California Impressionism And Its Artists

Harvey L. Jones Gallery - east wall - fourth view

 

 

California Paintings, 1910 - 1940 from the Mills College Art Museum, a 2000 exhibit at the Laband Art Gallery, which casts light on a period that saw the simultaneous flowering of art in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. It was in the years around the 1915 Panama-Pacific Expositions in San Francisco and San Diego that California artists developed a style of landscape painting that fused an academic "naturalist" philosophy with the techniques of Impressionism, and that eventually led to other modes of artistic expression and experimentation. At the same time public interest in the visual arts was stimulated and a number of public and private arts institutions were established in the new urban centers up and down the coast.

 

 

Images within this article:

Anne Bremer (1868-1923), Carmel, c. 1920, oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches, Gift of Albert M.Bender, 1925.14

William Wendt (1865-1946), Wandering Shadows, 1925, oil on canvas, 25 1/8 x 30 inches, Gift of Mills College Club of Southern California, 1925.53, Conservation treatment sponsored by DeRus Fine Arts, Belllflower, CA

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