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Acknowledg ments & Thanks

ON BEHALF of the CAPE ANN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION To all the Artists, Collectors, Organizers, Sponsors and Visitors, Just over a year ago, the idea of Cape Ann Plein Air had been just that, an idea, a great concept aspiring to bring renowned painters to this culturally historic and stunningly beautiful place. Plein air events, where artists travel from all corners of North America to compete for significant prize money, occur dozens of times or more every year in the United States. Yet there has never been a national-level event here in Cape Ann where some of the most famous artists in U.S. history have painted en plein air. No single region is more famously recognized than Cape Ann which provided the creative inspiration over the last 200 years and hosted our history’s giants like Winslow Homer, Fitz Henry Lane, Edward Hopper and N.C. Wyeth, just to name a few.

The crucial first step to launching a plein air event requires raising significant prize money. Following a meeting with Applied Materials management back in January, the Applied Material Foundation agreed to provide the underwriting necessary to take Cape Ann Plein Air from a great concept to reality. Additional funding provided by Stephen and Jill Bell, Linzee and Beth Coolidge, By-The-Sea Sotheby’s International Realty and the law firm of Glovsky and Glovsky all have given CAPA 2016 national standing among all other plein air competitions.

Finally, we would like to offer a special thanks for those who have met once and often twice a week for the last year, and spent hundreds of hours taking care of each and every part of the design and implementation of CAPA 2016. They include but are not limited to the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce (CACC), the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (seARTS), Rockport Art Association and Museum, North Shore Art Association, Essex Merchants Group, Rockport Cultural District and Rocky Neck Art Colony. Most importantly, we owe a big thanks to project leader Karen Ristuben who stayed on top of each and every detail along the way. And there have been many.

This undertaking represents a major collaboration between the arts, business and the community throughout Cape Ann, the first of its kind. As a result, the Cape Ann Community Foundation is both excited and overwhelmed by the inspirational work so many have contributed. Thank you again for your participation on every level and tireless effort to make this the first of many future successful Cape Ann Plein Air events.

Sincerely, Ken Riehl, CEO

James Caviston, President

Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce

Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (seARTS)

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Contents

2 Acknowledgments & Thanks 4 Sponsors 3 Welcome Letter 7 Calendar 8 Cape Ann and the Tradition of Plein Air Painting 16 Map 21 Artist Index 22 Competition Juror Profile 23 Awards Judge Profile 24 Artist Profiles 64 Advertiser Index

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Spons ors PRESENTING SPONSOR

J. Barrett & Company: Best Nocturnal

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Leonard Parco: Neptune’s Harvest Award

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DISTINGUISHED COMMUNITY SPONSOR Linzee and Beth Coolidge

Christine Mosher: Donald Allen Mosher Award Nancy Strisik: Paul Strisik, N.A. Award

Michael Harding, Handmade Artist Oil Colors

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John and Kathy Connolly: First Place, Juried

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Glovsky & Glovsky LLC AWARD SPONSORS Cape Ann Plein Air: First, Second and Third Place Cox Reservation: Honorable Mention Central Street Gallery: Honorable Mention Kelly Automotive Group: Best Americana Carpenter & MacNeille, Architects and Builders, Inc.: Best Use of Perspective Mona Eliasson and Dave Tallaferro: Best Use of Light

Betsy Bullock and Andrew Crocker: Second Place, Juried Manchester Cricket: Third Place, Juried Santander: Third Place, Non-Juried

Greg and Catherine Crockett

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FRIENDS OF CAPA

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Ron and Mary Skates Carpenter & MacNeille Architects and Builders Inc. Kelly Automotive Group David and Lynne Comb Mrs. Kay Allard Karen Berger

Dan DeLouise Kathy Morris Jill Marshall Karen Ristuben PARTICIPATING MERCHANTS Bean & Leaf Café

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Welcome

to the first annual Cape Ann Plein Air, a week-long celebration of painting outdoors in the birthplace of this classic art form.

Cape Ann has long been a destination for painters and other artists. The organizers of Cape Ann Plein Air saw this as an opportunity for all of Cape Ann—not only our artists, but our business and community leaders as well—to come together to raise awareness of our storied and still incredibly vibrant arts presence.

We thank our sponsors and the many volunteers who made this year’s Cape Ann Plein Air possible. We also thank the businesses, housing hosts and other residents of Cape Ann who have opened their arms to you and the many others celebrating our region’s plein air experience.We hope you come away from this week with a greater appreciation for the natural beauty that has inspired artists for nearly two centuries. Among those plein air artists are the 40 who were selected to compete in this inaugural competition—some based here and many who have traveled from other parts of the United States.

And finally, we thank you for joining us. We have arranged not only this competition, but many other events and activities across Gloucester, Rockport, Essex and Manchester-bythe-Sea aimed at enlightening those of you new to Cape Ann and remind our neighbors and longtime visitors of the wonderful artists who are continuing our rich plein air tradition. The work of our Cape Ann Plein Air artists and the region’s many painters—past and present— serves as a lasting reflection of our proud plein air legacy, and we encourage you to take advantage of the opportunity to make these paintings part of your lives.

Please visit the Cape Ann Plein Air website—capeannpleinair.com—following this week’s events for news about upcoming activities and updates on the artists. This site will be available all year, so you can stay in touch with our Cape Ann Plein Air community.

We invite you to join us next fall for Cape Ann Plein Air 2017. We also hope to see you at other times throughout the year—in our galleries, shops and museums, and in the villages, neighborhoods and coastal settings of Cape Ann that continue to provide a backdrop for plein air artists.

Karen Ristuben Project Manager, Cape Ann Plein Air 2016 Cape Ann Plein Air 2016 extends its warm appreciation to John Caggiano for his guidance and support through the planning and presentation of this inaugural plein air event.

Cape Ann Plein Air 2016 Partners Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce Cape Ann Community Foundation Inc. Society for the Encouragement of the Arts on Cape Ann (SeARTS)

North Shore Arts Association Rockport Art Association & Museum Rocky Neck Art Colony Manchester Historical Society Essex Merchants Group

Rockport Cultural District Rocky Neck Cultural District Harbortown Cultural District Essex River Cultural District

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CONTEMPORARY ART AND PERFORMANCE ON HISTORIC CAPE ANN

Trident Gallery shows beautiful and intelligent contemporary art in all mediums, emphasizing the work of artists continuing Gloucester’s rich legacy as a center for new American Art.

C A P A Public Calendar MONDAY, OCTOBER 10

• 6–8 pm: Meet the Artist Opening Reception, North Shore Arts Association, Pirates Lane, Gloucester TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11

• Noon–1 pm: Demo, David Curtis, Cogswell Grant, Essex

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12

• 10 am–noon: Painting-by-the-Sea Quick Draw, Manchester-by-the-Sea • 5–7 pm: Quick Draw Reception Trask House, Manchester-by-the-Sea THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13

• Noon–1 pm: Demo, Artist Geoffrey Teale Chalmers, Beauport Sleeper/McCann House, Eastern Point Blvd., Gloucester • 5–6:30 pm: Demo and Artist Talk by CAPA Awards Juror Ray Hassard, Rocky Neck Cultural Center, Gloucester, then CAPA gathering at the Studio Restaurant FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14

• 4 pm: Victoria Price, “The Adventure of Collecting Art,” Brothers Brew, Rockport • 4–7 pm: Rockport Art Colony Gallery Stroll, Rockport • 8–11 pm: Katrina’s CAPA Artist Night, Rogers St., Gloucester SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15

• All day: Paint Essex 7:30 am registration at Essex Shipbuilding Museum 6–10 pm: Cape Ann Plein Air Grand Awards Gala & Sale, Rockport Art Association & Museum, Rockport SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16

• 10 am–5 pm: CAPA Exhibit open to public, Rockport Art Association & Museum, Rockport • Noon–1 pm: Demo, Dennis Sheehan, The Essex Room at Woodman’s, Essex • 3:30 pm: People’s Choice Award, Rockport Art Association & Museum, Rockport • 4–8 pm: Paint Essex Auction, Dinner & Sale, The Essex Room at Woodman’s, Essex TUESDAY–SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11–15

• 3 pm: Daily docent-led tours ~ painters past and present. Cape Ann Museum, Pleasant St., Gloucester MONDAY & TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 & 18

• 10 am–4 pm: Workshop with Ray Hassard, “Getting the Strongest Start,” North Shore Arts Association, Pirates Lane, Gloucester

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Cape Ann and the Tradition of Plein Air Painting

by Judith A. Curtis

Frank Duveneck, N. A., The Yellow Pier Shed, c. 1905, 36 x 40", oil on canvas. Private collection.

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t is well over one hundred and fifty years since the first artists arrived on Cape Ann to paint nature on the spot. En plein air, as the French call it, meaning the artist executed his, or her, canvas “in the open air” with their subject in front of them.

This was not an entirely new concept.

In England, John Constable and J. M. W. Turner were sketching outdoors as early, in Turner’s case, as the late 1790s.

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These works tended to be topographical in nature. That is, more occupied with accuracy of place and character based on traditional techniques, than his later, romanticized views. Constable, in his turn, loved to catch the quick impression of moving skies and distant vistas, observing the naturalistic effect of a scene. In Europe, the 17th century French master, Claude Lorrain, preempted everyone with his goal of working outside the studio

to achieve a quality of inherent beauty determined by the Classical concept of high idealism in Art. For many artists the invention of the metal paint tube in the mid-1800s, supplanting the usual pig’s bladder, made carrying oil paints out of doors much easier. The academics felt it was hardly necessary to actually paint outdoors; a classical landscape as a backdrop to, say, a religious theme, could be executed in the studio according to basic principles and one’s knowledge and personal observations. Nevertheless, a whole new school of thought reared its head among the younger, avant-garde artists, particularly in Paris and the surrounding countryside. Claude Monet, Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, to name but three, quickly rose to the forefront of this trendsetting approach, and into this milieu of impressionist seeing and high key color came visiting American art students, among them William Morris Hunt, Frank Benson, Edmund C. Tarbell and Philip L. Hale.

While there were many American students shaped by the ideals of French Impressionism, Benson, Hale and Tarbell, in particular, influenced future generations of artists with their instruction at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

However, rather than just teaching the idea of using a high key palette to emulate the effect of light on a subject, the Americans taught their students to retain an effect of academic drawing in their work, rather than lose all shape in favor of loose brushwork and color and that, together with a unique nationwide genre developed into what we know today as American Impressionism.

William Morris Hunt was one of the first teachers to bring students to Cape Ann in the mid-1870s when he opened a school of plein air painting in Magnolia, MA, just down the coast from Gloucester

Harbor itself. So unique was the sight of a painter working at his easel out of doors that Hunt eventually began wearing a sign around his neck saying, “I can’t talk and I can’t hear!” to discourage spectators.

In c.1877, Hunt—an enthusiastic plein air painter—was thrilled to execute a painting of Gloucester Harbor that caused him to exclaim, “I believe I have painted a picture with light in it!” The painting was later purchased by the MFA in Boston.

Prior to Hunt’s arrival, Gloucester was also home to Fitz Henry Lane whose well-established reputation as an artist and lithographer meant his work reached a wide audience, many of whom were artists subsequently inspired to come see the area for themselves. It is these beginnings that enable Cape Ann’s claim to being the earliest continuously active art colony in America.

