Art Instructors Ewan McNaughton and Lea Vaughn are delighted to present their own personal experimentation and historical research into the methods of their favorite painter, ...

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During the 1660s, Sevillian artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo set out to paint the biblical parable of the prodigal son. Many artists tackling this subject focus on the story’s conclusion—that is, the ...

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Over this five-day workshop at the Edinburgh Atelier of Fine Art, students will methodically examine the structure of the head and neck through a series of group demonstrations and indi ...

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The Florence Academy of Art is delighted to partner with Mandy Theis and School of Atelier Arts to offer this degree program. ​With its emphasis on classical methods, the course provides training in d ...

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Rehs Contemporary, is pleased to announce their upcoming exhibit, ARC Select: INSIGHT, presenting new works by the winners of the Rehs Contemporary Galleries Award in the 15th ARC Salon ...

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The Salon des Refusés was initiated by the S.H. Ervin Gallery in 1992 in response to the large number of works entered into the Archibald Prize exhibition, which is one of Australia’s most high profil ...

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The Miano Academy of Art now has a new location - 5320 Lena Rd Unit 105, Bradenton, FL 34211. Miano Academy of Art is proud to present their Atelier Apprenticeship program under the direction of ARC A ...

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Rediscover late 19th- and early 20th-century painters who left the United States as expatriates and returned to shape the course of American art. In Paris, they trained under the influence of the Écol ...

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September 26 - December 9Taught remotely from the Florence campus November 28 - December 9 In-person option in Florence If you would like to write with mastery about figurative art, or simply further ...

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In conjunction with the Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association's Art-A-Whirl weekend, The Atelier Studio Program of Fine Arts is holding its annual Full-Time Student Show. In addition to celebrating s ...

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Mariano Fortuny y Marsal was born in the Catalan city of Reus. During a prolific but brief career—cut short by malaria—he became the most internationally acclaimed Spanish artist thanks in ...

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The Florence Classical Arts Academy is an accredited, private, and international Visual Arts Academy located in the heart of Italy. FCAA offers a variety of programs for students - Diploma in Visual A ...

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This exhibition celebrates Doris and Shouky Shaheen's recent gift of twelve American oils and watercolors to the Norton Museum of Art. Ranging in style from Impressionism to Realism, the works demonst ...

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We are now accepting entries into our student scholarship competition, which runs from May 1 - May 31, 2022. The ARC 2022 Scholarship Competition is devoted to supporting students whose works reflect ...

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This annual exhibition is an occasion for the public to enjoy the Society’s artist members’ most recent works and to discover new talents selected amongst thousands of applications for this show. It i ...

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This exhibition celebrates the work of Giovan Lorenzo Bernini and the brilliance of the Roman Baroque period. Working for popes and princes, Bernini was one of the brightest luminaries in the history ...

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September 26 - December 9Taught remotely from the Florence campus November 28 - December 9In-person option in Florence If you would like to write with mastery about figurative art, or simply further y ...

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The American Artists Professional League, an ARC Allied Organization, is holding their Spring Members Show and Sale. The show consists of an exceptional collection of paintings, drawings, graphics, an ...

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28 April, 2022

A painter, draughtsman, architect, archaeologist, and poet, Raphael captured in his art the human and the divine, love and friendship, learning and power. In his brief career, spanning just two decade ...

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The Texas Academy of Figurative Art is one of the only full-time fine art academies in Texas that is focused exclusively on classical realist drawing and painting. TAFA offers an atelier experience fo ...

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The Miano Academy of Art now has a new location - 5320 Lena Rd Unit 105, Bradenton, FL 34211. Miano Academy of Art is proud to present their Atelier Apprenticeship program under the direction of ARC A ...

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Renowned for his powerful paintings of American life and scenery, Winslow Homer remains a consequential figure whose art continues to appeal to broad audiences. This exhibition reconsiders Homer’s wor ...

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In this workshop, ARC Living Master Chad Fisher will teach students how to create a finished clay portrait from life using traditional fine art techniques. Emphasis will be placed on large shapes, ana ...

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Brooklyn-based sculptor Justin Ryan Kendall is making affordable plaster drawing casts available to students, teachers, and lovers of art and art history. With a collection of 120 pieces and growing - ...

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18 April, 2022

Visit Delacroix’s last apartment and studio for a discovery of the artist's ties to nature. Within the intimate setting of the museum and garden, the exhibition features rare landscapes painted by Del ...

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The American Society of Marine Artists will select three outstanding marine themed works, (one “Best Marine Themed Work” which is a $3,000 award and two Honorable Mentions where each recipient wi ...

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Join ARC Living Master Juliette Aristides for a three-day immersion in figure painting, whether you are a beginner looking to try something new, or an experienced painter interested in Classical train ...

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ARC Approved Atelier Studio Program of Fine Arts is holding a scholarship competition for new full-time students. The scholarship is for one year's tuition ($9,000 value) at The Atelier Studio Program ...

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Congratulations to ARC Living Master Louis Alvarez Roure for being a finalist in the 24th annual International Portrait Competition. Only 21 finalists were chosen out 2274 entries. Awards will be pres ...

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12 April, 2022

Congratulations to ARC Associate Living Master Arina Gordienko for winning an honorable mention in Modportrait 2021, an international portrait competition run by Artelibre Gallery in collaboration wit ...

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The Grandmasters of Fine Art is a virtual exhibition of Contemporary Realist artworks from around the world. This year, ARC Associate Living Masters Arian Gordienko and Gezien van de Riet will be amon ...

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ARC Associate Living Master Gezien Van der Riet will have nearly 500 drawing, paintings, and watercolors she created as a sociologist in Bolivia added to the collection of the Fundación Cultural of th ...

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This exhibition reunites a group of exceptionally important wall paintings (last seen together in 1833) which can be considered the great unknown work in Annibale Carracci’s oeuvre; the surviving fres ...

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6 April, 2022

This exhibition explores the artistic networks of women artists exhibiting, studying, and teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from its founding in 1805 to the end of World War II. PA ...

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