What Was the First Nationally Reconized Art Movement in Painting From Northern California
The following 1996 essay was written by Harvey L. Jones for the illustrated catalogue Impressions of California: Early Currents in Art 1850-1950, ISBN 0-9635-468-7-two (cloth). The essay is located in pages 35-80 in the catalogue. The essay is re-keyed and reprinted with permission of The Irvine Museum and without illustrations. If you accept questions or comments regarding the essay, or wish to purchase a copy of the catalogue, please contact The Irvine Museum straight through either this phone number or web accost:
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Landscape Painters of Northern California 1870-1930
by Harvey L. Jones
T he earliest painted depictions of the California landscape date from the era of exploration, from various tardily-eighteenth century voyages of discovery that sailed under several European flags. Before the expeditionary artists visited California, the native peoples had left prove of their ain pictorial tradition in the grade of painted designs on cavern walls or rock formations that plant mysterious representations of animals or figures with ceremonial significance. Under Hispanic rule the painting tradition was largely limited to the mural decorations and geometric designs, of Spanish or Mexican origin, that adorned the chain of California missions forth the Pacific declension.
Following the discovery of aureate in 1848, the commencement artists trained in the European tradition of easel painting came to California. Among the shiploads of argonauts arriving virtually daily in San Francisco during the Gold Rush were many professional artists who hoped to strike it rich in the gold fields of the Sierra Nevada foothills.
An art community before long developed in San Francisco when unsuccessful artist-prospectors returned to painting as a means of budgetary proceeds. Depictions of mining themes and related subjects wherein the California landscape was frequently relegated to the background were pop with the Gold Rush painters. Information technology was a need for portrait likenesses that proved the most lucrative as the cultural aspirations of the city'south wealthiest and most prominent citizens created an important patronage for the artists. The Big 4 railroad barons, the bankers and the so-called Silver Kings built extravagant Victorian mansions on Nob Loma, as well as splendid "country houses" forth the peninsula south of the city, and these required luxurious furnishings and collections of art equally reflections of their builders' cultivated taste and loftier social position. The demand for formal portraiture and the growing popularity of California landscapes would bolster the good fortune of San Francisco'due south prosperous art customs until the 1880s, when there was an economic decline and the artistic gustation of the local patrons, informed by their travels away during the fashionably requisite Grand Bout, shifted toward collecting more European fine art.
During the decade that followed completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, California's breathtaking wonders, particularly the rugged Sierra Nevada, with its giant redwoods and its rivers and lakes, and especially Yosemite became more than attainable to visiting artists from Europe or eastern America. Among the prominent mural painters who visited the state or established studios in San Francisco during the 1870s were Thomas Moran (1837-1926), Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) and James Hamilton (1819-1878). Earlier arrivals Thomas Hill (1829-1908), William Keith (1838-1911) and Virgil Williams (1830-1886) were to go permanent residents with lasting reputations. Most of these artists traveled extensively in the Sierra on human foot or on horseback during their extended sketching trips to get together images that were after used in developing "finished" landscapes painted in their San Francisco studios. They all drew upon European influences for their formulation of paintings that became archetype landscapes of the American W. The swell panoramas of California's mountain scenery were oftentimes idealized, and sometimes dramatized, in the way of the High german academic style taught in Dusseldorf and reinforced by the conventions of the American Hudson River schoolhouse. The Hudson River painters had remained faithful to the concrete reality of the mural in pictures that also expressed a spirit of expanding national pride and a sense of the sublime in allegories of God in nature, paintings that transcended mere visual representation.
The compositional features of a classic American mural of western scenery commonly included an expansive, luminous sky framed by detailed depictions of mountain topography and vegetation. In romantic, still realistic paintings of Yosemite, Kings Canyon, Mount Shasta and other breath-taking California mountain landscapes, the artists established classic images of western scenery in postcard-perfect views, which were shown to nationwide acclaim and which in turn helped to persuade Americans to preserve some of California's finest wilderness areas as land or national parks.
In typical nineteenth-century western landscapes, a delineation of humanity, sometimes a group of American Indians or a rider on horseback, would occasionally exist shown in the foreground or middle distance in relatively tiny proportion to the overwhelming calibration of the wilderness elements. These allusions to the authority of nature over humanity represented a concept that would reversed in much of the mural imagery of twentieth-century California painters.
