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Jessie Hazel Arms Botke (1883-1971): Bold and Beautiful by Elaine Adams, California Art Club Newsletter, Winter/Spring 2022
Rarely does an artist become associated with more than one historical art movement. Yet, Jessie Hazel Arms Botke did just that. She was an integral part of the American Arts …
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Anders Leonard Zorn (1860-1920) – Stealing Secrets and Beauty by Elaine Adams, California Art Club Newsletter, Fall 2013
Born as the illegitimate son of a Bavarian beer maker and a Swedish farm girl, never having met his father, and raised as a peasant boy on his grandparents’ farm, …
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William Wendt (1865-1947) – Nature Undefiled by Will South, Ph.D., California Art Club Newsletter, Winter 2008
In 1911, William Wendt was elected as president of the California Art Club, and, in many ways, he represented the essential nature of California Impressionism both stylistically and ideologically. No other California …
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Jules Tavernier (1844-1889) by Scott Shields and Claudine Chalmers, California Art Club Newsletter, Summer-Fall 2014
An illustrator, painter, adventurer, and visionary, nineteenth-century French artist Jules Tavernier (1844–1889) was one of the American West’s foremost talents, with a natural ability that many believed was second to …
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Millard Sheets (1907-1989) by Gordon T. McClelland and Elaine Adams, California Art Club Newsletter, Winter 2010
Perhaps more than any other artist, Millard Owen Sheets (1907-1989) created a multi-faceted arts legacy that is uniquely Californian and evocative of his times. His prolific output included architecture, product …
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Jose Segrelles (1885-1969) – Painted Wonders of Space and Time by William Stout, California Art Club Newsletter, Summer/Fall 2015
José Segrelles (1885–1969) is among the finest artists to emerge from the Valencia region of Spain—and unequalled in his unfathomable imagination. His extensive oeuvre includes futuristic and outer space themes …
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Carl Rungius (1869-1959) – Artist, Sportsman by Elaine Adams, American Art Review, June 2003
Two of mankind’s most innate drives are hunting and creating art. By painting animals and hunting scenes on cave walls, primitive man engendered a powerful belief system. He believed that …
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Guy Rose (1867-1925) – An American Impressionist by Elaine Adams, California Art Club Newsletter, December 1995
It is interesting how life can unfold and unwittingly create one’s own destiny. Thus was the case in the life of Guy Rose. Born as the seventh of eleven children …
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Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) – Norman Rockwell’s Paintings of Character by Michael Zakian, California Art Club Newsletter, Fall 2012
Although Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) died thirty-five years ago, his work continues to grow in popularity. In 1999 the High Museum of Art in Atlanta organized a travelling retrospective Norman Rockwell: …
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David Roberts (1796-1864) – The Lure of an Occidental by Elaine Adams, California Art Club Newsletter, October 2001
David Roberts was not born to a privileged class, nor did he have the advantages of a cultured environment — what he did possess, however, were the greatest of all …
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