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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.
Art historian Will South compares Hassam to that of California Impressionist Guy Rose (1867–1925), finding that aside from their personality differences, they took similar career trajectories and even painted the same subjects in New York and California. Nevertheless, the wider art world has mostly ignored California Impressionists and other ...
The term was attributed to Los Angeles art critic Arthur Millier, [1] [2] [3] and it referred to watercolors, oil paintings and mosaics of landscapes and scenes of everyday life, [3] [4] such as mountain and coastal scenery, pastoral agricultural valleys, and dynamic cities and highways.
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.
Impressionism in America further lost its cutting-edge status in 1913 when a historic exhibition of modern art took place at the 69th Regiment Armory building in New York City. The “ Armory Show ”, as it came to be called, heralded a new painting style regarded as more in touch with the increasingly fast-paced and chaotic world, especially ...
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.
Christian von Schneidau (1893–1976) was a well known California portrait painter who was recognized for his paintings of Hollywood stars and the Los Angeles elite. During the Roaring Twenties he painted Mary Pickford and other figures from the film industry as well as a number of outdoor figures done in the classic American Impressionist manner.
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.