• International ArtExpo New York, March 1 - 5, 2007 www.artexpos.com
• Laguna Beach Festival of the Arts July 6 - Sept 1, 2007 www.foapom.com
• International ArtExpo Las Vegas, Sept 28 - 30, 2007 www.vegas.artexpos.com

Issue Date: Art Business News - January 07, Posted on: 1/8/2007

Special Report: Painting for the Planet
By John Oberlin, ABN Intern

DANA POINT, CA--Every morning, as Cliff Wassmann walked through the doors to the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia on his way to class, he would see Frederic Edwin Church's "Cotopaxi" painting of the smoke-bellowing South American volcano the piece is named after. Ever since then, Church and the other painters in the Hudson River School, a group of mid-19th-century landscape painters, have been a guiding inspiration through Wassmann's painting career.

Today, he strives to achieve the quality of such 19th-century masters, who like Wassmann, provided the public with images it might not otherwise have seen... read more