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Mary Agnes Yerkes, California Impressionist painter, (1886–1989)."Plein-Air painting at Carmel’’, Carmel Beach, CA, circa 1920s. The terms California Impressionism and California Plein-Air Painting describe the large movement of 20th century artists who worked out of doors (en plein air), directly from nature in California, United States.
The works between 1904 and 1914 feature images from the San Francisco Bay Area, while the 1927-28 works feature images from Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Barbara. [1] Out of his approximately 4000 works, Hassam's focus on California is relatively small, with only 12 major California paintings completed between 1914 and 1919.
Arthur Hill Gilbert (June 10, 1893 – April 1970 [1]) was an American Impressionist painter, notable as one of the practitioners of the California-style.Today, he is remembered for his large, colorful canvases depicting meadows and groves of trees along the state's famed 17 Mile Drive.
The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate is a late period, coastal landscape painting by American Impressionist Childe Hassam.Completed in 1914 during one of his visits to California, the piece depicts the Golden Gate Strait, a narrow passage connecting the San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean, as seen near Sausalito.
John Edward Walker, he often signed work as J. Edward Walker (1880–1940) was a British-born, American painter and educator, known for his California Impressionist paintings. He was active in Northern California and Los Angeles between 1913 until 1936. [1] The subject of his work was often seascapes, floral still life paintings and landscapes. [2]
Wendt's first painting experience was reportedly as a staff painter for a commercial art shop where he was responsible for applying a single pigment to a painting in a production line of many artists. Working six days per week, he used his one-day off to go into the field, surrounded by nature and painting to satisfy his own creative talents.
Lucy Angeline Bacon (July 30, 1857 – October 17, 1932) was a Californian artist known for her California Impressionist oil paintings of florals, landscapes and still lifes. She studied in Paris under the Impressionist Camille Pissarro. She is the only known Californian artist to have studied under any of the great French Impressionists.
The family moved to Los Angeles, California when Alvarez was a youth. [2] Alvarez demonstrated artistic talent at a young age and 1915 enrolled in the Art Students League of Los Angeles, where she enjoyed immediate success. She painted a large mural for the Panama–California Exposition San Diego, for which she