Albert Bierstadt, whose several visits to California began in 1863 with sketching in Yosemite, fix a San Francisco studio in 1872. His worldwide reputation conferred celebrity condition that was every bit notable every bit his grandiose mural paintings. This exerted a positive influence upon the local artists and profoundly stimulated art patronage among wealthy San Franciscans. Bierstadt'south occasional use of creative license, in the slight exaggeration of certain pictorial elements combined with his artful manipulation of nature's lighting effects, created maximum dramatic impact in awe-inspiring regal landscapes, prompting us to forgive his divergence from strict realism. These spectacular views of the western mural on a 1000 scale became road testify attractions in the true theatrical sense.
Albert Bierstadt's contemporaries in San Francisco, Thomas Hill and William Keith, shared his enthusiasm for painting the grandeur of panoramic mountain scenery. Their works too were much sought afterwards, both in California and in the East. A stylistic shift of European academic influences from Dusseldorf toward Munich, and more than importantly to the French Barbizon school so admired by many California landscape painters, led artists such as Hill and Keith to modify their painting styles as early every bit the mid-1870s. They adopted a looser, more spontaneous form of brushwork in the Munich style and were also attracted to the broader naturalistic vision of landscapes in French style. Although both Keith and Hill produced many large paintings of mountain subjects on the ballsy scale of Bierstadt's impressive road show attractions, they were also drawn to the simpler, more intimate motifs in nature that became a pop feature in paintings by the side by side generation of artists, a change in taste that eventually led to the erosion of Bierstadt's reputation.
William Keith modified his painting style three times over the several decades of a long career. The advisedly detailed realism of his early piece of work from the mid-1860s, reminiscent of Hudson River-schoolhouse paintings, may accept been an extension of his interest with descriptive detail as an engraver/illustrator. In the 1870s he indulged his enthusiasm for describing the picturesque mountain wilderness with its high mountain peaks, wild rivers and placid lakes in a Romantic-Realist way that combined the spectacle of a Bierstadt with the pigment surfaces of the Munich schoolhouse. In the 1890s, inspired by the Barbizon painters, Keith abandoned the realist arroyo in favor of an even freer application of paint in his evocation of modestly scaled "intimate" landscapes-where nature'due south episodes were measured by mere moments instead of hours, and by a few acres rather than miles.
In the early 1870s San Francisco'south growing enthusiasm for fine art centered on the newly founded San Francisco Art Association. Membership grew rapidly, from the already established community of resident artists and the recent influx of prominent painters from the East; this provided sufficient funds to realize the organisation's intent to create its own fine art school to provide audio technical training by achieved artists.
Virgil Williams, born in Maine, had studied in Rome with renowned painter William Folio. He was hired in 1874 as the starting time director of the San Francisco Art Association's School of Design. He was highly regarded as a teacher and dearest past his students, some of whom number amidst the nation'southward most respected painters. Nearly of Williams's own paintings were figurative subjects that reflected on his experiences in Italy, just he likewise produced a few fine California landscapes.
Under Williams's leadership the California Schoolhouse of Design provided its students with basic academic art training by a faculty that included some of the best painters in the West. Originally located on the second floor of a storefront building on Pine Street, in 1893 it moved to the Nob Colina mansion donated past the widow of Mark Hopkins (after which it became known every bit the Marker Hopkins Establish of Art). A number of the country'due south offset generation of native-born artists, including John A. Stanton (1857-1929), Lorenzo P. Latimer (1857-1941) and Theodore Wores (1859-1939), were among the early on graduates of the School of Design.
The school's curriculum was modeled on that of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where emphasis was placed on mastery of basic drawing skills, and included sketching from plaster casts of Greek antique and Italian Renaissance sculptures from the Louvre. Enrollment of women often outnumbered that of men. Amidst those who achieved prominence were Clara McChesney (1860-1928), known for her floral subjects; Mary Curtis Richardson (1848-1931), an exceptional portraitist (peculiarly of children); and Grace Carpenter Hudson (1865-1937), who specialized in studies of Pomo Indian children.
The 1880s brought forth a number of academically well trained and widely traveled landscape painters who settled permanently in the San Francisco Bay Expanse. Thaddeus Welch (1844-1919) was noted for his pastoral scenes in rural Marin County; Raymond Dabb Yelland (1848-1900) had as his signature subject littoral sunsets; Charles Dormon Robinson (1847-1933) was a talented marine painter who likewise favored Yosemite landscapes; and Theodore Wores, i of the Due west's first artists to visit Nihon, excelled as with portrait, genre and landscape subjects from his travels abroad as well as in California. These artists, and many of their local contemporaries, adopted a loose expressive brushwork in intimately scaled views of California'south varied landscapes that anticipated the appeal of Impressionism.
