August 7, 2004 – October 30, 2004

As much as the painters in oil expanded the frontiers of Modernism in California, so too did those artists who worked in other media. This exhibition focuses exclusively on works on paper by important and lesser-known California Modernists working in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

The exhibition features watercolors, graphite and charcoal drawings, linoleum block prints, woodcuts, serigraphs, lithographs, and works in other media on paper.

We are pleased to offer artwork for both the beginning and advanced collector.

A color brochure of the exhibition is available upon request.
 

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November 6, 2004 – January 29, 2005

We are pleased to present our new Back Room Gallery! Our first exhibition in the Back Room Gallery is The California Modernist Landscape, featuring works by Victor Arnautoff, Rinaldo Cuneo, Oscar Galgiani, Stanislaus Poray and Warren Newcombe.

Be sure to visit the Back Room Gallery on your next excursion to our Gallery.

Artwork Featured in This Exhibition

November 6, 2004 – January 29, 2005

Figurative art has been a mainstay for artists throughout the ages. But California Modernist interpretations of the figure during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s brought a new boldness of color, composition and sensuality to the genre. We are pleased to present an extensive survey of interpretations of the figure by some of California’s foremost Modernists.

Featured are important paintings and sculpture by Mabel Alvarez, Victor Arnautoff, Franz Bergmann, Brents Carlton, Boris Deutsch, Ralph Chessé, Francis de Erdely, Ross Dickinson, Lorser Feitelson, John Emmett Gerrity, Robert Gilbert, John Langley Howard, Boris Lovet-Lorski, Helen Clark Oldfield, Otis Oldfield, Sueo Serisawa, Benjamin Vaganov, Frede Vidar, Bernard Zakheim, and others.

A color brochure of the exhibition is available upon request.

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March 5, 2005 – May 28, 2005

We are pleased to present a survey of works from 1920 to 1950 by John Emmett Gerrity (1895 – 1980) in our new Back Room Gallery. Gerrity was the San Francisco Bay Area’s foremost proponent of Synchromism, the color theory developed by Stanton Macdonald Wright and Morgan Russell.
 

Artwork Featured in This Exhibition

March 5, 2005 – May 28, 2005

We are proud to present our most recent acquisitions of important California Modernist works of art from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.

The artworks include the introduction of Modernism to Northern California in the mid-1920s by Otis Oldfield; Depression-era works by Victor Arnautoff, John Langley Howard and others; early abstractions by Richard Ayer and Leah Rinne Hamilton; several exquisite portraits and still lifes; and many other extraordinary artworks.

A color brochure of the exhibition is available upon request.

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June 4, 2005 – October 29, 2005

This exhibition constitutes one of the most extensive and important surveys of art by California Women Modernists since the seminal 1995 museum exhibition: Independent Spirits – Women Painters of the American West, 1890 – 1945. We are proud to present this exhilarating array of work by some of California’s foremost artists working in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.

From the environs of the San Francisco Bay Area, to Los Angeles and San Diego, over 30 artists are included in this compendium. The exhibition includes oil paintings, watercolors, graphite drawings, wood block prints, lithographs and sculpture.

Please visit the Gallery and experience the artistry of the women who, despite all obstacles, devoted much of their creative energies to producing wonderful Modernist works of art.

A color brochure of the exhibition is available upon request.

Artwork Featured in This Exhibition