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News & Events March, April, May 2009 March 14, 2009, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.. Field trip to the private collections of E. Gene Crain and the Fieldstone Corporation (Gail and Peter Ochs) in Newport Beach. Lunch at Canaletto. Limited to 50 members $65/person. Contact Walter Lachman for reservations. ANNOUNCEMENTS The Wildling Art Museum in Los Olivos will be moving in January 2009 to 2928 San Marcos Ave., one block from the center of Los Olivos. There it has a long-term lease for the entire ground floor plus 1000 square feet of the second. According to Executive Director, Penny Knowles, this will provide a larger exhibition space and room for an education center, a library, a gift shop, and administrative offices all in the same building. The Museum launched a $1 million �Stepping Up� campaign to pay for build-out and rent for the first five years, plus $300,000 of endowment for future capital needs. Ribbon cutting was held February 22 from 2-5 p.m. assisted by Doreen Farr, the Third District Supervisor and other local dignitaries. The opening included a festive block-party with neighboring businesses. The initial exhibition will feature California Impressionist paintings from 1900-1930 entitled �The Land of Sunshine: Paintings from The Irvine Museum Collection.� The website: www.wildlingmuseum.org contains further information. Edenhurst Gallery held the official opening of its new gallery, across El Paseo in Palm Desert from its former gallery, on Thursday February 5. The expanded space was hung with new paintings, including works by C. R. Peters, Henrietta Shore, Phil Dike, Charles Reiffel and Edgar Payne. After 4 p.m. Gary Fillmore was on hand to sign copies of his new publication All Aboard detailing the life and work of Western artist Marjorie Reed (1915-1997). The newly renovated galleries for American art at the Huntington Library will open May 2009. With both the Virginia Steele Scott Gallery and the Erburu Gallery, American art will have twice the exhibition space as before. Artworks won�t be separated by region; rather, items from California and the West will be intermixed in all rooms. The new galleries will also display not just the paintings for which the Huntington is known, but silver, glass and ceramics. The Erburu Gallery will devote one room to sculpture. The newly reconfigured galleries will also include a room for temporary exhibitions. (from the AAA publication) The California Art Club met at the Laguna Art Museum on the afternoon of February 1 to tour the retrospective exhibition of William Wendt�s work and to hear a lecture by Janet Blake, Curator of LAM�s collection. Wendt was a founding member of the California Art Club and served as its president from 1911 to 1919. The American Art Council of LACMA enjoyed a private curatorial walk-through of the Greene & Greene exhibition at LACMA on Saturday, January 10, 2009. Led by Anne Mallek, co-curator of the exhibition and Curator of the Gamble House, it followed a brunch of savory finger sandwiches, domestic and imported cheeses, and specialty petite desserts in the Rose Garden Tea Room. A number of paintings by California artists were among the 150 offered at a private estate sale at 21323 Pacific Coast Highway (the historic Spanish Revival �old court house� ) in Malibu on the weekend of January 9, 10, 11. Some artists were Geza Kende, Paul Clemens, and Birge Lovell Harrison. Also offered was a Gold Rush primitive of �Downeyville� by William B. Monmonier, dated 1853, and a 71 x 53 in. �View of the Grand Canyon� dated 1911, a Santa Fe Railway commission by Tom McGargee. The sale was run by Emile Jacobson of Handle With Care (personal estate sales). On Saturday, January 31, the Laguna Art Museum�s Historical Art Council made a one-day morning trip to Los Angeles to view the collection of California art put together by Herb and Earlene Seymour and to view a photography show at the nearby Getty museum. Patricia Trenton led a formal tour of the Seymour collection which includes works by Guy Rose, Edgar Payne, Joseph Kleitsch, William Wendt, and Joseph Raphael. At the Getty Center, a docent led the party through the exhibition Dialogue Among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California. But more art was to follow. Upon return to Orange County, tour members were taken to the home and collection of Robert and Nadine Hall in Emerald Bay where