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ARC Approved™ Atelier Florence Academy of Art presents: The Florence Academy of Art Fifth Alumni Exhibition Stables of the Corsini family home, Via Il Prato, 58, Florence, Italy E ...

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Hard Times: An Artist's View Springville Museum of Arts Springville, Utah March 13 - April 25, 2010 This outstanding show of contemporary realists began at the Thomas Kearns McCarthey Galle ...

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I have for several years now considered Mario Robinson to be one of the most talented living artists, who also happens to be a well-recognized ARC Living Master™. His paintings capture ...

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ARC Approved LAAFA is now accepting applications for their Fall Full-time Program Classes start October 4, 2010 LAAFA offers a realist Full-time program to Atelier students. Now, in addition to t ...

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The Art Renewal Center® has some extremely sad news to report. Damien Bartoli, the Bouguereau biographer, who worked with ARC Chairman, Fred Ross M.A. and Dr. Vern Swanson to produce the first c ...

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You may have already noticed a few improvements in the way this website shows new updates. First, in the right column (you have to scroll down a bit to see it) there's a list of the new artworks, ...

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presents Becoming an Artist: The Academy in 19th-Century France February 26 - April 29, 2010   Monday through Saturday, 11-6 PALITZ GALLERY Lubin House 11 East 61st Street ...

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22 February, 2010

This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub- ...

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Four new images have been added to the gallery of ARC Living Artist™, Mark Lovett. Click here to visit the Mark Lovett gallery. Field of Gold by Mark Lovett ...

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FEBRUARY STUDIO TALK at ARC Approved™ Grand Central Academy : Hamlet's Classicism When: Tuesday, February 23 Where: GCA Cast Hall, 6th Floor 20 West 44th Street New York, NY 10036 (2 ...

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This website is like a sanctuary for me. It keeps me connected to the thoughts of rational thinking people. I'm a life long artist. My father started me off drawing at a very young age. Even in ...

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ARC Approved™ Academy of Realist Art is expanding its reach in North America and Europe in the coming months. While details won't be available until the official announcements are made, p ...

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Announcing ARC Approved™ Grand Central Academy's 3rd Annual Classical Figure Sculpture Competition June 7-11, 2010 Applications due April 1 The week-long schedule of sculptin ...

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Former ARC Approved™ Academy of Realist Art student and portrait specialist Will Nathans recently completed a portrait commission for the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Vat ...

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ARC Approved™ Murdoch Studio and Art School 3 DAY FIGURE PAINTING IN OIL WORKSHOP March 5-7, 2010(Friday- Sunday) 9am-4m Learn to paint realistic flesh tones with a strong emphasis ...

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ARC Approved LAAFA (Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art) is currently looking for talented instructors in figurative painting, drawing, and/or composition and color theory to become a part of ...

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The 2010 schedule for workshops held in the McCormack Studios is now posted. The McCormack Studios, founded by ARC Master™ Paul McCormack, are housed in the former Historic Dutchess/Garner ...

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VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIAL ON ARC'S MOST ROMANTIC FINE ART PRINTS On Special: 15% OFF Springtime by Pierre-Auguste Cot and Ravissement of Psyche by William Adolphe Bouguereau Spri ...

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5-Day Figure Workshop Instructor: Steve Huston Wed-Sun, Mar. 24-28, 2010, 10am-5pm 2-Days of Drawing and 3-Days of Painting the figure 1-Day Color Concepts for Painters Workshop Instructor: ...

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Damien Bartoli (1947 – 2009)The Art Renewal Center® has some extremely sad news to report. Damien Bartoli, the Bouguereau biographer, who worked with ARC Chairman, Fred Ross M.A. and Dr. Ve ...

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Art Renewal Center® is pleased to announce that Murdoch Art Studio and School located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania is now ARC Approved™ and will be listed with our ARC Approved Ateliers and ...

