NEWSLETTER

ASSOCIATED ARTISTS of the INLAND EMPIRE

MILFORD ZORNES

    Milford Zornes was born in Camargo, Oklahoma, in 1908.  His family moved to Idaho and then to Southern California where he graduated from high school in 1926.  He studied art at the Otis Art Institute and at Pomona College where he worked with well known watercolorist Millard Sheets.  Zornes is a member and past-president of the California Watercolor Society (now the National Watercolor Society) and an elected member of the American Watercolor Society.  He is an elected Associate of the National Academy of Design.

      Zornes has had numerous exhibitions including one man shows at the Butler Institute, Wichita Art Museum, Kansas, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the La Jolla Gallery of Art.  He has won many major awards.  His painting "Arizona Evening" was purchased for the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

     An inveterate traveler and tireless teacher, Zornes has explored, painted, and taught throughout the U.S. as well as in Europe, India, China, Burma, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Bali, Java, and Sumatra.  He has instructed art at the Otis Art Institute, Pomona College, Scripps College, University of Oklahoma, and the Pasadena School of Fine Arts.  He has conducted numerous workshops for regional and national watercolor organizations.

      Along with Millard Sheets, Phil Paradise, Phil Dike, Barse Miller, and Rex Brandt, Zornes was a member of The California School of Watercolor--plein air painters who captured the beauty and vitality of the western landscape in brisk, direct paintings.  Zornes continues to paint with the same vigor, enthusiasm, and integrity that has always characterized his work.

      Milford Zornes was for many years a resident of Utah, but now lives in Claremont, California.

SOURCE:  WATERMEDIA FOCUS APRIL 2001 --- NOW The Palette Magazine

APRIL 9, 2003

WATERCOLOR DEMONSTRATION

MILFORD ZORNES and HENRY FUKUHARA will be conducting a watercolor workshop at THE ART BOX STUDIO Nov. 15-16, 2003