California Landscape Artists Make Up New Show at LCAD

Submitted by the Laguna College of Art Design:

California and the West have long symbolized change—change
that often occurs at an alarmingly fast rate.  During the 1920s and 1930s, in response to increased
industrialization and immigration, both urban and rural California landscapes
began experiencing a punctuated rate of change, the effects of which are
noticeable to this day. In this atmosphere of unyielding progress, regard for
the present moment or the past is often lost. Times and places once considered
immutable become, almost overnight, impermanent and inaccessible.

We are very fortunate that, in the 1930s, a group of
both young and established artists took interest in scenes of everyday life
unique to the rapidly changing California landscape. Artists such as Emil Kosa,
Jr.; Milford Zornes; Rex Brandt;