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On January 5th the Art Renewal Center announced the finalists and award winners in its prestigious 18th International Salon
Competition. There were a total of 3,500 entries from 72 countries. David’s painting, Aureole (24” x 72”), received one of eight Honorable Mentions in the Landscape category.
The mission of the Art Renewal Center is the revival of realism in the visual arts.
In 2025 the painting, Honolulu Sundown (24” x 48”), was juried into the California Art Club’s virtual exhibition, Excellence in Traditional Fine Art: Golden Horizons.
Founded in 1909, the California Art Club is one of the oldest, largest and most active art organizations in the country and is dedicated to promoting and supporting the traditional fine arts of drawing, painting and sculpture.
Last year David began a new affiliation with the Waterhouse Gallery in Montecito CA.
Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine published an article by David in Realism Today, an online newsletter last April and subsequently reran it 3 times. You can read it here: Chasing Light: A Painter’s Journey from Land to Sea & Sky
The painting Winter Light (30” x 48”) was juried into last summer’s 114th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition of the California Art Club.
In 2024 David was pleased to have been made a Signature Member of the California Art Club, to which he has belonged for many years.
In 2022, Early Morning Vineyard (24” x 48”) appeared in the California Art Club’s 111th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.
In 2021, the painting, Sky Light, was a finalist in the California Art Club’s virtual exhibition, Excellence in Traditional Fine Art: Moments of Joy. The 40 artists were selected by Kristin Hoerth, Editor-in-Chief of Southwest Art magazine.
The image was also included in an article on landscape painting in the September issue of American Art Collector magazine.
The painting, Morning Over the Gulf (36” x 56”), received an Honorable Mention in the landscape category of the Art Renewal Center’s prestigious 14th annual International Salon competition.
The painting was also one of the 100 pieces selected for the live traveling version of the ARC Salon. The show opened at the European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona, Spain, December 2019 – February 2020 and became a virtual exhibition at Sotheby’s, NY, from July 17th – July 27th, 2020.
A couple of David's favorite "sea & skyscape" images can be found in this book of California coastal paintings.
San Joaquin Symphony was part of the California Art Club’s Annual Gold Medal Show in 2020 and won the Art Lovers’ Choice Award for favorite landscape as voted by the viewers of the virtual exhibition.
David's painting, Chinese Temple: Mendocino appeared in the book, California Light: A Century of Landscapes from Rizzoli International, one of the leading publishers of books on fine art.
