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Fine Art Dealers Association, Published 2000. Wraps (perfect bound), 88 pp.; 22 cm square; color illustrations throughout.
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In Very Good condition. Matte perfect-bound paper wraps with a full-color cover design in tan and blue featuring a torn-paper collage detail of a classical female portrait set against an Italianate landscape. Light bumping to the cover edges; mild shelf wear. Binding is tight. Pages clean and unmarked.The program catalog for the sixth annual Los Angeles Art Show, held September 14-17, 2000, at the John Wooden Center at UCLA and presented by the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA). This edition is dedicated to the memory of David Stary-Sheets (1939-2000), one of FADA's founding members, whose eponymous gallery still participated in the show and is profiled on page 57.The catalog features one page devoted to each of the 46 participating galleries, each with a full-color reproduction of a representative work, the gallery's specialty statement, booth number, and contact information. Dealers represented include many of the leading American fine art galleries of the period: Vose Galleries, Spanierman Gallery, Schiller & Bodo, James Graham & Sons, Nedra Matteucci, Kenneth Probst Galleries, Galerie Michael, George Stern Fine Arts, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Rehs Galleries, Edenhurst Gallery, Zaplin-Lampert, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Guarisco, Vallejo, William A. Karges, and others, together covering Old Master painting, 19th-century American and European, Hudson River School, Western and Southwestern art, California Impressionism, and contemporary work. Of particular reference interest is a brief scholarly essay, "Maynard Dixon: A Different Perspective," by Jeff Mitchell of Mitchell Brown Fine Art (pp. 65-67). The final section (pp. 68-88) gathers dealer and vendor advertisements, many themselves illustrated color plates offering further American art.Front matter also includes a letter from FADA President Howard L. Rehs; letters of welcome from the Mayor of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors; listings of the Collector and Connoisseur Committee and the Honorary Gala Committee; a feature on the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County (the benefit recipient); the FADA Statement; and a booth map of the UCLA venue.A useful reference for the state of the American fine art dealer trade at the turn of the twenty-first century, with a substantial photographic record of works in gallery inventory in September 2000.