California Impressionism
- ISBN-10
- 0789201763
- ISBN-13
- 9780789201768
- Category
- Art / History / General
- Pages
- 284
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Abbeville Press Publishers
- Authors
- William H. Gerdts, Will South
Description
In recent years, the richly colored, exuberantly painted canvases by artists such as Franz Bischoff, Alson Clark, Joseph Raphael, Guy Rose, and William Wendt have attracted an expanding circle of admirers all across the country. In addition to the work of these established West Coast masters, many less-known California Impressionists are presented here, including John Frost, Evelyn McCormick, Bruce Nelson, and others whose work has not yet been widely discovered.
In his far-ranging introductory essay, Dr. Gerdts explores the context of California Impressionism, surveying the movement's sources abroad, the most influential exhibitions in America, and the critical responses to the art and the artists. He introduces the work of an almost entirely forgotten foursome—Helena Dunlap, Detlef Sammann, Ernest Browning Smith, and Jack Gage Stark—who were the first local painters to be identified as Impressionists in Los Angeles and who contributed to an important but long-overlooked moment in the city's cultural history.
Will South supplies an enlightening chronological narrative of the California Impressionists, starting with their often-ignored roots in the Hudson River school and other American realist art. Tracing the trajectory of their work from the innovations of the late 1800s to the style's final days in the 1920s and '30s, he offers vital new information and insight about their training and careers, as well as their ideas about art, nature, and the Golden State. Dr. South also provides detailed artists' biographies and an extensive bibliography.
At a time when interest in all aspects of regional Impressionism continues to flourish, California Impressionism commands the greatest interest of all. This book will be an invaluable resource and source of pleasure for the innumerable collectors, scholars, and art lovers who find this work—with its wind-swept coasts, majestic mountains, and poppy-strewn fields—irresistibly appealing.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Breaking Frame: Technology and the Visual Arts in the Nineteenth Century
By Julie WoskTechnology and the Visual Arts in the Nineteenth Century
-
What Great Paintings Say: Masterpieces in Detail
By Rose-Marie Hagen, Rainer HagenWhat Great Paintings Say: Masterpieces in Detail
-
Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi
By Keith Christiansen, Judith Walker Mann, Orazio GentileschiCiampelli was, like Pomarancio and Giuseppe Valeriano, regularly employed by the Jesuits; see Hibbard in Wittkower and Jaffe 1972, 40-41. 6. Bellori (1672) 1976, 217. 7. See Urbino 1953, 35-36. in 1607 (cat. 77).
-
I Want to See This Annie Mattygraph: Cartoon History of the Coming of the Movies
By Stephen BottomorePer tale motivo , nel 1908 in America la Germantown sullo schermo , e mettendosi a cantare sul filo dell'accompagna- Citizens ' Association mise al bando questi copricapi da " vedova mento musicale . Un simile coinvolgimento era ...
-
Dada & Surrealism A&i
By Matthew GaleIn the 1940s the Mandragora group around Braulio Arenas and Enrique Gomez Correa emerged in Santiago de Chile , distinguishing Surrealism from the Stalinism of the poet Pablo Neruda . In Buenos Aires the flavour of the movement was ...
-
The Art of John Biggers: View from the Upper Room
By Alvia J. WardlawCatalog of a traveling exhibition first held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Apr. 2-Aug. 28, 1995.
-
The art of Betye and Alison Saar: secrets, dialogues, revelations : Wight art gallery, University of California Los Angeles, [January...
By Elizabeth ShepherdThe art of Betye and Alison Saar: secrets, dialogues, revelations : Wight art gallery, University of California Los Angeles, [January...
-
The Paintings of Karel Du Jardin, 1626-1678: Catalogue Raisonné
By Jennifer KilianAccording to A. Sutherland Harris , this painting bore an attribution to Jan Asselijn ' until it was recognised as a work of Du Jardin by Otto Naumann in 1984 ( privately ) . This was confirmed by R. Trnek and accepted by both A. C. ...
-
David Smith: Drawing + Sculpting : [exhibition], Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, April 16 - July 17, 2005
By David Smith, Steven A. Nash, Candida N. SmithDavid Smith: Drawing + Sculpting : [exhibition], Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, April 16 - July 17, 2005
-
Abstrakter Expressionismus (Abstract Expressionism, Dt.). Der Triumph Der Amerikanischen Malerei
By Irving SandlerAbstrakter Expressionismus (Abstract Expressionism, Dt.). Der Triumph Der Amerikanischen Malerei