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He also published his monumental reference work "Artists in California, 1786-1940" in 1986 with biographies of over 20,000 California artists, [2] and this work along with Hughes' collection and dealership helped bring California art to the notice of the art world. The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento took an interest, and helped organize and ...
Grace Nicholson (December 31, 1877 – August 31, 1948) was an American art collector and art dealer, specializing in Native American and Chinese handicrafts. The space she originally designed for her shop is now home to the USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California.
Some were members of early survey expeditions of the West, such as Thomas Ayres and Albert Bierstadt. Their eyes, via their art, were the eyes through which the Easterners saw and imagined California and 'The West,' from the renowned early California artists Thomas Hill, William Keith, and Thomas Moran to the populist John Englehart.
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Artists who were born in, have lived in, have worked in or been involved with California. Also, art movements based in California. Also, art movements based in California. The category also includes artisans from California (see Category:Artisans ).
William A. Karges Fine Art specializes most notably in California Impressionism and California Plein-Air Painting. [5] Considered to be a regional variation on American Impressionism, the terms describe the large movement of 20th century artists who worked out of doors (en plein air), directly from nature in California, United States.
Louis Stern (born January 7, 1945) is a veteran Los Angeles art dealer and President of Louis Stern Fine Arts in West Hollywood, California. Stern deals in the secondary market for Impressionist and Modern works. His gallery’s program specializes primarily in west coast hard-edge geometric abstraction. [1]
Rice is included in the book Artists in California 1786-1940 (1986) by Edan Milton Hughes. [5] His daughter, Roberta Rice Treseder, published a book in 2009, William S. Rice: California Block Prints which is a biography and includes images of his printmaking as well as woodblock printing methods and materials. [8]