Posts for November, 2025

American sculptor Justin Ryan Kendall has spent years building a collection of plaster casts with the goal of making them available and affordable to students, artists, and lovers of art and art history. His fascination with these casts began during his time in Italy studying at the Florence Academy of Art. In the spring of 2021, the Fountainhead Gipsoteca was born, offering high quality reproductions of some of history's most important sculptures. The collection is filled with masks, busts, and fragments from sculptors like Michelangelo, Praxiteles, Rodin, Bernini, and Donatello. The casts, most often intended for art instruction, also make for timeless display in the home or studio. 

Beginning on the evening of 11/27, ARC followers can visit @fountainheadgipsoteca on Instagram to take advantage of Black Friday deals. Throughout the weekend, there will be a seconds sale (blemished or slightly damaged casts at a discount) shared in the Instagram stories. Additionally, you can visit fountainheadcasts.com anytime and use promo code ARC for 10% off your order.

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The Figure Society was founded on January 1, 2025, by ARC Living Master Shane Wolf. Given that no artistic organization exists that focuses solely on this long-standing artform, The Figure Society firmly refocuses the paramount importance of the Nude in Art and in culture. Via its annual symposium, The Figure Society will invite 3 models, 3 sculptors, and 3 painters to collaborate over 3 days, all in full view and access to a very limited public.

The inaugural symposium will be held in Saint Louis, Missouri, from March 26 - 28, 2026, and will bring together these world-class artists: Robert Liberace (drawing and painting), Oliver Sin (drawing and painting), Shane Wolf (drawing and painting), Alicia N Ponzio (sculpture), Kevin Chambers (sculpture), and Brian Booth Craig (sculpture).

Tickets are on sale now via the website. 

ARC Associate Living Master, French artist Laurence Saunois will present Nympheus Luminansis, les nymphéas de la lumière (Nympheus Luminansis, Water Lilies of Light) in Figeac, France. The result of eight years of work, this tribute to Claude Monet offers a contemporary vision of the poetic world of Giverny. Ten large-format paintings, in which light and color take center stage, define her “real impressionism,” combining figurative precision with impressionistic emotion. The exhibition will then be presented in six American museums, affirming Laurence Saunois' international stature and her exploration of light, color, and artistic memory.

The exhibition runs from November 22 – 30, 2025 at Palais Balène, Rue Balène, Figeac 46100, France.

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Join the Hudson River Fellowship at Salmagundi Club for a night filled with landscape paintings and inspired conversation with art lovers and the artists themselves. Enjoy a glass of wine and peruse the beautiful works originating from the 2025 Fellowship, created from life on site or later in the studio from studies.

The exhibition takes place on November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM EST at the Salmagundi Club, 47 5th Avenue in New York, NY 10003.

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An exhibition of oil paintings by ARC Associate Living Master Urban Larsson will be on view at Skajs Antikhandel. Since the last exhibition in the autumn of 2022, Larsson has been working on several portrait commissions as well as independent works such as figure studies, still-lifes, and landscapes.

The opening reception takes place on Thursday, November 20, 2025, 5–8 PM and Saturday, November 22, 2025, 2–5 PM.

The exhibition runs from November 21 -30, 2025 at Skajs Antikhandel, Nybrogatan 3, Stockholm, 11434, Sweden.

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American artist Winslow Homer (1836–1910) transformed the medium of watercolor through his relentless spirit of experimentation. His luminous views transport viewers to the rugged Maine coast, the Adirondack Mountains, seaside England, sun-drenched Caribbean waters, and beyond. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston houses the largest collection of Homer’s watercolors in the world, though the works’ fragility and sensitivity to light means they have not been displayed together in nearly half a century.

This exhibition brings dozens of the MFA’s Homer watercolors back into the galleries for a new generation to experience, alongside a selection of related oils, drawings, and prints by the artist. With material ranging from Homer’s childhood drawings all the way to his final canvas, left unfinished at the time of his death, visitors can follow the major chapters in his career and learn about the various environments—ecological, artistic, social, and economic—that shaped his enduring work in watercolor.

The exhibition runs from November 2, 2025 – January 19, 2026 at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston MA 02115.

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In celebration of his four month residency with Moshava Art Gallery, ARC Associate Living Master Josh Tiessen is holding a solo exhibition featuring an expansive collection of eco-surrealist paintings alongside fresh work completed on-site.

On November 13th, from 6:00-8:00pm, Moshava Art Gallery will host an opening reception including a short talk from the artist at 7:00pm. For the show’s duration, the gallery will host viewing hours Wednesday-Friday, 3:00-6:00pm with the artist periodically live painting. Tiessen's coffee table art book will also be available.

