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The painting, Cloud Symphony (36” x 60”), has been selected for the California Art Club’s 115th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition to be held at The Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University in Orange County from June 13–September 13 of this year.
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.
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.
Last year David began a new affiliation with the Waterhouse Gallery in Montecito CA.
Last April Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine published an article by David in Realism Today, an online newsletter, and subsequently reran it 3 times. You can read it here: Chasing Light: A Painter’s Journey from Land to Sea & Sky
Last summer the painting Winter Light (30” x 48”) was juried into the 114th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition of the California Art Club.
In 2024 David was honored 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.
In 2019 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 then became a virtual exhibition at Sotheby’s, NY.
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.
