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Cruising France with Fine Art Connoisseur & Fall for the Arts schedule of events
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Adobe & Vigas opening Nov. 7 with Alvin
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Marshall | INSIDER Upcoming Gallery Events November 7 - 10, 2013 | 2nd Annual Scottsdale Fall for the Arts November 7, 2013
| Adobe & Vigas opening night with Alvin Gill-Tapia
November 9, 2013
| Quick Draw with dozens of artists painting live in the middle of Main Street including Alvin Gill-Tapia
November 15, 2013
| Soiree at Marshall | LeKAE: Arias, Architecture and Soleri featuring Jeff Stein, architect and president of Cosanti Foundation, and Jayne Casselman, soprano
December 5, 2013
| Interrobang: A Show of Abstract Art opens during Holiday ArtWalk featuring Debra Corbett, Jeff Juhlin and Joseph Maruska who will all be present for the opening
December 28, 2013
| Fiesta Bowl ArtWalk
January 9, 2014
| Beginnings & Ends opening night with Ron Richmond
January 10, 2014
| Soiree at Marshall | LeKAE: Mozart and Friends
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Soiree at Marshall | LeKAE
Music, Architecture and Soleri
Featuring: Jeff Stein, architect and president of Cosanti Foundation, and Jayne Casselman, soprano 15 November 2013, 7 p.m. Admission: $20 (cash or check) Call to reserve your tickets: 480-970-3111 Award-winning architect, writer, educator Jeff Stein AIA is president of Cosanti Foundation. His first construction workshop at Arcosanti was in 1975. Since then he has spent time on the Cosanti staff; taught architecture in the Career Discovery program of the Harvard GSD; headed the department of architecture at Wentworth Institute in Boston; and was Dean of the Boston Architectural College for the past seven years. He has taught at architecture schools in the US and at the Technicum Winterthur, Zurich, and Ecole d’Architecture Languedoc-Rousillon, in Montpellier, France. Mr. Stein has written for ArchitectureBoston magazine and was for ten years architecture critic for the New England newspaper, Banker & Tradesman. He lectures widely about Arcosanti, energy and urban design, including at the recent Tel Aviv-Yafo Centennial Conference on Urban Sustainability, this past fall in Montreal at the 9th World EcoCities Congress and this spring at the Santa Fe Institute. 7106 East Main Street Scottsdale | AZ 85251 www.marshall-lekaegallery.com | 480-970-3111
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Eight Distinctive Events, One Seasonal Celebration of Creativity November 7-10, 2013 Fall for the Arts ArtWalk
Date: Thursday, November 7 from 7 to 9 p.m. Price: Free Location: Downtown Scottsdale Arts District
West Select Sale
Date: November 7 at 5:30 pm. and November 8 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Price: $125/person Location: Phoenix Art Museum
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts presents Diavolo Dance Theater
Date: November 7 at 7:30 p.m. and November 8 at 8 p.m. Price: From $29 Location: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
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November 2013 Canal Convergence | Art + Water + Light
Dates: November 7 from 5 p.m. – 10 p.m. November 8 from 12 p.m. – 10 p.m. November 9 from 12 p.m. – 10 p.m. November 10 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Price: Free Location: Downtown Scottsdale/Scottsdale Waterfront
Paint Out Auction, hosted by Main Street Galleries
Date: November 9 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Downtown Scottsdale Arts District – Main Street and Marshall Way
Conversations with Artists, hosted by Gallery Row
Date: November 9, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost: Free Downtown Scottsdale Arts District – Main Street, west of Marshall Way
Beaux Arts Fundraiser
Date: November 9 at 6:00 p.m. Cost: $125 Location: Scottsdale Artists School
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Marshall | INSIDER Merrill Mahaffey
Phoenix | Acrylic & Watercolor Paintings Merrill Mahaffey was born in 1937 in Albuquerque, New Mexico and spent his childhood growing up in Grand Junction, Colorado. At the age of 13, Mahaffey completed his first painting and received encouragement from a local artist in Grand Junction to continue with his talent. His exploration of the west started at a young age - first with his father and soon on his own. As an avid outdoorsman, Mahaffey has redeďŹ ned the great western landscape with his brush. Mahaffey has climbed, skied, rafted, fished, ridden
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November 2013 horseback and strolled through the subjects of his paintings. Four-day hikes into the Rocky Mountain basins with a fly fishing rod, camera and sketch book were common for Mahaffey, as were first ascents on desert mountain peaks - replacing his fly rod with ropes.
Inner Gorge at Eagle Rock | 53 x 41
The monumental landscapes from Mahaffey’s palette and canvas reflect his high standards of craftsmanship, exploration and invention in a style that is ever evolving. Bridging realism and modernism, Mahaffey has refined a link between aesthetics and environmental concerns. He continues to display awareness by respecting what is sacred about the land and our involvements with it. Merrill Mahaffey has become one of the leading Western artists of our time and continues to lead the way for new generations of artist-explorers who will interpret the western landscape.
