ALAN FLATTMANN

Biography

Spanning a career of over 4 decades, Alan Flattmann is recognized as one of America's most outstanding and gifted artists'.  He was inducted into The Pastel Society of America’s “Hall of Fame” in 2006 and awarded the PSA Master Pastelist distinction in 1991. He is the recipient of the 1996 American Artist Art Masters Award for pastel teacher and has been listed in Who's Who in American Art since 1981.   He won First Place for Landscape in the Inaugural Pastel Artist International Magazine Awards for World-Wide Excellence and Best of Show in the Pastel Society of North Florida 2004 Biennial National Exhibition.. In conjunction with the publication of the book, “Alan Flattmann’s French Quarter Impressions”, the mayor of New Orleans, C. Ray Nagin, officially proclaimed September 28, 2002 as Alan Flattmann Day in recognition of 25 years of success painting in the French Quarter. These are just a few of the numerous awards he had won over his career. He is also a founder and current president of the Degas Pastel Society and has served as a judge for many national painting exhibitions.

 

Alan Flattmann was born in the city of New Orleans in 1946. At the age of seventeen, he received a New Orleans Art Association Scholarship to study with the renown regionalist painter John McCrady at the John McCrady Art School in the French Quarter. It was there that his lifetime interest in painting the French Quarter began. In 1973, he was awarded a study grant from the Elizabeth T. Greenshields Memorial Foundation of Canada. The grant enabled Flattmann to live and paint on the West Indies Island of Barbados. A year later, he returned to the States and began his long association with Bryant Galleries in New Orleans and Jackson.

Flattmann's paintings can be found in hundreds of private and corporate collections around the world, such as Alabama Power Company, Avondale Shipyards, Delta Airlines, Deposit Guaranty National Bank, Entergy Corporation, Heritage Club (TX), Hollister Inc. (IL), Insignia/ESG Company (NY), The Mississippi Bank, Peoples Bank and Trust, University Club (MS) and South Central Bell.

Public collections include The New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Oklahoma Art Center, Longview Museum of Art, Mississippi Museum of Art, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Meriden Arts Association, New Orleans Art Association, University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), Belhaven College and Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation.

Books featuring Alan Flattmann's work include:

"The Art of Pastel Painting", by Alan Flattmann,  Pelican Publishing, 2007, New Orleans, LA  (first published by Watson-Guptill Publications, 1987, New York, NY;) 

"Alan Flattmann's French Quarter Impressions", by John R. Kemp, Pelican Publishing, 2002, New Orleans, LA.

"The Poetic Realism of Alan Flattmann", by Joyce Kelly, A.C.M. Publishing, 1981, Jackson, MS

"Pure Color: The Best of Pastel", pp.106 & 119, North Light Books, 2006, Cincinnati, OH

"100 ways to paint Favorite Subjects",  p.30,  International Artists Publishing, 2004, Chatswood, Australia

 

"Expressing the Visual Language of the Landscape", pp. 74-81,“Capturing Character”, by Alan Flattmann, International Artists Publishing, 2002, Chatswood, Australia

"The Best of Pastel 2", p.57,  Rockport Publishers Inc., 1998, Gloucester, MA

"Paint How You See and See What You Paint", by Aven Chen,  pp. 40,41,53,54,62,64,79,82,89,90,94, 99, 107,108, 122,123,129,130,  published in Taiwan 1997

"Pastel Step by Step", by Aven Chen, pp. 109-111, published in Taiwan 1995

 

Magazine Articles by and about Alan Flattmann's work include:

"Hallowed Hall", by Robert Carsten, The Pastel Journal, February, 2007, Cover & p.8

"Heightened Atmosphere", by Alan Flattmann, The Pastel Journal, June 2006, pp. 58-59

"Alan Flattmann Deals with Katrina: a summer of too many storms", by Bill Creevy, Pastelagram, Winter 2006, pp.8-11

"The Best Souvenir",  by Joanne Moore, Artist’s Sketchbook, February 2005 pp.34-39

"From the Editor"”, by Loraine Crouch, The Pastel Journal, October 2004, p. 3

"Workshop Instructors Tell All",  byMaggie Price, The Pastel Journal, June 2004, pp. 42-43

 

"Jazzing with Pastels", by Jamey Landry, Inside Northside, Ap. –May 2004, Cover & pp.18-19

"Alan Flattmann", by editors, The Pastel Journal, April 2004, pp.20-21

Book Review - "Alan Flattmann’s French Quarter Impressions", by Claire Paisner, Pastelagram, Winter 2003, Cover & p.20

"Alan Flattmann’s Vieux Carre Impressions",  by John Kemp, Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Summer 2002, pp. 41-49

"A Reality of its own: Alan Flattmann's French Quarter", by John R. Kemp, Louisiana Life, Winter 2001/02, pp. 34-37

"Painting an Old City in a New Way", by Linda S. Price, Watercolor, an American Artist publication, Summer 2001, pp.57-63

"Selecting a Surface", by Linda S. Price, American Artist, February 2001, Cover & pp. 48-53

"Alan Flattmann, Exploring themes and documenting life in pastels", by Maggie Price,Editor, The Pastel Journal, Jan/Feb 2000,

"Impressions of the City", by Alan Flattmann, Pastel Artist International, Aug/Sept/Oct 1999, pp.44-53

"Mastering Composition", by Linda S. Price, Art Masters, An American Artist publication, June 1996,  pp.42-49

"Combining Sketching and Watercolor Painting", by Alan Flattmann, Watercolor, An American Artist publication, Winter 1995, pp. 82-87

"Ten Artists Respond to a Southern Plantation", by M. Stephen Doherty, American Artist, January 1989, pp.32-35

"Alan Flattmann: Pastel Poet", by John Kemp, New Orleans Magazine,  April 1987, pp.24-27

"Alan Flattmann Among Unknown Men", by Marda Burton, New Orleans Magazine, July 1981, pp.54-56

"Alan Flattmann No Subject too Common", by Marda Burton, Southwest Art, September 1980, pp.78-85

"Alan Flattmann Painting a Poetic Realism"”, by editors, Southern World, December 1980, Cover & p.6

"Alan Flattmann’s Reflections of the South", by Keith Marshall, American Artist, July 1979, pp. 56-59 & pp. 104-109