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| Johanna Harmon "Imbued" 16 x 24 Oil |
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| Harmon "Lavalier" 9 x 7.5 Oil |
Small Gems
now - December 31, 2012
100 National Sculptors and Painters
All Works Available at
2019 E. Second Avenue
Denver, Colorado 80206
303.333.4144
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Johanna Harmon New Paintings at Saks Galleries Cherry Creek
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Landscape Painter Sallie K. Smith Reception and Demonstration at Saks Galleries Denver
and
Oldest Gallery in Colorado
present
Painter of the Rockies Artist
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| Sallie K. Smith "Colorado Morning" 30 x 40 oil |
Saturday, December 8, 2012
1:pm - 4:pm
Reception and Demonstration
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| Sallie K. Smith "Moraine Park Autumn" 36 x 48 oil Though Sallie K. Smith paints other subjects, she prefers landscapes, and enjoys letting the work speak for her. The gentle yet vibrant images she depicts are inspired by her favorite vistas and her focus is exclusively Colorado. "Nature, to me, is so perfect in every detail; it gives me peace and, at the same time, is exhilarating. I am trying to capture that ethereal sensibility in my work, knowing that these moments of solitude are often fleeting. It is my hope that people can glimpse into my scenic travels and likewise be carried away with the work." >> For More on Sallie K. Smith Use this Quick Link << The American Art Invitational exhibition at Saks Galleries offers several miniatures of Sallie K. Smith. Please join us for an afternoon with the artist. Sallie is represented by Saks Galleries Denver, Colorado. |
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| Smith "Dancers" 11 x 14 Oil |
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| Smith "Morning Reflected" 16 x12 |
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| Smith "Bear Lake Study" 6 x 8 Oil |
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| Smith "Little Horses" 4 x 6 |
Saks Galleries Cherry Creek
3019 East 2nd Avenue
Denver, Colorado 80206
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
American Art Invitational Presents Gordon Brown "Fall Colors" at Saks Galleries Cherry Creek
| Gordon Brown Saks Galleries Cherry Creek Oldest Fine Art Gallery in Colorado  |
| Gordon Brown "Fall Colors" 13" x 16" Oil Gordon Brown creates yet another beautifully serene landscape for the Annual American Art Invitational hosted by Saks Galleries Cherry Creek and co-sponsored by Southwest Art Magazine. Visit the gallery in Denver's finest shopping area Cherry Creek North or visit the entire exhibition online at American Art Invitational. This year's event boost 100 nationally recognized painters and sculptors. American Art Invitational 2012 |
Brown made his first foray into art when he bought a set of oil paints while in high school. Although he had not painted until then, two of his oils won best of show and first place, respectively, in a high school art contest. This early recognition sparked his interest in art and his desire to pursue a career as an artist. Brown also received encouragement from several established artists in the area. Shortly after graduating from high school, he was introduced to Mark Rohrig, who invited Brown to his one-man show in Aspen, Colorado. From this experience in the professional art world, Brown learned that it was possible to earn a living as a painter.
Gordon Brown received the 2012 American Art Invitational prestigious Collectors Choice Award for
Gordon Brown "Morning Sky " 13 x 14 Oil
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Denver, Colorado 80206
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Saturday, November 24, 2012
Late Arrival and Worth Waiting For New William Acheff at Saks Galleries Cherry Creek Denver
2012
Small Gems
100 National Artists
Paintings and Sculpture
hosted by
Oldest Fine Art Galleries in Colorado
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| William Acheff "Tunes" 8 x 6 Oil |
In 1973, Acheff moved to Taos, New Mexico, to separate himself from the influences of his teacher. It was in Taos that Acheff found his niche. Acheff, who is of Alaskan Athabascan heritage, has a special affinity for the historical and cultural artifacts that he chooses to paint. The appealing forms and designs of the Indian pots and artifacts are intertwined with Acheff's preference for painting textures from nature. The vintage photographs that often appear in Acheff's compositions help the artist set a mood. Each article in relation to the others becomes integral to the composition as a whole. The results invite lasting contemplation.
