The works of the Rhineharts represent their lives, individually and together, as a creative endeavor to experience the possibilities within the world in which they live through the fine art of oil painting in realistic, abstract, impressionism, 22 karat gold leaf application to paintings, sculpting in Bronze and old world glazing techniques.

Charles Rhinehart has studied and taught himself and others in this direction for almost 60 years, and Lavetta has participated in whatever direction she could be an aid for the last 30 of those years. The works of the Rhineharts hang in homes, businesses and art collections nationally and internationally, to list them all here is not possible.

One of the highlights in their lives has been to have painted together since 1975, leaving their native Missouri for a trip to the Grand Canyon and Arizona. For the remainder of the 1970’s the Rhineharts explored and painted the west, including Wyoming and Utah while making trips back to Missouri to open a studio and a gallery, and to teach.

During the recession of the late 1970’s the Rhineharts decided to settle down into a quieter life and moved to a small town on the Missouri/Arkansas border.  It was during this time they were introduced to the Knox Galleries and began a 24 year relationship.
 
In the early 1980’s the Rhineharts put their belongings into storage to travel extensively; they sketched and painted the Rocky Mountains and the San Jaun Mountains.  Following this they returned to the small southwest Missouri town of Pierce City and purchased the first of their five commercial buildings.  This compound of architectural reconstructions, allowed them to live in a loft apartment, with a studio downstairs and a gallery/workshop in the building to the east.  The website home page photo is of the beautiful gallery they built and owned.  The Rhineharts remained there until 2003 when a tornado turned the entire town to rubble, and having been declared a disaster area, the commercial district of the town was leveled.  The Rhineharts were in the studio portion of the main building and were unharmed, they now have a new home and studio and this website Gallery, they are very grateful to be alive and living happily ever after together.

Charles and Lavetta Rhinehart have owned their own Galleries in Springfield, Missouri, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, Cape Girardeau, Missouri and Pierce City, Missouri. They have shown in galleries in the following locations: Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico; Corte Madera and Napa Valley, California; Denver, Vail, Aspen. and Beaver Creek, Colorado; Harbor Springs, Michigan; Scottsdale, Arizona; Jackson, Wyoming; St. Louis and Cape Girardeau, Missouri; Springfield and Bellville, Illinois; and New Hope, Pennsylvania.

The Rhineharts have had many one person showings in different galleries and have participated in museum showings and other art related functions over the last 30 years. They have won National recognition and been awarded honors by their home State of Missouri. The most recent being resolutions from the House of Representatives and the State Senate recognizing Charles’s meritorious endeavors as an exceptional Missouri citizen who has attained considerable success and the other as having brought glory and honor to himself and this great state through the excellence of his achievements in his chosen field of endeavor, with honorable mention of Lavetta as an artist in her own right.

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