The 146th Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings presented by the Philadelphia Sketch Club represents one of the longest running exhibitions in the country.  This year’s show runs from April 10 through May 2 with a reception on April 19 from 2 to 4 PM.  The exhibition will feature over 150 works by prominent and emerging artists.  Traditionally, the exhibition also features a work by each of the three jurors.  This year’s Jurors are Maureen Drdak, Bill Ewing and David Shevlino.  Images of their works are attached.  In addition to awards for the best works in the exhibition, there will also be special awards for the best landscape, still life, portrait and abstract.  Gallery hours at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, 235 S. Camac St., are Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday from 1 to 5 PM.

Founded in 1860, the Sketch Club is America’s oldest artists club.  Originally, the show was founded so that artists could display a number of small examples of their works with the hope that a patron would order a larger painting.  The size limitation on the paintings is no larger than 20” x 20”.  Prior award winners in this exhibition have included Paulette Van Roekens, John Folinsbee, Alice Kent Stoddard, Arthur Meltzer, Antonio Martino, Dorothy Van Loan, Doris Silk and Al Gury.

Running concurrent with this exhibition in the Sketch Club’s first floor gallery will be the exhibition “Donald Meyer: Hosta at Venture Series." Artist Donald Meyer will present  large paintings in egg tempera of banks of flowering hosta at the artist's home.  These studies show the artist's ongoing fascination with the formal qualities of naturally random 'lights' and 'leaves', parts of a cluster of images he calls the “Americanist Paradigm.”

Further information is available online at: www.sketchclub.org or by calling 215-545-9298.

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Attached images:

Maureen Drdak, Vajrapani, oil

Bill Ewing, Tea for Two, oil on panel

David Shevlino, Full Sun, oil on canvas