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| Carel Pieter Brest van Kempen, Charles Allmond and Bob Kuhn at the 2001 SAA Annual Exhibition at the West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, AZ. |
With the Society of Animal Artists' 59th Annual Exhibition upcoming, I thought it would be interesting to share some of the SAA exhibition history with you. There have been nearly 1,000 artists featured in the exhibitions to date. The first was held in 1960 at the Burr Gallery in New York, NY, and up until 1980, the exhibitions were held in various galleries located in New York City.
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| Louis De Donato, Michelle Daniels, Marilyn Newmark, Guy Coheleach, Leslie Delgyer, and Pam Coheleach at the 2003 SAA Annual Exhibition at the Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, NJ. |
In 1981 the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, PA began the SAA's expansion into various regions of the United States and Canada. The touring aspect of the Society's exhibitions started in 1988 when the SAA recruited David J. Wagner to create and manage tours of artwork selected from their annual exhibitions. To date, this includes over 100 venues!
In the SAA's history, over 70 artists have been selected by the juries 15 times or more to have their artwork included in the exhibition, and 25 artists have been featured in 25 or more! SAA Master Signature Artist, Guy Coheleach, holds the current record of participating in 46 Annual Exhibitions, and he will again be featured in our 2019 exhibition! Marilyn Newmark (in the photo above with Guy) participated in 41 exhibitions before passing away.
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Eileen Matias, Rachelle Siegrist (My first time attending an Annual Exhibition opening), James Coe, Tucker Bailey, John Pitcher, and Sue Westin enjoy a museum-style picnic in the Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT.
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Artists & Artworks in the 2019-2020 SAA Tour
(Last month's blog had the list of all artists in the exhibition)
(Last month's blog had the list of all artists in the exhibition)
Adair, Sue deLearie - This Way to the Eelgrass!
Beecham, Gregory A. - Winter Survivor
Bieler, Lucrezia - Covey of Quail
Birchill, Jeff - Gulf Coast Treasures
Bradshaw, Jeremy - Splittin' Hare
Brest van Kempen, Carel - Out Of Their Depth
Chen, Dan - Take Two to Tango
Coe, James - Cool Shadows
Cohleach, Guy- Mountain Flash
Crouter, Anni - Arabesque
Diment, Kim Rae - A Pair In A Partridge Tree
Doellinger, Mick - Incoming
Donahue, Mikel - Your Moment's At Hand
Dunphy, Kathleen - Wingbeats
Faust, Anne Senechal - Another World
Frentner, Rusty - New Life
Fullingim, Sharon - Busy Body V
Geise, Ann - Goats Galore
Glanz, Daniel B. - Soulful
Graves, Sandy - Gone Fishin'
Gylling, Gemma - Treasures of the Elkhorn Slough
Hakeem, Sherif - In Focus
Hillier, Matthew Simon - Under The Curl
Ingram, Alison - Red Kite and a Mob of Crows
Kellner, Justin - An Easy View
Kiehm, David - Who's Turf?
Laird-Lagassee, Janet - Eye of the Beholder
Martin, Roger - Circumstantial Evidence
Martone, Jeanette - Waiting
Matia, Walter - The Talk of the Town
Maxwell, Sally - Fading
Maynard, Chris Maynard - Amphibian Delight
Miller, Darin - The Old Garden Gate
Murray, Robin E .T. - Wolverine in Taiga
Murtha, Sean - Golden Grace
Nimmo, Timothy - Constellation
Pepin, Patricia - Swan Flower
Plank, Millie Whipplesmith - Smith River Canyon, Double Dippers
Plishka, John - Feeding Koi
Pokorny, Tamara - Behold but Beware
Rankin, David - Ranthambhore Ambush
Rhymer, Paul - The Candidate
Rigsby, Jody - Hopnotized
Rogers, Julia - Elephant in the Room
Rosetta - Settled In
Siegrist, Rachelle - Stealthy Approach
Siegrist, Wes - Southern Sentinel
Solberg, Morten E. - This Is Paradise
Soos, Heather - The Fish Hawk
Stajcar, Pati - Rushing Home
Stauffer, Amy - I Believe I Can Fly
Sussino, Mark A. - Ambush Point
Thompson, Carol Lee - Inquisitive
Thornton, Rita - Vulturine Guineafowl
Tryggmo, Gunnar - Shimmer
Tucker, Ezra - Splendor of the Plains
Ullberg, Kent - Lone Wolf
Walter, Bart - The Embrace
Yablonski, Scott - Sunspots
York, Sherrie - Chasing Daylight
TOUR VENUES / DATES
February 1 – April 15, 2020, Hanceville, AL
May 22 – September 13, 2020, Stamford, CT
Until next time . . .
Rachelle Siegrist for the SAA
