Independent Spirits brings to vivid life the West as seen through the eyes of women painters from 1890 to the end of World War II. Expert scholars and curators identify long-lost talent and reveal how these women were formidable cultural innovators as well as agitators for the rights of artists and women during a period of extraordinary development. Abundantly illustrated, with over one-hundred color plates, this book is a rich compendium of Western art by women, including those of Native American, African, Mexican, and Asian descent. The essays examine the many economic, social, and political forces that shaped this art over years of pivotal change. The West's dynamic growth altered the role of women, often allowing new avenues of opportunity within the prevailing Anglo culture. At the same time, boundaries of femininity were pushed earlier and further than in other parts of the country. Women artists in the West painted a wide range of subjects, and their work embraced a variety of styles: Realism, Impressionism, Symbolism, Surrealism. Some women championed modern art as gallery owners, collectors, and critics, while others were educators and curators. All played an important role in gaining the acceptance of women as men's peers in artistic communities, and their independent spirit resonates in studios and galleries throughout the country today.

Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945

Arts & Photography

Trenton, Patricia

History & Criticism

University of California Press

The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture

As E. H. Gombrich once observed, the still life is compelled to challenge and at the same time perpetuate tradition. Without the elements of recognition and comparison, and the discovery of the familiar in the unfamiliar, the genre would lose most of its meaning. This lavishly illustrated volume documents the extraordinary challenges that artists in California have brought to the tradition of the still life as they have transformed and revitalized the genre over the course of the last century. In abundantly illustrated essays, as entertaining as they are informative, The Not-So-Still Life traces the great variety of media and forms these artists have engaged as they have moved the still life not just off the table, but off the wall and into three dimensions. Susan Landauer, William H. Gerdts, and Patricia Trenton investigate a range of forces and influences—whether historical, sociological, economic, psychological, or biographical—that have played into this evolution, from the plein-air Impressionism of the early twentieth century to the Synchromist bouquets of Stanton Macdonald-Wright, the revolving table settings of Charles Ray, and the electronic sculptures of Alan Rath. In doing so they deepen our understanding of American art over the last century. Presenting, interpreting, and celebrating the world-renowned and the lesser-known California artists who have uniquely defined and redefined the still life, this volume offers an exploration of the sensual pleasures, the aesthetic challenges, and the intellectual and perceptual associations of a century of art through the prism of a single genre.

Gerdts, William H.

Landauer, Susan

As E. H. Gombrich once observed, the still life is compelled to challenge and at the same time perpetuate tradition. Without the elements of recognition and comparison, and the discovery of the familiar in the unfamiliar, the genre would lose most of its meaning. This lavishly illustrated volume documents the extraordinary challenges that artists in California have brought to the tradition of the still life as they have transformed and revitalized the genre over the course of the last century. In abundantly illustrated essays, as entertaining as they are informative, The Not-So-Still Life traces the great variety of media and forms these artists have engaged as they have moved the still life not just off the table, but off the wall and into three dimensions. Susan Landauer, William H. Gerdts, and Patricia Trenton investigate a range of forces and influences―whether historical, sociological, economic, psychological, or biographical―that have played into this evolution, from the plein-air Impressionism of the early twentieth century to the Synchromist bouquets of Stanton Macdonald-Wright, the revolving table settings of Charles Ray, and the electronic sculptures of Alan Rath. In doing so they deepen our understanding of American art over the last century. Presenting, interpreting, and celebrating the world-renowned and the lesser-known California artists who have uniquely defined and redefined the still life, this volume offers an exploration of the sensual pleasures, the aesthetic challenges, and the intellectual and perceptual associations of a century of art through the prism of a single genre.

[Excerpt from front jacket flap]. Throughout the nineteenth century the Rockies inspired mixed emotions - a paradoxical combination of spiritual response and emotional resistance. Teh towering earth forms were at once awesome, beautiful, and forbidding. It is understandable, then, that the chronicle of men's responses to the Rocky Mountains is a voluminous one. Every means of expression, every form of poetry and prose, has gone into the account; but it was the artists' vision that finally revealed the full splendor, the commanding allure of the West.Following the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the vast new territories acquired by the United States became a lure for artists from the eastern seaboard and from European countries. They followed government expeditions; they joined geological explorations; they participated in the excursions of sportsmen. They came to the Rockies with diverse backgrounds, different orientations, and varied painterly techniques, but they would all contribute to the country's growing awareness of the magnificent challenge, beauty, and opportunity of the West.This book focuses on those artists and those works - the product of a period of American history when the Rocky Mountains still embraced a vast, uncharted territory. In one comprehensive survey the authors have traced a broad overview of the development of landscape art in the Rocky Mountains from the works of early scientific-artist reporters on government expeditions to Albert Bierstadt's famous painting The Rocky Mountains (1863), which launched a grand march to the Rockies by professional artists, to the works of Frederic Remington, who sought to preserve a vision of the frontier before it vanished forever.

The Rocky Mountains: A Vision for Artists in the Nineteenth Century

Hassrick, Peter H.

Painting

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Compares actual Indian artifacts with the portrayal of Indians in American paintings, and looks at the changing attitudes of whites towards Indians

Native Americans: Five Centuries of Changing Images

Houlihan, Patrick T.

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Picturesque Images From Taos and Santa Fe: an Exibition Sponsored By the First National Bank of Denver &amp; the Denver Art Museum (January 12-March 17, 1974).

Picturesque Images from Taos and Santa Fe

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Denver Art Museum

Published in association with the Laguna Art Museum, this volume of finely reproduced paintings features the work of nine "California Impressionists": William Wendt, Franz Bischoff, Maurice Braun, Granville Redmond, Donna Schuster, Guy Rose, Joseph Kleitsch, Alson Calrk, and Edgar Payne, plus essays that discuss the distinctive art of Impressionism in California. 53 full-color and 125 black-and-white illustrations.

California Light 1900-1930

Travel

Bedford Arts

Lavishly illustrated, this definitive study encompasses Kleitsch's career in capturing the light and beauty of California. Includes forwards by Jean Stern, Joan Irvine Smith and James Swinden, selected bibliography, and an index of illustrations.

Joseph Kleitsch: A Kaleidoscope of Color

The Irvine Museum

Jessie Arms Botke, a famous 20th Century artist, painted in Chicago and Monterey before settling in Ventura County with her husband, Cornelis Botke, also a famous painter and etcher. This book is lavishly illustrated with the most beautiful of her paintings and murals. The artistic analysis is most helpful and emphasizes the profound influence of Japanese art on Botke's style and palatte. This book is a great introduction to Jessie Botke's art and life.

Birds, Boughs & Blossoms: Jessie Arms Botke, 1883-1971

Solon, Deborah Epstein

Biographies & Memoirs

William a Karges Fine Art

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Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945

Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945

The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture

The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture

The Rocky Mountains: A Vision for Artists in the Nineteenth Century

Native Americans: Five Centuries of Changing Images

Picturesque Images from Taos and Santa Fe

California Light 1900-1930

Joseph Kleitsch: A Kaleidoscope of Color

Birds, Boughs & Blossoms: Jessie Arms Botke, 1883-1971