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TABLE of CONTENTS 2 President’s Message 3 Juror of Awards 4-5 Jury of Selection 6 Arts & Humanity Award 2015 7 NWS Life Achievement Award 2015 8-9 Awards, Donors, and Patrons 10 Traveling Exhibition 2016 11 Exhibitors 12-29 Exhibit Catalog 30-31 Board of Directors 32-34 Signature Members 35-37 Associate Members 38 National Watercolor Society: Past, Present, and Future 39 Membership Information 40 Donation Information Inside Back Cover: Gallery Information, Opening Hours, and Credits The National Watercolor Society NWS 95th International Exhibition October 24 – December 20, 2015 NWS GALLERY, 915 SOUTH PACIFIC AVENUE, SAN PEDRO, CA 90731 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 02 Welcome to our 95th International Our 2015/2016 China Exchange, chaired by Exhibition! Heartfelt congratulations to former president Linda Doll, is now also well all participants and award winners. underway. Please stay tuned! This year, with so many incredible artists This year’s NWS International Exhibition is submitting, you can imagine how difficult it truly a remarkable 95th Anniversary milestone was for our three jurors Judi Betts, David with its success due in no small part to the Poxon and Soon Y. Warren to select only 71 seamless cooperation between our entire paintings from more than 1000 entries. It is dedicated Board and the exhibition committee. never an easy task to turn away numerous Each Board member did their prescribed job highly-skilled and talented artists simply for so well there was little left for me to do other lack of space, but at some point, there is no than to watch with amazement and to assist alternative. We are grateful to our jurors for in extending our outreach even further. I am their expertise in selection. honored to serve alongside all of you and look forward to continued NWS growth. As for Awards, a special thanks goes to Valli McDougle for securing more than $40,000 The NWS was founded in 1920 as the in cash, purchase and merchandise awards California Watercolor Society, changed including the new Katharine Cartwright its name in 1967 to the California National $3,000 Vanguard Award. Because we offer Watercolor Society, then in 1975, simply so many awards for excellence, Peter Frank, became known as the National Watercolor our awards juror, had his work cut out and we Society. Now, in 2015 as we extend our applaud his great discernment in selecting participation in exchange exhibitions from this year’s NWS winners. Europe to China, we have truly become an international organization. But none of these In our Studio Gallery, next to the main new achievements and opportunities would Exhibition, you will also see invited Belgian be possible without all of our loyal associate artists from the Eau en Couleurs. These artists artist members, signature artist members and represent the final leg of last year’s second sponsors. Thank you all. We are deeply grateful NWS/European exchange program. We thank for your continued participation and support. Catherine De Ryck, David Poxon and Penny Hill for making the second of many planned Ken Goldman international reciprocal events possible. PRESIDENT, NWS PAST PRESIDENTS 1921 Dana Bartlett 1945 Emil Kosa, Jr. 1961 Delmer Yoakum 1977 Joseph Cook 1993 Mary Lind 1922–1924 Henri De Kruif 1946 Millard Sheets 1962 Noel Quinn 1978 Mary Jane Kieffer 1994 Linda Doll 1925–1926 John W. Cotton 1947 Douglass Parshall 1963 Clem Hall 1979 Bela Kasza 1995 George James 1927–1928 Theodore B. Modra 1948 Rex Brandt 1964 Howard Clapp 1980 Jae Carmichael 1996 Willellyn McFarland 1929 Julian Ellsworth Garnsey 1949 Sueo Serisawa 1965 Wayne La Com 1981 Howard Clapp 1997 Ruth J. Eyrich 1930–1931 Donna Schuster 1950 Richard Haines 1966 Irma Attridge 1982 Gerald Brommer 1998 Robert Hallet 1932–1933 Arnold Franz Brasz 1951 George Gibson 1967 Arthur Kaye 1983 Katherine Chang Liu 1999 Mary Ann Chater 1934 Bessie Ella Hazen 1952 David Scott 1968 Gerald Brommer 1984 Roger Armstrong 2000 Ronald Miller 1935 Lee Blair 1953 Watson Cross, Jr. 1969 Hazel Harper 1985 Arthur Kaye 2001–2002 Paulette Beakley 1936–1938 Barse Miller 1954 Edgar Ewing 1970 Frank Ackerman 1986 Nancy Livesay 2003 Loa Sprung 1938 Phil Dike 1955 Leonard Emondson 1971 Elizabeth Hutchison 1987 Lee Wexler 2004 Donna Watson 1939 Phil Paradise 1956 Howard Clapp 1972 Merwin Altfeld 1988 Meg Huntington Cajero 2005–2007 Chris Van Winkle 1940 Ejnar Hansen 1957 Edward Reep 1973 Pat Berger 1989 Bonese Collins Turner 2008–2009 Dick Cole 1941 Milford Zornes 1958 Dorothy Brown 1974 William Pajaud 1990 Phyllis Solcyk 2010–2011 M. E. “Mike” Bailey 1942 James Patrick 1959 Keith Crown 1975 Ruth Rossman 1991 Willellyn McFarland 2012–2014 Linda A. Doll 1943–1944 Frode Dann 1960 Jonathan Scott 1976 Jae Carmichael, Bela Kasza 1992 John Salchak 2015 Ken Goldman JUROR of AWARDS Peter Frank 03 In my role as Awards Judge for the National provided the