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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 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.
Mary Agnes plein-air painting at Carmel, Carmel Beach, California, circa 1920s. "The two Yerkes oils in particular, [Crocker Art Museum], are wonderful examples of California Impressionism, and by a woman, which makes them even more rare." [11] – Scott A. Shields, Ph.D., Associate Director / Chief Curator, Crocker Art Museum.
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.
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.
California lawmakers have bucked one of the nation's most powerful federal courts by enacting a new state law designed to reunite a Jewish family with an exquisite Impressionist painting that was ...
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.