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16 December, 2009

Priority Shipping Special !! 1/2 Off USPS Priority Mail or Free UPS Ground on all domestic orders over $100 until December 31st!All ARC Prints are 15% OFF Your favorite artwork is on sale! Clic ...

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The winner of our $1,000 competition is Joshua LaRock a former winner of an ARC Scholarship and a past student of the Water Street Atelier, an ARC Approved Atelier school. He happened to have n ...

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ARC Living Master™ Anthony Waichulis, proudly presents artwork from current and former apprentices of ARC Approved™ Waichulis Studio:Capturing Realism 20097 November – 19 December 2009Pau ...

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ARC Approved™ Southern Atelier in Sarasota, Florida survived a devastating fire this fall.Director Charles Miano rose to the challenge by continuing studies en plein air.Click here to make a don ...

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Max Ginsburg, an ARC Salon™ Finalist and winner of the Chairman's Choice award in the 2008-09 ARC Salon for his Tire Swing, will be at ARC Approved™ LAAFA:Intensive 5-Day WorkshopJanuary ...

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This Season The Art Renewal Center® joins Wellfire Publications in offering this Holiday Special:Every purchase of either the Seeds of the Pomegranate or Light of Lucinda by Sherry Ross published ...

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Students Receive $30,000 in Scholarships and Five Purchase AwardsThe Art Renewal Center® is very pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 Annual Scholarship Competition. Now in its ninth year, ...

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28 October, 2009

Your site is AWESOME! Such a shot in the arm for those of us who are excited to see the resurgence of Classical Realism.Thanks!Joan Landeshttp://joanlandes.wordpress.com/ ...

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All four ARC Salon™ Catalogues are now available as a set.Click here to take advantage of this opportunity to purchase these beautiful full-color exhibition books of all the Winners and Finalis ...

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ARC Living Master™ Stephen Gjertson defines the term and origins of Classical Realism, a movement which continues today.Click Here to read the article: Classical Realismby Stephen Gjertson Click H ...

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Public Tribute, Memorial Service and Exhibition:Sunday, November 1, 20092:00 to 5:00 p.m.The Landscape Arboretum3675 Arboretum DriveChaska, Minnesota 55318952-443-1400"Richard F. Lack is one of the ...

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Danae by Ted Seth JacobsRestructured Realism with ARC Living Master™ Ted Seth Jacobs ARC Approved™ Atelier: BAACA 30 minutes south of San FranciscoNovember 9 ...

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Max Ginsburg, a finalist and winner of the Chairman's Choice award in the 2008-09 ARC Salon for his Tire Swing will be holding a workshop at the Salmagundi Club this month. "Painting a Head From Li ...

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ARC Master Virgil Elliot has updated his Technical Column on ARC." Since I wrote my previous technical column, several important discoveries have been made that serious oil painters should know ab ...

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Thoughts on Richard LackI'm so very sad to hear this. Richard more than any other single artist and teacher picked up the torch when Ives Gammell passed away in 1981. I know the entire community of tr ...

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Richard F. Lack passed away on September 22, 2009. The Art Renewal Center® has decided to make the Richard Lack biography by ARC Master Stephen Gjertson available through the ARC Store for those w ...

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"It’s so ironic that only a few days before Richard Lack passed away, (Lack was Ives Gammell’s most influential student), I just discovered the letter Ives Gammell sent to me in 1981 in which he demon ...

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28 September, 2009

Richard Lack founded Classical Realist styleMARY ABBE, Star TribuneTwin Cities artist Richard F. Lack, who launched a national renaissance in traditional drawing and painting, died Tuesday at Methodis ...

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Visit grandcentralacademy.classicist.org/ For Details of Fall Classes at ARC Approved Grand Central Academy in NYC. ...

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ARC Approved LAAFA is now accepting applications for their Winter Atelier ProgramClasses start January 11th, 2010.LAAFA offers a realist diploma program to Atelier students.Now, in addition to the com ...