In 1890 Arthur Mathews (1860-1945) was appointed director of the School of Blueprint, where he implemented reforms in the curriculum that included deemphasizing antique classes in favor of life drawing from nude or draped models in the segregated men's and women'south classes. Mathews, who trained at the Academie Julian in Paris, encouraged his pupils to study farther in Europe. Every bit both a teacher and an accomplished painter, Mathews would become a major influence on the artistic life of Northern California in the early years of the twentieth century.
The proud roster of prominent California artists who studied at the Schoolhouse of Design/Marker Hopkins Institute includes Percy Gray (1869-1952), Armin C. Hansen (1886-1957), E. Charlton Fortune (1885-1969), Granville Redmond (1871-1935) and Albert DeRome (1885-1959), all of whom were active mural painters in Northern California.
By the 1890s, when the first of the California-schooled artists began to receive recognition and gain confidence in their own work, the prevailing fashion of American painting was changing. George Inness (1825-1894) was America's about respected landscape painter at the time of his influential visit to California in 1891. California's own quondam master painter of landscapes, William Keith, was a great admirer of Inness, with whom he shared the philosophical ideal that the painter should strive to synthesize the verse of nature with objective fact.
A new accent on fine art for art'south sake reflected a greater sophistication among painters who had been exposed to newly imported European trends. The Barbizon group of artists in France had long been painting en plein air, that is, working out of doors and observing nature directly, to render scenes in spontaneous brushstrokes right on the sail, without benefit of elaborate preliminary sketches. Their selection of pocket-sized domestic subjects on an intimate scale contrasted with the 1000 panoramas of an before style. Many American painters were turning away from the crisply defined, descriptive realism of an Albert Bierstadt toward more than subjective interpretations realized through a fashion that has been termed "Tonalism." This was a then-vanguard arroyo to painting that helped in the eclipse of realism's popularity even as it rejected the tenets of French Impressionist-inspired plein-air painting. Nature remained the principal inspiration for Tonalism, particularly in landscape painting. The Tonalists explored placidity wistful moods of nature experienced in the macerated lite of early forenoon, late afternoon or evening. Ofttimes mysterious or romantic lighting furnishings were achieved through representations of atmospheric fog, mist or brume rendered in advisedly controlled, depression-key color harmonies that seem to envelop the subject, to soften or mistiness the imagery, leaving details to the poetic imagination of the observer.
Northern California possessed two important underpinnings for a regional touch on of the style. Showtime, the creative influences of two major American painters, George Inness and James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), conveyed through the art and teachings of ii of California's leading artists of the time: William Keith and Arthur Mathews, respectively. 2d, the prevailing atmospheric conditions that produce the fog and haze characteristic of coastal California, most significantly around the fine art centers of San Francisco Bay and Carmel/Monterey.
The lessons of Whistler's carefully organized compositions, arranged in a subdued palette of grayed tones, were embraced by San Francisco's dominant artistic influence of the menses, Arthur Mathews. His ain form of decorative Tonalism, at present referred to equally the California Decorative Style, merged his academic figurative training with a Whistlerian-influenced color harmony.
As a prominent muralist, easel painter, designer, builder, teacher, art juror, writer and civic arts abet, Mathews embodied the concept of a Renaissance man in the arts more than any other artist in California. It is arguable that Mathews' personal rejection of the tenets of French Impressionism influenced a generation of Northern California painters, resulting in the delayed impact that the once vanguard style had on the painters of California. About of his successful students, who included his married woman Lucia Kleinhans Mathews (1870-1955), Gottardo Piazzoni (1872-1945), Xavier Martinez (1869-1943), Guiseppe Cadenasso (1858-1918), Francis McComas (1875-1938) and Granville Redmond, were instead influenced by Arthur Mathews's Tonalism.
The subjectivity of Tonalism, with its accent on subtlety and mood in landscapes depicted with controlled lighting furnishings, the ascendant style in Northern California at the plow of the century, contrasted with the more objective aims of the Impressionist-inspired plein-air mode that created close-up depictions of nature in bright sunlight, and which was preferred by painters in Southern California from the early teens to the 1930s.
