California Art History

California Art History

with an emphasis on representational art

Introduction

This section of Topics in American Art is devoted to California Art History, one of our most developed topics.

Articles and essays specific to this topic, published in our Resource Library, are listed below. Following these links is a listing of museums in California which have provided materials for this or any other topic. Links to online resources outside our website are listed after museums. Following these resources is information about offline resources.

We recommend that researchers always search within our website for additional material. Please see our page How to research topics not listed for more information.

(above: Jean Mannheim (1861-1945), A Lonely Tea Party, c.1916, oil on canvasboard, Collection of Stephen P. Diamond, M.D. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons**)

Please:

click here to view 97 texts contained in Resource Library by esteemed authors listed by author name

click here to view 107 articles without named authors contained in Resource Library

click here for 124 other online resources as of April, 2024

click here for a list of museums and other non-profit sources of Resource Library articles and essays

click here for online videos and audio files

click here for a list of books in print

click here for a list of paper-printed articles

click here for Videos in DVD or VHS format

Also see TFAO's topics: California Artists: 19th-21st Century, California Impressionism and California Regionalism and California School of Painters

(above: Granville Richard Seymor Redmond, A Field of California Poppies, 1911, oil on canvas, 26 x 36 inches, Private Collection, Northern California (by family descent to present owner), Bonhams. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

(above: Thomas Hill, Great Canyon of the Sierra, Yosemite, 1872. Crocker Art Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

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TFAO's Distinguished Artists catalogue provides online access to biographical information for artists associated with California. Also, Search Resource Library for online articles and essays concerning both individual artists associated with this state's history and the history of art centers and museums in California.

Links to sources of information outside of our web site are provided only as referrals for your further consideration. Please use due diligence in judging the quality of information contained in these and all other web sites. Information from linked sources may be inaccurate or out of date. TFAO neither recommends or endorses these referenced organizations. Although TFAO includes links to other web sites, it takes no responsibility for the content or information contained on those other sites, nor exerts any editorial or other control over them. For more information on evaluating web pages see TFAO's General Resources section in Online Resources for Collectors and Students of Art History.

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