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16 August, 2009

Dear Mr Ross, I wanted to write to thank you for your website, Art Renewal Center. I have long been disappointed in much contemporary art, and have always been attracted to the beauty of the old maste ...

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Catalogue Raisonne Update: The Committee to Write the Catalogue Raisonne on William Bouguereau 1825-1905 has completed its work; the committee will accept no further additions to the publication.This ...

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ARC Approved Atelier™ Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier is very proud to announce:Jon deMartin: Life drawing from the figure and the head August 31-September 4, 2009Application for Jon deMartin ...

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Joaquin Sorolla y Batista Exhibition CatalogA new 536 - page hardcover catalog has been published and printed in Spain for the opening of the Sorolla Exhibition at the Prado May 26, 2009.This new volu ...

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Call for EntriesThe Art Renewal Center's International 2009/2010 ARC Salon™Win International Recognition Overnight Have your work seen by 5.5 Million Yearly VisitorsMore than $48,000 in Awards ...

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Art Renewal Center® is pleased to offer:"Traditional Oil Painting" Advanced Techniques and Concepts from the Renaissance to the Presentby ARC Living Master™ Virgil Elliott.Click Here t ...

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Ten new works of art have been added to the ARC Museum so far today, including pieces by the following artists:Frederick Hendrik KaemmererHenriette Ronner-KnipFerdinand Carl SierigJan Zoetelief TrompJ ...

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Urban Larsson studied Art History at the University of Stockholm, Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, then Drawing and Painting in Florence, Italy, at the Studio Cecil & Grav ...

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Fourteen new works of art have been added to the ARC Museum so far today, including pieces by the following artists:Edward Burne-JonesWilliam CallowJames CharlesSir George ClausenWalter CraneMyles Bir ...

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Frank Mason, legendary artist and instructor passed away on the morning of June 16th, 2009. The funeral service was held at Grace Church in New York on Saturday, June 27th.Frank was an ARC Living Mast ...

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Twelve new works of art have been added to the ARC Museum so far today, including pieces by the following artists:Ivan Constantinovich AivazovskyNikolai Bogdanoff-BjelskiIsaak Izrailevich BrodskySir W ...

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Ten new works of art have been added to the ARC Museum today, including pieces by the following artists:Marcel BruneryAlexei Alexeivich Harlamoff (3 Pieces)Marianus Adrianus KoekkoekCharles Henri Jose ...

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Ten new works of art have been added to the ARC Museum today, including pieces by the following artists:Alfred de Breanski SnrSir Gerald KellyAnna Lea MerrittSir Alfred James MunningsArchibald Thorbur ...

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ARC Living Master™ Richard Wheeler Whitney, has completed a portrait of Governer Mitt Romney which will remain in the collection of the Massachusetts State House in Boston, Massachusetts.Portrai ...

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“I am committed to a return to standards of excellence in the visual arts, and to exposing the destructive hoax of modernism which has taken control of our culture’s museums, institutions of higher le ...

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[GoodArt] Excerpt from GoodArt Post Re: Looking for a Bouguereau painting:"I simply meant a good quality, hi-res digital reproduction, not a print. The painting came up for discussion on another foru ...

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Ten new works of art have been added to the ARC museum including pieces by:Gaetano ChiericiTerence Tenison CuneoPierre-Louis-Joseph de ConinckPaul Gustave FischerJohn Atkinson GrimshawCarl HerpferAndr ...

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We have added 8 new works of art to the online museum, including one piece by each of the following artists:Eugene de BlaasGiovanni BoldiniJoseph CaraudTito ContiFrancois Alfred DelobbeGian Francesco ...

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The ARC Museum now has two image files for William Bouguereau's popular work, La Vierge aux Anges. Our original image of the painting predates the cleaning by the Getty Museum for their show: Adolphe ...

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27 June, 2009

Mr Ross, I am so glad that I found your ARC. I can't tell you how exactly I share your sentiments. I just read your statement on the impression that Bouguereau made upon you when you first encountered ...