Janet Blake discussed the couple�s paintings by Franz Bischoff, George Brandriff, Alson Clark, and others. On Saturday, May 2, 2009, the Laguna Art Museum�s Historical Art Council plans a one-day trip to Palm Springs. There it will visit two private collections in the old Las Palmas neighborhood � the first belonging to Earl and Barbara Hoover and the second to Rick Silver and Robert Hayden. The Hoovers have long been associated with the Palm Springs Art Museum and their 1920s residence is charmingly hung with early Western American art and artifacts. The Silver/Hayden home has just recently completed construction and is enhanced with paintings and sculpture by Los Angeles artists active from the 1950s to the present. An al fresco lunch will be held on the grounds. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art was recently give several pieces of furniture (a chest, a table with a drawer, a candelabrum, two covered jars, and a pair of candlesticks) by Lucia and Arthur Mathews, a gift of a Pasadena patron. The gift was actually inspired by Nancy Daly�s gift of an Arthur Mathews painting to LACMA�s American Art Department. Selected pieces of furniture will go on view June 14 in the decorative arts galleries. Josh Hardy Galleries proudly announces the opening of its second gallery � at 3350 Sacramento Street in Presidio Heights in San Francisco. The additional gallery � its first is located in Carmel -- will allow increased exhibition space and better service. It will be directed by Alissa Ford, formerly with the California/American Paintings Department at Bonhams & Butterfields. The phone number is (415) 345-1832 and the email is alissaford@hardygalleries.com. Bingham Gallery in Mount Carmel, Utah, has a number of fine works by artist/illustrator Don Perceval for sale. Contact is www.thunderbirdfoundation.com. Redfern Galleries sent out a �Holiday Treats� full-color postcard that reproduced works by historic California artists Anna A. Hills and Franz Bischoff along with contemporary plein air works. All were small works (c. 8 x 10 in.) that would make good gifts. Another postcard reproduced four William Wendt paintings for sale. Email announcements of new acquisitions have been received from American Eagle Fine Art, Josh Hardy Galleries, and CaliforniaWatercolor.com. Check out their websites for latest information. Watercolors by the elusive Albert Marshall (1891-1970) are being marketed by Astoria Fine Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Marshall grew up in a small town in the San Joaquin Valley about an hour�s drive north of Bakersfield and attended the San Francisco Art Institute. Prohibited from enlisting in WWI because of his tuberculosis, he was told to go live in the mountains to recuperate. One of his first trips into the Sierra Nevada, which he painted all his life, was made in a buckboard. During the Depression and the start of WWII he lived in La Crescenta on the northern edge of greater Los Angeles. But in 1942 he settled for the rest of his life in Three Rivers, gateway to the Sequoia National Park. There his adobe house and studio was a stop for many fellow artists on their summer sketching jaunts into the Sierras. Ansel Adams was a family friend. Marshall also made frequent sketching trips to the desert in Southern California and to the east side of the Sierra around Bishop and Lone Pine. He also traveled throughout the West -- to the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, to the Canadian Rockies, and to the mountains and glaciers of Alaska. Originally a painter in oils, Marshall almost immediately switched to watercolors. He also produced many pen and ink sketches. (for more information see www.astoriafineart.com/Artists/Marshall-Albert/Bio.htm John Hazeltine of Traditional Fine Arts On Line has re-organized the information on his site by state. Go to www.tfaoi.org/aa/8aa/8aa223.htm and click on �California�. It will bring up all the articles and press releases that tfaoi has ever posted relating to our state. Biographies for individual California artists are indexed at www.tfaoi.org/distingu/alvarez.htm. 2009 wall calendars from Pomegranate Communications, Inc., of Petaluma, California. See www.pomegranate.com .