By the late 1880s, East Gloucester’s Rocky Neck, in the summertime, played host to so many artists, and often their students, that an entire hospitality industry sprang up to accommodate them. Frank Duveneck, from Cincinnati regularly spent the summer on Cape Ann, and was always accompanied by his students from the Art Academy, euphemistically called “the Duveneck Boys,” a group that included Joseph DeCamp, John H. Twachtman, Edward H. Potthast and Theodore Wendel among countless others. It has been suggested that Frank Duveneck came to Cape Ann because it is the same (almost) latitude as Venice, Italy, suggesting a similar quality of light. Others claim Duveneck came to Gloucester to visit his infant son, Frank Jr., who was being raised by relatives after the death of his mother, Elizabeth Boott Duveneck; relatives who summered on Cape Ann. Interestingly, Elizabeth Duveneck had been an early pupil of William Morris Hunt in Magnolia.

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Paul Strisik, The Granite Pier, 24 x 30", oil on canvas.

Rockport Art Association & Museum Permanent Collection. Gift of the artist’s wife, Nancy Strisik.

Whatever the reason for Duveneck’s continuing presence on Cape Ann—he summered here for at least two decades— he produced a vast quantity of plein air landscapes working alongside DeCamp, Twachtman, Potthast and Bessie Wessel, often on Banner Hill, which offered aerial as well as linear perspective in a wonderful panorama overlooking Gloucester Harbor. Bessie Wessel, one of a handful of women students from the Cincinnati Art Academy, married artist and CAA instructor Herman Wessel in an intimate ceremony at Duveneck’s summer studio in Gloucester in August 1917.

Other notables who painted on Cape Ann read like a Who’s Who in American Art. Willard L. Metcalf and Childe Hassam painted here together in 1895, Hassam returning numerous times afterwards, while William M. Paxton and his artist wife Elizabeth often stayed at the Harbor View Hotel, the scene for Paxton’s celebrated painting, The White Verandah. John Sloan, who painted 90 paintings on his first visit—more than he had done in his entire career—and Stuart Davis, Theresa Bernstein and her husband William Meyerowitz brought a New York moment to the area and 10 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 2016

introduced a bold touch of the modernist to a normally conservative area. Marsden Hartley made his reputation with a series of paintings depicting the raw nature of inner Cape Ann’s Dogtown, while Edward Hopper found a way to break loose from a career as an illustrator to become a fine artist, as did Winslow Homer whose daring watercolors made his name and fixed Gloucester in the minds and hearts of the art community forever. Second generation practitioners such as A. T. Hibbard, Emile Gruppé and Frederick J. Mulhaupt continued the traditions of excellence.

And let us not forget the artists from Manchester by the Sea and Essex. Ann Sophia Towne Darrah often painted in Manchester while Charles Hopkinson regularly invited friends and fellow painters such as Marion Monks Chase, Charles Hovey Pepper and Polly Thayer Starr to his home, Sharksmouth, balanced high above the rocky Manchester coastline, with panoramic views that stretched from Boston to Gloucester and out over Massachusetts Bay. Essex was also a favorite location for the Cape Ann artists, and can boast of Kenyon Cox and son, Allyn, as well as Arthur Wesley Dow, George

Marguerite S. Pearson, In the Quarry (Keystone Bridge), 14 x 16", oil on canvas board. Rockport Art Association & Museum Collection.

Bequest of Marguerite S. Pearson.

Wainwright Harvey, Theodore Wendel and Harriet Lord.

Cape Ann, originally an isthmus before the Blynman Canal was cut through in 1643 making the area technically an island accessible only by bridge, is edged by a granite coastline that is both paintable and protective. The harbor at Gloucester was once home to the largest fishing fleet on the eastern seaboard, while Rockport—and its famous icon, Motif No. 1—although much smaller, offers an intimate view of the fishing industry so necessary to the island. Fish and granite, the mainstay industries of Cape Ann, offered constantly changing scenes to tempt the plein air painter. And one had to paint quickly, less the subject of the painting suddenly up sail and leave. The docks offered a plethora of subject matter. As Herman Wessel once commented, “Should a boatman, at 6 am, noiselessly raise a sail to dry it after a night’s rain it immediately wakes every artist and they hurry out without any breakfast to get the best place to sketch the sail.”1

The granite quarries also offered the throb and rhythm of men at work beloved by the outdoor artist, and in these instances, whether picturing the quarry itself, or men loading barges at the Granite Wharf in Rockport, the drama and light were enough to stimulate the artistic appetite. And it is true that the light of Cape Ann is quite different to its many rival art colonies. No doubt Provincetown, MA; Old Lyme and Cos Cob, CT; Ogunquit and Monhegan, ME, consider their light spectacular, too, but Cape Ann has ambiance and history, as well as a roseate light favored by plein air painters.

True, Smith Cove in Gloucester Harbor is no longer the “cove of a thousand masts,” that it was in 1903, and the granite quarries no longer ring with the sound of hammers and wedges, but an artist is often the historian of his, or her, day and as those artists who painted a century ago recorded the events of their time, so the artists of today will continue the tradition of painting out of doors and capturing the effect of light falling upon their subject.

Alexander, Mary L., “Cincinnati Artist Writes in Humorous Vein of Gloucester,” Cincinnati Enquirer, news clipping 1926, H. H. Wessel Papers, Cape Ann Museum.

