WINNERS ANNOUNCED FOR MAYNARD DIXON COUNTRY 2004

MT. CARMEL, UTAH - Awards were given to five outstanding artists at Maynard Dixon Country 2004. The two hundred and twenty five attendees at the annual art show and sale voted on secret ballots and selected five winning paintings from more than one hundred possible choices. The Milford Zornes award for best work on paper went to Denise LaRue Mahlke, for her pastel “Last Light on the Chama.” Taking the Edith Hamlin award for best oil was Kate Starling for her painting “Arroyo.” The popular choice award went to Jim Morgan for his painting “Mid Winter Evening”. Artists’ choice went to Ray Roberts for the painting “Salt River Canyon.” The Golden Thunderbird Award for best of show went to G. Russell Case for his painting “Torrey Trail.”

The Maynard Dixon home and studio in Mt. Carmel, Utah has been a destination retreat for artists since Maynard Dixon and his wife Edith Hamlin built their summer retreat there in 1939. After Dixon’s death in 1946, Hamlin buried Dixon’s ashes on the hillside overlooking the property. Maynard Dixon Country celebrates the life of Maynard Dixon and gives contemporary artists an opportunity to sell their work during the five-day gathering.
Founded in 1999, the Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts is a non-profit organization furthering Maynard Dixon’s legacy by preserving his estate and educating the public about his immeasurable contributions to American art through educational tours of his home, internships for working artists, and artist retreats. The Foundation will build the Maynard Dixon Museum of Art adjacent to the property on Utah’s historic Highway 89.
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Art Ethics 101 by Armand Cabrera

We have noticed a marked increase in unethical behavior among many artists, collectors and galleries. In our effort to educate and uphold the highest standards of professionalism, Outdoor Painting wishes to provide our readers with a guideline for ethics in the art business. While some people appear to succeed, even though acting in an unethical manner, be assured that at some point in their career, their actions will come back to haunt them.
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A Conversation With Nature
By Charles Muench
Part II

When I begin an outdoor painting, I look forward to the give and take, back and forth, experience with what is before me---a dialog with Nature. I enter the field with more questions than answers. I know of many students and even a few professional painters who, when painting out of doors, create paintings that have no relationship to the scene before them. They encounter Nature with a paint box full of preconceptions. When I look at their paintings, it’s as if they are saying to Nature, “Shut up, and let me tell you how it is!” For me, this approach leads to pretentiousness of style and a stagnation of creativity.
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Master Outdoor Painters

Carl Rungius
By Armand Cabrera

Carl Rungius was primarily known as a painter of big game. His fidelity to painting directly from life cannot be ignored and puts him at the top of the list as an outdoor painter. His depictions of the Canadian Rockies have not been surpassed to this day.

Carl Rungius was born in Germany in 1869. From an early age, he was determined to become an artist. His father, a pastor, wanted him to become a minister, but the young Carl refused and his father eventually relented. He studied at the Berlin Art Academy. Carl was enrolled in design and figure classes but found time to sketch at the zoo. Eventually, he assembled a portfolio of animal drawings and submitted them to Paul Mayerheim, the professor of animal drawing and painting at the Academy.

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Quote of the Month

“You have to keep painting outdoors; if you paint outdoor scenes in your studio your color invariably gets too warm, too hot. Only if you paint outdoors do you see the cool silvery tones that are the true colors of nature.”

-Carl Rungius

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