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Carrying on a Legacy
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Oil Painters of America comes of age
TRADITIONAL PAINTER Shirl Smithson was a true believer. She believed that the public needed to know more about - and to better appreciate - the modern-day masters of representational oil painting. So when she started the Oil Painters of America (OPA) in 1991, it was the realization of a dream. "She founded it all by berseli She contacted artists she felt were masters - artists like Howard Terpning, Clyde Aspevig, and Harley Brown - and asked them to add their names to the organization," says Neil Patterson, the president of OPA. Patterson calls Smithson, who died in 1999, a "real firecracker. You couldn't discourage her," he explains. "She was …