Over 100 nationally known artists are presented at Saks Galleries Cherry Creek during the holidays. The American Art Invitational is an annual event celebrating the finest art and benefitting in part the Colorado Children's Hospital.
Enjoy the season, visit Saks Galleries Cherry Creek for Contemporary, Historical Western and European Fine Art, Native American Antiquities, Jewelry, Textiles and Pottery.
3019 East 2nd Avenue
Denver, Colorado 80206
303.333.4144 saksgalleries.com
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Just Desserts In Time for Thanksgiving Weekend From Natalie Featherston - American Art Invitational 2012
Double The Confection Perfection
Home-Made Cupcakes
Just in Time for Thanksgiving
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| Featherston "Chocolate Mouse Cupcake" 10 x 8 Oil |
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| Featherston "French Vanilla Cupcake" 10 x 8 Oil |
Both delicious cupcakes may be purchased at
3019 East Second Avenue
Denver, Colorado 80206
303.333.4144 www.saksgalleries.com
Open Black Friday Until 7:00 pm
The American Art Invitational 2012 presents painter Natalie Featherston, One of the country's most innovative and accomplished young artists, Natalie Featherston works exclusively in the centuries old realm of still life to create dazzling narrative and trompe l'oeil paintings that combine the virtuosity of a Dutch Master with the vision of a thoroughly modern mind. The Chicago Sun Times has described her paintings as "artful beyond just illusion and trickery; they are truly masterful still lifes made with both craft and wit."
"What inspires me most is the creative voice that still life gives. Unlike portraits or landscapes, still life doesn't simply exist around us. You have to actually build the stage for the painting and select the subjects, colors, and textures. The end result must arrive at something that draws the viewer into an invented realm that connects with their experiences in a meaningful way. I have always found still life painting to be quite a challenge for these very reasons, and although it may qualify me for the 'one-trick-pony' category, I can't imagine painting anything else."
>> For More of Our Top 100 Favorite Artists Click Here <<
Landscape Artist Michael Godfrey - Two New Works - American Art Invitational Exhibition Saks Galleries Denver
presents
Landscape Artist
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| Michael Godfrey "Gentle Cascade" 12 x 16 Oil |
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| Michael Godfrey "Winter's Best" 12 x 12 Oil About Michael Godfrey Michael Godfrey is an award-winning landscape artist whose work hangs in many private and corporate collections. Born in Germany in 1958 and raised in North Carolina, he earned a BA in Fine Arts and began his painting career in oils and watercolors. He spends hours photographing and sketching, preparing for a well thought out painting. Michael describes his style as a combination of George Inness' impressionism with the moods of an Albert Bierstadt painting. "I paint," he says "to help people notice the special moments that happen every day, especially the drama when light first splashes across a scene." From different perspectives and different times of day, he works to capture and interpret the varying moods of light. "A landscape artist has to have knowledge of many disciplines (geology, chemistry, physics, architecture), to understand the world in which they are trying to create. An artist must observe with the idea that what is observed must be interpreted and distilled. For a landscape artist, it is just as important what is not included in a work as what is eventually laid down. I ask myself, what is the dominant truth—is it color, shape of land forms, or time of day. I try to understand what I am seeing, so that the final work will capture the visual emotion." >> more information on Michael Godfrey << All American Art Invitational Works Are Available Now At Saks Galleries Cherry Creek 3019 East Second Avenue Denver, Colorado 80206 303.333.4144 www.saksgalleries.com |
Happy Holidays Saks Galleries Cherry Creek Open Black Friday 10:am - 7:pm
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Timothy Chapman - Need A Little Serious Whimsey In Your Life Think Timothy Chapman
presents
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| Timothy Chapman "Gravity Cancelling Song in Hares" 6 x 10 Acrylic |
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| Timothy Chapman "The Metaphysical Precursor to a Season's Growth" 12 x 6 Acrylic |
"'Invented Natural History Illustration' is how I've been describing my paintings," says Chapman. "Visually, the work borrows from various western traditions of depicting animals and plants, particularly the copperplate engravings that illustrated Buffon's Natural History (begun in 1766), as well as Victorian animal portraiture and old scientific illustration. I have tried to present similarly earnest, but basically inaccurate, renderings of animals by using humor, irony and a surrealistic sensibility that is not available to the scientist. In this way I attempt to address the emotion/sensation of Wonder, the conflict between the Real and the Imaginary, and why we accept certain things as True."
