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Click on a category above to see samples of Caplinger’s artwork, and to learn more about the artist. |
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Portraits, Paintings, Murals of the Southwest
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Chuck Caplinger’s commercial art career dates back to 1960 in Houston, Texas, where he was an illustrator for NASA. Moving to California in 1980, he worked with Lonestar Pictures, painted celebrity portraits,
and operated Caplinger Studio in Hollywood. In 1997 he established his new creative base, Desert Art Studio & Gallery, in the Mojave Desert community of Twentynine Palms, CA, where he creates oil paintings,
portraits, and murals of the Southwest. His award-winning paintings and portraits hang in public and private collections around the world, and his historical murals are represented in cities throughout
California and Texas.
Caplinger regularly exhibits his works in group and one-man gallery shows. A series of his paintings were featured in Southwest Art Magazine, and his “Tribute to Marilyn”
oil painting is exhibited in the Hollywood Entertainment Museum in Los Angeles. In the fall of 2001, his work was featured at the Edward-Dean Museum in Cherry Valley, CA. The exhibit, titled “The
West--From the Reservations to the Range--A Retrospective,” also featured bronzes by Russell and Remington.
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For Chuck Caplinger’s complete Artist Resume click here. |
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Chuck Caplinger is available for murals and mural consultation, painting and portrait commissions. Phone: (760)361-2305
Email: chuck@desertartstudio.com
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Artist Chuck Caplinger with his actress wife Holgie Forrester-Caplinger. (2002) |
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Above: Clipping from The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA) heralds Caplinger’s unconventional “artistic” lifestyle in the middle of the Mojave Desert. (2004) |
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Artist Chuck Caplinger with his Desert Dreaming series. (2004) |
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Left: Clipping from The Hi-Desert Star (Yucca Valley, CA) Entertainment section offers a synopsis of artist Chuck Caplinger’s career from illustrator for NASA in Texas to mural artist in California.
(June 29-July 5, 2005) |
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Right: Clipping from The Desert Trail (29 Palms, CA) Oct. 12, 2006, covers Caplinger’s art show at A Roadside Attraction gallery featuring Marilyn Monroe series, entitled “Marilyn Visits the Morongo
Basin,” on exhibit Oct. 14 to Dec. 9, 2006. |
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