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American Scene Painting - California 1930s & 1940s - 0961052031
Out of the Nation s worst economic downturn, the Great Depression came a new American resolve and a reversal of foreign influence. One aspect of this trend was uniquely American artistic output. The commonplace activities and environments of Americans at work and at play became the inspiration for and the subject matter of artwork produced across the nation. The movement was referred to as American Scene or Regionalism, and took the form of murals, oil paintings and watercolors....
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Arthur Dominique Rozaire: Poet with a Brush - 0966669207
Arthur Rozaire was born in 1879. He and his wife Margaret came to California in 1917 when his then family of five children. An accomplished member of the Canadian art community, Rozaire was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy, Arthur Rozaire was welcomed to the California art community with open arms. Celebrated in articles and exhibitions, Rozaire's future was a bright one in California. In 1922, at forty-three years of age, he contracted pneumonia and died. The great loss to the art world...
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Artists in California 1786 - 1940 by Edan Milton Hughes - 1884038085
Artists in California, 1786-1940, researched and written by Edan Milton Hughes, is now in its third and final edition. Updated, enhanced, and more comprehensive than ever before, the two-volume, 1250 page hardbound set includes detailed biographies of nearly 20,000 early California artists, many of which are represented no where else. Listings in Hughes Artists in California typically include a succinct, well-written overview of the major events in the artists life. Listings al...
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Art / Women / California 1950 - 2000 - 0520230663
Art/Women/California 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersections is an unprecedented examination of the impact that specific women artists, working in California in the second half of the twentieth century, have had on broadening the definition of art. Twenty preeminent scholars from diverse cultural backgrounds investigate how the vast sociopolitical changes of the post-World War II era affected these women and how the ensuing events influenced the art that they produced. This book outline...
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California Cityscapes - 0876636148
California Cityscapes is the catalog for an exhibition organized by the San Diego Art Museum in 1991. It explored the urban landscape through contemporary California artists. Exhibitors included in the catalog are Carl Aldana, Peter Alexander, Theophilus Brown, James Christensen, Larry Cohen, James Doolin, Judy Fiskin, F. Scott Hess, Anthony Holdsworth, Stephen Hopkins, Tom Jenkins, Edward Jones, John Kilduff, Victor Landweber, Jan Lassetter, Leslie Lerner, William Mosley, Douglas Muir...
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California Orange Box & Fruit Box Labels - SET1317
This two book set includes California Orange Box Labels: An Illustrated History and Fruit Box Labels: An Illustrated Price Guide to Citrus Labels both by Gordon T. McClelland and Jay T. Last. California Orange Box LabelsThe definitive history of the production and use of California orange crate labels. Lavishly illustrated with 400 color illustrations, this book also gives information about the artists that designed the labels, a chapter on the lithographic printing proce...
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deLee Art: The Pictorial Story of a California Artist - 0965542203
deLee Art: The Pictorial Story of A California Artist and Her Company 1937 - 1958 contains an excellent biography of its creator, artist Jimmie Lee Adair Kohl, and an informative history of her company and its processes. The bulk of this book, though, is dedicated, as it should be, to the highly collectible ceramics that deLee Art produced in its 22 years. Each item is color photographed, sometimes with multiple views, and described. Estimated values are also provided. Perhaps 500 ite...
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Emil Kosa Jr. by Gordon McClelland - 0914589067
Emil Kosa Jr. was born in Paris, received an art education in Prague, Paris and Los Angeles and resided in Southern California throughout his career. In the 1930s he became nationally recognized as a leading figure in the development of the California Style of watercolor painting. During the 1940s he established a regional reputation for producing California plein air paintings, done with oils on canvas. Through the 1950s and into the early 1960s he was Southern California's premier portrait ...
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Fired by Ideals: Arequipa Pottery & the Arts & Crafts Movement - 0764913999
The 1906 earthquake in San Francisco triggered not only a devastating three-day fire, but also a tuberculosis epidemic, a result of the ash- and dust-filled air. Working women were disproportionately afflicted with the disease. Fortunately, many of them regained their health, and cultivated new artistic skills, at a unique treatment center across the Golden Gate. The Arequipa Sanatorium, located in rural Marin County, was founded in 1911 by Dr. Philip King Brown. Influenced by the philosophy ...
