Regionalism: The California View
by Susan M. Anderson
Editor's note
Above is an essay by Susan M. Anderson from the 1988 (out-of-print) catalogue titled Regionalism: The California View, Watercolors, 1923-1945, published by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Essay reprinted with permission of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Read more about the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in Resource Library Magazine.
Also see California Regionalism and California School of Painters and Scene Painting and Regionalism.
For further biographical information on selected artists cited above please see America's Distinguished Artists, a national registry of historic artists.
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Following are examples of artworks created by artists referenced in the above article. Artworks and/or photographs shown may not be specific to this article and are likely not cited in it. All images were obtained via Wikimedia Commons, which believes the images to be freely available for presentation here. Another source readers may find helpful is Google Images.
(above: Dong Kingman, Coastline, California, between 1935 and 1941, 15.7 x 22 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: Millard Owen Sheets (1907-1989), San Dimas Train Station, 1933, Watercolor on paper, 15" x 22." The Hilbert Collection)
(above: Fletcher Martin, Mural study for Mine Rescue, 1939), Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. Created under the Treasury Section of Fine Arts for the Kellogg, Idaho Post Office. Transferred from the General Services Administration to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1974. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: George Samerjan, Lettuce Workers, Calexico, CA Post Office, 1942, tempera. Treasury Department Section of Painting and Sculpture)
(above: Milford Zornes, Old Barn in Nipomo, California, 1936, 16.1 x 22.7 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: Paul Sample, Life-line of freedom -- The Merchant Marine, between 1941 and 1945, National Archives at College Park. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
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