Art
Wittenberg, an architect, has been sending watercolor paintings of his travels, stamped and cancelled, through the mail as postcard art for over 30 years. He has produced a website gallery, www.Postcard-Art-Gallery.com, with many examples of postcard art from 5 continents and 10 countries – France to Greece to Italy, Mexico and Africa and from several regions in the USA.
Recent Acknowledgements
2015 – “Moroccan Men” Selected for the Mid-Southern Watercolorists Annual Juried Exhibition
2014 – received signature status by having 5 paintings selected by national jurors in 5 separate exhibitions
2014 – “Almartha” selected by Arkansas Art Center for their Traveling Exhibition
2014 -“Almartha” Selected by Mid-Southern Watercolorists Annual Juried Exhibition
2014 – “Tree” postcard painting mailed from Costa Rica selected for state-wide exhibition by juror for Small Works on Paper
2014 – “Sarlet” Selected for Philadelphia Watercolor Society Annual Juried Exhibition
2013 – “Day Field” selected for Mid-Southern Watercolorists Annual Juried Exhibition.
2013 – Selected by curator – 3 watercolor paintings for new University of Arkansas Medical School hospital wing
2013 – Selected as Little Rock’s Riverfest Artist – produced watercolor image for festival
2013 – “Mt Holly” postcard painting mailed in Little Rock selected for state-wide exhibition by juror for Small Works on Paper
2012 – Published in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette – “Personal Space”
Awards, Exhibitions & Collections
UAMS Rockefeller Cancer Institute – “Sidewalk Cafe” postcard selected for permanent collection
River Market Tower – 15 photo-montage images – residential lobbies
Arkansas Governors’ Mansion Exhibition Hall – postcards of Arkansas Scenes
Trenton Arts Connection – “Downtown Postcards” – a series of postcards of historic architecture
2003 – “MOMA – San Francisco” painting selected by juror for Mid-Southern Watercolorists Annual Exhibition – winner of Purchase Award – bought by the Arkansas Art Center and placed in their permanent collection
2008, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015 – Selected by Mid-Southern Watercolorists Annual Juried Exhibition – the paintings are: “Lucca, Dream, Day Field, Almartha and Moroccan Men”
2013 and 2014 – “Mt Holly” and “Tree” postcards selected by a juror for the Arkansas Arts Council Small Works on Paper Exhibition – state-wide traveling exhibition
2010 – Small Wonders – “Pont du Gard” postcard selected by juror in Maryland Federation of Art for exhibition
2018 – Mena Art Exhibit – Two paintings were picked by a juror in the Exhibit concentrating on the USA; they are of New Orleans, “Royal and Urseline Streets, and of Arkansas, Store in Shirley. Both are for sale, & both are on the Web site.
Reviews and Publications Reviews:
“SPECTRUM”, Arts and Entertainment,– “French Postcards”
“Pine Bluff Commercial Appeal” – French Postcard Exhibit
Publications:
Active Years Magazine – 2010 feature article
Watercolor Magazine – 2010 feature article
Arkansas Democrat Gazette – 2012 article, “Personal Space”
American Airline’s American Way – picture and article
Frontier Airline’s magazine
Books
Postcards from Little Rock – survey of postcard art of Little Rock’s important buildings
Postcard Art – survey of postcard art at web site
Riva and Peter Get Married at Blurb.com and at web site
Postcards from Harlem at Blurb.com and at web site
Architecture & Urban Design
1992 – 2011 – awarded grant and managed the Urban Design program for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock
1963 – 1992 – As an architect and planner worked in Anshen and Allen, Architects, San Francisco; Boston Redevelopment Authority; The Architects Collaborative; and WD&D Architects, Little Rock, Arkansas (firm founded by his grandfather).
Education
1967 – Harvard University – Masters in Urban Design,
1963 – Washington University – BA and BArch degrees in architecture
Painting Workshops
David Witkin life drawing – Arkansas Art Center
Robert Andrew Parker watercolor – Arkansas Art Center
Margaret M. Martin watercolor – Mid-Southern Watercolorists workshop
Birgit O’Conner watercolor – Mid-Southern Watercolorists workshop
Don Andrews watercolor – Mid-Southern Watercolorists workshop
Website – www.Postcard-Art-Gallery.com
Facebook – Postcard-Art-Gallery