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Artis t Index

Colin Page (Competition Juror)................................................................................................... 22 Ray Hassard (Awards Judge)...................................................................................................... 23 Jacob Aguiar.................................................................................................................................... 24 Natalia Andreeva............................................................................................................................. 25 Carol Arnold..................................................................................................................................... 26 Jacobus Baas.................................................................................................................................. 27 Mitch Baird....................................................................................................................................... 28 David Bareford................................................................................................................................ 29 Alan Bull............................................................................................................................................ 30 John S. Caggiano............................................................................................................................ 31 Eli Cedrone....................................................................................................................................... 32 Michael Compton............................................................................................................................ 33 Tony Conner..................................................................................................................................... 34 Ken DeWaard.................................................................................................................................. 35 Lisa Egeli........................................................................................................................................... 36 Fran Ellisor........................................................................................................................................ 37 Paul George..................................................................................................................................... 38 Stephan Giannini............................................................................................................................ 39 Nyle Gordon..................................................................................................................................... 40 Marjorie Hicks.................................................................................................................................. 41 Neal Hughes.................................................................................................................................... 42 Eric Jacobsen................................................................................................................................... 43 Thomas Kitts.................................................................................................................................... 44 Ken Knowles.................................................................................................................................... 45 Kirk Larsen........................................................................................................................................ 46 Patrick Lee........................................................................................................................................ 47 Andre Lucero................................................................................................................................... 48 David Lussier................................................................................................................................... 49 Susan Lynn....................................................................................................................................... 50 Chuck Marshall................................................................................................................................ 51 George Martin................................................................................................................................. 52 Leonard Mizerek.............................................................................................................................. 53 Rae O’Shea...................................................................................................................................... 54 Macario Pascual.............................................................................................................................. 55 John Petersen.................................................................................................................................. 56 Crista Pisano................................................................................................................................... 57 Richard Sneary................................................................................................................................ 58 Jonathan Stasko.............................................................................................................................. 59 Janet Sutherland............................................................................................................................. 60 George Van Hook........................................................................................................................... 61 Jeff Weaver....................................................................................................................................... 62 Peter Yesis........................................................................................................................................ 63

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COMPETITION JUROR PROFILE

Colin Pag e

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olin Page does the majority of his work outside, working from life to capture the light and atmosphere of his subject matter. “Through painting, I share unexpected moments of beauty that I find in the space around me. Painting is how I share the poetry of experience.” Page studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design and Cooper Union, receiving his BFA in 2000. He recently had solo shows at the Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland, Maine and Anglin Smith Fine Art in Charleston, SC. He has also participated in numerous group shows internationally.

Recently, Colin Page received awards for “Best in Show” and “Artist’s Choice”

at the Sedona Plein Air Festival, and was given “Artist’s Choice” and “Honorable Mention” at the Maui Plein Air Invitational.

At other events he has been awarded “Artists Choice” at the Maynard Dixon Camp Out, the “Irvine Museum Award” at the Maui Plein Air Invitational and won the “Quick Draw Award” at the Laguna Plein Air Invitational.

Twelve years ago Colin Page moved to Maine looking for time and space to focus on his painting. Maine has become a home for his art making, and for his growing family, nurturing his creative drive and supplying beautiful landscapes as subjects.

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AWARDS JUDGE PROFILE

Ray Hassard

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orn in Freeport NY in 1949. He grew up in the New York City area and studied at Pratt Institute. He moved to Bufere urban landscapes became his primary artistic theme. Ray won several commissions, most notably one to crege wall piece for the subway the city was building. In 1987, after moving to me co-owner, publisher, and art director of American Record Guide, a bieviewing classical music CDs. e member of the Cincinnati Art Club and the Pastel Society of America; Society has designated him Master Pastelist. In 2014 he was named to the e International Association of Pastel Societies. g are his two loves: he returned to India for the 6th time in 2009 to paint en in Europe every year. In 2013 he was Artist in Residence in Dinan, France ne. tworks has asked Ray to select his favorite pastels for the Ray Hassard, Assortment. His art was the subject of a feature article in Pastel Journal selected for the program book cover illustration at the 2011 IAPS convened in Plein Air Magazine (Oct 2013) and again in Pastel Journal (March the Gold Medal Award in the Top 100 competition. y: Rottinghaus Gallery, 1983 Madison Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45208 (513) Gallery, 267 Oxford St, Rochester NY 14607 (585-271-5885), The Flats Ave, Cincinnati OH 45205 (513-244-8044)

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ay Hassard was born in to paint en plein air and paints Freeport, NY in 1949. He in Europe every year. In 2013 he grew up in the New York was Artist in Residence in Dinan, City area and studied at Pratt France for the month of June.

Institute. He moved to BufGreat American Artworks falo, NY in 1977 where urban has asked Ray to select his landscapes became his primary favorite pastels for the Ray artistic theme.

Ray won several Hassard, People and Places Selected Group Exhibitions and Awards mostArt notably to create Assortment. His art was the subject of 016 Pastelcommissions, National Exhibition 2016, Wichita Center, Wichitaone KS 015 It s Pastel! National Juried Annual, Pastel Society of New Hampshire, Thelma Lyon Education Award Oil Painters America, Juried Salon Show, Beverly McNeil Gallery, Birmingham, andof install a large wall piece for the sub-AL a feature article in Pastel Journal (Oct. Building a Collection, Richmond Art Museum, Richmond IN Plein Air Easton, Easton MD way the city was building. In 1987, after 2010) and was selected for the program Plein Air New Mexico, InArt Gallery, Santa Fe NM Honorable Mention Oil Painters of America, National Competition, St Augustine, FL moving toExhibition, Cincinnati, he co-ownbook cover illustration at the 2011 IAPS 3rd IAPS Master Circle Albuquerque, NM became Honorable Mention 014 En Plein Air Texas, San Angelo, TX Grand Prize Winner er, publisher, and art director of American convention. He was featured in Plein Ray Hassard and Patricia Tribastone--A two person Show, Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY 013 Top 100 2013, Pastel Journal Magazine Pastel Journal Gold Medal of Excellence 115th Annual Exhibition, Richmond Art Museum Carr Award Record Guide, a bimonthly magazine Air Magazine (Oct. 2013) and again in Artist in Residence, Les Amis de la Grande Vigne, Dinan France Healing Art Project, McCullough-Hyde Hospital, OxfordCDs. OH Purchase Award reviewing classical music Pastel Journal (March 2014) as winArt Renewal Centre Annual Salon, Finalist 012 Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional Annual, Bennington VT Ray is a Signature member of the Cinner of the Gold Medal Award in the Top 40th Annual Juried Exhibition, Pastel Society of America, NY, Purchase Award National Pastel Show, Chicago Pastel Painters, Chicago IL, Richeson Co Award cinnati Art Society Clubof America and the Pastel Society of NJ 100 competition. He is represented by: Enduring Brilliance: Pastel at 40, Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville Plein Air Richmond, Richmond VA, First Place America; MidAmerica Society has Rottinghaus Gallery, 1983 Madison Rd., 011 For Pastels Only, Pastel Painters Society of CapePastel Cod, MA--Best in Show Premier Art Competition, Wethersfield Academy for the Arts, Wethersfield CT--First Place IPAPA First Brush of Spring. New Harmony, IN, Best of Show designated him Master Pastelist.

