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The Pastel Society of New Mexico’s 2025 “Enchanted Colors Exhibition” will be held at the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, New Mexico. There will be a display of 66 pastel paintings exhibited by fine artists from across the USA, with the majority of them being from New Mexico and immediately surrounding States.

More from the organizers:

Taos, a wonderful art community, has been host to our exhibition for now, going on its fifth year and we enjoy our relationship with the organizers and administrators of this great museum. The show will display works in two spacious gallery rooms.

The jurors of acceptance are Bruce A. Gomez, William Schneider, and Marie Tippets. The jurors “sculpt” the exhibition while the judge grants awards to several of the finest works. The Judge of Awards will be Lisa Gleim. Numerous Cash and Sponsor Awards are expected to total more than $10,000 in value.

The exhibition will run from March 22 – June 1, 2025 with the Gala Opening Celebration and Awards Ceremony held on Saturday, March 22. Additionally, there will be a Virtual Interactive Online Exhibition with 56 additional painting images by the artists who requested to have their works displayed “Digitally Only” showing all of the paintings in their relative sizes.

Learn more about “Enchanted Colors” here.

Attention Art Collectors!
May 20-22, 2025: Visit the Plein Air Convention & Expo’s robust pop-up art gallery at the Nugget Casino Resort in Reno, Nevada, where hundreds of artists, including our master faculty, will have studio and plein air works on display and ready to purchase. Register for the full event at PleinAirConvention.com now.

Browse more western art here at FineArtConnoisseur.com.

Hendricks Live!, a new performing and fine arts center in Plainfield, is hosting the exhibition “The Influence of Artist Richard Schmid.” Original works by Schmid loaned by private collectors are on view with paintings created by the Indiana artist Libby Whipple, who counts Schmid as her greatest mentor. During his six-decade-long career, Schmid inspired thousands of artists and won acclaim for the more than 3,000 landscapes, still lifes, and figurative works he painted.

In 2000, Richard Ormond, grand-nephew of John Singer Sargent and the premier authority on his ancestor’s art, presented Schmid with the American Society of Portrait Artists’ John Singer Sargent Medal. Ormond has written, “The principles of painting from life have been well mastered by Richard. He can translate what he sees into pictorial form with great panache. His fluent and incisive brushwork brings to life his chosen subjects with veracity and immediacy. You feel you are there in the picture, so convincingly alive is the space, so tactile the surfaces. Wizardry with the brush can sometimes rebound on the head of the painter. Success is attributed to technical facility, not to deeper artistic impulses…. Richard knows better than anyone that mastery of the medium is not the end of the story, though without it an artist is lost. Perception, feeling, imagination, these are the things that stamp a work of art and open the mind and soul of the spectator.”

Details at a Glance:
“The Influence of Artist Richard Schmid”
Plainfield, Indiana
hendrickslive.org
through April 9, 2025

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Surprises await visitors to the RISD Museum in its exhibition “The Art of French Wallpaper Design.” Organized by curator Emily Banas, it explores the vibrant designs that adorned Europeans’ walls in the 1700s and 1800s.

“The Art of French Wallpaper Design”
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
risdmuseum.org
through May 11, 2025

On view are more than 100 rare samples of salvaged wallpapers, borders, fragments, and design drawings, all revealing their creators’ innovations and technical skill. Accompanied by a digital publication, this project celebrates the foresight of Charles and Frances Wilson Huard, who assembled this collection in the 1920s and ’30s.

The online catalogue notes that “in the past, much like today, wallpaper designs typically reflected what was in vogue, so once papers were out of fashion, they were removed or pasted over. It is therefore not surprising that examples of historical wallpapers are few and far between, particularly those in good condition. To assemble a comprehensive collection today would be a difficult undertaking.”

Celebrity Portraits in Print History > Before the 18th century, consumers in Great Britain and its American colonies lacked access to images of famous people other than monarchs. Broad circulation of engraved portraiture changed all that; now people could put a recognizable likeness or caricature with a name they had read about. Soon a market emerged for images of writers, actors, criminals, athletes, politicians, military figures, social climbers, models, and fashionable society women.