The website also offers related note cards. On Friday, December 12, 2008, Katherine Norris Fine Art in Newport Beach held a Christmas Soiree. Norris has become known for her high quality offerings. Eight historic postcards depicting Riverside�s Mission Inn at its height in the early twentieth century are viewable at www.inlandempire.us/features/mission_inn.htm. www.newspaperarchive.com has digitized many California newspapers published in small to mid-sized towns from the Gold Rush to the present. Among newspapers published before 1950 that possibly contain tidbits on art are Alta California (SF 1847-49), Californian (Monterey 1846-1849), Alta California (San Francisco 1864-1879), Fresno Bee (Fresno 1876-1977), Long Beach Independent (1938-1957), and numerous small tabloids published in Gold Rush towns and in Ukiah , Modesto, Van Nuys, Oakland and Hayward. These can be searched digitally. The Robin Fountain by sculptor Carroll Barnes, located at the Visalia branch of the Tulare County Public Library, is currently being restored. �We are getting rid of mineral deposits and mildew and arresting the acid damage from the atmosphere,� stated conservator Aaron Collins. �In 1944 the Eichmann family commissioned Three Rivers artist Carroll Barnes to create a marble water feature at the Visalia City Library. � It was given at a time of great cost,� � during World War II. � The Robin Fountain fell into disrepair over the years so First Arts decided to coordinate its restoration and raise an estimated $6,000 which also includes the repairs necessary for water to flow through it. � For more information call First Arts at 559-738-9754.� from the Valley Voice, December 18, 2008, section A. Desert artist Carl Bray�s former home and gallery in Indian Wells is threatened by imminent demolition. Carl Bray arrived in the California desert during the Depression. In classes sponsored by the WPA he studied painting with Maynard Dixon and Russell Swan. In 1956 he settled in a home and art gallery in Indian Wells where he developed a close friendship with artist/engraver/teacher Fred Chisnall. Bray�s home was purchased recently by the City of Indian Wells. The Indian Wells Historic Preservation Foundation has asked the City to postpone its planned demotion for 90 days in which time the Foundation will either photograph and otherwise document the site or succeed in saving it as a historic building. (from the Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery website) OBITUARIES Ed Givins. d. January 21, 2009. Ed and Jackie joined the HCC in 2006. Ed�s vocation was orthodontics which he practiced for most of his life in the South Bay. Six years in a row he taught the subject in France under the auspices of USC. But outside work, Ed�s questing personality led him to excel in both sports and the arts. He exercised daily, skied, golfed and fished. As a fisherman he designed and made his own flies. As a creative person, he was an excellent chef, who traveled the world several times to take cooking classes, and he grew many of his ingredients (herbs, vegetables and fruits) in his own garden. His Olalla berry jam, made each year from his own harvest was �world class�. In his early years he even made wine. He never tired of learning a new skill. He helped design his own home, and the large stained glass window in it was designed and made by him. In the fine arts, he excelled as a painter and photographer. His heart attack on the road to a skiing trip to Mammoth was totally unexpected. Walter A Nelson-Rees (January 11, 1929 to January 23, 2009). Walter A Nelson-Rees and partner James L. Coran, formerly owned WIM Fine Arts in Oakland and were major players in the world of historic California art until the disastrous Oakland fire consumed their home and collection. Walter was a Renaissance man � excelling in both the sciences and arts. (An extended biography appears in Publications in California Art, no. 9, p. 643.) Last August Walter broke his hip but his extended hospital stay did not result in recovery. CHANGING EXHIBITIONS Permanent displays of historic (pre-1945) California paintings can be found at many California institutions. These are listed on www:CaliforniaArt.com in the �Galleries� section (scroll down to Museums). Several institutions have already put their permanent collections (including California works) on-line. (See earlier Newsletters for exhibits that might still be on view.) November 16, 2008 � January 18, 2009. California Impressionism: Paintings from the Irvine Museum, Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, N. Y. Nearly sixty paintings depicting �The Land of Sunshine�. Among the artists are Maurice Braun, Anna Hills, Edgar