In 2014 Cincinnati, OH 45208 (513-871-3662); 010 Ray Hassard and Debra Dawson--India and Bhutan, Richmond Art Museum, Richmond IN 82nd Grand National named Exhibition, American Artists ProfessionalCircle League NYC he was to the Master byRicheson the AwardOxford Gallery, 267 Oxford St., RochesNortheast National Pastel Exhibition, Old Forge, NY Creative Spirit Award (Top Award) 008 Pastel 100, Pastel Journal April 2008., First Place, Landscape/Interiors, and Honorable Mention International of Pastel Societies. ter, NY 14607 (585-271-5885);The Flats Poetry and Passion: The Art of Association Pastel, Richmond Art Museum, Richmond IN Print TravelInand painting are his two loves: he Gallery, 3028 Price Ave., Cincinnati, OH Ray Hassard, Gold Medal Winner, Pastel Journal, April 2014 Artist Profile: returned Ray Hassard Keep Pastels and Oils, Plein in Air Magazine, 2013 toOptions IndiaOpen forwiththe sixth time 2009 Oct-Nov45205 (513-244-8044).

Ray Hassard: Depicting Places, American Art Collector September 2013 Painting Indiana III, Quarry Books, 2013 In Conversation with Ray Hassard, ZoneOneArts: http://www.zoneonearts.com.au July 2013 The Art of Travel, Pastel Journal August 2012 Artist s Feature, Figure: Ray Hassard, PSA Pastelagram Spring 2012 Souvenir Program Cover, IAPS 2011 Convention, Albuquerque NM Power of the People Pastel Journal October 2010 Poetry & Passion: The Art of Pastel, Richmond Art Museum; Author, Introductory Essay, Summer 2008 Create Better Paintings.com: Artist to Artist with Marc Hanson, author, January 2008 Painting Bhutan Tashi Delek Magazine, co-author, July-September 2007 (www.tashidelek.in) Painting en Plein Air in India American Artist Magazine, co-author, January 2006

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Jacob Ag uiar

• Jacob Aguiar is a nationally recognized pastel landscape artist living in Scarborough, ME with his wife Laura and Bernese Mountain Dog Bernie.

• He has won several awards including two honorable mentions in both the 2015 and 2016 Pastel 100 competitions.

• A signature member of the Pastel Society of America, he is currently teaching regular classes in Westbrook, ME and Jackson, NH, as well as workshops throughout the country.

Scarborough, ME • jacobaguiar.com 24 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 2016

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Natalia Andreeva

• Natalia Andreeva is a Florida artist working with oil and watercolor media. Natalia’s work is influenced by the fusion of Eastern and European schools of art, and by the philosophies capturing a harmonious marriage between spontaneous expressions and classical realism.

• Originally from Siberia, Natalia holds a diploma from Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University. Her education also includes postgraduate studies at the Department of Painting and Composition at the Moscow State Pedagogical University, and numerous workshops and studio work throughout Russia, Europe and the United States of America.

She held a faculty position at Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University and, since 1996, taught many classes and workshops around the United States.

• Natalia’s works have been distinguished with honors and fellowships and are featured in multiple public and private collections.

Tallahassee, Fl • andreeva.com

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Carol Arnold

• Member of the Putney Painters Group in Putney, VT founded and mentored by Richard Schmid and Nancy Guzik.

• 2015 and 2016 Faculty member of the Portrait Society of America.

• First prize winner at the Laumeister Fine Art Competition 2016.

Northbridge, MA • carolarnoldfineart.com 26 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 2016

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Jacobus Baas

• Born in the Netherlands, started painting while in high school and received a well grounded education in the creative process. In 1968, began to design and make jewelry, founded Jacobus Goldsmiths in Laguna Beach, California but never stopped painting during these years. In 1994, began to explore plein air painting and within four years was painting full-time and never looked back. To be outdoors in the elements while painting is sometimes difficult but always an exhilarating and inspiring process.

• One of the founding members of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association and has won many awards over the years.

• Currently, one of his paintings is included in the Irvine Museum show “A Summer Idyll: Picturesque Views of California.” Represented by Pacific Edge Gallery in Laguna Beach, CA and Dowling Walsh in Rockland, ME.

949-632-9160 • jacobus@jacobusbaas.com • jacobusbaas.com

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Mitch Baird

• Artist’s desire is to “portray a positive visual statement and hope the viewer will experience what I see and in some sense be inspired, uplifted or moved by my painting, whether it is of a small intimate setting or a grandiose subject.”

• Signature Member in the Oil Painters of America, Signature Member American Impressionist Society. Member of the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters Organization.

• Awards from national institutions and organizations include Gilcrease Museum, Houston Museum of Natural Science, International Museum of Contemporary Masters of Fine Art, ARC International Salon, Oil Painters of America and the American Impressionist Society.

