Carmel Art Association
Dolores Street between Fifth & Sixth avenues, Carmel
(831) 624-6176
Founded in 1927, this historical gallery has been home to many of the area’s finest artists for more than 80 years. It is the second oldest artist cooperative in the country. Featuring paintings and sculpture for sale by more than 120 local professional artists, Carmel Art Association offers a wide and diverse variety of artwork to purchase or just enjoy while browsing. Shows change monthly. Open daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Classic Art Galleries
• Sixth Avenue & San Carlos Street, Carmel
• Ocean Avenue & Dolores Street, Carmel
(831) 625-0464 or (831) 626-3002
Showcasing more than 60 world-renowned contemporary artists featuring Realism and Impressionism. The collection embraces original oils and bronze sculptures. Subjects include landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes, still lifes, florals, figuratives, and others. Masterpiece collections by late 19th century and early 20th century masters are regularly exhibited. Artists represented include Alexei Antonov, Paige Bradley, Kelvin Lei, Ventura Diaz, Michael Wheeler, Dy’Ans, Alexander Popoff, Andrés Morillo, Matthew Morillo, Magre, Parlapani, Gene Speck, Tehila, Nikolai Blokhin, Mysti Pavlov, Salvador Dali, Higa, Frank Kecskes and others. Open daily at 9:30 a.m.
Dawson Cole Fine Art
• San Carlos Street between Fifth & Sixth avenues, Carmel
• Ocean Avenue between Mission & San Carlos streets, Carmel
(831) 624-8200 or (800) 972-5528
Continuing the legacy of renowned artist Richard MacDonald, Dawson Cole Fine Art offers a unique experience for the discriminating collector as well as the casual visitor. The gallery specializes in Contemporary and Modern sculpture, drawings, prints, and works on paper by American and European Masters including Chuck Close, Robert Heindel, Richard MacDonald, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso and Jian Wang. Private Tours of Richard MacDonald’s state-of-the-art sculpture studio in Monterey are available by contacting the gallery. Both locations open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Summer Hours: Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Gallerie Amsterdam
Dolores Street between Fifth & Sixth avenues, Carmel
(831) 624-4355
Gallerie Amsterdam has long been recognized by its admirers as one of the most elegant art galleries in Carmel. In its more than 3,600-square-foot space you will find artwork by many European artists such as Juan Calderon Padilla, Gregory Blanche, Michael John Hill, and Ton Dubbeldam. American artists include originals oils by Thomas Creed, John Cook, Blue Sky, Tony Curtis, Anthony Quinn, and Fran DiGiacomo. Gallerie Amsterdam also represents sculpture artists Marianne Caroselli, Tom Bennett, Jerry Joslin, Impala Lechner, and Blair Muhlestein.
George Stern Fine Arts
Sixth Avenue & San Carlos Street, Carmel
(831) 626-1100
For more than 30 years, George Stern Fine Arts has specialized in California Impressionism and American Scene painting. Featuring a large inventory of the finest examples of paintings from 1880 through 1940 and beyond. George Stern Fine Arts is involved in educating the public on the historical development of these artists and the connoisseurship of collecting. The gallery has published books on artists such as Arthur Dominique Rozaire, Conrad Buff, and Robert Frame.
Images of Pebble Beach
Shops at The Lodge,
17-Mile Drive, Pebble Beach
(831) 622-6538
Located at The Lodge at Pebble Beach, Images of Pebble Beach offers a unique collection of archival photographic prints featuring vintage Pebble Beach events, people, and landmarks. Worth stopping by to see is the 1925 Julian P. Graham photograph The Lone Cypress, which has been restored and mastered from the original negative. This collection also includes contemporary landscapes of Pebble Beach Golf Links by noted artists and photographers, such as Joann Dost, Evan Schiller, and William Mangum. Alternate artists will be showcased throughout the year.
LuLu’s Silk Art Gallery
• Mission between Fifth & Sixth streets, Carmel
• Bob Gallery at the Doud Craft Center, west side of San Carlos Street between Ocean & Seventh avenues, Carmel
(831) 620-1122
“Threads of Light” is China’s 2,800-year-old silk embroidery technique. This is the only gallery in America to exhibit these works from the Suzhou region of China. This artistic medium has been passed from generation to generation but within as few as 20 years, there may no longer be any of these artists left. Entire canvases are often filled to the edge with intricately embroidered threads, representing many different styles such as traditional Chinese scenery, recreations of the works of famous painters and celebrity portraits. Weekdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Lynn Lupetti Gallery
Sixth Avenue between Dolores & Lincoln streets, Carmel
(831) 624-0622
“Carmel’s Most Magical Gallery” celebrates its 23rd year presenting the unique collection of Lynn Lupetti. Included are exquisite figurative paintings of children, animals, fantasy, characters from literature, sacred icons and people from around the world. Original oils, master’s editions and signed and numbered limited edition lithographs and giclées are available, as well as bronze sculpture by Kim Kori and J.A. Pippett. Visit the gallery and experience the magic.