Marble Canyon | 38 x 72
Click here to learn more about Merrill Mahaffey and see available paintings on our website.
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Marshall | INSIDER Adobe & Vigas
MFA Santa Fe | 12 x 12
Using bold colors and dramatic perspective, Alvin Gill-Tapia gives a modern take on traditional southwestern architecture. They are more than just old buildings to him; his heritage is rooted in the structures he paints. After several years of exhibiting, learning and teaching in Europe and New York City, Gill-Tapia was drawn home to New Mexico. Since then, his work has included many of the state’s mission churches that he loves. “The churches are of huge significance to the rugged New Mexico life,” said GillTapia, “especially at the time they were built. Many are in small communities and served multiple purposes beyond the use of faith and were built and maintained by the community. I hope to honor these places.” After hours of sketching these architectural traditions, his art evolved into its present semi-abstract, yet three-dimensional style. For emphasis and contrast, he places often fragmentary structures against monochromatic, stark skies. Gill-Tapia is also drawn to these buildings because of their organic nature. Since they are made of mud, Peak of Fall | 20 16 Acoma, NM | 36 x 36 San Estevan delxRey, sand and straw, the lines are much The
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November 2013 softer than contemporary styles. “They are as delicate as they are strong,” he said. By painting them, he hopes to remind people of their importance and beauty, especially since many have been abandoned and are disappearing. “For many years the communities were abandoning them, and many are gone forever,” said Gill-Tapia. “I hope to remind the people of these dwindling communities that we all love and hope to see them around for a very long time.” To help Gill-Tapia honor these unique southwestern edifices, we are hosting “Adobe & Vigas” opening during the second annual Scottsdale Fall for the Arts weekend. Gill-Tapia will be in the gallery during the opening and will be part of the Main Street Quick Draw on Saturday morning. Click here to see more paintings by Alvin Gill-Tapia.
Mission at la Puebla | 48 x 48
Casa de los Dichos | 30 x 30
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Marshall | INSIDER Fine Art Connoisseur magazine’s River Seine Cruise October 2013
Our Peter and DeeAn accompanied the Fine Art Connoisseur “family” on their latest journey through time and history as portrayed by the legacy of art; this time Normandy and Paris attracted them. What more can be said about the splendors of France that has not already been said? “Francophile” has that air of snobbery about it and the famous Parisian “hauteur” actually is a well-deserved accolade: the French know how to live, and they know it! 1st Day, Paris Waterfront: a spectacle in and of itself – especially by night. At 8:00pm the Eiffel Tower springs to life with a dazzling light display – that lasts precisely five minutes. Amidst all the belt-tightening in the western economies the Paris lights just had to be turned down – of all things! The all-night spectacle first was reduced to two hours, then condensed to a mere five minutes in the interest of economy. Never mind that Paris is the world’s most visited destination and 10% of the entire region’s population works in the “tourist” industry! Such is our modern life. Princely villas grace the Seine in serene splendor, attesting to the “Gloire et Honneur de la France.” All that Parisian grace and favor is contrasted by a miscellany of curious river craftcum-houseboats inhabited by retired river folk in madcap diversity – their life, like the Water Rat before them, is messing about in boats on the river. The
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November 2013 Monet’s garden - Giverny, France
Monet’s lily pond - Giverny, France
2nd Day,Vernon: Normandy bears the unmistakable signs of its long kinship with England. Nowhere is this more visible that at this first port of call. A fine, gothic church seems almost too grand for this sleepy town of half-timber and thatch and the remnants of mediaeval bridgework attest to the indomitable ambition of the Normans to be seen all over northern and western France as well as in the British Isles and elsewhere in Europe. Vernon actually served as convenient staging place for our group’s day at Giverny – Monet’s country home. Of course the gardens are breathtaking – there are more than 16,000 different varieties of plants. The show was in rare splendor, given autumn, and brave crocuses still grace the lawns. The main path to the famed green-accented house is defined by a series of empty climbing-frame arches – France has two varieties of nasturtium: one ground and one climbing. Monet intended for them to climb but chose the wrong variety – they spread like a carpet but he liked the effect and left it. Every color and texture that could grace the eye was in evidence. The celebrated water features were artificially constructed, much to the disgust of the local preservation society of his day. Monet’s studio is as he left it, with original furnishings in their original positions, witness a photograph with him in it and replicas of his works.
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Santa Cumba de Bande Spain Pained Pine 12 ½” w x 18” d x 14 ½” h “This powerful church is a wonderful example of 7th century Visigothic architecture. It is in the Provence of Ourense in northwestern Spain in the province of Galicia near Portugal. I was fascinated by the accretion of forms that have evolved over the centuries to form such a beautiful and unlikely unity.”
