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: SEPTEMBER 1999; Volume 63, Issue 686 IN THIS ISSUE:- This description copyright Edward D Peyton. Any un-authorized use of this description is strictly prohibited. COVER: My Father's Paint Box, by STEVEN LEVIN, 1997, oil, 32 x 24. Collection Edward and Sandra Adkins. FEATURES: STEVEN LEVIN: A YOUNG MASTER IN MINNEAPOLIS by Terese Loch Kreuzer. Employing 18th-and 19th-century techniques, this artist creates oil paintings that are filled with intensity, passion, and romantic verve. A REALIST COUP by E. Lynne Moss. Six New York City realists banded together and ended up at the forefront of an international art movement. THE PERSPECTIVE FROM BOTH SIDES: ARTISTS WHO RUN GALLERIES by Karen Frankel. Two artists--turned--gallery-- directors share their unique viewpoint on the business of art. MAKING THE LANDSCAPE YOUR OWN: BRIGITTE CURT by P Lynne Moss. Achieving harmony in her compositions is vital to this plein air painter, who seeks to transform nature into an image even more beautiftil than its nality THE PASTEL PAGE: SIMPLIFY, THEN SIMPLIFY SOME MORE. by M. Stephen Doherty. David Damm teaches his students to ignore the small details for the sake of the larger work. THE WATERCOLOR PAGE: BRIDGING REALITY AND IMAGINATION by Robert E. Heyer. Building his paintings from value sketches to a full sheet of paper helps Robert E. Heyer merge the real and the imaginary. REFLECTIVE MOMENTS by Ruth Faulkner. With their thoughtful expressions and evocative poses, Annette Adrian Hanna's pensive figures seem poised to divulge their most intimate secrets. DEGAS IN AMERICA by Stephen May. The French Impressionist's sojourn to turbulent postbellurn New Orleans set the stage for a turning point in his art and career. METHODS MATERIALS: BLOCK PRINTING MADE EASY by Christopher Willard. NUTS BOLTS: Colored--pencil portraits of pop-music icons, plus the latest art news and opportunities. DEPARTMENTS: EDITOR'S NOTE. LETTERS. TECHNICAL PAGE by Jane Sutherland. EXHIBITIONS. ART MART. BULLETIN BOARD. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS. COMING IN OCTOBER. RECOMMENDED BOOKS. 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)