In the great earthquake and fire of 1906 San Francisco'due south visual arts heritage from the nineteenth century suffered a devastating, irreparable loss. Important individual collections of precious California paintings perished in the flames that too took most the life's piece of work of several artists whose homes and studios were burned. For several years during the rebuilding of the city the center of artistic life shifted to the Monterey Peninsula, where many painters opened studios in Carmel by the Body of water, Pacific Grove or Monterey. Other San Francisco artists moved to the Eastward Bay cities of Oakland, Alameda or Berkeley, where some remained permanently.
The Monterey surface area, with its historic missions and adobe ruins, offered scenic dazzler in natural environment that included a deep blue crescent bay, sandy beaches and windswept rocky promontories on which grew gnarled cypress copse, alpine svelte Monterey pines and water ice plants with intensely magenta blossoms. The Carmel Valley provided sunny vistas of rolling hills robed in the greens or golds of the seasons.
Several artists had maintained summertime studios on the Monterey Peninsula since the 1890s, but after 1906 they occupied them on a permanent ground. Charles Rollo Peters (1862-1928), best known for his "nocturnes" in the Whistlerian way of Tonalism, first settled in Monterey in 1895. In 1900 he built a thirty-acre manor in that location, complete with studio, art gallery and guest rooms, establishing him as a leading figure among a growing community of artists, writers and poets that maintained much of its artistic vigor until World War 2.
The center of activity became the Hotel Del Monte Fine art Gallery in Monterey, which opened in 1907 with the cooperation of San Francisco's leading artists. The gallery provided a much-needed identify for artists to exhibit and sell their piece of work. A virtual who'south who of California painters from the first half of the twentieth century are among those who regularly worked and exhibited in Monterey.
Armin Hansen, a San Franciscan who began his art studies at the Marking Hopkins Plant nether Arthur Mathews, became a permanent resident of Monterey in 1913 after several years of piece of work and study in Europe. His littoral landscapes and marine paintings depicting Monterey'southward fishing industry rendered in bravura brushstrokes brought Hansen national recognition and made him one of Monterey'due south leading artists.
As the fine art colony's reputation grew, a number of well-known Eastern painters took studios on the Monterey Peninsula. In 1911 New York painter and National Academician William Ritschel (1864-1949) became a permanent resident of the Carmel Highlands, where he remained a prominent painter of marine subjects. Childe Hassam (1859-1935) and William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) left canvases that mark their visits. By the early teens Northern California painters had been exposed to Impressionism in France or through the numerous examples of what by so was an international style of Impressionism exhibited, for instance, in the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
Painting by French artists such every bit Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Pierre Renoir (1841-1919), too every bit the Americans Chase, Hassam and Frederick Frieseke (1874-1939), began to influence the painters of California. E. Charlton Fortune, Bruce Nelson (1888-1952), Percy Gray and Anne Bremer (1868-1923) are among painters agile in Northern California who adopted the lighter palette and fluid brushstrokes of Impressionism in their landscapes painted en plein air.
The Impressionist ideal of painting a landscape directly from nature in a single sitting was non ofttimes realized in actual practice. Although the relatively minor-sized canvases and the speed of painting with quick, gestural brushstrokes helped, most painters establish information technology necessary to return to a scene more than than once in order to capture the often fleeting calorie-free at the preferred fourth dimension of midday. Many a painting was completed in the artist's studio without sacrificing the requisite immediacy of execution.
The Impressionist-inspired landscapes of California featured typical, yet often unidentified locales characteristic of the coastal regions of the state. Favored scenes depicted California every bit a colorful sunlit garden of wildflowers or as a tranquil retreat with a quiet puddle framed past the branches of eucalyptus, Monterey cypress or alive oak trees. Much of the appeal of these scenes was that they seemed to allow the observer to imagine comfortably inhabiting a landscape of human scale quite unlike the overwhelming spectacle of wilderness represented in typical nineteenth century California landscapes.
During the 1920s a group of Oakland-based painters who chosen themselves the Society of Half-dozen, William Clapp (1879-1954), August Gay (1890-1949), Selden Gile (1877-1947), Maurice Logan (1886-1977), Louis Siegriest (1899-1989) and Bernard von Eichman (1899-1970), carried the tradition of plein-air painting forward to the beginnings of modernism in Northern California painting.
Their experiments with landscape painting were inspired by French Mail-Impressionism, amongst other European modernist styles, such as Fauvism and even Cubism, examples of which these artists had seen in the exhibitions at the Palace of Fine Arts during the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. "The 6" adopted their own manifesto that began, ''All great art is founded upon the utilize of visual abstractions to limited beauty." They frequently painted together, exhibited together and socialized every bit a group, which stimulated each other'southward piece of work too as that of a generation of Bay Expanse painters who came to prominence a decade or 2 afterward.
