California Landscape Painter in the Arts and Crafts Tradition
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Early California Painters of the Monterey Peninsula
- Apr thirteen, 2017 15:08
By Rob Pierce, Associate Managing director, William A. Karges Fine Art, Santa Monica
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the climactic landscape of the Monterey Peninsula has attracted artists from around the world, eager to endeavour their hand at capturing the spirit of the dramatic shoreline. Over the ensuing century, hundreds of artists produced thousands of works, each a unique interpretation of the region'southward natural beauty.
Afterwards the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the region was inundated with musicians, writers, painters and other artists who established an artist colony after the bay city was destroyed. The new residents were offered home lots – x dollars downward, footling or no interest, and whatever they could pay on a monthly basis. Among the visual artists to participate in the burgeoning arts customs were Armin Hansen, Mary DeNeale Morgan, Carl Oscar Borg, Roi Clarkson Colman, William Louis Otte, Rinaldo Cuneo, William Henry Price.
San Francisco native Armin Hansen is generally considered the most significant creative person to work in the Monterey Peninsula during the early-and mid-20th century.Stormy Sea(pictured beneath) depicts a ship struggling through stormy seas. This painting is an excellent example of Hansen's powerful oceanographic scenes, for which he is best known.
Carmel artist Mary DeNeale Morgan was born in San Francisco in 1868, where she became a favorite student of William Keith. Morgan attended summer classes in Carmel that were led by William Merritt Chase and later became the Director of the Carmel Schoolhouse of Art from 1917-1925. Every bit facile in watercolor, gouache and oil painting, Morgan'southward works often feature the windblown trees and rocky coastline of the Monterey Peninsula.
A native of Sweden, Carl Oscar Borg cut his teeth equally an amateur to the English language artist George Johansen. Working as a seaman, Borg jumped ship in San Francisco in 1901. Borg initially studied under Southern California luminary, William Wendt, and showing great hope, was before long sponsored by Phoebe Hearst to study in Paris and Rome. The creative person is remembered for his naturalistic paintings of Monterey and the American Southwest. Here, Borg presents his version of the iconic Monterey cypress tree, a popular field of study matter amongst the region's artists.
A gimmicky of Borg, Roi Clarkson Colman studied in Paris at the Academies Julian and Grand Chaumiere, before settling in Southern California around 1913. While maintaining a professorship at the Santa Ana Academy, Colman traveled up and downwardly the California coast, painting scenes of Laguna Beach, Carmel, and San Diego.
Although William Otte was a successful stockbroker in NYC, in his leisure he studied at the New York School of Art, Contained School of Art, and with Robert Henri. In 1913 he retired from the stock market and moved to California to devote his life to fine art. An Impressionist, he used pocket-sized, feathery brush strokes and a colorful palette to create paintings of the California mural, primarily of Santa Barbara and the Monterey Peninsula.
Rinaldo Cuneo studied at the Mark Hopkins Establish with Arthur Mathews before attending the Academie Colarossi in Paris from 1911-1913. Upon his return to California, Cuneo was involved in every major art exhibition in the San Francisco area from 1916-1939. Called "the Painter of San Francisco," at the inaugural exhibition of the San Francisco Museum of Fine art in 1935, Cuneo had the most paintings displayed by any early California creative person. In that aforementioned exhibition, his painting, "California Hills" won the Museum's Purchase Prize laurels. A pure impressionist early on in his career, Cuneo'due south mode constantly evolved throughout his life as he was ever seeking out and assimilating the various innovations of representation.
Franz Bischoff was born in Austria, where he studied at a crafts school, specializing in painting and porcelain. Emigrating to the United States in 1885, Bischoff worked in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan, ultimately setting upward Bischoff Schools of Ceramic Art in New York and Dearborn, Michigan. Arriving in Pasadena in 1908, Bischoff established a home and studio along the Arroyo. One time in California, Bischoff turned his attentions to mural painting. His best known subjects are of the Arroyo near his habitation, still lifes, the Sierras, and the Monterey Peninsula.
Born in Pittsburgh, PA on Feb. 14, 1863, William Henry Cost had a few fine art lessons from Emil Forester while working for Anaconda Copper Visitor in Butte, MT. He had visited Laguna Beach, CA in 1910 and, afterward retiring from the business globe in 1920, settled in that location and devoted the rest of his life to art. He studied briefly with Edgar Payne but was primarily a cocky-taught painter of landscapes and marines.
The artistic community in the Monterey-Carmel area remains vibrant, agile, and progressive today, while simultaneously paying homage to the expanse's rich cultural history. Contemporary plein-air painters such as award-winning artist Dennis Doheny continue to be inspired by the scenic beauty of the region. His recent compositions include works that capture the grandeur of the Point Lobos State Reserve, and the quiet beauty of the Carmel Monastery at Dawn.
Another creative person who has been inspired by early on California Impressionism is Pebble Beach artist Brian Blood. He is a well-known local plein-air painter whose works bear witness a fascination with the irresolute light effects explored by artists of the Monterey Peninsula area for well over a century.
Contemporary Carmel creative person Joaquin Turner too embraces the artistic history of the Monterey Peninsula. His remarkable landscapes are influenced by belatedly 19th/early 20th century Northern California painters, including tonalists Charles Rollo Peters, Gottardo Piazzoni, and Percy Gray.
For over one hundred years, paintings of the Monterey Peninsula's rocky shoreline, ambling cypress, and tumultuous seas take captured the hearts and minds of connoisseurs the world over. From Hansen to Doheny, Grey to Turner, Yuan to Blood and beyond, the region continues to inspire. Of course, as with those of the early 20th century, the painters of today will eventually pass the torch to a new generation of artists, thus cementing their ain legacies in the annals of art history. Until then, we look to these modern twenty-four hours visionaries to interpret nature'due south hidden truths, to reveal through their art the existent essence of the country and sea, and carry on the rich traditions started and so long agone.
For boosted information about available paintings, delight contact Whitney Ganz, Managing director, William A. Karges Fine Art, Santa Monica, at wganz@kargesfineart.com.
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