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Welcome to the new Vasari Classic Artists’ Oil Colors website.

We make our paint in small batches from carefully selected pigments. We even fill our tubes by hand.

Our mission: to make the best oil paint possible and to both educate and inspire painters about the possibilities and true pleasure of quality paint. 

Fiercely independent, we have remained one of the only owner operated paint companies in existence, passionately still following 19th century methods of handcrafting and selling our own colors directly to painters. 

Our entire staff is seriously committed and thoroughly dedicated to oil paint.  Since 1995, this is what we do: the most sumptuous, responsive, robust, and pure oil colors for painters anywhere at any time.  Proudly made in America.

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JUNE SALE of warmer greens

Switching to a monthly format, our colors sales will now expand from 6 to 12 color events, end sooner, but provide more focus on select colors.

Greens that tend to be warm or even mix like a yellow are on sale in June, with great pricing on both 175ml large tubes and the 40ml size.

Vasari Classic Artists’ Oil Colors is going green!  To save on resources and energy, we will no longer mail out our sale flyers.

To view or print one for the JUNE SALE of warmer greens click here
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Chromium Oxide
40ml:   $27.80
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Cinnabar Green Light
40ml:   $38.55
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Cadmium Green Light
40ml:   $27.80
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Rousseau Green Extra Pale
40ml:   $10.35
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Rousseau Green
40ml:   $15.85
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Swamp Green
40ml:   $27.80
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Sap Green
40ml:   $20.70
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Terre Verte, warm
40ml:   $20.70
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News & Events

Not your average art supply, our new Chelsea showroom at 547 West 27th St. radiates with color and paint!  Visitors are either on a mission to check it out or discover us by accident on their way to look at art.  Either way, we are never what they expect.

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The show of self-portraits by 36 artists, Perception of Self, at Forum Gallery opened on October 4, and is on view through November 10, 2012, with work both instant and insightful.

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The 10th annual openhousenewyork Weekend is under way in New York City, a world capital of design.  Our showroom, now in Chelsea, is participating in this event with extended weekend hours of Sat-Sun, 10am to 6pm on October 6 and 7.  Come visit us and the 19th century NYC landmark, The Landmark Arts Building, in which we demonstrate and sell our handcrafted colors.

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Emily Davis Adams appears beside her recent oil Golden Valley at the opening reception on September 13th of Post Natural, an exhibition of work by the 2012 Fellows of the New York Academy of Art, on view through October 7, 2012

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