2007 Resource Library articles and essays with the topic "California Artists: 19th-21st Century"

Resource Library 2007 articles and essays with the topic "California Artists: 19th-21st Century"

(above: Frank Schoonover, Hopalong Takes Command, 1905, oil on canvas, 30 x 20 inches, Delaware Art Museum, 1942: bequeathed to Delaware Art Museum by Joseph Bancroft. 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 Benjamin Chambers Brown (10/29/07), a Pasadena Museum of California Art exhibition, features a selection of vibrant Impressionist paintings by Benjamin Chambers Brown (1865-1942), a plein air painter who was one of the first artists to settle and paint in Pasadena.

Go Millard Sheets: The Scripps Years, 1932-1955 (9/28/07), a Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College exhibition, on view from September 1 to October 14 2007, features paintings and works on paper by artist Millard Sheets (1907-1989), who in the 1930s emerged as a leader of the "California Style" of watercolor painting and in the next two decades expanded his artistic processes to oil, acrylic and mosaic design.

Go Town and Country: Jessica Dunne and Louis LaBrie; essay by Meredith Tromble (8/22/07)

Go Belle Baranceanu: The Artist at Work (6/20/07), a San Diego Historical Society Museum exhibit of the works of Belle Baranceanu.

Go Passionate Visions: Paintings by Botke, DeRome, Rider & Wendt (5/22/07), an Irvine Museum show which features four artists with differing yet equally passionate artistic points of view. Jessie Arms Botke (1883-1971) is nationally known as one of the important American Art Deco painters. Her elegant and brightly colored paintings of exotic birds and plants stand out for their sheer power to dazzle the eyes of the viewer. Albert Thomas DeRome (1885-1959) became known for beautifully composed and intimate views of the California coastline. De Rome's favorite subjects were Point Lobos, the sand dunes in Carmel, rural Monterey County and the California Missions. Arthur Grover Rider (1886-1975) was among the best colorists in America. His paintings are known for their intense, brilliant light. William Wendt (1865-1946) painted exactly what he saw in nature with warm colors and outstanding effects of light and shadow. The tranquility, strength and sense of well being of his work appealed to a wide audience.

Go Town and Country: Jessica Dunne and Louis LaBrie (4/11/07), a Hearst Art Gallery at Saint Mary's College exhibit, which pairs two of the most intriguing, unusual and gifted contemporary California landscape painters. Dunne's dramatic, expansive and atmospheric urbanscapes are presented alongside LaBrie's meticulously painted, often tiny and jewel-like vistas in one of the most visually beguiling summer landscape exhibitions ever presented by the Saint Mary's College art museum. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

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