Judging
2019 AWARDS JUDGES
This prestigious panel will select the best of the best among the paintings created for the 2019 Olmsted Plein Air Invitational, available to collectors and the public.
Nancy Franke
Contemporary American Impressionist Artist, Signature member of both Oil Painters of America and American Impressionist Society
Kelly Kane
Editor-in-Chief, PleinAir Magazine and American Watercolor Weekly , Kane has more than 20 years experience in art publishing. She has interviewed many of the preeminent artists of our time and written numerous articles about painting, drawing, art education, and art history.
Robert Pillsbury
President Salmagundi Club
2018 AWARDS Judges
Kenn Backhaus
Seth Hopkins
Tim Newton
2018 Olmsted Grand Prize Winner Kathie Odom . From left to right, Awards Judges Kenn Backhaus, Seth Hopkins and Tim Newton. Kathie Odom , Co-founders Lillian Ansley and Andy Hall and Toby Brooks, Board Chair, Olmsted Linear Park Alliance.
2017 AWARDS Judges
Dan Amos
Clyde Aspevig
West Fraser
2016 AWARDS Judges
Dee Beard Dean
William "Bill" Underwood Eiland
Peter Trippi
2015 AWARDS Judges
David Breneman
Anne Blair Brown
Steve Doherty