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Washington Society of Landscape Painters The Nature Conservancy Paintings
     

The Nature Conservancy has joined with Washington Society of Landscape Painters to interpret precious conservancy preserves in Maryland and Virginia. Many of the images are featured in the Spring 2008 Nature Conservancy magazine. Over the course of a year, Washington Society of Landscape Painters artists visited The Nature Conservancy sites and sketched the preserves. The result is a body of work including plein air sketches and large studio paintings evoking the beauty of these exceptional properties. These paintings will be exhibited at the Athenaeum Gallery in Alexandria, VA from November 13, 2008 to January 4, 2009, with an opening reception on Sunday, November 16 from 2-4 pm. For more details, see http://www.wslp.org/WSLPexhibitions.html. Additional paintings, sketches, and exhibit details are available at http://www.nature.org/magazine/spring2008/.

Information on The Nature Conservacy partnership with WSLP is available in their Where We Work (Maryland) news article "Capturing the Beauty of the Landscape".

For more information and prices contact WSLP President Barbara Nuss at barbaranuss@verizon.net.

For a view of the paintings, click on its site name.

For a thumbnail view of all of the paintings, click here.

 

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Maryland/DC Preserves

Allegany Forests/Sideling Hill (Western MD) - Mary Kokoski, Barbara Nuss
Space
Choptank Wetlands (Eastern Shore) - Jean Brinton-Jaecks, Nancy Tankersley
Space
Cranesville Swamp (Western MD) - John Bellinger, Margaret Huddy
Space
Dorchester Pond (Eastern MD) - Bernard Dellario
Space
Nanjemoy Creek (Southern MD) - Nancy Tankersley
Space
Nanticoke River Watershed (Eastern Shore) - Lani Browning
Space
Potomac Gorge (DC) - Yolanda Frederikse, Andrei Kushnir, Bill Schmidt
Space

  Mary Kokoski, Shale Barren Vista

by Mary Kokoski
"Shale Barren Vista"
Allegany Forests/Sideling Hill
Oil on Canvas
24 x 30

  Virginia Preserves

Bottom Creek Gorge (Montgomery County VA) - Ed Cooper
Space
Clinch River (Southwestern VA) - Ed Cooper
Space
Cumberland Marsh (Central Eastern VA) - Richard Whiteley
Space
Fortune's Cove (Nelson County VA) - Ed Cooper, Meg Walsh
Space
New Point Comfort (Western Shore) - Margaret Graham Kranking
Space
North River Landing (Virginia Beach) - Bethanne Kinsella Cople
Space
Virginia Coast Reserve (Eastern Shore) - Bethanne Kinsella Cople
Space
Voorhess Preserve (Northeast Bank of Rappahannock River) - Marietje Chamberlain
Space
Warm Springs Mountain (Alleghany Highlands) - Sara Linda Poly
Space

 

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