Chapman has shown his work from Coolidge, Arizona (solo exhibition, Central Arizona College) to Florence, Italy (2001 Florence Biennale). Most recently he was honored to be chosen by the U.S. State Department to show paintings in the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia, and to have work become part of its permanent collection in Myanmar (Burma).
3019 East 2nd Avenue
Denver, Colorado 80206
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The American Art Invitational is hosted each year by Saks Galleries Cherry Creek and by Southwest Art Magazine. The exhibition supports Colorado Children's Hospital.
Monday, November 19, 2012
Beautiful Stainless Steel Sculptures by American Art Invitational Artist Babette Bloch
Sculptor
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| Bloch "Budvase" 18"H Stainless Steel Edition of 25 |
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| Bloch "Seahorses" 14"H Stainless Steel Edition of 9 |
Sculptor Babette Bloch is a pioneer in the use of laser-cut and water jet-cut stainless steel in creating works of art. Her sculptures explore form and the interplay between object and light, reflect their environments, and expand the ways in which stainless steel is used in contemporary art.
Bloch's works of art embrace her eclectic tastes, her pleasure in aesthetics, and her technical curiosity. Drawing on several traditions in American art, she creates works that touch on Modernist abstraction, the cut outs and collage found in Pop art, and the long-standing practice of story telling in art.
In cutting, shaping, burnishing, and grinding stainless steel, Bloch has developed the material's natural properties of brightness and reflectivity while making the dense metal seem nearly weightless and ethereal. Her distinctive approach is seen in public commissions in her silhouetted and larger-than-life-sized Reflecting History series, seen in Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, SC, and Hudson Heritage Farm, Ganges, MI. The fully molded floral and wildlife sculptures from her Reflecting Nature series are on view in museum and private collections in the U.S. and in Europe.
For More Information on Sculptor Babette Bloch or all 100 National Artists - Use this Quick Link
GOTO > American Art Invitational 2012 <
All Work Available to Purchase at
3019 East 2nd Avenue
Denver, Colorado 80206
303.333.4144 or saksgalleries.com
Sunday, November 18, 2012
American Art Invitational 2012 Sallie K. Smith Paints Rocky Mountain National Park
100 National Artists Small Works Exhibition
Now - December 31, 2012
hosted by
3019 East Second Avenue
Denver, Colorado 80206
303.333.4144 saksgalleries.com
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| Sallie K. Smith "Dancers" 11 x 14 Oil |
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| Sallie K. Smith "Morning Reflected" 16 x 12 Oil |
For More Information on Sallie K. Smith or to Review the Entire Exhibition of Nationally-known Artists Use This Quick Link > American Art Invitational < Click Here.
For More Sallie K. Smith Paintings of the Rocky Mountain National Park - Use This Quick Link
The American Art Invitational is sponsored each year by Saks Galleries Cherry Creek and Southwest Art Magazine benefitting The Colorado Children's Hospital.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Miniature Sculpture Offerings at Saks Galleries Cherry Creek During the American Art Invitational This Year
sculptor
2012
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| Wayne Salge "Walk-On" 12.5"H Bronze Edition of 12 |
Wayne Salge is among several nationally-known sculptors presented in this year's
hosted by
Saks Galleries Cherry Creek
3019 East Second Avenue
Denver, Colorado 80206
303.333.4144 saksgalleries.com
Presented now through December 31, 2012.
Here is an excerpt of an interview with Wayne Salge in a recent Southwest Art Magazine article regarding the annual exhibition and his latest work.
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| Salge "Plough" Bronze Ed of 12 |
Wayne Salge has three new works in the American Art Invitational.
