Biography:
Diane Weintraub
La Jolla, California

Diane Weintraub is an internationally known and respected artist and instructor. She has a BA in art and an MFA. She also studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and with instructors from the New York Art Students League.

Diane teaches advanced drawing on the college level in San Diego, California. She also conducts workshops at the San Diego Museum of Art's Museum School and at the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library’s Art School in La Jolla. With a 20-year track record as one of the best, she is in demand as a lecturer and instructor. Recently she was awarded Teacher of the Year, 2005.

Selected partial exhibitions list of Diane Weintraub’s paintings include:
South Bend Museum of Art
Philbrook Museum of Art
Paris Gibson Museum of Art
Holter Museum of Art
Carnegie Art Center

She has won numerous exhibition awards.

Diane’s artwork is in many prestigious collections at museums and universities. Selected partial collections list include:
The Museum of Modern Art’s Franklin Furnace Collection at PS 1 in New York
The National Museum for Women in The Arts in Washington DC
Brown University
Duke University
Emory University
The Minneapolis Athenaeum
Otis College of Art and Design
The San Diego Museum of Art.

Additionally, Diane has a long list of published articles from numerous visual arts publications.

Artist’s Statement:

“I’m a college art professor and painting is my passion. Landscapes interests – even obsess – me for all sorts of reasons. Southern California is a growing area and the natural beauty here offers a soul-satisfying experience in almost every neighborhood. But growth means change. Some of the scenes I’m painting likely will have changed a few years from now, just as the scenes painted by the Early California Impressionists are no longer there for us to see, except as captured forever in their paintings. I cherish these vanishing vistas we are privileged to gaze at today.

But mostly I choose to paint landscapes because I love being in nature for the connection it gives you to “that which is larger than yourself.” I’m sure not alone on that score! Artists have immortalized Southern California’s unique terrain for more than 150 years. The atmosphere is visually rich and the vistas here are quintessentially emblematic of the Southern California experience! It’s a blessed and happy day when I can be outside enjoying the beauty of nature and painting or sketching!”
Diane Weintraub