January 20, 2011.

The LA Art Show opens to the public today and both the fair and the weather are beautiful. There’s a giant sign on the Convention Center for all the world to see, and it’s 70-ish, sunny, calm – just terrific.

       The Show runs through Sunday, January 23. We have paintings from Hugh Mesibov’s surrealist period, The Wartime Shipyard, 1942-45, and works by Missourians-turned-Californians, Dorothy Browdy Kushner and Fred Shane. Continuing our California theme will be work by natives Fred Becker, Claire Mahl Moore, Pele deLappe, and Ansei Uchima.

       Not to be out-done, there will be works featuring New York City by Will Barnet, Peggy Bacon, James Daugherty, Peter Grippe, Bernard Rosenquit, Anne Ryan, Louis Schanker, and Harry Sternberg.