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Gallery celebrates the West, and an anniversary
By LENNIE BENNETT
Published November 23, 2006
The Plainsmen Gallery, 2450 Sunset Point Road, Clearwater, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a holiday show featuring premier Western and wildlife artists working in painting, bronze sculpture and giclee prints. It's a popular genre, and a broad one, with themes ranging from American Indian culture in the southwest to natural Florida, which John Seerey-Lester explores in this oil painting titled Final Sanctuary. Much of this art is based on a vanished or vanishing way of life, and it's often romanticized, its gritty reality made more beautiful. But, like all art, these works are interpretive, able to feed our souls as well as our perceptions. The Anniversary Show runs through Nov. 30. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. For information, call (727) 726-5100 or go to www.plainsmen.com.
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