The plein-air painters of Northern California remained active and pop until the onset of the Great Low in the early 1930s, when the art market complanate along with everything else. The most progressive artists of the 1930s and 1940s abandoned the "pure landscape" equally the primary subject field for painting at a time that coincided with pronounced changes in California's state use -- brought about by expanding urbanization and the rapid growth of large-scale agriculture. Many Northern California artists showed greater involvement in Social Realist painting, to meliorate reflect the times, and there was too a younger generation of artists who chose to experiment with various vanguard approaches to abstract painting that drew picayune of its inspiration from the landscape.
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Resource Library features these essays concerning Northern California fine art:
Jennie V. Cannon: The Untold History of the Carmel and Berkeley Art Colonies, vol. one, East Bay Heritage Project, Oakland, 2012
Landscape Painters of Northern California 1870-1930 by Harvey 50. Jones
The Carmel Monterey Peninsula Fine art Colony: A History by Barbara J. Klein
The San Francisco Art Association by Betty Hoag McGlynn
The Santa Cruz Art League by Betty Hoag McGlynn
The Carmel Art Association by Betty Hoag McGlynn
Monterey: The Artist'southward View, 1925 - 1945 by Kent Seavey
The Guild of Six past Terry St. John
Towards Impressionism in Northern California by Raymond L. Wilson
and these articles:
Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907 is a 2006 exhibit organized by the Crocker Art Museum, including some 70 paintings, photographs and works on paper fatigued from museums and private collections throughout California and beyond. It features work past eight artists of major importance to California's, and America's, art history -- Jules Tavernier, William Keith, Charles Rollo Peters, Arthur Mathews, Evelyn McCormick, Francis McComas, Gottardo Piazzoni and photographer Arnold Genthe. The exhibition likewise includes the work of more than 25 other artists, both well- and fiddling-known, who each contributed to the reputation of what is now widely recognized every bit one of America's nearly of import art colonies.
The Art Of Mount Shasta is a 2010 Turtle Bay Museum at the Turtle Bay Exploration Park exhibit for which William Miesse and Robyn G. Peterson, Ph.D, co-curators, say; "Nigh of the works in this exhibition, lent by museums, institutions, and private collections from effectually the country, stem from that San Francisco Art Blast. And these paintings are only the tip of the iceberg relative to the big number of Mountain Shasta paintings in museums and private collections around the land. The current exhibition is representative of the extensive fine art history of the Mount Shasta region."
The Lighter Side of Bay Surface area Figuration is a 2000 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art exhibit which contains 56 humorous, whimsical and satirical works of 
art by San Francisco Bay artists such as Wayne Thiebaud, Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Richard Diebenkorn, and Viola Frey. Comic art in the Bay area began to flourish during the late 1950s in deliberate defiance of New York's avant-garde. San Francisco'due south distance from the center of commerce and criticism fostered a renegade mentality and a tendency toward personal forms of expression. Bucking mainstream trends past combining humor with lowbrow artistic media and techniques became a badge of honor for many Bay Area artists. The hub of humorous figurative fine art was the University of California in Davis, a sleepy and relatively remote campus town seventy miles north of San Francisco. Although their aesthetics differed, most of the Davis artists explored humorous narratives, whether in clay sculpture or representational painting. The UC-Davis art department included artists Arneson, De Forest, Thiebaud, Manuel Neri, and William Wiley. There, Thiebaud painted his whimsical still lifes of ordinary objects from gumball machines and yo-yos to pies and cakes, similar the exhibition's painting Cakes and Pies, 1994-95. Roy De Woods painted his canvases filled with wild-eyed, pointy eared dogs, and printmaker William Wiley produced his quirky alter ego, "Mr. Unatural." (right: Joan Brown, Portrait of Bob for Bingo, 1960, oil paint oncanvas, 29 x 28 inches, Collection of Joyce and Jay Cooper, AZ, Photo, Jay Cooper)
The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration is a 2000 exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Art, a compelling exhibition of approximately 70 works that deftly examines the historical, social, cultural, and aesthetic development of humorous Bay Expanse art. The exhibition -- the get-go to identify and examine this genre -- highlights the piece of work of artists associated with the University of California at Davis, such as Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, and Wayne Thiebaud, and with artists associated with the East Bay, such every bit Robert Colescott, Joan Brown, M. Louise Stanley, and James Albertson.