Oliver, Elliot and Sebastian Fine Art
Southeast corner of Ocean Avenue at San Carlos Street, Carmel
(831) 626-0178
European and American master prints, antique paintings and contemporary works. Rare works including etchings and engravings by Dürer and Rembrandt, paintings by the artists of the Barbizon School, stone lithography and etchings from Renoir, Pissarro, Cassatt, and the Impressionists. The vintage posters of Toulouse-Lautrec, Chéret, and Steinlen provide collectors with exceptional works from La Belle Époque. Offering prints, drawings, and paintings from Picasso, Chagall, Miró, Matisse, and Dalí. We are proud to present the contemporary art of Chilean Surrealist Jose Basso, impressionist paintings by Royo, and the entire collection of bronze sculpture by Gustavo Torres.
Rip Squeak Gallery
• Ocean Avenue between San Carlos & Dolores streets, Carmel
(831) 626-1127
• 685 Cannery Row, Monterey
(831) 643-9999
Discover the whimsical world of Rip Squeak and Friends. Their tales come to life while practically jumping off the pages of their books and charming artwork. The Rip Squeak characters represent a timeless vision, both contemporary and classic. Theirs is a world of fantasy, discovery and make-believe for the young and the young at heart. Travel along as this unlikely group of friends learns life’s true treasure — friendship!
Rodrigue Studios
Corner of Sixth Avenue & Dolores Street, Carmel
(831) 626-4444
Born and raised in New Iberia, Louisiana, artist George Rodrigue (b. 1944) is best known for his Blue Dog paintings, which catapulted him to worldwide fame in the early-1990s. His art studies at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California gave him a foundation that spawned one of the greatest success stories in southern art. Rodrigue, who began painting in the third grade while bedridden with polio, had already won local acclaim for his rich portrayals of the landscape and people of South Louisiana when Blue Dog transformed the image of the original Cajun werewolf dog — the loup-garou — into an international pop icon.
Thomas Kinkade Galleries
Steinbeck Plaza
685 Cannery Row, Monterey
(831) 655-2600
Welcome to Monterey’s historical Cannery Row, where the beautiful Monterey Bay can be viewed. Just a few blocks from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, at the long-established Steinbeck Gallery, a wonderful collection of Kinkade’s art can be seen.
Thomas Kinkade Galleries Studio on the Bay
400 Cannery Row, Monterey
(831) 655-3783
Presenting the world’s first Kinkade Gallery dedicated to the artist’s plein air and sculpture masterworks. Located at the five-star Monterey Plaza Hotel on historic Cannery Row.
Thomas Kinkade National Archive
361 Lighthouse Ave., Monterey
(831) 655-5520
At the archive, in the Cannery Row District, you will be able to view an incredible collection of original studio and plein air works and sketches of the most collected artist in America.
Thomas Kinkade Galleries
Studio in the Garden, south side of Ocean Avenue between Lincoln & Dolores streets, Carmel
(831) 626-6700
Tucked away at the end of Der Ling Lane off Ocean Avenue is where you will find Kinkade’s original studio, Garden Gallery of Carmel. Follow the flower-lined walkway through a peaceful garden and view the inimitable art of “The Painter of Light.”
Thomas Kinkade Gift Gallery at the Tuck Box
East side of Dolores Street between Ocean & Seventh avenues, Carmel
(831) 625-9600
The Tuck Box Gallery certainly is one of the most unique. This quaint little shop is filled with the wonders of Thomas Kinkade, including many gift items to choose from in a wide variety of images.
Trajan Gallery
Ocean Avenue & San Carlos Street, Carmel
(831) 625-4388
Trajan Gallery extends a dynamic presentation of contemporary international and American art to the Carmel gallery scene. Trajan’s stable of artists reflects a rich aesthetic diversity, inclusive of traditional landscape painting, Neo-Fauvism, bronze sculpting and the vanguard of modern graphic processes. Exhibiting original paintings, sculpture and limited-edition serigraphs and mixed-media monoprints, Trajan Gallery represents artists from around the world. Trajan Gallery is in the heart of Carmel, California on the Ocean Avenue at San Carlos Street. The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., seven days a week.
William A. Karges Fine Art
Sixth Avenue & Dolores Street, Carmel
(831) 625-4226
William A. Karges Fine Art is internationally known as one of the premier galleries specializing in historically important, museum-quality Early California paintings executed between 1880 and 1940. Armin Hansen, William Wendt, Agnes Pelton, Selden Gile, and Granville Redmond are among the artists in the gallery’s holdings. It also handles fine American paintings by artists such as Robert Vonnoh and Childe Hassam. The gallery known for its superior level of scholarship and the museum-quality publications produced in the last few years.
