March 2025: Volume 16 No 1

UNDERPAINTING

Both the timing and content of this publication undergoes continuous change. » AutoArtGallery.com continues as a feature of this publication presenting a contact portal for many top-ranked automotive themed artists. Updated listings and new artists are featured in the 2024-25 launch. See the sidebar for the latest artist list...

Founded in the mid-eighties, the Automotive Fine Arts Society has had a large lineup of outstanding member-artists.

The annual AFAS show at the Pebble Beach Concours was a veritable "state of the art" for automotive themed works in all media.

Annual group exhibitions at the venerable Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance and the original Amelia Island Concours reinforced the Society's leadership in the field. Potential membership attracted worldwide applications every year from top talents seeking to secure an invitation to exhibit "as a guest" which would be followed by a vote by all active members. Average membership was about 25 from year to year. The late Ken Eberts was president and the late Bill Motta vice-president for the duration of the Society.

The Society never waivered from its founding concept: automotive themes executed and presented in a strictly traditional "fine art" environment... no photography, no digital.

It would take a really big story to list all the well-known names but suffice to say that once a member, all remained until their retirement or to the wind-down of the Society in 2017.

Hats off to the many, many talented individuals that made the name Automotive Fine Arts Society synonymous with leadership in automotive themed fine art.

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Continuing our practice of archiving past issues, a number of older issues (June 2022 and back) have now been removed. A convenient, updated "Index by Subject" has been developed and is available here: »Index by Subject

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