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ARC Approved™ LIAFA, the Long Island Academy of Fine Art presents a Drawing Workshop with ARC Living Master™ Tony Ryder August 13-15 LIAFA, Riverhead Studio40 West Main St. Riverhead, NY ...

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ARC Approved™ Atelier LAAFA - Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art will start their summer quarter July 6. Sculpture and Technology WorkshopInstructor: David Simon July 25th ...

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ARC Approved™ Waichulis Studio is very pleased to announce the official release of its first instructional DVD. "...for the first time on DVD, you can see how each Waichulis Studio artist's t ...

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Michael Grimaldi Figure Painting WorkshopAugust 17-28thARC Living Master™ Ted Seth Jacobs Master Class-Restructured RealismNovember 15, 2010-February 11, 2011 Click here for workshop information ...

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ARC Approved™Atelier Kewaunee Academy presents KAFA Artistic Director Craig Blietz on 4 consecutive Saturdays:“Portrait Painting” August 8, 15, 22, 29-9am-4pmFor workshop information and regist ...

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ARC Approved™Atelier Grand Central Academy has announced the results of the 2009 Classical Figure Sculpture CompetionClick here to view results. ...

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Dear Mr. RossFew years ago I discovered ARC site and since then became an avid followerof ARC ideas. Thank you very much for supporting the true ideals of theclassic art.I'm an artist living in Moscow ...

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An article about ARC Approved™ Atelier, Atelier School of Classical Realism of Oakland, California is featured in the Spring 2009 Edition of American Artist Workshop Magazine. Profiled by Amer ...

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David Bowers is now an ARC Living Master™. ...Bowers' paintings incorporate modern themes and ideas. There is always a message in his work. For him the idea is the most challenging and rewarding ...

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ARC Approved™ Southern Atelier presents Robert Liberace:A Special Reception, Portrait Unveiling and DVD Release SigningWednesday, May 20, 2009 - 6:30PMThe event is open to the public and compli ...

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"Teaching and information can add to the depth of understanding of great works of art, but they are great initially by their ability to capture the soul and imagination of the viewer, without thousand ...

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ARC Approved™ Atelier, Angel Academy of Art, Florence has announced their new website:VISIT www.angelartschool.com ...

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Jeffrey R. Watts, Director of the ARC Approved™ Watts Atelier is now an ARC Approved Living Artist™. Jeff's oil paintings have won numerous awards including First Place Portrait category ...

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17 April, 2009

The French artist Bouguereau was the greatest of the 19th century academic painters. I have always been in awe of this artist. He was as fine a technician as any painter who has ever lived. His design ...

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ARC Salon Catalogues, with their beautiful color reproductions of the ARC International Salon Winners, are eagerly awaited for each year and treasured as collections of today's masters.The 5th Annual ...

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We are pleased to publish An Outline of the Method Used to Paint the Live Model at the Angel Academy of Art, Florence, Italy that has been contributed to ARC, showing step by step the process that Ang ...

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11 April, 2009

Dear Fred Ross I’ve just finished reading the 6 pages of ARC philosophy and I’m amazed and very grateful.You are describing to the point what I have been quietly holding in my heart for 20 years of pa ...

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5th International 2009/2010 ARC Salon Competition ResultsThe Art Renewal Center is proud to present the award winners and finalists in our fifth International ARC Salon®: Competition. This year we ...

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ARC Master™ Paul McCormack who is also Director of Programs for ARC is now offering classes at his Wappinger Falls(NY) studio:McCormack Studios, Inc.Come Join Paul in his Studio for the first e ...

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Greetings again Mr. Ross, I have contacted you in the past. As your website has grown over the years I can only humbly say 'thank you' for all you do to bring MASTERFUL works to me and my students.I h ...