Made in California: Fine art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000 / Section 1: 1900 - 1920 / Department ii: 1920 - 1940 / Section iii: 1940 - 1960 / Section 4: 1960 - 1980 / Section 5: 1980 - 2000 is a 2000 multi-part showroom at the Los Angeles Canton Museum of Fine art. The exhibition goes beyond a standard presentation of California fine art to offer a revisionist view of the state and its cultural legacy. It considers both "booster" images of California and other coexisting and at times competing images, reflecting the wide range of interests and experiences of the state'southward various constituencies. The exhibit approaches the by 100 years thematically, presenting works that engage in a meaningful way with the California prototype. Equally opposed to a survey exhibition, Made in California moves across the established canon of artists and art works to include bottom-known works by celebrated figures as well as a wider range of artists, more in keeping with the multifariousness of California's population. It is the shared conviction of the exhibition organizers that this arroyo, intended to initiate a broader dialogue on California fine art rather than establish a new canon.
Made in Monterey a 2009 exhibition at the Monterey Museum of Art, is a sweeping exhibition of the nigh beloved and important works from the permanent collection created by artists in Monterey or by those inspired by the region. Beginning with the pioneering artists who sojourned on the Primal Coast in the late 19th century (including Jules Tavernier and Raymond Dabb Yelland), the exhibition features pregnant works of Monterey modernists such as Armin Hansen and Margaret Bruton too as photography visionaries Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. Two renowned works by Armin Hansen, Nino and Men of the Sea, have been conserved and make their stunning debut in this new presentation.
Majestic California: Prominent Artists of the Early 1900's is a 2007 exhibition at The Irvine Museum. At i time, California was considered a distant Eden, isolated within its own beauty. From snowfall-capped peaks of the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the desolate splendor of the Mojave Desert; from flower-covered hills to countless secluded valleys and meadows; from the dazzling beaches of the south to the rocky coves of the due north, it was a world of its own. The enthralling beauty of California is the principal reason that, starting in the middle of the 19th century, artists began to accept the long, hazardous journeying to pigment its unique splendor. By the early 1900'due south, California had its own group of prominent artists who proclaimed that beauty throughout the land.
Moods of California , a 2007 exhibition at The Irvine Museum, portrays California as experienced by three differing notwithstanding equally passionate artistic points of view. Percy Grayness (1869-1952), a superb watercolorist who was fascinated by the soft, gentle light and haze of northern California; Paul Grimm (1887-1974), a landscape painter who in his later on years moved to Palm Springs and became famous for paintings of the desert; and Emil Kosa, Jr. (1903-1968) who became one of Hollywood's best known scenic painters and set designers, while distinguishing himself as a assuming painter of urban Los Angeles likewise as light-filled views of the countryside.
The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture , held in 2003 at the San Jose Museum of Fine art, includes more than 100 works of art by such artists as Guy Rose, Franz Bischoff, Armin Hansen, Lorser Feitelson, Stanton McDonald-Wright, Hans Burkhardt, Helen Lundeberg, Paul Wonner, Wayne Thiebaud, Mildred Howard, Edward Ruscha, Ed Kienholz, George Herms, Richard Shaw, Peter Shelton, Alan Rath, and Robert Therrien. Divided into three sections: 1900-1930, 1920-1950 and 1950- 2000, the exhibition traces the intriguing development of even so life in California over the last century. Information technology is a revisionist examination of the genre. According to the curators, what was once the well-nigh conservative course of artistic practice has been transformed into one of the more than radical forms of expression. Gimmicky nonetheless life is no longer "nonetheless" -- information technology has non only moved off the table, only off the wall and into three dimensions. The exhibition examines a groovy variety of styles and media, from Impressionist paintings of apples and oranges to witty ceramic sculpture, funky assemblage art, and electronic media.
Sometime California is a 2000 exhibition at the California Art Club Gallery featuring original paintings and sculptures inspired past the romance and hardships that built a land named afterward the 16th century Castilian fable describing the treasure island, "California." The exhibition features prominent genre and figure artists of the California Art Social club: Kalan Brunink, William George, Dan Goozeé, Joseph Mendez, Joel Phillips, Vic Riesau, and early CAC artist, Theodore Lukits (1897-1992).
Besides see: Pacific Coast Painting: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington: 19th-21st Century
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