Payne, Hanson Puthuff, Guy Rose, Elmer Wachtel, Marion Kavanagh Wachtel, and William Wendt. The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color catalogue with four essays by experts William H. Gerdts, Harvey L. Jones, David Dearinger, and Jean Stern. The Hyde Collection Art Museum was founded in 1952 by Charlotte Hyde. In her impressive American Renaissance style home, built in 1912 and now the museum, are hung the important American Impressionist and European modernist works that she collected during her lifetime. December 1, 2008 � May 2, 2009. Dressed in Color: The Costumes, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills. Examines costume design for color films from the 1940s through the 1960s. December 3, 2008 � March 8, 2009. Lon Megargee: Legendary Prints of the Southwest from the Hays Collection, Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah. Megargee, who worked in California, is best known in Arizona whose landscapes and Native Americans he depicted in paintings and prints. To this exhibition the Grace Hudson Museum has added a selection of works by Grace in order to compare and contrast the two artists depictions of the Native American. December 6, 2008 � March 8, 2009. The Fine Art of Film Posters: Selections from the Los Angeles Public Library Collection, Central Library, first floor galleries. Historic posters portraying the early days of Hollywood movies. The posters are part of a collection that was devastated by an arson fire at the Hollywood Regional Branch Library in 1982. With the help of the community and a $4 million contribution from Samuel Goldwyn Foundation, the collection was restored and a new branch library was constructed. Opened in 1986, it is named in honor of Goldwyn�s mother, who frequently used the original library. December 13, 2008 - ? Gallery Selections of Important California Modernist Paintings and Sculpture, Spencer Jon Helfen Fine Arts, Beverly Hills. The exhibition features new and stunning artworks by Mabel Alvarez, Victor Arnautoff, Claude Buck, Francis de Erdely, Emil Janel, Jeffrey Kirby, John Mottram, Helen Clark Oldfield, Otis Oldfield, George Post, Edouard Vysekal, Bernard Zakheim and many others. December 14, 2008 � February 22, 2009. Leo Politi: Capturing the Heart, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard. An exhibit of Politi�s early 1930s and 1940s work. One of several exhibitions celebrating the centennial of Politi�s birth. The show will be accompanied by a monograph with many illustrations. (See �Books� below.) December 14, 2008 � February 1, 2009. California Travels: Cornelis & Jessie Arms Botke, Prints, 1922-1953, Ventura Museum, Ventura. Twenty-five prints by the famous Santa Paula artist couple including two new Museum acquisitions shown for the first time. January 8 � March 29, 2009. Bentley Schaad: Lost Modernist of California, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara. Former instructor of painting and Acting Dean at Otis Art Institute, Schaad was a skilled painter who specialized in still lifes and authored The Realm of Contemporary Still Life Painting (1962). Through extensive research, Sullivan Goss has assembled biographical information on him as well as enough paintings for an exhibition. See also the audio video brochure on line at www.sullivangoss.com/exhibits/SGTV_bentleyschaad/. January 17 � March 27, 2009. Leonard Edmondson and Emerson Woelffer: Two Pillars of the Los Angeles Art Community, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, L. A. Etchings, intaglios, lithographs, screenprints, watercolors, drawings and collages by Edmondson created between the late 1940s and 1960. Also, lithographs, collages and paintings by Woelffer. January 24 � March 22, 2009. Gallery 32 and Its Circle: Los Angeles�s African American Art Community in the 1960s and 70s, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, L. A. January 27 � May 16, 2009. The Good Life: California Watercolors, 1930-1950, Irvine Museum, Irvine, Ca. Selections from the Mark and Janet Hilbert collection acquired over the past 15 years. Images depict the ordinary life of California residents in the 1930-1950 period, individuals who, although poor, were still blessed with the California weather and relaxed lifestyle. Among the artists represented are Standish Backus, Rex Brandt, Phil Dike, Dong Kingman, Nat Levy, Barse Miller, Paul Sample, and Milford Zornes. January 31 � April 4, 2009. The Screen of