image. Sentiment Watercolor Society’s 95th International was not applauded (or, for that Exhibition, I found my usual juror job matter, disdained) because it description profoundly altered. Others had moved me, but because its culled through a wealth of submissions from visualization stuck with me. around the world, ultimately bringing the The water media are in many superior seven percent to the fore. It befell ways the most magical of all me to distinguish the best of the best – and visual media, their limitations to do so with, shall we say, no small prejudice. promising little more than self- There were plenty of awards to hand out, effacing intimacy or secondary but they were of all different sizes, sources, objecthood and yet yielding universes as PHOTO CREDIT: purposes, and descriptions. Each had to broad and, yes, as intimate as oil painting or Eric Minh Swenson be bestowed upon a different artwork for sculpture or prints. These universes emerge overlapping, but not necessarily cohesive, in the hands of those who know what they reasons. Some prizes came with caveats – are doing, why they are doing it, and how as, indeed, did some artworks. It was easy they can best do it. The mystique of the enough to make my own general selection water media is no less persuasive than that out of the show’s selection in a pleasant of more prominent disciplines; the audience version of window-shopping, which is how I only comes later, all too incidentally, to its still began the award selection process. But then small voice. The biggest surprises come in parsing who got what – that’s where things the subtlest packages. got interesting. I am grateful to the National Watercolor What did I seek to reward? I’d daresay the Society for involving me so closely with such same things the show’s initial judges did: a gratifying artwork, and I’m pleased to share coherent relationship between admirable the Society’s pride, and the pride of the technique and provocative subject matter. participants, in this vibrant selection. (And yes, even the non-objective works have “subject matter,” as abstracted or inferred as Peter Frank it may be.) Virtuosity was not honored for its ASSOCIATE EDITOR, FABRIK MAGAZINE own sake, but for the sake of the service it ART CRITIC, HUFFINGTON POST PREVIOUS JURORS OF AWARDS Before 1974, the Jury of Selection 1984 Joseph Raffael, Artist 1995 Janet B. Walsh, Artist 2008 Peter Adams, Artist also chose the Awards. 1985 Jury of Selection 1996 William Wilson, Art Critic 2009 Jim Morphesis, Artist 1975 Sueo Serisawa, Artist 1986 Joseph A. Mugnaini, Artist 1997 Edward Betts, Artist 2010 Christopher Schink, Artist 1976 Joyce Treiman, Artist 1987 William C. Landwehr, 1998 Harold L. Gregor, Ph.D, Artist 2011 Harold Gregor, 1977 Donald Teague, Artist Director, Springfield 1999 Virgina Cobb, Artist Professor Emeritus, Art Museum 1978 Edward Betts, Artist 2000 Rob Erdle, Artist Illinois State University 1988 Sandy Ballatore, 1979 Arnold Mesches, Artist 2001 Alex Powers, Artist 2012 Barbara Nechis, Artist Art Critic, Lecturer 1980 Russell J. Moore, 2002 Elizabeth A. Yarosz, Artist Faculty Member of 1989 Billy Al Bengston, Artist Parsons School of Design Director, Long Beach 2003 Edward Betts, Artist 1990 William Brice, Artist 2013 Roxana Velásquez, Museum of Art 2004 Tony Berlant, Artist 1991 Philip White, Artist Executive Director, 1981 Don Lagerberg, Artist 2005 Christopher Schink, Artist 1982 Henry T. Hopkins, 1992 Elleen Monaghan The San Diego Museum of Art Whitaker, Artist 2006 Stephen Doherty, 2014 Jean Stern, Director, San Francisco Editor-in-Chief, American Artist Museum of Modern Art 1993 William D. Gorman, Artist Executive Director, 1994 Michael Ward, Author, Editor 2007 Maureen Bloomfield, The Irvine Museum 1983 Charles Reid, Artist Editor, The Artist’s Magazine JURY of SELECTION 04 JURY OF SELECTION 2015: Soon Warren David Poxon Judi Betts, CHAIRPERSON PREVIOUS JURIES OF SELECTION As a team, we brought to the table our lives of studying and painting, traveling, exploring in 2008 Miles G. Batt, Sr., Chairperson museums, and listening to music and all of nature’s sounds and colors. With our own emotions we Carrie Burns Brown responded to each artist’s personal symbolic language. I was fascinated with the large array of Cathy Woo diverse methods and thoughts represented. I would have been pleased to see a larger exhibit in 2009 Jerry Stitt, Chairperson Carolyn Lord the end. I am excited, of course, with our selections. The viewers may question our decisions, but Carl Purcell we each voted for the creative images and color chords that ignited our hearts. 2010 Marc E. Mehaffey, Chairperson Carla O’Connor Penny Hill and her committee worked hard to make our responsibilities systematic. Special John Salchak thanks to all the volunteers who worked so diligently for the NWS. 2011 Ted Nuttall, Chairperson Marry Ann Beckwith I am honored to have been selected to work with the other jurors.