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VG+, very light to non-existant wear spots on goldish cover. Brown cloth. 107 pp. 47 color repros. Originally published in Palm Springs, CA: Palm Springs Desert Museum, Dec. 13, 1991 to Mar. 1, 1992, four other locations. Planned as an exhibition catalogue of this collection, this publication has become a haunting tribute to the works represented. The paintings, as well as over 650 more works by these and other artists, were lost in the devastating fires in the Oakland Hills on October 20, 1991. Includes artist biographies and index. The focus is entirely on California painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Artists include: William Armstrong, Albert Bierstadt, Franz Bischoff, Mau rice Braun, Giuseppe Cadenasso, Alson Clark, Edwin Deakin, John Gamble, August Gay, Selden Gile, Percy Gray, William Hahn, Herman Herzog, Thomas Hill, William Franklin Jackson, William Lees Judson, William Keith, Maurice Logan, William Marple, Arthu r Mathews, Lillie Nicholson, John O' Shea, George Desmond Otis, Edgar Payne, Gottardo Piazzoni, Hanson Puthuff, Granville Redmond, Charles Reiffel, Cleveland Rockwell, Guy Rose, Frederick Schafer, Louis Siegriest, Jack Wilkinson Smith, Thaddeus Welch, William Wendt, Virgil Williams, and Theodore Wores.
This is not a big book and is definitely not a coffee table book, but for someone who loves landscape painting it is very much worth having. The book features early California landscape painters--those working from the last years of the 19th C. up to about the middle of the 20th C., with one painting per page with the facing page giving information on the life and artistic style of each painter (which school of art he belonged to, e.g., California Impressionist). (This format of text and painting on facing pages is my favorite.) For those who like landscape painting but have not encountered California landscape painting, the book will be a revelation. Cezanne would have (should have) given his left arm to have had the variety of motifs that California would have afforded him.