Natural Memorial Realist, a display by Overton resident Max Bunnell, an “en plein air” artist who paints landscapes and seascapes, will be available Feb. 23 through March 13 at LXS, the Legislative eXhibition Series Gallery at the Nevada State Legislative Building.
Bunnell taught in Clark County public schools for 29 years and in the extension programs of the University of Nevada campuses in Reno and Las Vegas. He spent another 10 yeas as a professor at Dixie College in Utah, where he had helped raise more than $300,000 for a new art museum on campus. He founded the Moapa Valley Art Guild in Nevada in 1959.
The Legislative eXhibition Series spotlights Nevada’s contemporary and folk artists during the biennial session since 1985. It is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Nevada State Legislature and Van Woert Bigotti Architects.
For more information, go call 775-687-6680.