Painting California
Title | Painting California PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Stern |
Publisher | Rizzoli Publications |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2017-10-03 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0847860590 |
Luminous, gorgeously realized landscape paintings made en plein air by members of the California Art Club over the past 100 years. This volume showcases 200 works by California Art Club artists who have focused on the evocative seascapes, charming seaside towns, and beach communities from San Diego to San Francisco, demonstrating a breathtaking range of natural settings suffused with atmosphere, drama, and light. Since the dawn of the twentieth century, California has been home to artists from all over America and Europe who aspired to depict the state’s compelling natural landscapes on canvas. In 1909, these artists founded the California Art Club, which stands today as one of the most esteemed painting societies in the United States. This volume, which follows Skira Rizzoli’s luminous California Light: A Century of Landscapes, presents more of the club’s distinctive and lush plein air painting, an impressionistic style in which painters work outdoors in order to capture the ephemeral moment when the natural lighting of a landscape elevates an already beautiful scene into something sublime. As observed by W.H. Auden, “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” We as a species are drawn to the sea—artists perhaps even more so than others, as beautifully evidenced in this book.
California Scene Paintings
Title | California Scene Paintings PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon T. McClelland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2012-12-01 |
Genre | California in art |
ISBN | 9781616581084 |
American Scene Painting
Title | American Scene Painting PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Lilly Westphal |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Paintings of California
Title | Paintings of California PDF eBook |
Author | Arnold Skolnick |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520211841 |
A collection of paintings by various artists that were inspired by the landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes of California.
Masters of Light
Title | Masters of Light PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Stern |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Plein Air Painters of California, the North
Title | Plein Air Painters of California, the North PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Lilly Westphal |
Publisher | Westphal Publishing |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Plein Air Painters of California, the Southland
Title | Plein Air Painters of California, the Southland PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Lilly Westphal |
Publisher | Westphal Publishing |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |