George H. Wittenberg, III, AIA
Artist & Architect
Art
For 15 years architect, Wittenberg has been sending drawings and watercolor paintings of his travels, stamped and cancelled, through the mail as pieces of postcard art. He has produced a website gallery, www.Postcard-Art-Gallery.com, with over 200 examples of his postcard art from 4 continents and 9 countries – France to Greece to Italy and Mexico, and to several regions in the USA.
Recent Acknowledgements – 2013
Selected as Riverfest 2013 Artist – watercolor image to express festival
Published in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette – “Personal Space”
Included in exhibition by Arkansas Art Center – a piece from collection
Awards & Exhibitions
Selected for 3 Mid Southern Watercolorist annual juried exhibitions
1. Winner of Purchase award – 2003 and given to the Arkansas Art Center for their permanent collection.
2. Selected for the Exhibition – 2009 3. President’s Award – 2011
2013 – Selected for Annual Exhibition – Small Works on Paper – Postcard collage with stamp and postmark
Exhibitions, Assignments & Collections
University of Arkansas Rockefeller Cancer Institute – permanent collection
River Market Tower – 15 photomontage images, 4 X 8ft each – residential lobbies
Arkansas Governors’ Mansion Exhibition Hall – 2 ‘postcard’ paintings of Arkansas Scenes
Trenton Arts Connection – “Downtown Postcards” – a series of postcards commissioned by the Trenton, N.J. arts program to honor its historic architecture
Reviews and Publications
Reviews:
“SPECTRUM”, Arts and Entertainment,– “French Postcards”
“Pine Bluff Commercial Appeal” – French Postcard Exhibit
Publications:
Active Years Magazine, 2010 – feature article
Watercolor Magazine – feature article
Arkansas Democrat Gazette – recent article, “Personal Space”
American Way – American Airlines magazine
Frontier Airlines – magazine
Books
Postcard Art – survey of postcard art at web site
Riva and Peter Get Married at Blurb.com and at web site
Postcards from Harlem at Blurb.com and at web site
Architecture & Urban Design
As an architect and planner George recently established the Urban Design program for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, worked in management and design at his grandfather’s architectural firm, WD&D Architects, and in architectural-planning firms in San Francisco and Boston.
Education
Harvard University – Masters in urban design, 1967
Washington University, St. Louis – BA and BArch degrees in architecture, 1963
The Arkansas Art Center painting workshops
David Witkin life drawing workshop
Robert Andrew Parker watercolor workshop
Website – www.Postcard-Art-Gallery.com
Website displaying over 300 postcards created during travels in Europe and the USA, including personal ‘messages’ for each image based on actual events surrounding creation of the image, and over 50 “other” paintings.