Contact: Donna Hand-Lee For Immediate Release Telephone (503)665-1925 e-mail: [log in to unmask] Press Release Short's Acceptance in the Salmagundi Club Milwaukie, Oregon( July 10, l998) Chiaroscuro Painter Margret E. Short is proud to announce her acceptance into New York's prestigious Salmagundi Club. The Salamagundi Club has been the center for the advancement of American Art for over a century. Short a former instructor at Clackamas Community College is represented by Vanier Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ and the Sovereign and the Rental Sales Gallery in Portland,OR. Short has exhibited in the C.M. Russell Auction, Great Falls, MT, the Gulf Coast Invitational, Biloxi, MS, the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK and will be working with the Art in the Embassies Program, Washington, D.C. Her oil paintings have appeared on the covers of Saks Fifth Ave Magazine, OPBS Focus Magazine and Northwest Magazine. Short is a member of the Oil Painters of America, the American Society of Classical Realism, and the Women Artists of the West. Margret Short's paintings are in collections throughout the United States, as well as London ,England, and Japan. Contact: Margret E. Short,5322 SE Hull, Milwaukie, OR, 503-652-2749, fax 503-513-0207 http//www.margretshort.com