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Nine new works of art have been added to the ARC museum:1 new piece by Adrianus Eversen1 new piece by Adriana-Johanna Haanen1 new piece by Frederick Hendrik Kaemmerer1 new piece by Johannes Rosierse1 ...

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The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure DrawingA Contemporary Perspective on the Classical Tradition by ARC Master™ Anthony Ryder is now available through Art Renewal Center®The Ryder School ...

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Juliette Aristides Two-Day Drawing IntensiveMarch 30-3111am- 2pm/ 3pm-6pmGLEN COVE STUDIO: 14 Glen Street, Suite 201, Glen Cove, NY 11542Call to R.S.V.P. today! Workshop is limited to 20 seats.(516) 9 ...

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Eight new works of art have been added to the ARC museum:1 new piece by Ferdinand de Braekeleer1 new piece by Hermann Brucke1 new piece by Leon Caille1 new piece by Anton Doll1 new piece by Edgard Far ...

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Seven new works of art have been added to the ARC museum:1 new piece by Louis Apol1 new piece by Geraldine Jacoba Van De Sande Bakhuyzen1 new piece by Otto Eerelman1 new piece by Jozef Israëls2 new pi ...

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25 February, 2009

Ten new works of art have been added to the ARC museum:1 new piece by Louis Apol1 new piece by Bernardus Johannes Blommers1 new piece by Jan Bogaerts1 new piece by George Hendrik Breitner1 new piece b ...

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Hello,I just got done visiting your site for the first time and all I can say is WOW! It is so refreshing to find an organization that actually understands what art really is (and is not!).I was just ...

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24 February, 2009

Eleven new works of art have been added to the ARC museum:1 new piece by Adrianus Eversen1 new piece by Abraham Hulk Snr1 new piece by Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate1 new piece by Barend Cornelis Koek ...

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21 February, 2009

Eleven new works of art have been added to the ARC museum:2 new pieces by Bernard de Hoog1 new piece by Otto Eerelman1 new piece by Adrianus Eversen1 new piece by Frederick Hendrik Kaemmerer1 new piec ...

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ARC Approved™ Atelier Florence Academy of Art has announced its Fourth Alumni Exhibition. Princess Giorgianna Corsini has opened up the Corsini family stables for the exhibit.Opening ReceptionS ...

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We have a new addition to the William Adolphe Bouguereau gallery in the ARC Museum. William Bouguereau is the most popular artist on ARC and a personal favorite (if not a passion) of ARC. In fact, the ...

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20 February, 2009

Eight new works of art have been added to the ARC museum:1 new piece by Charles Green3 new pieces by Sir Hubert von Herkomer1 new piece by William Henry Hunt1 new piece by John Henry Johnstone1 new pi ...

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18 February, 2009

Nine new works of art have been added to the ARC museum:1 new piece by Ernest Albert Chadwick1 new piece by George Gordon Fraser2 new pieces by William Fraser Garden2 new pieces by Albert Goodwin1 new ...

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17 February, 2009

Ten new works of art have been added to the ARC museum:1 piece by George Clark Stanton1 piece by Henry Ryland3 pieces by Noel Laura Nisbet1 piece by George Marks1 piece by Carlton Alfred Grant2 pieces ...

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16 February, 2009

Nine new works of art have been added to the ARC Museum:5 pieces by Richard Doyle4 pieces by John Byam Liston Shaw ...

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ARC Living Masters™ Anthony Waichulis and Juliette Aristides, and ARC Living Artist™ Dana Levin will show at John Pence Gallery: "Our Biggest Trompe l'oeil exhibit ever .." Trompe L'oeil ...

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Lecture, Slide Presentation and Fire-side Chat:"The Boston School: In the Tradition of Beauty" Presented by ARC Living Master™ Mary Minifie atARC Approved™ The Southern AtelierSaturday, Fe ...

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It is with a very heavy heart that I report that Christopher Wood is gone. Christopher Wood and more recently his wife Rosie have been among my family’s dearest friends for the past two decades. A tr ...

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