Tim Solliday
Tim Solliday | |
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Born | |
Education | Lukits Academy |
Known for | Landscape painting |
Movement | American Impressionism |
Tim Solliday is a contemporary
Youth and artistic training
Solliday was born in the small town of
Beginning plein-air painting
During the summers Solliday also began to paint “en plein-air”, directly from the landscape. He began going out painting with Arny Karl (1940–2000), an older Lukits student who had been painting out of doors for a number of years. Using the pastel medium, he, Karl and Peter Seitz Adams went on plein-air trips to the local foothills, the Southland beaches, including trips to the ocean and the San Gabriel Mountains. Solliday, Adams and Karl painted en plein-air with pastels, as their teacher Lukits had done in the 1920s and 1930s.[12] Solliday concluded his studies in 1980,[13] but the thorough grounding in the old French atelier method that he received from Lukits is what he felt made his career as a figurative painter possible.
Professional career
In the early 1980s Solliday left the outdoor advertising industry to paint full-time. He began exhibiting his works in
Exhibitions
Solliday has exhibited regularly with the California Art Club, at The Pasadena Museum of California Art, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and in the Maynard Dixon Country Invitational. He has also exhibited at the Luckman Fine Arts Center, California State University, Los Angeles. He is currently represented by Maxwell Alexander Gallery in Los Angeles, CA and Trailside Galleries in Jackson, WY and Scottsdale, AZ.
Awards and honors
- 1st Prize, 86th Annual California Art Club Gold Medal Exhibition, July 8–16, 1995
- 1st Prize, 1993 Landscape, Oil Painters of America Annual Exhibition
- Arts for the Parks Finalist, 1993
- Arts for the Parks Finalist, 1991
See also
- Atelier Method
- California Art Club
- California Plein-Air Painting
- En plein air
- Cowboy in art and culture
- Landscape art
- Peter Seitz Adams
- Arny Karl
- Billboard
Notes
- ^ See 99th Annual California Art Club Gold Medal Exhibition catalog biography
- ^ See California Art Club Annual Gold Medal Exhibition Catalogs, 1994-2010 for basic biographical information.
- ^ Listed as such on California Art Club Web Site
- ^ Listed as a member on the LAPA web site.
- ^ Listed as a member on the OPA web site.
- ^ Listed on the list of artists each year.
- ^ See list of these publications below. The commercial web site Ask Art tracks auction sales with a high value of $47,000 for Solliday's western works.
- ^ Susan Hallsten McGarry, "Variety and Harmony", Southwest Art Magazine, February 1997
- ^ Lucile Lukits, Student Tuition Records, Lukits Academy Archive
- ^ See Peter Adams' "Recollections" in The Pastel Landscapes of Theodore Lukits, Carnegie Museum (1998), p. 4-5. Adams entry discusses Lukits' instruction in some detail.
- ^ See essay Solliday wrote for Suzanne Bellah's catalog, The Pastels Landscapes of Theodore Lukits, Carnegie Museum, Oxnard, p. 3 (1991)
- ^ Solliday, Karl and Adams' relationship written about on the Arny Karl.Org web site and his Ask Art Biography
- ^ These dates are given in Solliday's brief essay titled "Recollections" in "The Pastel Landscapes of Theodore Lukits exhibition catalog (1998), p. 3.
- ^ Bonnie Ganglehoff, "Catching Up with Tim Solliday", Southwest Art Magazine, July 2008
Magazine references
- Morseburg, Jeffrey, Tim Solliday, A Biographical Sketch, Art of California
- Ganglehoff, Bonnie, Catching Up With Tim Solliday, Southwest Art Magazine, July 2008
- Western Art Collector, July 2008
- Editors, 'Artist Worth Watching,' Art-Talk, November 2004
- Otserman, Julie, Coast to Coast,' Southwest Art, August 2004
- Gangelhoff, Bonnie, 'Wild at Heart,' Southwest Art, February 2004
- Herrin, Alice, 'Art Events- Texas,' Southwest Art, September 2003
- Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall, 'Coming of Age,' Art & Antiques, June 2003
- Editors, 'On the Scene,' Southwest Art, May 2003
- Editors, 'On the Scene,' Southwest Art, March 2003
- Stavig, Vikki, 'The Moods of God's Spirit,' Art of the West, January 2003
- Stavig, Vikki'For the Love of the Land,' Art of the West, July 2002
- Stavig, Vikki, 'Revitalization of the California Art Club,' Art of the West, May 2002
- 'Art Events,' Southwest Art, February 2001
- Brown, Joan, 'Light Motif: California Impressionism,' Wildlife Art, December 2000
- Stavig, Vikki, 'Tradition Lives On/California Art Club,' Art of the West, June 2000
- Burlingham, Michael J., 'Man with a Muse,' American Artist, July 1999
- Bucher, Kristen, 'Best of the West: Texas,' Southwest Art, April 1997
- McGarry, Susan Hallsten, 'Variety and Harmony,' Southwest Art, February 1997
- Runbeck, Katheryn, 'Tim Solliday,' Southwest Art, February 1997
Catalogs
- California Art Club: 99th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition, 2010 (CAC Exhibition Catalog), Artist Entry and illustration
- California Art Club: 98th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition, 2009 (CAC Exhibition Catalog), Artist Entry and illustration
- California Art Club: 97th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition, 2008 (CAC Exhibition Catalog), Artist Entry and illustration
- California Art Club: 96th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition, 2007 (CAC Exhibition Catalog), Artist Entry and illustration
- California Art Club: 95th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition, 2006 (CAC Exhibition Catalog), Artist Entry and illustration
- California Art Club: 94th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition, 2005 (CAC Exhibition Catalog), Artist Entry and illustration
- California Art Club: 93rd Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition, 2004 (CAC Exhibition Catalog), Artist Entry and illustration
- California Art Club: 92nd Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition, 2003 (CAC Exhibition Catalog), Artist Entry and illustration
- California Art Club: 92nd Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition, 2002 (CAC Exhibition Catalog), Artist Entry and illustration
- California Art Club: 91st Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition, 2001 (CAC Exhibition Catalog), Artist Entry and illustration