Resource Library 2005 articles and essays with the topic "California Artists: 19th-21st Century"
(above: William Keith, Hetch Hetchy Side Canyon, c. 1908, oil on canvas, 22 x 27.9 inches, De Young Museum. 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 Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective (12/8/05),
a Corcoran Gallery of Art fullscale survey of the work
of the San Francisco-based artist. Organized by Janet Bishop, curator of
painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA),
the exhibition features more than 90 works -- paintings, watercolors and
drawings that trace his career from his early photo-based pieces of the
1960s to his most recent works. Since his work emerged in the context of
New or Photorealism in the late 1960s, Bechtle's family genre scenes, streetscapes
and images of cars have become icons of middle-class American culture.
Go Robert W. Jensen (10/25/05), an exhibition of 90 works by Robert W. Jensen on exhibit within
the galleries of Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton, California.
While acrylic on canvas paintings dominate, Jensen, who enjoys working in
many media, includes a number of drawings, watercolors, and original graphics,
i.e. serigraphs, etchings, engravings and giclées, as well as some
other experimental digital processes. The exhibition is actually two separate
themed exhibits. The two themes are Jensen's interpretations of sports,
titled Have You Come to Play? and his reminiscences of world travel,
Collected Memories.
Go Wayne Thiebaud: Works on Paper 1960 2000 (5/2/05), a South Dakota Art Museum presentation
of the work of American figurative painter and internationally known Californian
artist Wayne Thiebaud, bringing together 40 of the artist's collection of
work. Each decade, as well as a variety of subject matter, is represented
in this extraordinary exhibition. Often associated with the so-called Pop
Art movement of the 1960s, Wayne Thiebaud is perhaps best know for his wry
yet carefully studied still lifes of commonplace objects, such as cakes,
slices of pies, sandwiches, clothing and household goods. In addition to
the popular and recognizable images of food and other consumer goods, Thiebaud's
works cover a variety of themes ranging from the human figure to landscape
and city views. His daringly geometric depictions of San Francisco, with
their plunging hills and burgeoning high-rises, are conveyed in what some
call Thiebaud's "California" style.
Go Water, Land and Sky: Rediscovering Albert Thomas DeRome (2/21/05), an Irvine Museum exhibit of
artworks of California-native Albert Thomas DeRome (1885-1959), born in
San Luis Obispo County. He studied at the Mark Hopkins School of Art and
tried his hand at political cartooning before deciding to become a landscape
painter. After a long recovery from a serious car accident in 1931, DeRome
shifted from watercolor to oil, and spent the rest of his life documenting
the mountains, rolling hills and valleys, waterways and especially, the
beautiful, changing coastline of northern California. He often painted with
fellow artists such as William Keith, Will Sparks, and Percy Gray.
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