California Impressionism And Its Artists

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Romance of the Bells: The California Missions in Art, a 2004 travelling exhibition organized by The Irvine Museum. When people think of California, the visual image that often comes up is that of a gentle land, with rolling hills of oak trees and wildflowers, dotted with buildings of weathered adobe walls and red-tiled roofs. These and other idyllic images of old California are rooted in the romantic period of California's past that is associated with the missions. Twenty-one California missions and a number of branch missions (asistencias) were founded between 1769 and 1823, yet that brief period of barely 54 years had a lasting effect on the artistic and social fabric of our Golden State.

 

 

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Sydney Laurence (1865-1940), The Evening Star, Mission Capistrano, Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches. Private Collection, Courtesy of The Irvine Museum

 

 

 

Julie DeForest Morrow (1882-1978), In the Mission Garden, Capistrano, Oil on canvas, 26 x 30 inches. Courtesy of The Irvine Museum

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