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* After just three months as a member of the prestigious
Salmagundi Club of New York City, painter Margret
Short of Milwaukie, OR, won the Salmagundi Club
Award at the club's Member Summer Exhibit for
the Painting PRELUDE.
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My works of art represent the profound excitement
I feel when light touches objects in a dramatic way," says
painter Margret E. Short. "Color and lush paint
are tools I use to bring lasting light to moments of
tranquility." Short Paints in the chiaroscuro
style of the Dutch School, which emphasizes the effects
of light and shadow by illuminating the focal point
with strong light and painting other areas with less
detail and lower values. Short uses the materials of
the old masters: lead-primed linens, pure pigments,
and resin/oil medium. "Technique and materials
in painting are as important as the result," she
says. One of Short's floral still lifes, PRELUDE, won
the 1998 Salmagundi Club Award at New York's Salmagundi
Club Exhibition. Short is represented by Contemporary
Southwest Galleries, Santa Fe, NM; Huntsman Gallery,
Aspend, CO; Chasen Galleries, Sarasota, FL., and Richmond,
VA; Heritage Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ; and Yoshida's
Fine Art Gallery, Troutdale, OR.
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