The show runs from November 13 – December 11, 2025 at Moshava Gallery, 45 East 8th Street, NY, New York, 10011.

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'Wright of Derby: From the Shadows' is the first major exhibition dedicated to the British artist’s ‘candlelight’ paintings. 

Illuminated faces gather around a variety of objects – from classical sculptures and scientific instruments to bones, bladders and animals. Through his unflinching scenes of people watching, Wright of Derby proposes moral questions about acts of looking. 

Challenging the traditionally held view of Wright of Derby as a figurehead of the Enlightenment, this exhibition contributes to the ongoing re-evaluation of the artist, portraying him not merely as a ‘painter of light’. More than virtuoso scenes of dramatic light and shade, Wright of Derby used the night-time to explore deeper and more sombre themes, including death, melancholy, morality, skepticism and the sublime.

With over twenty works, including other paintings, mezzotints, works on paper and objects the exhibition explores both Wright of Derby’s artistic practice and the historic context of scientific and artistic development in which they were made.

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While the paintings of Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) have become icons of Impressionism, his drawings, watercolors, and pastels are far less widely known. In fact, drawing remained central to his artistic practice even as his interests and ambitions changed over the course of a long career. This exhibition explores the ways in which Renoir used paper to test ideas, plan compositions, and interpret both landscape and the human figure.

This exhibition is the first in a century to explore the artist’s works on paper in depth. Organized by the Morgan Library Museum and the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Renoir Drawings brings together nearly one hundred drawings, pastels, watercolors, prints, and a small selection of paintings, enabling visitors to engage with Renoir’s creative process while offering insights into his artistic methods over five decades.

The exhibition runs from October 17, 2025 – February 8, 2026 at the Morgan Library, 225  Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016.

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The Fey Wild, ARC Living Master Patricia Watwood’s solo debut at Equity Gallery, comprises multi-figure narrative oil paintings, large scale drawings and a theatrical forest installation (extending out to the gallery courtyard) that quotes Victorian Fairy Paintings, Shakespeare, Fragonard’s Frick murals and the shadowy woods surrounding the artist’s rural Pennsylvania property.

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 6, 6:00–8:00PM
 
The exhibition runs from November 6 – December 6, 2025 at the New York Artists Equity Association Inc., 245 Broome Street, New York, NY 10002.

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The Renaissance period saw a dramatic transformation in the way that artists worked, with a new-found appreciation for creativity pushing artistic boundaries. Drawing became central to this development, evolving from an essential tool of workshop practice to an exciting art form in its own right.

This exhibition brings together a wide range of drawings from this revolutionary artistic period, including 45 drawings never exhibited in Scotland before. 

Exploring the diversity and accomplishment of drawing across Italy between 1450 and 1600, the exhibition will feature around 80 works by over 50 artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian alongside lesser-known artists, all drawn from the Royal Collection, which holds one of the world’s greatest collections of Italian Renaissance drawings. 

The exhibition runs from October 17, 2025 – March 1, 2026 at The King’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Canongate, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh, EH8 8DX, UK.

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The Art Renewal Center is pleased to announce that we have posted our roster of finalists competing in the 18th International ARC Salon Competition. Approximately 23%, 816 works have been selected as finalists. The roster consists of the artists' names, titles of works, categories the works qualified in, and the artists' nationalities. Winners will be posted on January 5th, 2026, when we announce the final results of the competition.

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The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art presents the first monographic exhibition in forty years of the work of Walter Osborne, one of Ireland’s most-heralded artists. The exhibition charts Osborne’s trajectory from his student days in Dublin and Antwerp through his sojourn in Brittany and his early practice in England before returning to his native city to care for his niece and aging parents following the death of his beloved sister Violet in 1893. Through his depictions of Dublin’s streets, parks, public spaces, domestic interiors and gardens, countryside, and most importantly its people, a vision of a vibrant––if divided––Ireland emerges.

The exhibition runs until December 7, 2025 at the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, St. André Way (corner of Eddy Street and Angela Blvd), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556.

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The exhibition traces the life of this artist, born in Italy and a Parisian by adoption, who also had a brilliant career in the United States. A highly talented portraitist, he was much sought-after by a cosmopolitan elite, celebrities, the Parisian smart set and the first American film stars. His life was marked by decisive encounters and friendships with men of letters, such as Tolstoy in Russia and George Bernard Shaw in Paris, with whom he shared a vegetarian lifestyle, somewhat unusual for the era. In addition to the portraits that made his name, the exhibition also highlights his animal sculptures along with his work on behalf of animal rights, of which he was an ardent advocate well ahead of his time.

The exhibition runs from September 30, 2025 – November 11, 2026 at Musee D'Orsay, Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Paris 75007, France.

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