Born Jacksonville, Texas
1972 BFA, University of Texas at Austin
1979-1984 Continuing studies, Art Student’s League, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1997 Zaplin-Lampert Galley, Scottsdale, Arizona
1995 From The Artist’s Garden, Zaplin-Lampert Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1993 Flowers: A Celebration of Life, Zaplin-Lampert Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
TWO-PERSON EXBIBITIONS
1998 Zaplin-Lampert Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1991 Zaplin-Lampert Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1989 O’Brien’s Art Emporium, Scottsdale, Arizona
1989 The Catto Gallery, London, England
1987 O’Brien’s Art Emporium, Scottsdale, Arizona
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2000 Prix de West, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, OK
Dodson Galleries, Oklahoma, OK
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
American Miniatures, Settlers West Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Artists of America, Tribute to the Masters, Colorado Historical Society Museum,
Denver, CO
Miniatures, 2000, The Albuquerque Fine Arts Museum, Albuquerque, NM
1999 Prix de West, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, OK
American Miniatures, Settlers West Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Whistle Pik Gallery, Fredericksberg, TX
American Art in Miniature, The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Great American Artists, Cincinnati, OH
Miniatures, 1999, The Albuquerque Fine Arts Museum, Albuquerque, NM
1998 Prix de West, Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, OK
Artists of America, AOA Master Artist, Colorado Historical Society Museum,
Denver, CO
American Art in Miniature, The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Miniatures, 1998, The Albuquerque Fine Arts Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Great American Artists, The Cincinnati Museum Center Cincinnati, OH
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
1997 Prix de West, Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, OK
Artists of America, The Denver Rotary Club, Colorado Historical Society
Museum, Denver 10th year, AOA Master Artists
American Art in Miniature, The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Miniatures, 1997, The Albuquerque Fine Arts Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Great American Artists, The Cincinnati Museum Center Cincinnati, OH
The Legacy Lives, Sage Art Center, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale Michigan
1996 Prix de West, Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, OK
Artists of America, The Denver Rotary Club, Colorado Historical Society
Denver, CO
The Legacy Lives, New York, NY
Great American Artists, The Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
American Art in Miniature, The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Miniatures, 1996, The Albuquerque Fine Arts Museum, Albuquerque, NM
1995 Artists of America, The Denver Rotary Club, Colorado Historical Society
Museum, Denver, CO
Miniatures, 1995, The Albuquerque Fine Arts Museum, Albuquerque, NM
American Art in Miniature, The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Nymeyer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1994 Artists of America, The Denver Rotary Club, Colorado Historical Society
Museum, Denver, CO
Miniatures, 1994, The Albuquerque Fine Arts Museum, Albuquerque, NM
American Art in Miniature, The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
Art Asia, Elinore Ettinger Gallery, Hong Kong
1993 American Women Artists and the West, Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona
Artists of America, The Denver Rotary Coub, Colorado Historical Society
Museum, Denver
Miniatures, 1993, The Albuquerque Fine Arts Museum, Albuquerque, NM
American Art in Miniature, The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
1992 Romantic Realism, Visions of Values, Grand Central Gallery, NY
Romantic Realism, Visions of Values, Sage Art Center, Hillsdale College, MI
The Catto Gallery, London, England
Artists of America, The Denver Rotary Club, Colorado Historical Society
Museum, Denver, Co
Miniatures, 1992, The Albuquerque Fine Arts Museum, Albuquerque, NM
1991 Art and Artists of Santa Fe, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery,AL
American Art in Miniature, The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Artists of America, The Denver Rotary Club, Colorado Historical Society
Museum, Denver CO
Miniatures ’91, The Albuquerque Fine Arts Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Amarillo Rotary Club, Art MCMXCI, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum,
Amarillo, TX
1990 Artists of America, The Denver Rotary Club
Amarillo Rotary Club, Art MCMXC
American Art in Miniature, The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Gladney Center Benefit, Alterman and Morris Fine Art, Houston, TX
1989 The Rio Grande Exhibition, Albuquerque Fine Arts Museum,
Albuquerque, NM
Artists of America, The Denver Rotary Club
Amarillo Rotary Club, Art LXXXIX, Panhandle Plains Historical
Museum, Amarillo, TX
1988 Artists of America, The Denver Rotary Club
O’Brien’s Art Emporium, Scottsdale, AZ
1987 The New Mexico Tapestry Show, Albuquerque Fine Arts Museum, Albuqurque,
NM
Art LXXXVII, Amarillo Rotary Club, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum,
Amarillo, TX
1986 Audubon Artists National, New York, NY
1985 O’Brien’s Art Emporium, Scottsdale, AZ
Salmagundi Club National, New York, NY
1984 Katherine Lorillard Wolfe Club National, New York, NY
Salmagundi Club National, New York, NY
1983 American Artists Professional League, New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Mr. and Mrs. Ron Dubin RPM Inc.