This year, the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum — one of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg — is presenting the exhibition “Celebrity in Print,” which pairs portrait prints with porcelain, silver, archeological fragments, and other artifacts that together illustrate the powerful impact celebrities made.

According to Katie McKinney, Colonial Williamsburg’s curator of maps and prints, “Just as today we use ever-expanding technologies to shape and share our image, so artists, actors, politicians, athletes, and socialites of the past used the printed word and images to expand their influence and fame.”

“Celebrity in Print”
DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
Williamsburg, Virginia
colonialwilliamsburg.org
through November 8, 2025

Among the most recognizable of colonial government notables was Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790). In a 1763 mezzotint made after a portrait painted by Mason Chamberlin, several of Franklin’s most famous experiments are depicted around him, including the lightning rod. After the print was published in England, his son ordered 200 copies to sell in Philadelphia. Franklin himself greatly enjoyed handing the print out to friends and correspondents, as this was one of his favorite likenesses.

Actors were often depicted in costumes or striking poses from their most famous roles. Their printed portraits often served as inspiration for ceramic figurines and were transferred to handkerchiefs, snuffboxes, and drinking vessels. One example featured in “Celebrity in Print” (and illustrated here) is the British comedic actor Henry Woodward (1714–1777).

This pair includes a print and a porcelain figure showing him as “The Fine Gentleman” in David Garrick’s first play, Lethe, or Esop in Shades, first performed in London in 1740. Woodward’s character, dressed in an absurd outfit, poked fun at the wealthy Englishmen who traveled through Europe on their “Grand Tour.”

Upon their return, it was feared that they would adopt foreign dress, customs, and tastes. Garrick’s play was soon performed to huge acclaim in New York, Philadelphia, Annapolis, and Charleston.

Printed likenesses also celebrated ordinary people who led extraordinary lives. In the 18th century, 50 was the threshold of “old age.” It is not surprising, then, that Margaret Patten, who in 1737 claimed to be 136 years old, attracted attention. The mezzotint engraving of her is based on a portrait by John Cooper that was painted at the request of local officials to commemorate her long life.

The exhibited prints — and also other examples kept elsewhere at Colonial Williamsburg — can be explored in depth on two 65-inch touchscreens available for visitors’ use in the galleries.

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art holds a superb collection of nearly 1,250 European drawings, watercolors, and pastels, but can rarely display them as they are sensitive to light. On view this season is the exhibition “Paper, Color, Line,” featuring 65 masterworks dating from the 16th through the late 20th centuries.

This trove is particularly strong in the 19th and 20th centuries, and among the talents represented are Courbet, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Schiele, Klee, and Miró. Another collection strength is theatrical designs, including works by Picasso, Léon Bakst, and Natalia Goncharova. Led by its curator of European art, Oliver Tostmann, the museum has made some exciting discoveries, all documented in the Wadsworth’s first ever catalogue devoted to this material.

“Paper, Color, Line”
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum
Hartford, Connecticut
thewadsworth.org
Through April 27, 2025

The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts has organized the innovative exhibition “Rivera’s Paris.” It gathers an array of paintings, drawings, and photographs to explore the Mexican artist’s formative early years in Spain and France, particularly his encounters with cubism that resulted in “Dos Mujeres” (1914), a signature artwork in the museum’s own Foundation Collection.

Dos Mujeres is a portrait of Rivera’s common-law wife, Angelina Beloff (standing), and their artist friend Alma Dolores Bastián. It earned acclaim when first exhibited in Paris and was gifted to the museum in 1955 by Abby Rockefeller Mauzé, sister to Arkansas’s future Governor Winthrop Rockefeller.

Rivera’s Paris
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
Little Rock
arkmfa.org
Through May 18, 2025

Fine Art Collection on View > In Salisbury, North Carolina, the Waterworks Visual Arts Center is hosting the exhibition “Never Before Seen … Modern Masterpieces from the Collection of Julian and Josie Robertson.” On view are 40 paintings and sculptures created by 28 European artists including Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Fantin-Latour, Picasso, Chagall, Kandinsky, and de Kooning, spanning a range of movements from impressionism to abstract expressionism.

