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Plein Air Litchfield


Dylan McKnight
1st Place
PAL 2025

Plein Air Litchfield 2026
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Expanded Days
Nationally Acclaimed Artists
$8500 Awards
September 12 to September 19, 2026
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Special Features of PAL Week:
Quick Paint in the Historic District Day, Sunday,9/13
Followed by the Artist Meet & Greet at the Litchfield Community Center
Free and Open to the Public, Food Truck, Litchfield Distillery
FREE! The Historical Society @ OWL. Presentation History of Painting in Litchfield: Landscape Visions; Artistic Depictions of Litchfield
FREE! Thursday, September 17, Hollister House Paintings Show & Sale
Litchfield Inn, Free & Open to the Public
Tickets required VIP PREVIEW PARTY & EARLY SALE
Tickets required Collectors Art Show, Judging & Sale
Quick Paint: Community Artists Paint alongside Competition Artists
Last Year's
Competition Artists

2025 Winners Plein Air Litchfield 2025

First Place, $2500, Dylan McNight, Fife & Drum, Watercolor

2nd Place, Liane Whittum, $1000, Farm on Chestnut Hill, Oil

IMG_6333 - Charlie Hunter

Best Abstract Landscape, $250, Alex Eisenopf, White Flower Farm, Pastel

Best Architecture, Bill Farnsworth, $250, Hello Old Friend, Oil

Best Wild Spaces, John Eiseman, $250, Bantam's Burning Bush, Oil

PA25809_Beekman-Farm_18x18_$2500-b - Jim Laurino

Honorable Mention, Melissa Carroll, $250, Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy, Oil

IMG_5554 - George Van Hook
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