Nature: Early Photography of the West, University of California, Riverside, California Museum of Photography. Carleton Watkins� twenty-six landscape photos attached to a folding screen owned by UCR/CMP form the centerpiece for this group show of landscape photographs by his peers. January 31 � April 4, 2009. Marilyn Monroe: The Fabulous and the Faux, University of California, Riverside, California Museum of Photography. Includes some of the most renowned portraits of the movie star showing her in many moods from friendly to flirty and fragile. February 12 � April 19, 2009. Edward Biberman Revisited, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Hollywood. Accompanied by a catalogue (see �Books� below). February 14-15, 2009. Palm Springs Modernism Show & Sale, Palm Springs Convention Center. Opens Modernism Week in Palm Springs which also offers architecture tours, lectures, and a vintage car show. See palmspringsmodernism.com. February 14 � April 4, 2009. Sister Corita, California State University Northridge, Art Gallery. February 22 � May 25, 2009. The Land of Sunshine: Paintings from The Irvine Museum Collection, Wildling Art Museum, Los Olivos. 24 landscape paintings by California Impressionists of the first three decades of the twentieth century including Maurice Braun, John Gamble, William Alexander Griffith, Anna Hills, Edgar Payne, Hanson Puthuff and George Gardner Symons. March 15 � May 24, 2009. Roger Kuntz: The Shadow Between Representation and Abstraction, Laguna Art Museum. Curated by Susan M. Anderson. Kuntz was active from the 1940s and is known for his semi abstractions of freeways, his series on blimps, and views of beachside houses. March 21 � July 19, 2009. Rock Posters from the San Francisco Bay Area 1965-71, Denver Art Museum. April 11 � December 6, 2009. Helen Lundeberg: The History of Transportation, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno. The Nevada Museum of Art in Reno has just acquired Helen Lundeberg�s sketches for her History of Transportation mural realized in full scale for the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project c. 1940 near Centinela Park in Inglewood. The mixed media artwork consisting of 8 panels measuring 10 x 34 inches was purchased with funds provided by E. L. Wiegand Foundation, which is interested in artworks depicting the work ethic in America. April 18, 2009. Made in Monterey, Monterey Museum of Art, Pacific Street, Monterey. Features the most important images of Monterey in the Museum�s permanent collection and will utilize both floors of the facility. Accompanying this will be an exhibition of photographs by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and other important Monterey Peninsula photographers. April 20 through June 25, 2009. Jules Engel, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, L. A. Paintings, drawings, sculpture and prints (1930s-2003) including works related to many of Engel�s animated films. April 25 � June 28, 2009. Mountains Apart: Mount Fuji/Mount Diablo, Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary�s College, Moraga. On opposite sides of the world, these two mountains, each of which dominates its locale, have inspired creations by many artists. May 2 � August 2, 2009. Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow, Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Largest retrospective of Brett Weston�s photography in over 30 years. Surveys Weston�s nearly 70-year career through 136 photographs that range from early vintage prints made in Mexico and California in the 1920s and 1930s, to East Coast images from the 1940s, and later landscape and nature photographs. Examines the relationship between Brett and his better-known photographer father Edward Weston both artistically and from a family point of view. May 3 � September 6, 2009. Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O�Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin, and Florence Pierce, Orange County Museum of Art. The first exhibition to bring together the work of these four important American women modernists. All drew on nature for their inspiration, particularly the arid and spare environment of the desert. All responded with some form of abstraction. Curated by Karen Moss and accompanied by a catalogue. 