All of the works are from the collection of the late New York City philanthropists Julian and Josie Robertson, who began buying art in earnest after Julian (1932–2022) founded the hedge fund Tiger Management in the 1980s. He was born in Salisbury and remained dedicated to his hometown for the rest of his life.

It was there that he learned the importance of community from his parents, Blanche and Julian Robertson, both active members of the town’s church and civic life. Blanche was also instrumental in establishing Waterworks as a recognized organization in the late 1970s.

On a national level, the younger Robertsons became generous supporters of the arts, medical science, education, environmental conservations, and efforts to combat poverty. In 1997, they established the Blanche and Julian Robertson Family Foundation to support causes in Salisbury and in Rowan County, of which it is the county seat.

As plans were laid to tour the Robertson Collection, it was agreed that it should be seen in Salisbury first. Its 12-month presentation there is attracting visitors from throughout the region, and it’s impressive that Waterworks and the foundation have partnered to ensure that every child in Rowan County — some 19,000 students — will visit during the show’s long run.

Exhibition Details At a Glance:
“Never Before Seen … Modern Masterpieces from the Collection of Julian and Josie Robertson”
Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, North Carolina
waterworks.org
Through August 30, 2025

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Contemporary Paintings for Sale:
“Lisa Breslow: From This Place”
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
New York, New York
www.markelfinearts.com
February 20 – March 29, 2025

From the gallery:

Lisa Breslow painted this collection of work during a period of immense productivity following the devastating loss of her husband. The act of making became a solace for the artist and she focused this energy to push her painting further than ever before. Each distinct brushstroke is more confident and bold and each scene deeply emotionally resonant. Her rich surfaces reveal the time and care spent with every mark.

Breslow’s paintings are reflective, personal expressions of her everyday surroundings. The process of choosing what to paint is intuitive, as she describes it, “I tend to gravitate toward scenes that are quieter and more meditative. It’s always the lighting that draws me in initially, with its interplay of colors and forms that evokes a particular feeling or mood. When I see it, I know immediately that this is something I would want to paint.”

Each composition sits at an intersection of busy city life and the quiet of nature. The artist distills these experiences into introspective snapshots that feel both optimistic and tender as she captures the memory of a place.

Lisa Breslow has exhibited extensively in the United States, including recently at the Heritage Museum and the Heckscher Museum. She has been awarded two Pollock-Krasner Foundation awards, as well as an award from the National Academy Museum in New York, and was an Invited Artist at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking. She lives and works in New York City.

Attention Art Collectors!
May 20-22, 2025: Visit the Plein Air Convention & Expo’s robust pop-up art gallery at the Nugget Casino Resort in Reno, Nevada, where hundreds of artists, including our master faculty, will have studio and plein air paintings for sale. Register for the full event at PleinAirConvention.com now.

View more fine art gallery exhibitions here at FineArtConnoisseur.com.

Given its location in southern Connecticut, it’s appropriate that the Fairfield University Art Museum has organized the exhibition “Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut.” It explores the development of the tonalist style in American landscape painting from the 1870s — a movement that reacted against the Hudson River School’s narrative of God-ordained grandeur and luminous, crystalline views by instead foregrounding humanity’s spiritual connection to nature, often painted from memory and informed by the traumas of civil war and industrialization.

At a Glance:
“Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut”
Fairfield University Art Museum
Fairfield, Connecticut
fairfield.edu/museum
Through April 12, 2025

Drawn from private and public collections, the show’s 70 works range in date from 1878 to 1917, painted by 24 artists clustered primarily in and around New York and Boston. The title (Dawn & Dusk) reflects the tonalists’ preference for the subtle visual effects that dawn, twilight, autumn, and winter have on the landscape. Vacant of human activity, the images often hint at spiritual or symbolic meanings and provide a bridge to the more expressive and psychological modernist works of the 20th century.

Guest-curated by Mary Ann Hollihan, the exhibition features an important painting by George Inness from the Bridgeport Public Library not publicly exhibited in over 70 years; two works by Whistler lent by the New York Public Library; two paintings lent by the Florence Griswold Museum (Old Lyme, Connecticut); and works by three women artists lent by New York City’s Hawthorne Fine Art and the Cooley Gallery (Old Lyme).