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Connoisseur Gallery in Bedminster Congratulates Artist Anna Wainright

Bedminster, NJ -The Connoisseur Gallery Congratulates Anna Wainright. “Across the Wetlands” was accepted into the 24th Juried Exhibition of the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) to be held at Vose Gallery in Boston, MA May 10 - June 21. The International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) 24th Juried Exhibition to be held from May 10 – June 21, 2014 at the venerable Vose Galleries of Boston. This IAPS exhibition will feature soft pastel paintings by 76 contemporary artists, selected from over 850 entries. Hailing from twenty-nine states, British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, and Queensland Australia, the finalists are some of the most prolific and important contemporary pastel artists in the world. The show will display how this luminous medium is inspiring artists and advancing the quality, prestige and value of pastel painting.

To see more works by Anna Wainright visit the Connoisseur Gallery, Bedminster, NJ, or online at www.cfineart.com.

Anna Wainright, PSA - Self Taught; B.A. Rutgers, Urban Studies; A.A. from Brookdale, CC, in Graphic Design. Workshops and private lessons with Master Pastelist Brooke Allison, and PSA signature members Marge Levine and Stan Sperlak.  Other artistic influences, the Masters, all of the Impressionists, Sargent, Homer, Gruppe, and the Tonalists. 

Awards: Pastel Society of America 41st Enduring Brilliance “Allied Artists of America Award” 2013; Pastel Journal’s Pastel 100, April 2011 & 2014 issues; Artist Magazine 2011 Finalist, December 2011 issue; Pastel Society of Tampa Bay, 2nd Place 2013, Merit Award 2012, First Place 2007; Pastel Society of New Jersey Merit Award 2011, 2012; 2013; Connecticut Pastel Society Dick Blick Award 2012; 1st Place Lrg Works – PAPJC 2011; 2011 NJPS Merit Award - 2010 & 2011 Bayonet Farms - Best Use of Light; 2007 Top Award of Excellence Tampa Bay Possibilities in Pastels – 4th Merit Place 2011; 2nd Place 2008/3rd Place 2007 Annual NJPPS Show - Sovereign Bank Award - 1st Annual NJ Open Juried Pastel Show at the Guild of Creative Arts.

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Associations: Signature/Pastel Society of America, Pastel Society of New Jersey, and Pastel Painters of NJ. Also a member of the Tampa Bay Pastel Society, Degas Pastel Society, Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, and the International Association of Pastel Painters (IAPS).

The Connoisseur Fine Arts, Inc. is located at 2493 Lamington Road, Bedminster, NJ, 07921. 908-766-1139 or by email at connoisseur@cfineart.com,  and on facebook at The Connoisseur Gallery, Inc.https://www.facebook.com/pages/...Connoisseur...Inc/154114954629185

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About the Connoisseur Gallery:

The Connoisseur was founded 43 years ago in Bernardsville, NJ by Phil Fico, now celebrating its 44th anniversary in Bedminster, NJ. We represent contemporary artists, Tracy Pollock, Anna Wainright, PSA, Rhoda Yanow, PSA. Nick Savides, and Susan Blubaugh. With a history specializing in 18th – early 20th century American Art. The gallery provides professional restoration for public and private collections as well as individual works and custom framing. The Connoisseur Gallery buys, sells and handles consignments.


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