Los Angeles Art Show Offers 19th and 20th Century American & European Masters; Painting, Sculpture, Prints and Drawings Provide Collectors Compendium

The Fine Art Dealers Association presents the Seventh Annual Los Angeles Art Show September 13 – 16 at UCLAs John Wooden Center.

The largest vetted show in Southern California, this years 45 exhibitors come from across the country, offering museum quality paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture from 19th and 20th centuries including works by Impressionists and Postimpressionists, French Academy, Belle Époque, Barbizon, Pre-Raphaelites, German Expressionists, Hudson River School, Hoosier School, Chicago School, Ashcan School, California Impressionists, Taos Society, Latin American and American Modernists as well as leading contemporary artists.

The show begins Thursday evening with an Opening Night Gala benefiting the Music Centers Fund for the Performing Arts. The Benefactors Reception begins at 5:30 pm and tickets are $500 per person; the Opening Night Gala starts at 7 pm, tickets are $100 each. Benefit Chair Dody Booth is joined by co-chairs Molly Barnes, Marcia Hobbs and Dina Merrill. General show hours begin Friday, September 14 and continue through Sunday, May 16; admission is $15 and includes the show catalogue.

The quality and variety of the dealers and works offered at the show provides a great opportunity for seasoned and new collectors," said show producer Kim Martindale. The Fine Art Dealers Association is committed to providing an exciting and educational experience at the show. The atmosphere is welcoming and the show décor is a spectacular effort on the part of designer James Magni," said Martindale.

Among the many works of note that will be offered at the show include:
·   Works by American landscape painter Albert Bierstadt including Sunset Over the Plains," c. 1870 and Landscape with Deer, View of Estes Park, CO, 1876;
·   Charles M. Russells watercolor and gouache Navajo Wild Horse Hunters," 1922, from the private collection of Homer E. Britzman of Pasadena, CA; $750,000;
·   First public exhibition and offering of a companion pair of still life paintings by 18th Century Dutch master Severin Rosen, Still Life with Fruit" and Still Life with Flowers," $700,000;
·   Three paintings by early 20th century American painter Hovsep Pushman, being exhibited publicly for the first time.
·   Ed Ruchas iconic screen print Hollywood," 1968;
·   Sculpture and drawings by Mexican Modernist Francisco Zuniga including the life-size bronze Soledad de Pie," 1968, and drawings and paintings by Alfredo Ramos-Martinez.

Magni, a member of Architectural Digests roster of top interior designers, and his Los Angeles-based interior design firm, plans to employ his trademark Asian influenced contemporary aesthetic, the lobby walls will be painted in a palate of celadon green, gray green and white; well be using contemporary and antique furnishings that will showcase contemporary and Asian art from the shows exhibitors," said Magni.

Participating dealers include Louis Stern, George Stern and William Karges from Los Angeles, De Rus Fine Arts and The Redfern Gallery from Laguna Beach; Rehs Galleries and Spanierman Gallery from New York; and Nedra Matteuccis Fenn Galleries from Santa Fe.

The Fund for the Performing Arts supports the Music Centers education outreach to a million students and teachers annually in schools throughout Southern California as well as an exciting array of new and expanded main-stage programming, particularly in dance.    

Founded in 1990, the Fine Art Dealers Association is a nonprofit membership organization of respected and established dealers from across the US. Its members are dedicated to promoting and maintaining the highest degree of professionalism scholarship and integrity in all business conducted with colleagues, institutions and the art buying public. Membership in FADA is highly selective and by invitation only. Each member has expert knowledge of the artists or period in which he or she specializes and maintains a corresponding inventory. In addition to demonstrating a commitment to enriching the cultural lives of their communities, members share their expertise through significant exhibitions, informative catalogs and by offering quality works of art whose authenticity is unconditionally guaranteed.

For more information, go to www.laartshow.com