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David Bareford

• Stobart Foundation Award, International Marine Art Exhibition at Mystic Seaport.

• Yachting Award at 35th International Marine Art Exhibition at Mystic Seaport.

• A Spanking Breeze on a Starboard Tack chosen as the cover art for the 17th annual exhibition catalog of the American Society of Marine Artists show opening at Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA, September 8, 2016.

Stonington CT • davidbareford.com

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Alan Bull

• Originally from Old Town, ME; BFA 1986, Philadelphia College of Art. • Painting residencies, lectures, demonstrations and exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe.

• Works featured in Architectural Digest, New York Times and Houzz; numerous private and public collections, including Stephen King, Elton John and Andre Dubus lll.

Newburyport, MA • alanbull.com 30 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 2016

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John S. Cag g iano

• Some recent honors: third place: Quick Draw in Easton Plein Air (MD); Best of Show: Paint the Town for a Cause and third place in Solomon’s Island Plein Air; second place: Boothbay Harbor Plein Air Invitational (ME); Artist Choice Award: Finger Lakes Plein Air (NY); Alden Bryan Gold Medal—Best of Show: “Land and Light” juried annual show at Bryan Memorial Gallery (VT), Alden Bryan Award (Landscape), Academic Artists Association National Juried Exhibition.

• Inaugural Purchase Prize: Bennington Center for the Arts Permanent Collection (VT).

• Elected member: Academic Artists, American Society of Marine Artists, Hudson Valley Art, North Shore Arts and Rockport Art associations.

Rockport, MA • johncaggianofineart.com

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Eli Cedrone

• A graduate of the School of Art & Design (Suffolk University) in Boston, Cedrone also studied art in Italy and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

• Represented by Waterhouse Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA; Gallery Antonia, Chatham, MA; Charles Fine Arts Gallery, Gloucester, MA; Willoughby Fine Art, Martha’s Vineyard; Windjammer Gallery, Bermuda.

• Multiple plein air invitationals, residencies and affiliations.

Stoughton, MA • elicedrone.com 32 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 2016

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Michael Compton

• Signature member, New England Watercolor Society.

• Award for outstanding architectural representation, Mountain MD Plein Air, 2015.

• Merit award New England Watercolor Society Guild of Boston Artist’s show, 2016.

Cambridge, MA

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Tony Conner

• Paintings regularly included in national and regional juried shows.

• Profiled in Plein Air Magazine, September 2015; Hill Country Observer, April 2015; Southern Vermont Arts & Living, Summer 2013; “100 Artists of New England,” Schiffer Publishing; 2011, work included in “Watercolor Sketching, An Introduction,” by Paul Laseau, Norton & Company, 2012.

• Signature Member, New England and Vermont Watercolor Societies; Artist Member Salmagundi Club.

Bennington, VT • tonyconner.com 34 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 2016

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Ken DeWaard

• 2015 Door County, Best of Show and Artist Choice, WI. • 2014 Plein Air Easton, Third Place Award, Juror: Peter Trippi, MD. • 2013 Laguna Beach Invitational, The Strada Award, CA.

Hope, ME • kendewaard.com

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Lisa Eg eli

• Lisa Egeli has traveled and painted on location around the globe, and has been featured in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine as one of “Today’s Masters.” During a career of more than two decades as a professional artist, she has been a passionate observer of nature whose paintings are exhibited and collected internationally.

Churchton, MD • lisaegeli.com 36 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 2016

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Fran Ellis or

• Master Signature Member, Outdoor Painters Society.

• Signature Member, American Impressionist Society.

• Numerous national awards, including Best of Show and Artist’s Choice at Plein Air Southwest/Award of Excellence, American Impressionist Society.

• Featured Artist in American Art Collector, included in articles in Southwest Art and Western Art Collector.

Conroe, TX • ellisorart.com

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Paul Georg e

• Professional artist/teacher for over 20 years, U.S. and Europe.

• Winner of over 65 awards locally and nationally.

• Juried into 12 national plein air events.

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Stephan Giannini

• Maine-based artist Stephan Giannini paints the landscape and figure in oils. He loves to travel and paint and recently returned from two months in Italy. In the past he has worked on mural restorations in major secular and religious buildings including the White House office building.

Rockland, ME • stephangiannini.com

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Nyle Gordon

Nyle Gordon’s most recent focus has been painting outdoors.

Three of this year’s highlights: • 2016 Best of Show, Art in the City, Plein Air MKE, Milwaukee, WI. • 2016 Artist Choice, Lighthouse Plein Air, Tequesta, FL. • 2016 Second Place, Heartland National Exhibition, Merriam, KS.

Ethel, MO • nylegordon.com 40 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 2016

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Marjorie Hicks

• Marjorie Hicks is an award-winning artist who’s enjoyed a life-long passion for art, and has an unquenchable desire to paint. Her most recent and notable awards include Second Place in the 2016 Women Painters of the Southeast Exhibition, qualifying her for Signature Status; Best Use of Light and Color Award in the 2015 Fall International Online Exhibition; and Second Place Prize in the Wet Paint competition, held during the 2015 Oil Painters of America’s Salon Show and Sale in Birmingham, AL. Most recently, Marjorie enjoyed painting in the 13th annual Telluride Plein Air exhibition and sale, Telluride, CO.

Nashville, TN • marjorieshicks.com

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Neal Hug hes

• First Place and Artists Choice Award, Plein Air Rockies, 2016.

• Artists Choice Award, Mountain Maryland Plein Air, 2016.

• First Place Award, Bath County Plein Air Festival, 2015.

Moorestown, NJ • 856-630-3033 nealhughes@nealhughes.com • nealhughes.com 42 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 2016

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Eric Jacobsen

• 2016 Door County Plein Air, Artist Choice Award and Third Place Award.

