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Charles Garabedian: A Retrospective, Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Charles Garabedian / Santa Barbara Museum of Art

An innovator in the return to national prominence of figurative painting more than 30 years ago, Garabedian took his place among the best painters Los Angeles has produced. Pictured: "The Spring for Which I Longed," 2001-03. Acrylic on canvas.

An innovator in the return to national prominence of figurative painting more than 30 years ago, Garabedian took his place among the best painters Los Angeles has produced. Pictured: "The Spring for Which I Longed," 2001-03. Acrylic on canvas. (Charles Garabedian / Santa Barbara Museum of Art)

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Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman, San Diego Museum of Art

San Diego Museum of Art

A concise gem of a show that demonstrated how the British artist's pictures of women, many of them performers, underscored the theatrical power of Gainsborough's own dazzling brush. Pictured: "Mrs. Siddons," 1785, oil on canvas.

A concise gem of a show that demonstrated how the British artist's pictures of women, many of them performers, underscored the theatrical power of Gainsborough's own dazzling brush. Pictured: "Mrs. Siddons," 1785, oil on canvas. (San Diego Museum of Art)

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