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| Salge "Walkie-Talkie" Bronze Ed of 12 |
Other Sculptors include: Babette Bloch, Tim Cherry, Jane DeDecker, Daniel Glanz, T.D. Kelsey, Dan Ostermiller, Rosetta, Sherry Salari Sanders, Tim Shinabarger and Pati Stajcar.
For more information of these artists and their work, use this quick link
> American Art Invitational < just click here.
Holiday Hours Thursday and Friday 10am - 7pm
Find small treasures for the holidays at Saks Galleries Cherry Creek.
The American Art Invitational is sponsored by
Southwest Art Magazine and Saks Galleries Cherry Creek
benefitting The Colorado Children's Hospital.
Friday, November 16, 2012
Small Works By 100 American Masters Paintings and Sculpture Available
Karen Lawrence
presented by
Now - December 31, 2012
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| Karen Lawrence "On the Way Upstairs" 10 x 8 Oil |
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| Karen Lawrence "Place of Honor" 10 x 10 Oil |
Karen Lawrence, ..."Over the years, I've gravitated toward a way of painting interiors that works well for me. Homes are referred to me from various sources as people become familiar with my style,"
I steer away from commissions, so that I have the freedom to paint what really excites me. Those paintings turn out the best. The oils shown here I painted at my studio at Tula Art Center in Atlanta. I photograph in wonderful homes, catching the light. Then I pour over the photos at the studio, deciding what to paint next...what excites me."
Karen Lawrence along with 99 other nationally known artists work can be enjoyed at Saks Galleries Cherry Creek. All work available for sale, sculpture, oil, watercolor and pastel.
To view all of the work - please use this quick link American Art Invitational 2012 - click highlighted.
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Denver, Colorado 80206
303.333.4144
Call for Special Holiday Hours
Thursday and Friday
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Announcing 2012 Winners American Art Invitational
Congratulations
American Art Invitational Winners
presents
the prestigious
Award of Excellence
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| Andrea T. Kemp "Evolve" 8 x 10 Oil on Board |
Southwest Art Magazine
Award of Excellence
Body of Work
Mary Qian
The Colorado Children's Hospital
Purchase Award "Storytime"
The Colorado Children's Hospital
Purchase Award "Storytime"
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| Mary Qian "Storytime" 22 x 18 Oil |
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| Mary Qian "...And One More Thing..."20 x 16 Oil |
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| Mary Qian "Day Dreamer" 15 x 11 Oil |
Collectors Choice Award
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| Gordon Brown "Morning Sky" 13 x 14 Oil |
Collectors Choice Award
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| Teresa Elliott "Cuero II" 10 x 11 Oil on Canvas |
Congratulations to all of the winners and participants of the
2012 American Art Invitational
Art available for purchase now through December 31, 2012
hosted by
Saks Galleries Cherry Creek
3019 E. Second Avenue
Denver Colorado 80206
303.333.4144 saksgalleries.com
2012 American Art Invitational
Art available for purchase now through December 31, 2012
hosted by
Saks Galleries Cherry Creek
3019 E. Second Avenue
Denver Colorado 80206
303.333.4144 saksgalleries.com
Holiday Hours
Tuesday and Wednesday 10:am - 5:pm / Thursday and Friday 10:am - 7:pm / Saturday 10:am - 4:pm
Monday, November 5, 2012
American Art Invitational Openings in Just Four Days - Get a Sneek Peek at Saks Galleries Denver
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Sunday, November 4, 2012
Just Arrived for American Art Invitational Small Gems at Saks Galleries Cherry Creek Denver Opening Soon
100 National Artists
hosted by
Denver Colorado
November 9 - December 31, 2012
All Art Available Prior to Opening Reception
Friday, November 9, 2012
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| Torrez "Into the Mad Abstract Dark" 14 x 11 Oil |
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| Berra "Dogana de Mare, Venice" 12 x 9 Oil |
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| Bohannon "Hushed" 8 x 8 Oil on Copper |
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| Solliday "Little Water Maiden" 13 x 9 Pastel << Click Here to View More Work American Art Invitational 2012
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3019 East Second Avenue
Denver, Colorado 80206
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| Ostermiller "Osito" 5" Bronze |
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