192 pps co-published with Merrell of London; 75 color illus; 25 black and white; essays. May 19 � September 27, 2009. An Enduring Legacy: New Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection, Claremont Museum of Art. Most of the works in this exhibition were acquired in the Museum�s first year of operation, given by generous donors including Marge Burgeson. By highlighting the permanent collection as an important aspect of the Museum�s directives, this show not only honors the city�s artists, but hopefully will invite additional gifts from local artists and collectors. May 27 � October 12, 2009. D-Day 65th Anniversary, Schulz Museum, Santa Rosa. Charles Schulz�s experiences in World War II provided fodder for his Peanuts comic strips in which he commemorated D-Day and otherwise memorialized the sacrifice of so many armed service personnel. BOOKS The following antiquarian book dealers have substantial holdings of out-of-print books on California art: Arcana on the Santa Monica Mall (310-458-1499), Ken Starosciak in San Francisco (415-346-0650), and Muz Art and Books, Sacramento (no telephone; searchable on www.abebooks.com). If you know a title, it can be searched on www.abebooks.com or www.bibliofind.com to get comparative prices from dealers across the nation. Searching a book on www.oclc.org -- registration is free -- will bring up local libraries that have the book. Among dealers in new books on California art are the antiquarian dealers cited above, the bookstores of museums that specialize in California art (see list of museums above under �Exhibitions�) as well as John Moran Auctioneer in Pasadena, Kerwin Galleries in Burlingame, George Stern Fine Arts in LA, Sullivan-Goss in Santa Barbara, and DeRu�s Fine Arts in Bellflower and Laguna Beach. Edward Biberman Revisited, Los Angeles: Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 2009. 19 pps. Many color reproductions. Essays by Mark Steven Greenfield and Suzanne W. Zada. Robin Borglum Carter, Gutzon Borglum: His Life and Work, Keystone, S. D.: Mount Rushmore History Association, 2007. 95 pp. Painter/sculptor active in Los Angeles in the 1890s. Bess Ferguson, Charles Atherton Cumming: Iowa�s Pioneer Artist-Educator, Des Moines, Ia: Iowa Art Guild, 1972. 54 pp. Cumming was active in San Diego c. 1927-1932 (per E. Hughes) Roberta A. Mayer, Lockwood de Forest: Furnishing the Gilded Age with a Passion for India, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008. 240 pp. 182 illus. Santa Barbara artist. Mountain Majesty: The Art of John Fery: A Traveling Exhibition, Great Falls, Mont.?: William P. Healey and John B. Fery?, 1997. 32 pp. Fery was an itinerant Oregon/California/Arizona/Minnesota etc. artist (per E. Hughes) Lucienne Lanson, Grace Hudson: Artist of the Pomo Indians: A Biography, Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Co. Publ., 2006. 159 pp. LeFalle-Collins, Lizzetta, Sargent Johnson: African American Modernist, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1998. 95 pp. Sculptor of San Francisco.. Leo Politi, Capturing the Heart of Los Angeles, Angel City Press, 2008. Gary Fillmore, All Aboard [Marjorie Reed], Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Pub., 2009. 263 pp. California artist who painted Western themes. Arthur Spear, 1879-1959, Warren, Me.: Warren Historical Society and Boston, Ma.: St. Botolph Club, 1981. 40 pp. Spear painted along the Mendocino Coast in 1927. (per E. Hughes) Blanche E. Wheeler Williams, Mary C. Wheeler, Leader in Art and Education, Boston: Marshall Jones Co., 1934. 244 pp. Montana painter who wintered in Pasadena in the early twentieth century. (per E. Hughes) Sylvia Winslow, The Trail of a Desert Artist, China Lake, Ca.: Maturango Museum of Indian Wells Valley, 1972. 108 pp. Desert painter from the 1930s; active with Maturango Museum. Efram L. Burk, ed., Clever Fresno Girl: The Travel Writings of Marguerite Thompson Zorach, 1908-1915, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008. Deborah Nadoolman Landis, Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design, New York: Harper Collins, 2007. 592 pp. Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton, A Century of Stop-Motion Animation: From Melies to Aardman, New York: Watson-Guptill, 2008. 240 pp., 738 illus. ****Now at the press are Phil Kovinick�s book on Impressionist John Frost and Erika Esau�s book on Images of the Pacific Rim: Australia and California 1850-1935. Mid-Twentieth-Century art: Grant Holcomb, Frisco Funk: An Illustrated Essay, Syracuse, N. Y.: Castle Room Press, Syracuse University, 1971. 