The Los Angeles Art Show is at the LA Convention Center through Sunday, January 22, 2012.

 
      We are featuring Judith Shahn’s Back Yards, Greenwich Village, 1948, and a group of Anne Ryan paintings and works on paper. In an inaugural view, Theodore Haupt’s Three Graces, 1941, pairs with Acrobats, 1937.  Also hanging are Bernard Rosenquit’s Playroom, 1946, and drawings and prints by Peggy Bacon and Her Circle -- Isabel Bishop, Wanda Gag, Reginald Marsh, and Marguerite Zorach.

       The fair seems to have gotten much larger.  There’s an extensive show of Chinese Buddhist paintings and an installation of a Qing Dynasty Reading Room. Attendance has been great. Ensconced at the picturesque Figueroa Hotel, we can see as far west as the Hollywood sign. On Saturday Southern California got some much needed rain.