Nature's Abstract, Grand Canyon
oil on canvas, 30 x 30
Linda Sorensen, Contemporary
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The Southwest Spring, 2015, Opening February 27
featuring the paintings of Linda Sorensen,
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Snowclouds, Grand Canyon
oil on French linen, 15 1/2 x 25 1/2
Linda Sorensen, Contemporary |
Linda Sorensen has long been intrigued by patterns and flow in both clouds and landscape.
On recent trips to Arizona, Linda was fascinated by quickly moving blue shadows as the sun and clouds moved across the sky, projecting magic on the ancient red sculptured canyon walls.
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Shadows on Temple of Zoroaster Grand Canyon
oil on linen, 24 x 36
Linda Sorensen, Contemporary |
Spider Rock, Canyon de Chelly
oil on canvas, 36 x 48
Linda Sorensen, Contemporary |
Planes of the Grand Canyon Colorado River
oil on linen, 24 x 36
Linda Sorensen, Contemporary |
And From our Gallery Collection ... |
Two of our gallery's best Grand Canyon paintings are "Gods of the Deep" by Carl Hoerman (1950) and "Grand Canyon" by Grace Fountain (1931).
Carl Hoerman was a Chicago architect who is well known for his Grand Canyon paintings. This painting is published on page 161 of Shadows on the Mesa by Gary Filmore of the Blue Coyote Gallery in Cave Creek, Arizona. Grace Fountain painted monumental landscapes of the Cascades, the Sierra and the Grand Canyon. Her 1931 Grand Canyon was exhibited at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco.
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Gods of the Deep 1950, Grand Canyon
oil on canvas, 31-28
Carl Hoerman 1885-1955 |
Grand Canyon, 1931
oil on canvas 35 x 42
Grace Fountain 1858-1942 |
Conrad Buff had a most unique style, reducing landscape to simple color and shape. It shouldn't be surprising he was a good friend, painting partner of Maynard Dixon and was a regular visitor to his Utah home.
Conrad's wife Mary was an award winning author of award winning children's books, illustrated by Conrad. Also of note is that Conrad Mary Buff were close friends of Libby and Joshua Meador.
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Mountain River
oil on paperboard, 12 x 16
Conrad Buff 1886-1975 |
Sunlit Face
oil on paperboard, 16 x 24
Conrad Buff 1886-1975 |
Aglatha Needle
oil on canvas, 16 x 12
Ralph Love, 1907-1992 |
Song of Bodie
oil on canvas, 14 x 18
Ralph Love 1907-1992 |
Monument Valley
oil on canvas, 24 x 36
Ralph Love 1907-1992 |
Ralph Love maintained his studio and taught art in Temecula, California. We are pleased to offer some of his remarkable paintings. Although Ralph is mostly self taught, he spent some time studying with fellow artist, Sam Hyde Harris.
Ralph had an amazing ability to capture shimmering desert light. His paintings can also be found at the Lee Youngman Gallery in Calistoga. Lee Youngman is Ralph Love's daughter.
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Jimmy Swinnerton gained fame as a cartoonist for William Randolph Hearst. Hearst picked Jimmy and his classmate Maynard Dixon out of a San Francisco art school and put them to work. Jimmy became a pioneer of the newspaper comic strip. Then, in 1903, a life-threatening bout with tuberculosis caused Jimmy to leave New York for a sparsely populated place in the Mojave Desert called Palm Springs.
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Smoke Tree Wash
oil on linen, 30 x 40
James Swinnerton 1875-1974
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Yuma Desert
oil on canvas, 16 x 20
James Swinnerton 1875-1974 |
Jimmy revived and thrived in the desert. Today, he's known as a founding father of the California Desert School. He lived to be 99, and was a member of SF's Bohemian Club.
In the February 2014 edition of "Casemate," a French magazine dedicated to French Comic art. Artist Dominique Bertail writes his thoughts on Swinnerton's "Smoke Tree Wash." Read more in our from our April 2014 issue.
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In the late 1920's, John W. Hilton set up a gem shop and art gallery in Thermal, California, between Palm Springs and the Salton Sea. His studio was in the back room, and, due to his magnetic personality and knowledge of the desert, he persuaded friends to assist him as he taught himself to paint ... friends like Clyde Forsythe, Maynard Dixon, and Jimmy Swinnerton.
In turn, these artists brought their friends. Clyde Forsythe brought the great Russian immigrant Nicolai Fechin and on a different occasion, his old studio mate from New York, Norman Rockwell.
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Other non-painting visitors hosted by Hilton at his humble desert lodgings in Thermal were Howard Hughes and General George Patton.
Hilton found success in the 1950's and moved to Twentynine Palms. There he often painted with his neighbor, James Cagney. During golf visits to Palm Springs, he painted with his friend President Eisenhower. Ike had one of Hilton's paintings hanging on his Oval Office Wall.
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La Mananita
oil on masonite, 20 x 34
John W. Hilton 1904-1983 |
Monument, 1951
oil on canvasboard, 16 x 20
John W. Hilton 1904-1983 |
Chicken Race, Santa Domingo Pueblo, NM
oil on linen, 20 x 27
Joshua Meador 1911-1965 |
Taos Pow Wow
oil on linen, 20 x 27
Joshua Meador 1911-1965 |
Desert Planes
oil on linen, 22 x 30
Joshua Meador 1911-1965 |
Clear Crispy Day
oil on linen, 20 x 27
Joshua Meador 1911-1965 |
Walt Disney artist Joshua Meador is the star of our gallery. Although Joshua Meador is best known for his paintings of the Pacific, and scenes of Pacific Coast Harbors and towns, he also painted extensively in the Eastern Sierra near Lone Pine, the Mojave near Palm Springs, and into the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico.
Josh graduated the Art Institute in Chicago in 1935. Because it was the midst of the Great Depression and there was no work, he painted Post Office murals for the WPA until he submitted his portfolio to Walt Disney. Josh was hired in 1937 as lead animator for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and remained as the Director of Animation Effects for Disney Studios until he died in 1965. Over his career, he was one of the directors of Fantasia and part of the Oscar winning animation effects team for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
But Josh always thought of himself as a painter first. Disney was just his day job. At the time of his death at age 54, he had built his dream home on the cliffs above Mendocino. He would return to the Disney Studios for special projects.
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| Also on Exhibit ... |
Indians at Monument Valley
oil on masonite, 16 x 20
Ferdinand Burgdorff 1881-1975 |
Mittens, Monument Valley
watercolor, 15 x 21
Jade Fon 1911-1983
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Summer Range
oil on canvas, 24 x 38
Bill Freeman 1927-2913 |
The Storm
oil on board, 24 x 36
William Leroy Knudson 1929- |
Desert Cathedral, Monument Valley
oil on board, 20 x 24
Dedrick Stuber 1878-1954
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Canyon de Chelly
watercolor, 8 1/2 x 11
Milford Zornes 1908-2008 |
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