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The first Laguna Beach art gallery opened in 1918 to much excitement. In 1932, the artists of the community held a makeshift festival in hope of courting tourists visiting Los Angeles for the Summer Olympics, an early formation of the Festival of Arts. The festival was shaped into much of what it is today by construction worker and artist Roy ...
To commemorate the establishment of the Laguna Beach Art Association in 1918, LAM celebrated their centennial in 2018 with a year-long slew of birthday events as well as an exclusive documentary film, “Laguna Art Museum at 100" by Dale Schierholt, specially screened on April 19, and an exhibition on the museum's founders, on view from June 24 ...
Robert William Wood (March 4, 1889 – March 14, 1979) was an American landscape painter. [1] He was born in England, emigrated to the United States and rose to prominence in the 1950s with the sales of millions of his color reproductions. [2]
Cuprien became an integral member of the artist community in Laguna Beach where he helped establish the Laguna Beach Art Association and its art gallery. His home was a gathering place for fellow artists, and served as a site for exhibitions and Cuprien's piano recitals. Cuprien became known as the "Dean of Laguna artists." [5] [6]
In addition, Hills urged her friend, the respected artist and critic Jennie V. Cannon, to create at her summer home in Carmel-by-the-Sea a similar organization and art gallery, which was eventually founded in 1927 as the Carmel Art Association and adopted verbatim the Laguna Beach preamble: “To advance the knowledge of and interest in art; to ...
Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, California, organized a major retrospective on the work of Roger Kuntz, which ran from March 8 to May 24, 2009. The exhibition, titled "The Shadow Between Representation and Abstraction," was the first major showing of the artist's work since his death.
Fred Grayson Sayre (1879 - December 31, 1938) was an American engraver, illustrator, and painter. ... Laguna Beach, California: Redfern Gallery.
In March 1938, Espoy's California wildflower landscapes and marine art were exhibited at the Frances Webb Gallery in Los Angeles. His style was influenced by the Barbizon school of painters. [ 3 ] In October 1938, he exhibited twelve oil paintings of landscapes and marine art, including California in Bloom and Poetic Monterey, at the Los ...