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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 California Impressionist artists depicted the California landscape from the south to the north—the foothills, mountains, seashores, and deserts of the interior and coastal regions. California Impressionism reached its peak of popularity in the years before the Great Depression . [ 1 ]
James Doolin (June 28, 1932 – July 22, 2002) was an American painter and muralist best known for his saturated natural and urban southern California landscapes. Los Angeles artist and writer Doug Harvey notes that his paintings allow us "to see the places we overlook every day and to recognize that, in spite of its ominous industrial overtones, the city is shot through with a luminous ...
In 1842, he became interested in California and agreed to travel there for Virmond. [1] Vischer is best known for his pencil sketches of California landscapes throughout the 1860s and 1870s. He sketched a wide variety of scenes and objects, but most commonly the California missions, trees, mountains, and rural scenes
After their marriage in 1894, the Mathews’ embarked on a European grand tour in the summer 1898, with Lucia’s friend, Louise Schwamm. The trip began in London, where “Lucia [started] a travel diary and sketchbook [recording] her [honest] impressions and observations of the city’s art and architecture” and galleries (Jones, 166).
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California Tonalism was art movement that existed in California from circa 1890 to 1920. Tonalist are usually intimate works, painted with a limited palette. Tonalist paintings are softly expressive, suggestive rather than detailed, often depicting the landscape at twilight or evening, when there is an absence of contrast.