California Watercolorists
SteveMurat
school of the 1930s and 1940s were? I know they were artists who were
trying to capture the light and action of the southern California
environment. Thats why they used watercolor as a medium rather than paint.
You can e-mail me directly or post here. Thanks.
Charles Eicher
(SteveMurat) wrote:
Hey, this message has been around for a while, hasn't anyone answered your
question?
I can't think of any watercolorists in the genre you're thinking of, but I
have a feeling you're thinking of the David Park/Richard Diebenkorn type
of painting. Or am I wrong? They definitely have that California light.. I
was just borrowing a nice book about these painters, but I gave it back..
Maybe if this is in the right vein, I'll go borrow it again and check it
out for you... There were a ton of people I'd never heard of before..
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George Young
I think you may be asking about a group called the California
Impressionists or California Plein Air artists -- many of them did turn
from oil to watercolor because of the qualitiy of light they could get
through that medium. Some names are: Dana Bartlett, Franz Bischoff,
Maurice Braun, Alson Clark, Colin Cooper, Paul Dougherty, John Gamble,
Percy Gray (especially strong in wc), Mary DeNeale Morgan, Edgar Payne,
Joseph Raphael, Granville Redmond, Guy Rose, Elmer Wachtel, Marion
Wachtel, William Wendt, Theodore Wores. Most of these artists worked in
both oils and watercolors.
All best to you
George Young
Young Fine Arts Online
BBS 207 457 2273, at prompt choose "flea"
Jeremy Goell
>Can anyone tell me who some of the members of the California watercolorist
>school of the 1930s and 1940s were? I know they were artists who were
>trying to capture the light and action of the southern California
>environment. Thats why they used watercolor as a medium rather than paint.
>You can e-mail me directly or post here. Thanks.
I believe the school you refer to is called Pleine Aire, although I
don't know if the spelling is correct. I also don't know if the term refers to
full space or full air, but either way, the attempt to capture light and action
was important. There were two schools, one for northern and one for southern california. I think there was some affiliation with the Chicago Art Institute, (or Chicago Institute of Art ...whichever) I know there are books on the school.
The only artist I know of was a very minor figure named Helen Kolhmeyer.
P.S. How come the self proclaimed elitist and intellectual nazi Jason A. Hutto
didn't A) post the answer and B) criticize the school for not being real art?
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