If you’re going to be in Arizona this summer, check out “Robert McCall: Imagination Unbound” at The University of Arizona Museum of Art, in Tucson. The show runs through August 10; I highly recommend it. Where else would you be able to see paintings with names such as “Another Busy Day on Mars”?

The exhibition offers a compelling collection of paintings, drawings, prints and ephemera. McCall’s work seems very different in person; you see a lot of brushwork that doesn’t come through in prints and on the web. He paints scenes with technical realism, but there’s just enough brushwork going on to make the rendering personal.

The U of A announced last fall that McCall has donated more than 200 pieces of of his work to establish the University of Arizona Museum of Art Visual Arts Archive. So hopefully we’ll be able to see McCall’s work on a regular basis in Tucson.

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