Fine Art Connoisseur

Fine Art Connoisseur is dedicated to art lovers and collectors, offering fresh insights through its articles on representational art, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from both historical and modern times across American and European styles. In the last ten years, the magazine has gained a solid reputation for its in-depth coverage of realism, an area of artistic achievement that is often neglected by other publications.

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An Art Collection Highlighting the Unity of Humankind and Nature

2 weeks ago | fineartconnoisseur.com | Peter Trippi

Fine Art Collection Profile >After several years of effort, Anne W. Brown and Rusty Munn completed the design and construction of their “forever home” in the scenic Four Corners region of southeastern Utah, where the state touches upon Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. It was writing and music that brought this couple together in their 60s, but especially art of the American West, which both have collected for decades.
Painting Spotlight: "New York—Welcome to the Land of Freedom…" - Fine Art Connoisseur

3 weeks ago | fineartconnoisseur.com | David Masello

Ellis Island Art > A Collection SpotlightBy David MaselloPeter Boyer has struck actual notes that resonate not only with American immigrants, but also with his own ancestors. He has composed 35 concert works that have earned him a Grammy nomination and many other accolades.
An Exciting Dimension to Collecting Fine Art

1 month ago | fineartconnoisseur.com | Peter Trippi

On Collecting Fine Art >Born in Germany but a U.S. citizen for many years, the New Jersey-based businessman Dieter Weissenrieder became interested in the visual arts as a young adult thanks to a close friend who became a curator at a major German museum. His wife, Eleanor, a retired schoolteacher, grew up in suburban New Jersey, so she has visited New York City’s museums all her life and began bringing Dieter along soon after they met.
Celebrating Real Art Collectors

1 month ago | fineartconnoisseur.com | Peter Trippi

From the Fine Art Connoisseur March/April 2025 Editor’s Note: “The art collectors highlighted in this issue of Fine Art Connoisseur buy art with their eyes and hearts…”Collecting Art for the Right ReasonsMy favorite issue of the year is the one that highlights real-world collectors of contemporary realist art. This is that issue, and we hope you will enjoy “meeting” the individuals and couples who have so generously opened their doors.
Building an Art Collection: Patience is a Virtue For This Collector

2 months ago | fineartconnoisseur.com | Peter Trippi

Building an Art Collection – a Fine Art Collection Profile >Tom Vining is a retired veterinarian who lives in a small town 75 miles west of Houston. His home is adorned with approximately 275 paintings, almost all of them on display with — amazingly — enough wall space for more. Ranging from figures and still lifes to landscapes and cityscapes, these works have been created by impressionist and realist artists in America, Russia, and Ukraine, most of them after 1980, though a few before.
Favorite: "The Architect's Dream" by Thomas Cole

2 months ago | fineartconnoisseur.com | David Masello

By David MaselloArchitect Peter Pennoyer is reluctant to cut and paste a document or fire up the CAD drawing software typical in his industry. Instead, he and his staff architects prefer to do much of their designing by hand, actually drawing the moldings and staircases, fireplace surrounds, and coffered ceilings that figure into his residential projects.
Insuring Your Art Before a Wildfire or Other Natural Disaster

Jan 9, 2025 | fineartconnoisseur.com | B. Eric Rhoads |Eric Rhoads

As of this writing, roughly 130,000 people are evacuating more than 45 square miles in the Los Angeles area, and our hearts are with them. If you have a way to show support of the families and businesses in need, please do so. The L.A. fires, in addition to all the damage we know of so far, have resulted in hundreds of lost paintings at artist studios, collector homes, and likely art galleries.
Western Visions: Making and Collecting Fine Art

Jan 6, 2025 | fineartconnoisseur.com | Peter Trippi

A Western Art Collection Profile >The artist Billy Schenck lives near Santa Fe with his wife (and business partner), Rebecca Carter, in a handsome adobe house built by the renowned landscape architect John Brinckerhoff Jackson (1909–1996) and then completely renovated by the couple. Here at the Double Standard Ranch they have created their own Shangri-La for making and displaying art, and also for playing the equestrian sport of ranch sorting, at which Billy excels.
A Fine Art Collection Spotlight > "I don’t care. I want to buy it now!"

Dec 12, 2024 | fineartconnoisseur.com | Peter Trippi

A Fine Art Collection Profile >Melba and Tom York are proud residents of Rockport, a once-sleepy fishing town that has blossomed into a lively arts enclave on the coast of South Texas, 30 miles northeast of Corpus Christi. Melba says she dabbled in ceramics in her mid-twenties and later took classes with the realist artist Wayne Floeck, who specialized in depicting animals, primarily from Africa.
An Art Collection Favorite: Go Tell Alice

Dec 2, 2024 | fineartconnoisseur.com | Peter Trippi

Art Collection Spotlight > Ever since Dennis Elliott met the artist Judith Linhares in 1978, he has followed her work, along with the white rabbit she has frequently included in her paintings. Like Alice who chased that animal down the hole into Wonderland, Elliott, a prolific artist himself as well as the founder of the International Curatorial Studio Program (ICSP), has followed the progression of scenes Linhares paints and produces in her Brooklyn studio.