Ross Merrill
Painting: Plein Air Painting: "Surrounded by Classical Ruins"

Ross Merrill is a plein-air landscape painter. Trained as an artist at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and as a painting conservator at Oberlin College, he has been the chief of conservation at the National Gallery of Art since 1983.  Throughout his career, he has taught painting, lectured on artists' techniques, and written about painting materials and procedures.  One of the leading authorities on the painting techniques of Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, and JBS Chardin, more recently, his writing has focused on plein-air painting. His paintings have won many awards and his work is in public and private collections in America, Europe, and Japan.
         

Ross' wife Alice, joins him as his teaching assistant. Alice Merrill is a gifted ceramicist and fills her sketchbooks with beautiful travelogue drawings and watercolors.  With a BFA and MA from Ohio State University, Alice has had a career working for art organizations in a variety of positions. She is presently director of development at  The Art League at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria.  

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