Wells Fargo Bank
Senator John W.Warner
The Franklin Mint
Mr. and Mrs. Don Meredith
Blount, Inc. Montgomery, Alabama
Mr. and Mrs. Winton M. Blount
Mr. and Mrs. Berry Cash
Mr. and Mrs. James Robinson
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Nennehy
Mr. Roger Ebert
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Biszantz
Mr. and Mrs. John Dobbs
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Hodges
Dr. and Mrs. Nader Kayal
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Prix de Priview, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, M.J. Van Deventer
Australian Artist Magazine, May 2000, “Wherever I hang my Brush”, Joe Anna Arnett
The Artist’s Magazine, April 2000, “Brush Know How” Joe Anna Arnett and James
Asher
The Artist’s Magazine, March 2000, “Art Clinic, Strength in Simplicity” Joe Anna Arnett
Santa Fean Magazine, May 1999, “Art Pairs” Raquel Escamilla
Pasa Tiempo, The New Mexican, Sept. 10, 1998, “A Shared Passion”, Lynn Cline
The Artist’s Magazine, August, 1998, “Brushes of the Masters”, Sandra Carpenter
The Artist’s Magazine, April, 1998, “7 Steps to Deeper Still Lives”, Joe Anna Arnett
Art Talk Magazine, April/May, 1997, “Flowers, the Perennial Favorite”, Bill Macomber
Pasa Tiemp, The New Mexican, Dec. 15, 1995, “Arnett’s a Painter with a Twice Green
Thumb”, Richard Tobin
Art of the West, September/October 1995, “Life is Lovely”, Vicki Stavig
ART IDEAS, Spring, 1995, “The Painted Flower”, Joe Anna Arnett
The Humanist, Jan., Feb., 1995, “Toward an American Renaissance in Art and Ideas,”
Alexandra York
The Atlantean Press Review, Summer 1994, “Flowers: A Celebration of Life”,
Alexandra York
American Arts Quarterly, Winter 1993, “Painting with Passion”, Joe Anna Arnett
House & Garden, British Edition, April 1993, “Spring Blooms” Henrietta Howard
Chronicles, March 1993, “Romantic Realism, Visions of Values”, Alexandra York
Reality, April 1993, “The State of the Culture Approaching the year 2000”,
Alexandra York
The Artist’s Magazine, September, 1992, “Painting Lush Oil Florals”, Joe Anna Arnett
The Santa Fean Magazine, May, 1991, “Still Life Painters Create Their Own Realities”
Sally Eauclair
The International Herald Tribune, February, 1989, Claire Frankel
Focus, April, 1988, “Perennial Spring”, Denise Kuzel
Western Art Digest, Jan/Feb 1987, “Joe Anna Arnett/ James Asher” Melinda Elliot
Southwest Art Magazine, October, 1987, “Joe Anna Arnett”, Joy Walden Murphy
BOOKS AND CATALOGS
Painting Sumptuous Vegetables, Fruits and Flowers in Oil, North Light Publications Inc.
Joe Anna Arnett
Second dedition printed 1999 and Chinese language edition printed 1999
Who’s Who in Art (2nd British Edition), Art Trade Press, Ltd
The Best of Flower Painting II, North Light Publications, Inc. 1998 Rachael Wolf
The Best of Flower Painting, North light Publications, Inc., Katherine Kipp 1996
Painting with Passion, North Light Publications, Inc. 1994, Carole Katchen
Romantic Realism, Visions of Values, 1992 Promethena, New York, New York
American Artists, “An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporaries,” American
References Publishing Corp.
The New York Review, American References Publishing Corp.
The Dictionary of International Biography, Melrose Press, Ltd.
Who’s Who in Art (23rd British Edition), Art Trade Press, Ltd.
The Legacy Lives, 1996, Promethena, New York, NY
TEACHING POSITIONS:
Art in Provence, France, July 2000
Montreal, Canada, Carole Segal Workshops, August, 1998, November, 1999
Scottsdale Artists’ School 1991 through 1999
La Villa Arrigo Renaissance Atelier, Florence, Italy, October 1996
Fredericksburg Artists’ School, March 1998 and August 1999, January 2000
Juries:
New Mexico State Fare Art Competition
New Mexico State Fare Art Competition
Judge for National Finalists in The Artist’s Magazine, 1999 Still Life Competition