American Art Collector

Previewing upcoming art exhibitions from coast to coast, American Art Collector is a unique monthly magazine specially designed to bring living representational artists, galleries and active art collectors together in one place.

Cruising Toward Spring

American Art Collector

Behind the Covers

SHOW CALENDAR • OUR GUIDE TO EXHIBITIONS, ART FAIRS AND SPECIAL EVENTS FROM COAST TO COAST May 2026

ART NEWS • The latest in contemporary American realism.

Time Traveler • Transforming personal grief into archetypal beauty, Ricardo Fernández Ortega paints the lives his daughter might have lived.

Grit & Spirit • Two museums showcase Mary Whyte’s portraits honoring the workaday lives of ordinary Americans.

Subtlety in Spirit • Jeremy Lipking celebrates 30 years of painting with a major retrospective at Georgia’s Booth Western Art Museum.

ELIZABETH FLOYD • Jumping into Spring

DYANA HESSON • Driven by Discovery

HELEN K. TINDEL • A Life Made Visible

Scenes of Solitude

GEOFFREY JOHNSON • Familiar Atmosphere

LARRY MOORE • Force of Nature

JUSSI PÖYHÖNEN • A Moment in Time

A Dynamic Dialogue

BILL FARNSWORTH • All About the Light

JEANNE ROSIER SMITH • A Moment of Awe

Exceptional Vision • The NSMA International Painting Competition celebrates contemporary realism on a global scale.

Elegant & Engaging • The inaugural Salt Lake Art Show comes to Sandy, Utah, in mid spring for three days of fine art and design.

Colorado’s Finest • Loveland Museum hosts the annual Governor’s Art Show and Sale with all proceeds benefiting community nonprofit programs.

Leaving an Impression • The AIS presents the 10th annual edition of its popular Small Works Showcase.

Wow Inducing • NOAPS hosts the annual small works exhibition and event at Anderson Fine Art Gallery for its ninth edition.

Worldwide, World Class • The global art community gathers this month at Frieze New York.

SANTA FE & VICINITY

Wild Connections

Artists & Galleries

Year of the Horse

Artists & Galleries

FOUND Family

Artists

Realistic Illusions • Royston was the Second Prize Winner in International Artist magazine’s Challenge No. 150 Florals & Gardens.

Inspiration Abound • Trachok was the Third Prize Winner in International Artist magazine’s Challenge No. 150 Florals & Gardens.

Kathleen Kalinowski

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