• 2015 Evergreen Fine Art, Weekend in the West, Artist Choice Award.

• 2015 Sonoma Plein Air, Artist Choice Award.

Prineville, OR • jacobsenstudio.com

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Thomas Kitts

• Thomas is a internationally recognized landscape artist who paints and teaches all over the world. His approach to painting focuses on alla prima techniques used by 19th century artists such as Sargent, Sorolla and Zorn.

• Thomas has won numerous major plein air awards. His work can be found in several museum collections, and he has recently appeared in several artists’ magazines.

• Thomas is a signature member of the Laguna Plein Air Painters’ Association, a member of the American Impressionist Society, Oil Painters of America and the California Art Club. His work is actively collected by both private and public institutions across North America.

Portland, OR • thomaskitts.com 44 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 2016

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Ken Knowles

• Over 25 awards and member of several associations.

• Painting outdoors for 33 years; President, North Shore Arts Association, 2012–14.

• Loving and supporting wife and children.

Rockport, Ma • kenknowles.com

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Kirk Larsen

• 2016 Plein Air Icon selected sixth year Plein Air Easton and fifth year Easels in Frederick (EIF—Grand Prize Winner and Collector’s Choice Award 2012).

• Featured artist, Plein Air Magazine, June 2016: Winner—Best Depiction of Water, Fourth Annual Plein Air Salon competition, February–March 2016 and Third Annual Plein Air Salon, All Subject Winner Plein Air, February–March 2014, Coffee Roasters of Easton.

• Modern Masterpiece—30 Years of the Museum Purchase Award exhibition at The Museum of America and the Sea at Mystic Seaport, featuring Last Day in the Shed

by Kirk Larsen, oils, plein air.

Hicksville, NY • kirklarsenfineart.com 46 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 2016

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Patrick Lee

• Featured artist in Oct./Nov. 2016 issue of Plein Air Magazine.

• Grand Prize and Sunset Quickdraw winner, 2015 Solomons Plein Air Festival, Solomons, MD. • Quick Draw winner, Easels in Frederick, 2016.

Pittsburgh, PA

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Andre Lucero

• Plein Air Magazine cover artist, March 2016.

• Featured in Plein Air Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, American Art Collector, Richmond Magazine.

• 2016 Plein Air Easton, Olmsted Plein Air Invitational, Finger Lakes Plein Air Festival, Lighthouse Artcenter Plein Air Festival, Door County Plein Air Festival, Bath County Plein Air Festival, En Plein Air Texas, Solomons Island Plein Air Festival, Plein Air Richmond.

Goochland, VA • 804-814-3000 • andrelucero.com 48 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 2016

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David Lussier

• David Lussier is an award winning contemporary impressionist and nationally recognized plein air painter and workshop instructor. He is a painter in the purist sense of the word. In his poetic and intimate oil landscapes he strives to capture the essence and sense of place of his subject matter. His use of bold broad brushwork brings the surfaces to life and begs the viewer to return for a second look. David has been painting professionally for more than 25 years and has garnered more than 75 prizes for his work. His paintings have been featured in American Artist Magazine, Workshop Magazine and Fine Art Connoisseur. David has been participating in juried and invitational plein air events throughout the country for over a decade.

Woodstock, CT • davidlussiergallery.com

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Susan Lynn

• Featured artist at the 2014 and 2015 Plein Air Convention and Expo in Monterey, CA. • Subject of a feature article in the June/July 2013 issue of Plein Air Magazine, and was one of 12 women artists featured in the October 2015 issue of Southwest Art Magazine.

• Signature member of American Women Artists, the Kansas Watercolor Society, the Missouri Watercolor Society and a charter member of the Missouri Valley Impressionists Society.

Merriam, KS 50 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 2016

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Chuck Marshall

• Chuck grew up working farms and spending time in his father’s construction trade, but knew he was going to be an artist from a very early age. He would spend hours each day sketching images of fields, hillsides, and animals that he would see while roaming the countryside.

• He studied one year at the Art Institute of Cincinnati before studying at the California Art Institute in Southern California.

His art career includes many years as an illustrator and graphic designer as well as his fine art.

• Chuck has been invited to and participated in many national plein air events as a guest artist, such as Olmsted Plein Air Invitational, Atlanta, Georgia; Door County, Wisconsin; Great American Paint Out in the Apalachicola/Panhandle Florida area; Wayne Plein Air, PA; and Finger Lakes Plein Air, where he recently won Best of Show.

• Chuck’s work has been published in International Artist Magazine, American Artist Magazine and Plein Air Magazine. Chuck has won numerous local and national awards, and has also performed as a judge in many juried art shows.

• His work can be seen at the Landing Gallery, Rockland, ME; the Mary Ran Gallery, Cincinnati, OH; and Hayley Gallery, New Albany, OH.

New Antioch, OH • chuckmarshallfineart.com

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Georg e Martin

• Award-winning painter and graphic designer who resides on the North Shore. Graduate of Vesper George School of Art, Boston, he studied under Robert Douglas Hunter, Robert Cormier and Charles Cooper among other noted Boston artists. Awarded the Vesper George Scholarship.

• Outstanding graphic designer at a number of major corporations and design firms such as Polaroid Corporation, IBM/ Lotus, Fader, Jones+Zarkades and Giardini/Russell.

• Since 2005, George has been a professional painter with increasing recognition for his work.

• Artist member of the North Shore Arts Association and the Rockport Art Association. From 2011–2012, he served on the Board of Trustees as President of the North Shore Arts Association.

Beverly, MA • gsmartinfineart.com 52 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 2016

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Leonard Mizerek

• One of 26 Fellows of The American Society of Marine Artists, an organization of 500 members.

