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April 18, 2003
Kathleen Elsey Receives Award with the National Association of Women Artists 114th Annual Exhibition at New York City's Fifth Avenue Gallery
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Kathleen Elsey
805-569-0542
  SANTA ROSA, Ca., -April 18, 2003 - The National Association of Women Artists, Inc. is pleased to announce that Kathleen Elsey's painting, "Farm on the Hill" has been selected to receive the Jeffrey Childs Willis Memorial Award for their National Exhibition. The painting will be exhibited at the Fifth Avenue Gallery in New York City from April 21 through May 19, 2003.
N.A.W.A., INC. based in New York City is a not-for-profit, non-political, member-supported organization of women in the fine arts. N.A.W.A., INC. was founded in 1889 by five innovative women seeking exhibition opportunities for gifted artists who had been denied participation in the male-dominated National Academy of Design. By 1930, membership had swelled beyond 1,000. Early annual exhibitions included the notable Rosa Bonheur, Mary Cassatt, Suzanne Valadon and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. As the organization grew, Louise Nevelson, Judy Chicago, Janet Fish, Miriam Schapiro, Marisol, Audrey Flack and many additional illustrious artists have been added to its membership. Most N.A.W.A., INC. members are listed in Who's Who in American Art and are represented in museums, corporate collections and traveling exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad.
Kathleen Elsey is a Sonoma County plein air painter. Ms. Elsey is represented by the California Collector's Gallery in Kentfield, California, the William Lester Gallery in Pte Reyes Station, California, and the Sun Valley Gallery in Sun Valley, Idaho. To learn more about Kathleen, her painting and her teaching, visit her website at www.elsey.com.
© 2009 Kathleen Elsey. All rights reserved. All paintings are property of Kathleen Elsey
and may not be reproduced in any form without the written permission of Kathleen Elsey.
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