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Paintings by Selden Connor Gile, 1877-1947
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 72

Paintings by Selden Connor Gile, 1877-1947

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1982-12
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Society of Six
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Society of Six

  • Categories: Art

Six plein-air painters in Oakland, California, joined together in 1917 to form an association that lasted nearly fifteen years. The Society of Six—Selden Connor Gile, Maurice Logan, William H. Clapp, August F. Gay, Bernard von Eichman, and Louis Siegriest—created a color-centered modernist idiom that shocked establishment tastes but remains the most advanced painting of its era in Northern California. Nancy Boas's well-informed and sumptuously illustrated chronicle recognizes the importance of these six painters in the history of American Post-Impressionism. The Six found themselves in the position of an avant garde not because they set out to reject conventionality, but because they asp...

The Modern West
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

The Modern West

  • Categories: Art

A fascinating and novel exploration of the transformative role played by the American West in the development of modernism in the United States Drawing extensively from various disciplines including ethnology, geography, geology, and environmental studies, this groundbreaking book addresses shifting concepts of time, history, and landscape in relation to the work of pioneering American artists during the first half of the 20th century. Paintings, watercolors, and photographs by renowned artists such as Frederic Remington, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ansel Adams, Thomas Hart Benton, Dorothea Lange, and Jackson Pollock are considered alongside American Indian ledger drawings, tempuras, and Dineh sandpai...

Facing Eden
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Facing Eden

  • Categories: Art

The San Francisco Bay Area boasts one of the richest and most continuous traditions of landscape art in the entire country. Looking back over the past one hundred years, the contributors to this in-depth survey consider the diverse range of artists who have been influenced by the region's compelling union of water and land, peaks and valleys, and fog and sunlight. Paintings, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, landscape architecture, earthworks, conceptual art, and designs in city planning and architecture are all represented. The diversity reflects not just the glories of nature but also an exploration of what constitutes "landscape" in its broadest, most complete sense. Among the more th...

Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 422

Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980

  • Categories: Art

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Drawing from Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Drawing from Life

There are a few among us who not merely keep a journal, but who with drawings, watercolours, charts, collages, portraits & in a host of other ways, make their journal a work of art. Jennifer New explores the private worlds of these journal keepers.

The Not-So-Still Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

The Not-So-Still Life

  • Categories: Art

"Presenting, interpreting, and celebrating the world-renowned and the lesser-known California artists who have uniquely defined and redefined the still life, this volume offers an exploration of the sensual pleasures, the aesthetic challenges, and the intellectual and perceptual associations of a century of art through the prism of a single genre."--BOOK JACKET.

A Feast for the Eyes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 42

A Feast for the Eyes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1983
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 554

The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists

  • Categories: Art

With the advent of abstract expressionism in the 1940s, America became the white hot center of the artistic universe. Now, in The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists, the first such volume to appear in three decades, Ann Lee Morgan offers an informative, insightful, and long overdue resource on our nation's artistic heritage. Featuring 945 alphabetically arranged entries, here is an indispensable biographical and critical guide to American art from colonial times to contemporary postmodernism. Readers will find a wealth of factual detail and insightful analysis of the leading American painters, ranging from John Singleton Copley, Thomas Cole, and Mary Cassatt to such modern masters...

The Art of California
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

The Art of California

  • Categories: Art

19th and 20th century American art in the Oakland Museum. Includes articles about the artworks and the artists represented.