California Dreaming: Plein-Air Painting from San Francisco to San Diego
On view December 15 – June 16, 2013
Exhibition Overview
This exhibition presents a selection of early 20th-century paintings that celebrate the specific topography and climactic effects associated with the regional landscape from San Francisco to San Diego. Adapting certain strategies of French Impressionism, the artists created a style that has become the hallmark of what is commonly termed Californian Plein-Air Painting, or California Impressionism. The avantgarde movement of French Impressionism, preoccupied with capturing immediate effects of light, color and atmosphere, burst upon the world in 1874. By the turn of the century, Impressionism was practiced in one form or another throughout the globe. In America, a distinct version of Impressionism dominated mainstream art from roughly 1890 to 1930. The relatively new state of California was no
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