The 77th Annual International Exhibition of Fine Art in Miniature 2010

Presented by the Miniature Painters, Sculptures & Gravers Society of Washington, D.C.

November 22 - December 30, 2010

Strathmore Mansion 10701 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20852


The exhibition provided an opportunity to exhibit the miniatures (The Sharon Quigley-Rosenthal Collection / Louis Rosenthal Museum) and was the first time in over 60 years that the miniature sculptures of Louis Rosenthal have been on exhibit in the U.S.

November 22 - December 30, 2010

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Sharon Quigley-Rosenthal and Nar Steel
....(excerpt from Gazette.net)....Steel has been president of MPSGS, the nation's oldest miniature arts society, for two years; she says this year's show is different from past ones in that the work of miniature sculptor Louis Rosenthal was shown on Nov. 20 and 21. The artwork had not been exhibited in 60 years, and Rosenthal's name holds particular weight for MPSGS members.

"In 1923, The Royal Society of Miniature Painters changed their charter to The Royal Society of Miniature Painters and Sculptors solely to allow in one American: Louis Rosenthal," Steel says.  (excerpt from Gazette.net, a copy of the full review appears below)


December 8, 2010:  All The Small Things: Miniature Art Exhibit at the Mansion 
Gazette.net (Maryland Community News Online)

Photographs from the exhibition are presented below.  Click on the photographs to enlarge.  At the bottom of the page you will find photographs of the original 1923 letter from the Miniature Painters Society in London before they changed the name of their charter solely to allow in Louis Rosenthal.

Photographs of letters from the Royal Society of Miniature Painters from 1922 and 1923.  Click on the photographs to enlarge.  Plus, this is a PDF File of the 1922 letter as the photo below may be hard to read - Royal Society of Miniature Painters, 1922