• Elected Exhibiting Artist of The National Arts Club; winner of Salzman Award for Excellence in Painting.

• Paintings in the permanent museum collections of The Forbes Museum in NYC and the Museum Yvonne-Jean Haffen, Dinan, France.

Westport,Ct • 917-270-5175 LeonardMizerek@aol.com • LeonardMizerek.com

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Rae O’Shea

• Primarily a self-taught plein air impressionist painter currently living in Rockport, MA. • Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society and the Plein Air Artists of Colorado, an Artist Member of the North Shore Arts Association and the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters, a member of the Oil Painters of America, the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Rockport Art Association, the Plein Air Painters of the United Kingdom and the Landscape Painters of America.

• Work can be viewed at Veranda Gallery, Fair Haven, NJ; McBride Gallery, Annapolis, MD; the North Shore Art Association and Rockport Art Association, as well as at her studio in Rockport.

Rockport, Ma • Raeosheaart.com 54 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 2016

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Macario Pas cual

• Macario Pascual is an award-winning studio and plein air artist from Maui. He was introduced to oil painting at the age of 12 and was later awarded his first solo exhibition by the Lahaina Arts Society while still a senior in high school. Pascual studied art at the University of Hawaii on an art and a full tennis scholarship, graduating with a BFA Degree in Design in 1979. For the past 46 years, Pascual has become well known for his series of paintings of light and subject matter on immigration life, the workers and the surrounding landscape. His studio and plein air artworks, including paintings from travels abroad, has been accepted in numerous shows including juried and invitational events. He has won Best in Show, Artist Choice and other top awards on the regional and national level from events in Hawaii to New York and Massachusetts. Most recently, he is a two-time Best in Show Award-winner in the Mendocino Open Paint Out and received the Irvine Museum Honorable Mention Award in the 2016 Maui Plein Air Painting Invitational. Southwest Magazine took notice of Pascual’s work and acknowledged his place among a select list of emerging artists on the national scene. Pascual was also profiled in OutdoorPainter.com, the online home for Plein Air Magazine. His paintings are in the permanent collection of the Hawaii State Museum, State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, City and County of Honolulu, Montage Hotels and Resorts and many others here and abroad. Macario Pascual is an Associate Member of the Oil Painters of America and the California Art Club.

Maui, HI • pascualfinearts.com

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John Petersen

• John studied extensively with the great Boston School teacher Paul Ingbretson and is now an assistant instructor at the Ingbretson School of Drawing and Painting in Manchester, NH. • His still life and landscape paintings are in national and international collections.

• John was a finalist in the 2014/2015 International ARC Salon competition in the still life category.

Henniker, NH 56 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 2016

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Cris ta Pisano

• First Place, Best in Show: Saranac Lake Plein Air, 2012 and 2014.

• Honorable Mentions: 2015 Plein Air Easton; 2016 Plein Air Easton Small Works Sunday.

• Third Place, Quick Draw: Bath County (Warm Springs, VA) Plein Air, 2015.

Nyack, NY

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Richard Sneary

• Awards: First Place in Quick Draw at Lighthouse Plein Air (2016), Best Architectural Award, Paint the Peninsula 2016; Honorable Mention at Plein Air Richmond 2016, Honorable Mention at Plein Air Southwest Salon 2016.

• Best Building Award and Best Nocturne Award for 2016 June/ July Plein Air Salon Competition; Best Overall Watercolor for 2016 April/May Plein Air Salon Competition; Best Plein Air Only for 2015 August/September Plein Air Competition.

• Featured Artist in Watercolor Magazine, June 2016, Faculty Member for the 2016 Plein Air Convention and Expo in Tucson, AZ. Participating Artist in Paint Cuba!

Publisher’s Invitational 2016.

Kansas City, MO • rsneary@kc.rr.com richardsneary.com • dicksneary.com 58 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 2016

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Jonathan Stasko

• In 2012, Jonathan appeared in Southwest Art magazine’s 21 Under 31 issue highlighting young emerging artists.

• He was the recipient of the Gold Medal from the Oil Painters of America 24th National Juried Exhibition in 2015.

• Jonathan also partners with artist Phil Taylor and The American Fallen Soldiers Project, creating portraits to honor and console families of fallen American heroes.

Schoharie, NY • jonathanstasko.com

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Janet Sutherland

• Juried, award-winning member Rockport Art Association and North Shore Art Association.

• Juried participant, Annapolis Plein Air 2016, six years CELT Paint for Preservation, three years Castine Plein Air. • Honorable Mention at the 2016 Castine Plein Air Festival.

Ipswich, MA • janetsutherland.fineartstudioonline.com 60 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 2016

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Georg e Van Hook

• George grew up in the Philadelphia area, and in Bucks County, where he spent his time painting.

• Loves painting out of doors, in beautiful locations.

• Currently lives in Upstate NY, but travels extensively throughout the country to paint.

Cambridge, NY

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Jeff Weaver

• School of the Museum of Fine Arts 1971–1972.

• Painting and drawing in Gloucester since 1972.

• After spending over 25 years in various types of commercial art, he began focusing exclusively on painting in oils and watercolor.

His work is done primarily on location in and around the Cape Ann area. His gallery is located at 16 Rogers St., Gloucester.

Gloucester, MA 62 CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR 2016

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Peter Yesis

• A native of New Jersey, Peter now works from his home studio in Searsport, ME, painting rustic scenes of nature and still life arrangements in a soft realistic.

• His paintings intentionally leave space for thought and reflection, but the artist enjoys how the paintings can invoke a memory and stir up a conversation.

• Peter’s paintings have been purchased by artists and collectors across the world.

He is a member of and has been juried into national shows with the Oil Painters of America, International Guild of Realism, American Impressionist Society and the Plein Air Painters of Maine.

Searsport, ME

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