21 pp. Guisela Latorre, Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals of California, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. 326 pp. 80 illus. Steve Rotman, Bay Area Graffiti, New York: Mark Batty, 2008. 208 pp. Catherine Grenier, ed., Catalog L. A.: Birth of an Art Capital, 1955-1985, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2007. 383 pp. William Hackman and Mark Greenberg, eds., Inside the Getty, Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, 2008. 188 pp., 270 illus. Architecture: Extraordinary Homes: California � An Exclusive Showcase of the Finest Architects, Designers and Builders in California, Dallas: Panache Partners, 2009. 300 pp. with 304 col. Illus. Edward R. Bosley and Anne E. Mallek, eds., A New and Native Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene, San Marino: Huntington Library, 2008. 272 pp. 170 col. Illus. Julius Shulman, The Building of My Home and Studio, Portland, Ore.: Nazraeli Press, 2008. 50 pp., 50 illus. Palm Springs photographer. MAGAZINE ARTICLES Ann Scheid, �Seeing the Light of Day,� Huntington Frontiers, Fall/Winter 2008. 1600 photographs by mid twentieth-century photographer William R. Current (1923-1986) have been donated by Karen Sinsheimer to the Greene and Greene Archives at the Huntington Library. Many of these document the Gamble House of Pasadena. Eileen Smith, �California Dreaming� [re history of California tiles] Style Century Magazine, December 2007, pp. 88+. Vanessa Rothe-Ribarich, �A Decade at the Helm in Laguna Beach: Bolton Colburn,� Fine Art Connoisseur, January-February 2009. Colburn is Director of the Laguna Art Museum. Antiques and Fine Art magazine
Traci Fieldsted, �Visions of the Southwest: The Stewart Collection,� American Art Review, v. XXI, No. 1, January-February 2009, pp. 82-89. Diane and Sam Stewart have been collecting Western art since 2004. Their collection is now on view at BYU Museum of Art in Provo Utah under the title �Visions of the Southwest.� The Stewarts live part of the year in Palm Springs. California Art Club Newsletter. (This Newsletter can be ordered from the California Art Club website www.CaliforniaArtClub.org.) Some articles can be read on line.
Scott Sheilds and Julianne Burton-Carvajal, �Will Sparks: Mission Painter,� American Art Review, v. XXI, no. 1, January-February 2009, pp. 112-115. Anita Bennett, �Helen Lundeberg�s History of Transportation Mural,� American Art Review, v. XXI, No. 1, January-February 2009, pp. 130-137. Before and after pictures of the mural that was cleaned of graffiti and moved to a new location. Gordon H. Chang and Mark Dean Johnson, �Asian/American/Modern Art: 1900-1970,� American Art Review, v. XXI, No. 1, January-February 2009, pp. 138-141. Brief essay on the show currently on view at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. Jennifer Raab, �Wrapped Oranges: Portrait of a Still Life,� [McCloskey?], Gastronomica, August 2006, v. 6, no. 3, pp. 12-14. Barbara Melosh, �Drawing on America�s Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design,� The Public Historian, v. 26, no. 2, May 2004, pp. 96-98. John Ott, �From Packhorse to Packard: Maynard Dixon�s paintings chronicle transportation in the American West,� Westways, January/February 2009, pp. 40+. Discusses Dixon�s 12 covers on the theme of transportation in the American West made for Touring Topics in 1930. Robin Jones and Matthew Roth, �Southern California�s Diary: The Auto Club�s magazine turns 100,� Westways, January/February 2009, pp. 30+. Reproduces some of the paintings and photographs that graced the issues. Alana Coons, �California China, Our Claim to Tile Fame,� Save Our Heritage Organisation Magazine, v. 38, issue 3-4, 2007. Discusses California China Products Company of National City near San Diego. Ca-Modern Magazine. Full-color publication of the Eichler Network aimed at owners of mid-century modern homes who are interested in maintenance, refurbishing, and historic preservation.
