Color, Myth, and Music: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchronism

Will South

Norht Carolina Museum of Art

Gorgeous full color plates of the artist's work of natural settings, mountains, flowers, the west and southwest. Includes text about the author's life and work, an essay, catalogue and chronology and selected exhibitions. Plates are suitable for framing.

The Art & Life of Conrad Buff

George Stern

Libby Buff

George Stern Fine Arts

The art & life of Conrad Buff

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

A beautifully illustrated and exeptional book. Tthe first fully comprehensive book on one of California's most important artists. Contains a complete bibliography, a checklist of the exhibit, chronology and essays on Wendt's life and art. 320pp. 305 Color and 32 Color Illus. ISBN 978-0-9821201-0-1.

In Nature's Temple, the Life and Art of William Wendt

Janet Blake

Jean Stern

The Irvine Museum-Laguna Art Museum

An account of the rise of L.A.'s modern art scene. A Seed of Modernism chronicles the vibrant artwork that came out of the Art Students League of Los Angeles, one of the city's earliest art schools. Explorative, bold, and visionary, the league was influential in the formation of Los Angeles's distinct contemporary aesthetic.
For years, pre-WWII Los Angeles was thought of as a cultural desert, but in fact the artistic community was both vibrant and ambitious. Initially a series of informal sketch classes, the league gradually grew into a center of creative exploration that fostered a fearless approach to art and launched friendships, scandals, rivalries, and even marriages. Many members found inspiration in Los Angeles's burgeoning immigrant cultures, some incorporating Japanese themes and techniques to create a unique aesthetic, and the league had a strong contingent of immigrant artists. Japanese American league members who were interned during WWII at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, formed a branch of the Art Students League there. For decades, the Art Students League of Los Angeles pushed the boundaries of self-expression. In its ideals and achievements we can follow the heady rise of modernism on the West Coast and also throughout America.

Seed of Modernism, A: The Art Students League of Los Angeles, 1906-1953

Arts & Photography

Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick

Julia Armstrong-Totten

History & Criticism

Heyday

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