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subtitle about this pageRichard F. Lack
Richard Frederick Lack (March 26, 1928 - September 22, 2009) was an American artist, educator, and writer. He is known for his work in...
The Artistic Heritage, Credo, and Thoughts on Drawing of James Joseph Childs (1945 – 2020)
By Stephen Gjertson and James Childs James Childs was devoted to his art, an art inspired by select masters of the past. This single-minded...
The Ateliers of R. H. Ives Gammell and Richard F. Lack
Tradition and the Training of Painters in the Second Half of the 20th Century By Stephen Gjertson"Art students are terrified at the prospect...
For Glory and For Beauty
Stephen Gjertson and Kirk Richards Paintings, Drawings, and Studies September 15 - November 16, 2002 The Biblical Art Center, Dallas, TX...
TRIAD: Three American Painters, Dallas
May 4 - June 13, 2007, David Dike Fine Art, Dallas, TX.Dedicated to Steve Armes, a fine artist and friend, who passed away on April 10, 2017....
Beauty: A Rebirth of Relevance – Richard Lack, Don Koestner, Stephen Gjertson, Kirk Richards
February 3 - April 30, 1996, the Newington-Cropsey Foundation Gallery of Art, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
Distinguished Company: A Retrospective Exhibition of Works by Richard Lack, Don Koestner, and Stephen Gjertson
The Bloomington Art Center, Bloomington, MN, January 16 - February 20, 2009.
Traditional Art and The Art of the Frame
Traditional Art and The Art of the Frame Kirk Richards • R. Kim Poarch • Steve Armes • Stephen Gjertson Friday, September 7 - Saturday, September...
Hippolyte Flandrin: A Nineteenth Century Master, Part I
By Stephen Gjertson In 1857, seven years before the artist’s death, the eminent French art critic, Edmund About, wrote of Hippolyte Flandrin, “If...