American Artist Artist magazine of largest circulation. Artist profiles/interviews include multiple photos and reproductions over multiple pages, PLUS: Illustrations, technical features, columns, vintage ads and MORE --Exclusive MORE MAGAZINES detailed content description, below! Issue Date: DECEMBER 1982; VOLUME 46, ISSUE 485 IN THIS ISSUE:- This description copyright Edward D Peyton. Any un-authorized use of this description is strictly prohibited. FRONT COVER: SUNDAY AFTERNOON by Barbara E. Bohler, 1980, watercolor, 30 x 22. Private collection. A CONVERSATION WITH PHILIP HICKEN by Charles Movcilli This Nantucket landscapist often uses his felt-pen sketches of local and faraway scenes as a basis for his acrylic paintings. Here Hicken shares some of his sketches and paintings, together with his ideas on teaching art. THE TRADE OF THE ARTISTS' COLOURMAN. In this article, excerpted from the catalog to Winsor Newton's 150th anniversary exhibition "Paint and Painting," which was held at The Tate Gallery in London last summer, Winsor Newton gives an overview of the history of the "colourman's" trade. THE DAVIDSON COLLECTION by Jalane and Richard Davidson. Over the years, the Davidsons of Chicago have built an impressive collection of contemporary American realist works on paper, many of which will be shown in the upcoming exhibition at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago. Here they discuss how theirof interest in collecting began and how they go about buying the very best examples of realist works on paper. PAT LONGLEY'S MINIATURE PAINTINGS by Elizabeth C. Knudsen President of the Miniature Art Society New Jersey, Pat Langley paints miniature landscapes, portraits, and still lifes that are described as "clearly contemporary." In this article, LongIey outlines the history of miniature painting and how the subject matter and materials of the miniaturist have changed through the years. Her works are reproduced actual size. OGDEN M. PLEISSNER by M. Stephen Doherty American Artist visits again with Ogden M. Pleissner, a distinguished painter from Vermont whom the magazine first featured in a cover story in March 1942. Pleissner is still recognized as a master of both oil and watercolor painting, and here some of his foreign and domestic landscapes are shown. THE WATERCOLOR PAGE: BARBARA E. BOHLER This Arizona watercolorist says her medium "reflects my inner emotional life." Some of her joyous, colorful paintings, many of which possess an Oriental richness, are shown. GLENNA GOODACRE: A SCULPTOR OF PEOPLE by Mary Carroll Nelson. Goodacre has become one of the most respected sculptors in the West and Southwest. "The magnetism of her work is her honesty," writes the author, describing Goodacre's bronzes of people of many cultures. Here is a look at the work of this award-winning artist. DEPARTMENTS: TECHNICAL PAGE by Prof. Clifford T. Chieffo. FORUM: In Praise of Academic Drawing by Gene Thornton. LOOKING AT PAINTINGS with Hilton Brown. COUNSEL ON THE ARTS by Martin Bressler. PROFESSIONAL PAGE by Juno Jevnikar. HOLIDAY SHOPPING GUIDE. ART BOOKS. QUICK TIPS. ART MART. BULLETIN BOARD. INDEX TO 1982 ARTICLES. COMING IN JANUARY. INDEX TO ADVERTISING. This description copyright Edward D Peyton. Any un-authorized use of this description is strictly prohibited. Magazine is COMPLETE and in VERY GOOD +++ condition. (See photo)