MITCHELSON ART GALLERY
Artist, Lee Mitchelson
Member, Oil Painters of America,
Cowgirl Artists of America
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club
Artists and Biologists United for Nature
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Contemporary Realism art
Oil paintings and mixed media art of animals and animals with their people, with emphasis on horses and dogs
Landscape impressionism
large natural-element abstracts in nature themes for interior design
Commissioned portraits, occasionally
Lee Mitchelson's paintings are in public and private international collections in eleven countries, most recently joining the collection of Rasmus Stoklund Holm-Nielsen at the Danish Parliament, Denmark.
Lee is now self-represented, after 17 years represented by Sedona's leading art gallery, Goldenstein Art. And, prior to Sedona, The Esther Wells Collection in Laguna Beach and the former Peppertree Calabasas gallery, both in California.
Lee welcomes commission art inquiries. Her art is owned by notables such as Robert Vavra, William Shatner, The James A. Michener Estate, the DuPont and Daniel C. Gainey families, Nathaniel Brandon, John Bradshaw, Bo Derek, Rudolf Martin, Rasmus Stoklund Holm-Nielsen, Andre Landzaat and many more.
Lee was personally selected by esteemed horse photographer, Robert Vavra, to illustrate two of his horse books, "The Unicorn of Kilimanjaro" and "Vavra's Horses: Ten of the World's Most Beautiful Equines" and also illustrated explorer William Wheeler's book, "Alive in Africa". Her wolf art, "Lobo", is in the permanent collection of The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
Lee Mitchelson art supports Star View Lifetime Sanctuary, her permanent home for over twenty senior and special-needs animals including horses, dogs, cats, and exotic birds. It is the proverbial "soft place to fall", and the animals are protected for the balance of their lives, leaving their troubled and endangered lives behind for one of safety and support, often extending into hospice care. Our mission statement is that "We do not betray our stewardship of other living, feeling beings."