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Matka Monastery (Holy Mother of God) Republic of Macedonia, 14th Century Painted Pine and Cedar 9 ½” w x 12” d x 22” h “This church was pictured in an exhibition catalog on Macedonia Brides from the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, NM in a 1926 photogravure. I was fascinated by the elongated linear quality of the design and especially the cupola. This piece was inspired by the unique architecture.”
Morada Taos, New Mexico Painted Pine with sheet Lead canales 11” W x 17”D x 15 ½” H “A Morada is a meeting house for the secret society of Los Hermanos or Penitente Brotherhood. The buildings were not churches and the Moradas were not consecrated structures and did not traditionally have altars. The Penitentes were formed in the 1800’s in the absences of priests in rural communities for the purposes of prayer and sacrifice to atone for their sins and to take care of the spiritual needs of the community.”
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Marshall | INSIDER Shelby Keefe Paints Plein Air at Sedona Festival On Tuesday, October 22, the steep little town of Jerome, Arizona played host to 30 artists from the Sedona Plein Air Festival. Along the narrow winding roads in the shadows of historic buildings, these artists captured a beautiful autumn day on their canvases with the haunted mining town and its magnificent vista as their subjects. Among these painters was Wisconsin artist Shelby Keefe, a national award-winning plein air painter represented by The Marshall Gallery of Fine Art in Scottsdale. Keefe chose a spot high in the town looking down at the rooftops of terraced buildings. She said she liked the perspective looking down at the roofs. Just the night before, she painted another view of this quaint town looking up the mountain. Those were just two of the roughly ten paintings Keefe will create this week during the festival. Each painting
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November 2013 has to be painted outside to be considered plein air and is usually completed the same day it was started. While painting a group of branches in the foreground of her painting she explained part of her process. “I teach many classes, and my students often ask how I decide what to paint and when,” explained Keefe. “I don’t start with the background or the foreground necessarily, but I paint what is in the light the way I want it. That is why I’m painting these leaves now because the sun is hitting them just right, and that will only last for a moment.” Over the course of the festival, the invited participants painted in Sedona, Jerome, and at historic sites or museums in the area. At the end of the festival they displayed their art and prizes were awarded. Keefe is no stranger to awards even though she didn’t receive any in Sedona. Recently, she was awarded the top honor from Plein Air Magazine during the 2013 PleinAir Salon competition in Frederick, Maryland.
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Marshall | INSIDER The village of Giverny seems to cope with the loud and proud visitor from across the pond with extraordinary grace and accommodation. We intruded in the village fête and were welcomed like long-lost friends. The children on stilts were followed by a honey stall – some 20 floral honeys proudly displayed for our “degustation;” we could not resist a Statue of Monet in Rouen, France jar of “miel de châtaignier” (chestnut honey) from the Vexin – the fabled province of Henry II and Richard the Lionheart lore. 3rd Day, Honfleur: This charming, well preserved Norman town was the subject for artists like Courbet, Boudin and Monet – it’s outwardly unassuming art museum houses many treasures of fine art, often by unknown regional artists. The mediaeval town occupies the west side of the Seine Estuary opposite Le Havre – which was more than 90% destroyed by the Allies trying to destroy the harbor and dislodge the German garrison. The beautiful waterfront guilds both the scene and the imagination. The townspeople delightfully and patiently accommodate the hordes of visitors, who leave abundant treasure behind. The original Norman church is of wood and strongly suggests Scandinavian church architecture. 4th Day, Bayeux,The Normandy Beaches & D-Day Remembered: With the English defeat at Hastings in 1066 Duke William of Normandy became “The Conqueror” who subjugated the English nation. The thrilling story is told in the Bayeux Tapestry – 77 yards
Omaha Beach
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November 2013 long by 20” high, sewn by English monks after the battle with commentary in Latin. The tale unravels: childless Edward the Confessor commissions his senior noble, Earl Harold Godwinson of Wessex to visit Duke William and promise him Crown of England. Harold is shipwrecked on the Brittany coast, captured and released, to be well received at Rouen by William but forced German Cemetery at La Cambe to swear on holy relics and support William’s claim to the English throne. Upon Edward’s death, the English take counsel and Harold is crowned by Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury. Furious William immediately lays meticulous plans for an invasion: the Normans fell trees and build a fleet. They wait for fair weather and set sail, landing at Pevensey in Sussex. The mounted Norman knights charge the English lines but are repulsed and flee in a feint. The English break ranks and pursue them but the Normans turn on them with great slaughter. A hail of arrows rains down on the English and Harold takes an arrow in his eye. William wins, becomes king, changes the nature of the English, who come to dominate world history ... Les Andelys & Chateau Gaillard Click here to continue reading the fine art adventures of Peter and DeeAn online including their trip toVan Gogh’s home, the castle of Richard the Lionheart and more.
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SOLD - San Esteban del Rey | 48 x 48
Look for Alvin Gill-Tapia’s new paintings online November 4 on our website and our Facebook page. facebook.com/TheMarshallLeKAE