Ranches & Rolling Hills
Pictured above: Martha Borge, Cow Path, Oil on Canvas
Landscape Art Show & Sale
View a sampling of previous years' artan elegant celebration of the bounty of Marin farms and ranches
Thank you to everyone who made this year's show a great success!
See you next year!
- View some of the art from the 2011 show
- Listen to interviews with some of the artists
- Ranches & Rolling Hills: Art of West Marin—A Land in Trust
Since 1998, artists from Marin County and from Santa Barbara's Oak Group have participated in Ranches & Rolling Hills, a landscape art show and sale to benefit Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT). United by their admiration of the working landscape and their desire to help preserve it as a source of both human sustenance and artistic inspiration, the painters, photographers, and printmakers have created an exceptional collection of work which is available for sale just one weekend a year during the third weekend in May. These paintings and prints depict farms protected by MALT easements, ranches located in Point Reyes National Seashore, and other private farmlands—all of them reflecting the human and natural history that make West Marin such a special and beloved place.
Fifty percent of all sales go to support Marin Agricultural Land Trust's work of preserving Marin County farmlands.
When
The 15th annual Ranches & Rolling Hills Landscape Art Show & Sale will take place on Saturday, May 19, 2012 and Sunday, May 20, 2012.
Where
The Druids' Hall is located on the village square in Nicasio, California (map).
Participating Artists 2011
Ranches & Rolling Hills:
Art of West Marin—A Land in Trust
Ranches & Rolling Hills: Art of West Marin—A Land in Trust is a hard-cover book containing more than 135 full-color works of art selected from the first 10 years of Ranches & Rolling Hills, MALT's annual landscape art show and sale. The elegant 160-page large format book published by Windgate Press of Sausalito, contains essays by Elisabeth Ptak, by Jean Stern, Executive Director of the Irvine Museum, and by Michael Whitt, the show's co-founder. You can purchase a copy at the MALT Shop
During the era of America's westward expansion in the mid-nineteenth century, countless artists were inspired by the luminous beauty of California. Prominent painters who visited the state at that time included Albert Bierstadt, William Keith, and others who illustrated both the native beauty and, later, the agrarian life that became an integral part of the landscape. This book is a collection of contemporary artworks in that tradition, but the images also stand on their own as representative of a new tradition, that of the artist as conservationist.