2008-2010 Resource Library articles and essays with the topic "California Artists: 19th-21st Century"

Resource Library 2008-2010 articles and essays with the topic "California Artists: 19th-21st Century"

(above: Frederick Ferdinand Schafer, Morning on Mirror Lake, Yosemite Valley, Unknown date, oil on canvas, 30 x 50 inches, Private collection, Portland, Oregon. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Introduction

This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "California Artists: 19th-21st Century." Clicking on titles takes readers directly to the articles and essays. The date at the end of each title is the date of publication in Resource Library.

Our articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:

Go to Clarence Hinkle: Modern Spirit and the Group of Eight, a 2012 exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum, features over one hundred paintings dating from the early 1900s through the 1950s, and includes many paintings that were in the original exhibitions of the Group of Eight, especially their 1927 show at the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art. (2012)

Go to Wayne Thiebaud: Homecoming (11/11/10), a Crocker Art Museum major retrospective, features approximately 50 paintings and drawings, spans the entirety of Thiebaud's career from the artist's early works to new paintings created in 2010. Wayne Thiebaud: Homecoming includes iconic edibles-work that linked high art with popular culture-alongside pieces that showcase Thiebaud's skill in rendering the human figure and the California landscape. Among the latter are river-delta views from the Sacramento area, cityscapes from San Francisco, and beach scenes from Southern California. The works attest to the artist's ability to sensuously manipulate pigment and capture clear light and vibrant color, demonstrating Thiebaud's technical virtuosity and tongue-in-cheek humor.

Go to James Hueter: A Retrospective (3/6/09), a Claremont Museum of Art retrospective, chronicling the work of James Hueter, one of the Southern California region's most dedicated artists and best-kept secrets. Hueter epitomizes a generation of artists who established their reputations in Claremont following World War II and contributed importantly to the creation of the art-rich environment we enjoy today. A 1948 graduate of Pomona College and 1951 recipient of a Masters Degree from the Claremont Graduate School, Hueter has enjoyed a career that spans 60 years and continues to be as productive as ever. James Hueter: A Retrospective surveys Hueter's art from his early realist and surrealist paintings, through a long period of investigating and refining hybrid forms of painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and architecture. The exhibition culminates with recent works that meld all of these disciplines, exploring multi-faceted realms of representation and illusion.

Go to A Chronology on the Life of William Wendt, essay by Janet Blake (11/28/08)

Go to William Wendt: Plein Air Painter of California; essay by Will South (11/28/08)

Go to In Nature's Temple: The Life and Art of William Wendt (11/28/08), a Laguna Art Museum full-scale retrospective on the art of William Wendt. In many ways, Wendt represented the essential nature of California Impressionism both stylistically and ideologically. No other California Impressionist so consistently essayed the sweeping, romantic grand landscape view as Wendt, and no other painter so strongly equated his work with the ideology of Nature as Creation, and Nature as a spiritual path. Dapper, distinguished, and much admired by his many followers, Wendt functioned as a very visible example of what an artist should aspire to, and his ongoing career summarized the idealism that was the foundation of California art in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Go to Carl Sammons: Early California Impressionist; essay by Douglas S. McElwain (8/8/08)

Go to Elaine Badgley Arnoux: Once Upon a Time (7/18/08), a Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz exhibit, featuring this critically acclaimed San Francisco artist and teacher whose works have been featured in exhibitions in the United States and Europe for more than six decades -- with more than 30 solo exhibitions since 1957 and known and respected as an artist-chronicler of San Francisco life and personalities.

Go to Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting; text by Jessica R. Weiss (3/29/08)

Go to Helen Inez Seibert; biography by Stuart Denenberg (3/28/08)

Go to Edward Hagedorn; biography by Stuart Denenberg (3/28/08)

Go to Timothy J. Clark: A Retrospective (1/16/08), a Pasadena Museum of California Art mid-career retrospective featuring artist Timothy J. Clark, who displays a unique style that combines California regionalism with a New York sensibility of Abstract Expressionism, merging two radically different American painting traditions. Renowned for his lush gardens and landscapes, sensitive portraits and evocative interior studies, Clark is perhaps best known in Orange County for his exquisite paintings of Sherman Gardens in Corona Del Mar and those of the Mission San Juan Capistrano, where he has been painting for over three decades. (right: Timothy J. Clark, Reunion, ©Timothy J. Clark)

Go to Who Was Sam Hyde Harris?; essay by Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick (1`/15/08)

Go to Edwin Deakin: California Painter of the Picturesque (1/9/08)

Go to Helen Inez Seibert; biography by Stuart Denenberg (3/28/08)

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