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.
Welcome to the September issue of American Art Collector! This issue brings you our Collector’s Focus: Landscapes and the Art Lovers Guide to Washington, D.C., and the Mid-Atlantic States. Focusing on a genre and a region each month allows us to take a deep dive into a specific genre and the soul of a region for your collecting pleasure. Recently, I gave a talk in Laguna Beach for the American Association of Interior Designers which has a membership of 13,500 professionals. For collectors, such as yourself, it is second nature to know art isn’t just decorative. In my talk, I said, “Original contemporary realism provides additional depth and character, giving the designer of the room more to build around, enhancing the emotional tone of the space.” That’s why we want…
Every issue of American Art Collector is a showcase of the foremost contemporary realism being created today, but I was particularly impressed and inspired by the level of talent, skill and vision of the artists inside the September magazine. Our features alone are testament to this, and encapsulate the diverse expressions of creativity that can be found across the magazine in its entirety. We have Randall Rosenthal who creates hyper-realistic sculptures out of a single block of pine that make you shake your head in disbelief, which, like a magician, is exactly his intent. He makes wood look so much like paper, he’s overheard people surmise that it’s the other way around, that he’s made paper look like wood. His creativity extends beyond the works themselves. Out of necessity, he…
New York’s premiere art fair, The Armory Show returns to the Javits Center on 11th Avenue this September 5 to 7, highlighting the world’s leading international contemporary and modern art galleries. This year’s show will include special sections like Galleries (20th and 21st-century artworks across various media); Solo (intimate presentations focusing on the work of a single emerging, established or historic artist working in the 20th or 21st century); Focus (celebrating artists and galleries of the American South) and more. In addition, the fair will lead important conversations and events that highlight influential members of the international art community, as well as a number of prominent guest curators like Jessica Bell Brown and Ebony L. Haynes.…
Esteemed portrait artist Amy Sherald recently canceled a major solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. amid concerns about the censorship of a certain Sherald painting. The piece in question, Trans Forming Liberty, depicts a trans woman in a blue dress and pink hair (the colors of the transgender pride flag), holding a torch of flowers. The National Gallery allegedly proposed replacing the painting with a video of people reacting to the painting and discussing transgender issues. Sherald—best known for her commissioned portrait of Michelle Obama as well as her bold portrayals of Black and other minority figures—rejected the idea on the grounds that it would have included anti-trans views. Sherald and famed portraitist Kehinde Wiley are the first Black artists to have received presidential portrait…
On view through October 26, the Customs House Museum & Cultural Center in Clarksville, Tennessee, presents The Forever House, an exhibition showcasing the works of award-winning watercolorist Arline Mann. The show highlights paintings by Mann that shed light on “a magical place—Elder Mountain (near Chattanooga), and the stone house built on the mountain around 1923 by George Elder with materials from that mountain—the first home erected there after the Cherokee were marched out in the 1840s on the Trail of Tears.” Mann’s paintings are displayed among historic photographs of Elder House and Elder Mountain, with text relating the history of both.…
This fall the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) presents a solo exhibition of richly layered, photography-based works by Tawny Chatmon. In Tawny Chatmon: Sanctuaries of Truth, Dissolution of Lies, the artist uses stylistic languages drawn from historical decorative motifs and potent African American cultural markers to create lush and strikingly powerful portraits that challenge racism and erasure. The exhibition features more than 25 large-scale photographs from recent series dating from 2019 to the present. This is the artist’s first museum exhibition in Washington, D.C. and will be on view from October 15, 2025, to March 8, 2026.…
