California Impressionism And Its Artists

Harvey L. Jones Gallery - east wall - eighth view

 

 

In and Out of California: Travels of American Impressionists, a 2003 exhibit at the Laguna Art Museum. Artists in California during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century suffered from a two-pronged disadvantage: either they were glorified, occasionally unjustly, by Western critics, or summarily dismissed by the Eastern art establishment in an equally unwarranted fashion. An underlying, if not explicitly articulated position has been that Western painting -- and not just Impressionism -- was merely a footnote to American art history. The exhibit presents the work of Maurice Braun, Alson Clark, Colin Campbell Cooper, E. Charlton Fortune, William Ritschel, and many others, as a part of the locus of American painting and as a thread in the greater fabric and appeal of Impressionism.

 

 

Images within this article:

 

 

Maurice Braun, Southern California Hills, 1914, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 inches, Collection of John and Patricia Dilks

 

 

Alson Clark, La Jolla Cove, 1922, oil on canvas, 26 x 32 inches, Private collection

 

 

 

Gardner Symons, Winter Brilliance, c. 1925, oil on canvasboard, 20 x 25 inches, Collection of Jacqueline and Arthur Burdorf

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