National Watercolor Society
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Exciting update: Chris' Feininger Soul won a major award! |
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Exciting News! Chris' painting Feininger Soul has been accepted into the very prestigious 2024 National Watercolor Society 104th International Open Exhibition! It previously won awards in the 2023 Baltimore Watercolor Society Mid-Atlantic and The 2024 Virginia Watercolor Society shows. |
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Chris' painting Mary Loves Feininger and Miro was accepted in the prestigious 2024 National Watercolor Society Member Exhibition |
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Chris was previously honored to have one of her works Tenement Window After Midnight featured in their "First One Hundred Years " special exhibition, viewable here (Chris' work is around the five minute mark). |
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Grace Church, Millbrook New York Stained Glass
Chris has been working on new Stained Glass Window designs, of both the saint Julian of Norwich and local heroes Elanor Roosevelt for her humanitarian work, and Charles Johnson of Millbrook, on the left, who won the Silver Star (and who is recommended for the Congressional Medal of Honor) for valiantly saving many of his fellow soldiers in Korea.
Gillia Gallery Verum Ultimim Art Gallery
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BALTIMORE WATERCOLOR SOCIETY
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Chris was pleased to win an award at the 2024 Baltimore Watercolor Society Signature Show for Veteran's Story. The award winners are viewable here. |
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She previously won first place at their 2022 Signature show with her painting Saint Nickolas and the Wedding of the Three Sisters. |
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PGA TOUR Sawgrass Gallery of Champions
Chris says "The fiftieth anniversary of THE PLAYERS Tournament was a magnificent celebratory weekend. I was present in the mix of fans all four spectacular days."
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Chris' portrait of 2024 winner Scottie Schefller |
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"As I ponder all fifty years of THE PLAYERS champions I have painted, I feel great gratitude to John Snow who envisioned the idea of art with text that summarizes the story of the tournament that year. It is always an epic and heroic story – and usually is a nail biter by late Sunday! John Snow’s idea of telling as well as illustrating the story dovetails with my illustration style beautifully. This tradition has successfully continued thanks to the leadership of John Rice and Rob Knox."
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John Rice, Chris, and Rob Knox |
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"Reflecting back from now, I love that this PGA TOUR art captures the spirit of what THE PLAYERS is about. The winner is always center, captured immediately after his spectacular win. The painting also tells his bold and valiant story. His portrait is surrounded by glorious flowers of the Sawgrass Stadium with elements like his scorecard, with its rectilinear exactitude reflecting the precision of the game. I love rambling back and forth amid the paintings, perhaps comparing what Tiger and Scheffler did on 17. One can do that in the Sawgrass Gallery of Champions. Then we have the scenes from the day; I love drawing key moments and then savor my time drawing the crowd of always highly individuated characters. The Sawgrass crowds are a great part of the story of THE PLAYERS, of the art."
"The Hall of Champions gallery of (thus far!) thirty-six paintings is a wonderful space for memories and reflection. I read and ponder the text as I go, smiling as I remember the story of singular years. The art joyously brings one back, remembering giants of the game, men of great spirit and verve. I love my role as a chronologist of THE PLAYERS history, and can’t help but grin with anticipation seeing the placeholders in the Gallery of Champions for the art of the future!"
