About Diane Weintraub Painter of Southern California's Vanishing Vistas

 

Biography

Diane Weintraub is an internationally known and respected artist and instructor. She has a BA and an MFA. She also studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and with instructors from the New York Art Students League.

Diane teaches advanced drawing at Cuyamaca College in San Diego, California. She has also conducted workshops for the San Diego Museum of Art's Museum School and at the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library’s Art School. With a 20-year track record as one of the best, she is in demand as a lecturer and instructor. She was awarded Teacher of the Year, 2005 by the faculty and students at Cuyamaca College.

Selected partial exhibitions list of Diane Weintraub’s paintings include: South Bend Museum of Art, Philbrook Museum of Art, Paris Gibson Museum of Art, Holter Museum of Art, and the Carnegie Art Center. She has won numerous exhibition awards.

Diane’s artwork is in many prestigious collections at museums and universities. Selected partial collections list include: The Museum of Modern Art’s Franklin Furnace Collection in New York, The National Museum for Women in The Arts in Washington DC, Brown University, Duke University, Emory University, The Minneapolis Athenaeum, Otis College of Art and Design, and The San Diego Museum of Art.

Additionally, Diane has a long list of published articles from numerous visual arts publications.

Artist’s Statement:
“I’m a college art professor and painting is my passion. Landscapes and seascapes interest – even obsess – me for all sorts of reasons. Southern California is a growing area and the natural beauty here offers a soul-satisfying experience in almost every neighborhood from the ocean to the desert.

But growth means change. Some of the scenes I’m painting likely will have changed a few years from now, just as the scenes painted by the Early California Impressionists are no longer there for us to see, except as captured forever in their paintings. I cherish these vanishing vistas we are privileged to gaze at today.

But mostly I choose to paint landscapes and seascapes because I love being in nature for the connection it gives you to “that which is larger than yourself.” I’m sure not alone on that score! Southern California has been immortalized by artists going back more than 150 years.

The vistas here are unique and the atmosphere rich! It’s a blessed and happy day when I can be outside enjoying the beauty of nature and painting or sketching!”

Diane Weintraub

Member of:
California Art Club
Landscape Artists International
International Plein Air Painters
Oil Painters of America
San Diego Art Institute