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Works by local Livingston icon, Russell Chatham, will be featured at The Frame Garden. The exhibition begins June 26th from 5:30 to 8 pm, during the Art Walk, and will be in place through July 21st. Chatham, a well-known tonalist artist and author, spent most of his career in Livingston.
Chatham was born in 1939 in San Francisco and grew up in California where his grandfather Gottardo Piazzoni was a revered landscape painter. Chatham was mostly self-taught as a painter and an author. He started exhibiting in 1958 and moved to Livingston in 1972. He had hundreds of shows around the world. Regarded as one of the world’s foremost lithographers, he began printmaking in 1981.
Many publications have featured Chatham and his artwork, including Southwest Art, Architectural Digest, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angelos Times, The Washington Post, National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and CBS Sunday Morning. Chatham has also written and published hundreds of articles, stories, essays, and reviews about fly fishing, bird hunting and conservation, as well as a number of pieces on food and wine. He founded Clark City Press in 1989.
Russell Chatham, a man of many talents, died in November 2019.