George’s Resume

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

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