Gary F. Kurutz, �Pioneer Photographer�s Personal Archive Donated,� [I. W. Taber], California State Library Foundation Bulletin # 90, 2008. VIDEOS, MOVIES John Hazeltine of tfaoi.org reminds us that his website has a section that lists videos on California art. January 9, 2009, 12 p.m. and January 10, 2009, 1 p.m. Maynard Dixon Art and Spirit, Palm Springs International Film Festival , Palm Springs Art Museum, Annenberg Theater. Executive Producers Thom Gianetto, Don Merrill and Dan Nicodemo of Edenhurst Gallery will be in attendance at both screenings. John Dixon, son of Maynard Dixon and Dorothea Lange, will join Producer/Director Jayne McKay in a Question and Answer session after the screenings. Afterwards the two will lead an informal tour of the exhibition �Space Silence Spirit/ Maynard Dixon�s West: The Hays Collection� on view at the Palm Springs Art Museum. January 22, 2009, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m., Beautiful Simplicity: Arts & Crafts Architecture in Southern California will be screened at the Museum of San Diego History in Balboa Park. In this stunning documentary about Arts & Crafts architecture in Southern California, writer/producer Paul Bockhorst explores the profound effects of the artistic movement on both the physical and cultural landscape in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Following the screening of the 86-minute, widescreen production will be a reception and a chance to purchase DVDs of the film. February 1, 2009, 2 p.m. Maynard Dixon: Art and Spirit, Palm Springs Art Museum, Walter Annenberg Theatre. The screening of this award-winning film will be followed with a Question & Answer session with filmmaker Jayne McKay and producers Thom Gianetto, Don Merrill and Daniel Nicodemo. March 6, 2009, 7:30 p.m. Brush with Life: The Art of Being Edward Biberman, Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, Hollywood. Accompanies the Biberman exhibition at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park, Hollywood. Tickets $25. Silent auction and reception to follow. LECTURES, SYMPOSIA, February 21, 2009, 2-4 p.m. �Arizona�s Original Cowboy Artist� Lon Megargee, a lecture by Abe Hays, Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah. Hayes formerly owned Arizona West Galleries in Scottsdale, Arizona and is considered a leading authority on Western art and artifacts. March 8, 2009, noon to 3 p.m. �William Wendt and his Art,� a lecture by Janet Blake of the Laguna Art Museum, held at the Bowers Museum, Fluor Gallery. This lecture was delivered to the California Arts Council of the Bowers Museum at its annual luncheon meeting. March 15, 2009, 1 p.m. �Alternate Universe: 1950s and 1960s Los Angeles and the Claremont Group,� conversation with artists Jack Zajac, Doug McClellan, Tony DeLap and Paul Darrow moderated by Paul Karlstrom, Laguna Art Museum. March 28, 2009, 2-4 p.m. �Behind the Scenes of Made in Monterey,� lecture by Executive Director E. Michael Whittington and Chief Curator Marcelle Polednik, Monterey Museum of Art. Discusses how the exhibition was put together. April 18, 2009. Memorial program for artist Jules Engel�s films including a discussion panel, REDCAT Theater/Walt Disney Concert Hall. Proceeds will benefit the Jules Engel Scholarship Fund at The California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. Contact Courtney McIntyre at CalArts (cmcintyr@calarts.edu) for tickets and further information. April 19, 2009, 1 p.m. �Sunshine State of Mind: LA Art Scene of the 1960s,� lecture by Peter Plagens, artist and contributing editor for art at Newsweek, on Los Angeles art of the 1960s and the development of his book Sunshine Muse, the first survey of West Coast art from 1945 to 1970, held at the Laguna Art Museum. April 21, 2009, 12 noon. �Richmond Barthe: His Life in Art,� a lecture by Samella Lewis, Professor Emerita of Scripps College, will be held at Scripps College, Claremont, Malott Commons. Barthe was a black sculptor of Los Angeles from the early twentieth century. May 17, 2009, 1 p.m. �Kicking Over the Traces: Roger Kuntz�s Freeway Series,� lecture by Susan M. Anderson, Laguna Art Museum. Mid century artist who merged realism with abstraction. AUCTIONS For the websites of the many �bricks and mortar� auction galleries dealing with American paintings, see Publications in California Art, No. 9, newsletter for November 1999. For the most up-to-date auction prices, see www.askart.com and www.ArtPrice.com. Auction Galleries that hold special sales of historic California art include Bonhams/Butterfields, which can be viewed at www.bonhams.com; Christies at www.christies.com, John Moran at www.johnmoran.com; and Clark�s Fine Art & Auctioneers in Sherman Oaks at www.estateauctionservice.com. December 14, 2008. Fine Art Auction, Clark�s Fine Art & Auctioneers, Inc., Sherman Oaks, Ca. April 7, 2009. California and American Paintings and Sculpture, Bonhams & Butterfields, LA & SF.
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