In this issue

Jeffrey Chong Wang: Reflections • Victor Grasso: Oceanography • Taking Flight • All About Size: Collector’s Focus: Small Works & Miniatures • Beyond the Surface: Collector’s Focus: Art of the Nude • The Art Lover’s Guide to Collecting Fine Art in the Carolinas • Scottsdale Artists’ School’s Beaux Arts • International Guild of Realism’s 15th annual Juried Exhibition • American Impressionist Society’s 21st annual National Juried Exhibition • Upcoming Solo & Group Shows

OCEANOGRAPHY

Natural history and portraiture inspire Victor Grasso’s newest series of paintings.

4 mins

TAKING FLIGHT

Rehs Contemporary Galleries’ newest collaborative exhibition with Art Renewal Center spotlights birds in art.

2 mins

ALL ABOUT SCALE

Napoléon III appointed Georges-Eugène Haussmann to “aerate, unify and beautify” the city of Paris in 1850.

5 mins

Marking a Milestone

International Guild of Realism’s 15th annual Juried Exhibition opens this October at Principle Gallery in Charleston, South Carolina.

5 mins

Small-scale art

RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton, New York, hosts its annual BIG ART, small canvas exhibition beginning October 31, featuring an array of artwork by some of its most sought-after gallery artists.

4 mins

Surroundings

Artists Miguel Peidro and Jesus Navarro both turn to the outside world for their painting inspirations.

3 mins

In the Silence

The poet Charles Simic wrote, “I’m in the business of translating what cannot be translated: being and its silence.”

2 mins

Order and Chaos

After the sometimes frustrating process of mechanically establishing his compositions of symmetry and balance on a canvas, Christopher Stott begins to build up the layers of the painting itself.

2 mins

Fashionable Works

The runway comes to life in artwork featured at the third Fine Art & Fashion exhibition at Vanessa Rothe Fine Art in Laguna Beach, California.

2 mins

The Memory of Trees

Among Gilbert Gorski’s accomplishments as an architect is the Oceanarium at the John Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.

2 mins

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American Art Collector Magazine Description:

Previewing upcoming art exhibitions from coast to coast, American Art Collector is a unique monthly magazine specially designed to bring living representational artists, galleries and active art collectors together in one place.