Background
Solon, Deborah Epstein was born on April 5, 1961 in New York City. Daughter of Gerson and Lila Epstein.
(Jessie Arms Botke, a famous 20th Century artist, painted ...)
Jessie Arms Botke, a famous 20th Century artist, painted in Chicago and Monterey before settling in Ventura County with her husband, Cornelis Botke, also a famous painter and etcher. This book is lavishly illustrated with the most beautiful of her paintings and murals. The artistic analysis is most helpful and emphasizes the profound influence of Japanese art on Botke's style and palatte. This book is a great introduction to Jessie Botke's art and life.
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(This beautiful volume provides the first comprehensive su...)
This beautiful volume provides the first comprehensive survey of the Impressionist art of a generation of radiant California artists.
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(As cultural theorists often enjoy pointing out, Southern ...)
As cultural theorists often enjoy pointing out, Southern California, with its motion picture, television, and aerospace industries, is the mecca of artificial culture. In this "here-today-gone-tomorrow" culture, our history has traditionally has been trivialized and discarded, leaving a great deal of the past for us to excavate. Laguna Beach and the Laguna Beach Art Association (the present day Laguna Art Museum) have stood at the center of another sort of culture in Southern California for more than eighty years. From the turn of the century through the 1930's, Laguna Beach was home to the most significant artists' colony on the Pacific Coast. The Laguna Art Museum has been not only the focal point of this art colony but, for the last twenty years, instrumental in uncovering its history as well. Through exhibitions and catalogues such as William Wendt 1865-1946, Early Artists in Laguna Beach: The Impressionists, and California Light 1900-1930, the Museum has explored, and indeed developed, its rich local art history. Along with The Oakland Museum of California, it has been at the forefront of a trend among California museums to focus on regional history, including the Impressionist movement that was centered in Laguna Beach. More recently, The Irvine Museum has devoted considerable efforts to this subject matter as well. What is missing from the many exhibitions originated on this subject is one placing California Impressionism and the art colony in Laguna Beach within the national content. The art colonies that developed at the turn of the century in Cos Cob and Old Lyme, Connecticut, or Shinnecock , Long Island, for example, bear many resemblance, as well as differences, to the growth and popularity of Laguna Beach. The idea for this book came from the Museum's exhibitions committee, an advisory group of curators and art historians who specialize in California art.
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(This American Impressionist painter presents his work wit...)
This American Impressionist painter presents his work within an exploration of time the years that bracket the centennial and World War II. With the recent reconsideration of Impressionism in California as part of the mainstream, Clark is now emerging as one of its most notable practitioners.
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Solon, Deborah Epstein was born on April 5, 1961 in New York City. Daughter of Gerson and Lila Epstein.
Bachelor, Vassar College, 1982. Master of Philosophy, City University of New York, 1990. Doctor of Philosophy, City University of New York, 2003.
Administrator Sotheby's, New York City, 1982—1986. Lecturer State University of New York, Purchase, 1988—1990. Director research Karges Fine Art, Los Angeles, 1991—1996.
Guest curator Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, 1998—1999, adjunct curator, since 1999. Acquisitions committee, collections com Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, since 1999, history collections council, since 2001. Adjunct curator Pasadena Museum California Art.
(Jessie Arms Botke, a famous 20th Century artist, painted ...)
(As cultural theorists often enjoy pointing out, Southern ...)
(This American Impressionist painter presents his work wit...)
(This beautiful volume provides the first comprehensive su...)
Married; children: Alexandra, Gabrielle.