CALIFORNIA IMPRESSIONISM: SELECTIONS FROM THE IRVINE MUSEUM
Frank Tolles Chamberlin
Eaton Canyon, 1934; 26 x 36
Courtesy of the Irvine Museum
November 17 – February 17, 2013
DURING THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH centuries, California artists produced a unique style that combined several distinctive aspects of American and European art. This style — known as California Impressionism or California plein air painting, after the French term for “in the open air”— focused on capturing the special light and color of the state’s landscape and helped to define modern landscape painting.
Through this stunning collection of 50 paintings from the collection of The Irvine Museum, California, this exhibition features many of the most important artists of the period, including Franz Bischoff, Emil Kosa, Phil Dike, Edgar Payne, William Wendt, Guy Rose, and Granville Redmond.
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- Bend of The River Channel P. Townsley 25×30
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- Boats Returning Home William Ritschel 30×40 Courtesy of the Irvine Museum
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- Inner Harbor Paul Sample, 1929 34×36
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- California Tom Craig 24×36
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- The Corral Phil Paradise, c. 1941 23×28
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- Sisters Edouard Vysekal, c. 1922 36×34
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- Red and Green Joseph Kleitsch, c. 1924 36×40