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George Post by Gordon McClelland - 0914589083
George Post has long been recognized as one of California s premier watercolor artists. His life and work are documented in this illustrated biography, tracing his progress from the late 1920s to the 1980s. Insights pertaining to his unique style of watercolor painting are included, as well as discussions of the events that helped shape his career and a chronological list of his exhibition records and travels. Post began his art career in San Francisco in the 1930s. Within ten years he was a...
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Milford Zornes: An American Artist - PUB133
This book and the traveling art exhibition it documents, focuses on the career of American artist Milford Zornes and provides select examples of the watercolor paintings he has produced. At this time (2008) he is 99 years old. Milford first received acclaim as an artist in the 1930s as a key member of the California Group that pioneered the California Style of watercolor painting. This art movement was part of the larger American Scene and Regionalist art movements which were defined by a co...
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Phil Dike by Janice Lavoos & Gordon McClelland - 0914589032
Phil Dike's perception of his environments, his dramatic sense of pictorial design, and his love of life, color, and atmosphere have led to the body of masterfully conceived and executed paintings discussed and illustrated in "Phil Dike". = = He has drawn on his life experiences for his work, starting with his student days in California, New York and Europe and his travels to the southwest deserts and mining camps. He has produced a vibrant portrayal of the life and the scenery along the Cali...
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Plein Air Painters of California, The Southland - 0961052007
Long overdue, this is the first comprehensive book on the lives and works of turn-of-the-century California painters. It focuses on the plein air, or outdoor, painters working in Southern California from the 1890s through the 1930s. While their styles reflect a range from Decorative and Romantic Realist to Post-Impressionist, most prevalent is an Impressionistic bias. Their work, popular in its day, was essentially buried by the heterogeneous avalanche of modern art produced since Worl...
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Point of View: The Paintings of Robert Frame - 0966669231
In the late 1940s, a group of painters emerged who altered the course of modern art. Some were Abstract Expressionists; others, like Robert Frame, painted in a representational style that use color, simplified forms, and spatial qualities to evoke a new imagery. Optimism and honesty are inherent in Frame's paintings. He has the uncanny ability of capturing not only the beauty of a still life or landscape but also the magic created by the harmony of light, color, and subject matter. Robert Fr...
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Sam Hyde Harris 1889-1977 A Retrospective - 0764325914
Sam Hyde Harris 1889-1977 A Retrospective is subtitled A Pictorial Biography of His Life and Work. The collection contained in this volume attempts to portray the man and his life as well as his art. Essays by Californian historian Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick and peer artist Gary Lang stand out. His widow, Marion Dodge Harris, contributes a short biography. Even Harris 19 own words a presented in four different written works. Of particular interest is the transcript of Travel Posters...
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Surf Skate and Rock Art of Jim Phillips - 0764319272
Thousands of artistic graphic illustrations, from motorcycles to health food and including rock posters, surf, and skateboard art, jump off these pages. Bold and dynamic "bad boy" and "hippie" themes in bright and startling colors command your attention with incredible detail. Jim Phillips delights in original imagery to convey his unique reflections of the popular world. Since 1962, he has published award-winning graphic designs for cartoons, skateboards, T-shirts, stickers, rock posters, an...
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The Art & Life of Conrad Buff - 0966669215
Painter, lithographer, illustrator, muralist. Born in Speicher, Switzerland on January 15, 1886. Buff was trained as a lace designer at the School of Arts and Crafts in St. Gallen, Switzerland and at age 18 studied briefly in Munich. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1905 and, since he spoke no English, moved to Wisconsin where there was a large Swiss population. There he worked as a sheepherder before moving to Los Angeles in 1906. While supporting himself as a house painter, he regularly made sk...
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The Art & Life of Conrad Buff - 0966669223
Painter, lithographer, illustrator, muralist. Born in Speicher, Switzerland on January 15, 1886. Buff was trained as a lace designer at the School of Arts and Crafts in St. Gallen, Switzerland and at age 18 studied briefly in Munich. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1905 and, since he spoke no English, moved to Wisconsin where there was a large Swiss population. There he worked as a sheepherder before moving to Los Angeles in 1906. While supporting himself as a house painter, he regularly made sk...
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