American Painting

Specialties

We specialize in traditional contemporary American painting by local artists with national reputations, including Andrei Kushnir, Michele Martin Taylor, Barbara Nuss, Michael Francis, Stevens Jay Carter, Carol Spils, and members of the Washington Society of Landscape Painters, including Bernard Dellario, Mary Kokoski, Sara Linda Poly, Genevieve Roberts, Bill Schmidt, and Meg Walsh.

We are the exclusive dealer for the Potomac River School Artists; book with over 150 illustrations available at all major Washington DC area art museums, Ama​zon​.com, Blurb​.com and through the gallery (special autographed edition).

Annual Exhibitions include Images of Washington, DC (summer) and Small Treasures (winter holidays).

History

Established in 1997.

American Painting Fine Art was established by artists Andrei Kushnir and Michele Martin Taylor, and is a descendant of Ms. Taylor’s gallery Taylor & Sons Fine Art, located on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC. The artists have also operated galleries in Manhattan and Ellicott City, MD, each for a period of 5 years. In every location, the focus of the gallery was to display one-​of-​a– kind works of art of the highest quality by the owners and other mid-​career professional artists, often highlighting the respective gallery’s surrounding location.

American Painting Fine Art also serves as the studio of plein air painter Andrei Kushnir. Commissions accepted.

Meet the Business Owner

Andrei K.

Business Owner

Andrei Kushnir’s landscape paintings reflect his love of the outdoors. He is known as a «New Naturalist» and paints directly from nature, which inspires him to capture the poetic feeling of a place. He has painted in oils since 1980, and his works have been accepted in national gallery shows juried by curators from the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Museum of Amer. Art, Hirshhorn Museum, and Corcoran Gallery.

He is an elected signature member of the Nat Oil & Acrylic Painters Soc., an elected member of Salmagundi Club NYC and the Wash. Soc. of Landscape Painters, and a member of Oil Painters of America.

He was the only living artist accorded a solo exhibition by the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.

His works are in the permanent collections of the U.S. Coast Guard, District of Columbia Commission of Arts & Humanities,

Museum of Florida’s Art and Culture, Avon Park, FL,

Virginia Historical Society, Univ. of Maryland Univ. College and The University Club, Washingt