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Linda Sorensen
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The Grand Canyon, Arizona
Oil on linen, 24 x 36

Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery Monthly - December 2014
Celebrating California Art
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Rain People
oil on linen, 27 x 18

Nicolai Fechin 1881-1955, from St. Petersburg to the California Desert	California Impressionist George Gardner Symons 1861-1930	Henry Ossawa Tanner, An American in Paris 1859-1937	Currently on Exhibit at Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery
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Nicolai Fechin, 1881-1955
from St. Petersburg to the California Desert
with excerpts from Ed Ainsworth's Painters of the Desert, 1960
and Katherine Ainsworth's The Man Who Captured Sunshine, 1978

This Russian film provides an extensive sampling of the paintings of Nikolai Ivanovich Fechin 1881 - 1955. Some were done prior to his emigration to the United States in 1923, and some after he came to love painting the native peoples and landscapes of the American west.

Fechin achieved success on two different continents and two different worlds, an amazing and improbable transplant of undeniable talent from St.Petersburg to Taos.

Nicolai Fechin 1881-1955 was born along the Volga River in the city of Kazan in Tartarstan, Russia. He became a star pupil at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. One of his early passions was painting the indigenous people of Siberia. But in 1919 the Russian Revolution brought vicious change. Beaten down by war and deprivation, Fechin and his wife emigrated to America in 1923. Once in America, he worked hard to reestablished his painting career.

Nicolai Fechin, Photo Portrait	After his paintings were exhibited at the Grand Central Galleries, he was noticed by California Desert painter and New York cartoonist Clyde Forsythe. Due in part because of Forsythe's encouragement, Fechin moved West, making Taos, NM, his new home. The cultural and geographic differences between Kazan, Russia and Taos, New Mexico couldn't be further apart, but Nicolai Fechin managed to call both places home. In Taos, he followed followed the same path he forged in Russia, painting revealing portraits of native people.	Nicolai and Alexandra Fechin in Taos, 1928
From Taos, he traveled to Southern California and made trips across the Pacific to Indonesia and to Bali. Near the end of his life, he bought a home in Santa Monica where he died in 1955. In the late 1930's, he spent a winter painting in Palm Springs. There, he enjoyed the company of a prestigious fun-loving group of American desert painters. He became fast friends with one of his hosts, artist John W. Hilton. Hilton's humble home at Valerie Corners in Thermal, California, had become a favorite hang-out for this unlikely fraternity, including Maynard Dixon, Jimmy Swinnerton, and Clyde Forsythe along with LA Times editor Ed Ainsworth.	Barge Captain	Eya in Judo Gi
Portrait of a Girl, Untitled	Girl in Orange Shawl	Nikki Ruppert
Nicolai Fechin at Easel from Painters of the Desert by Ed Ainsworth, 1960	Portrait of a Girl	Following are excerpts from Painters of the Desert, Ed Ainsworth, 1960 ... "Nicolai Fechin, he found the desert's soul ... His technique certainly ranks, in form and artistry, with the creations of Leonardo da Vinci. Yet Leonardo, basking under Mediterranean skies, never encountered the upheavals and tragedies which catapulted Fechin from his Russian homeland to the new and different realm in which he was compelled to orient himself all over again." "For thirteen years, from the dawn until dark, he stood before an easel striving for the mastery of color, form and techniques demanded by
the rigorous taskmasters of the Imperial Academy of Art under the direct supervision of the Court of Czar Nicholas. Not until his thirteenth year in the academy was he permitted to paint on his own." "Then came the great calamities ... World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, bloodshed everywhere. For seven years, Fechin lived amid famine and misery in the gloomy forests of the Volga. In rare moments when he could paint, he used tempera as oil paints were a luxury."	Portrait of Varya Adoratskaya	Lady with Manicure
Mother and Child, Wife and daughter Alexandra and Eya	Indians Dancing	"Disease took his father and mother. He himself almost died from pneumonia brought on by privation." "Then at last ... to America. ... Fechin had to start all over again here. He was unable to speak English. He possessed no money. All he had was the artistic ability within him. In those first months in New York, a strange chain of events ... brought his works to be exhibited at the Grand Central Galleries. His work impressed two people in particular. One was John Burnham, a Chicago art collector and painter, and the other, Clyde Forsythe, the cartoonist of "Joe Jinks" and "Dynamite Dunn" and the "Way Out West" and also a Western painter, then sojourning in the East."
Mother and Child, Wife and daughter Alexandra and Eya	The Fechins' home in snow, NM
"Through Forsythe's interest and sponsorship, Fechin was able to make invaluable contacts in the West. But Fechin was not interested in land booms or migrations. He was fascinated, instead, by the land beyond boundaries of the cities, by the native Indians, by the soft spoken descendants of the Spanish dons in the desert country." "Around the Salton Sea, in the mountains above San Bernardino and Redlands, and on the Mojave Desert the freshness and quiet of Early California still prevailed. Burnham took Fechin camping into these remote realms where an almost primeval simplicity spread its enchantment." "Finally, he moved West. In Taos, in the immemorial Indian village beyond Santa Fe, New Mexico, he settled, reveling in the immense spaces, the unbelievable brilliance of the atmosphere, the patient plodding Indians, the red, yellow and dun cliffs and mountains." "When not painting, Fechin enjoyed fishing in the upper reaches of the Rio Grande, one of his favorite recreations. During this period of relative stability, Fechin suffered grievously from personal troubles. Driven by them, he sought surcease of spirit by travels in Mexico and in the South Seas where he painted avidly the extraordinary faces of natives on far-flung islands, and tarried for a long time amid the flamboyant colorings of Bali. Always though, the desert beckoned him."		Joe with a Drum
Negro Girl with an Orange	Balinese Girl	Bali
"During his enjoyable trips to Palm Springs to visit John Burnham, he would join with the artist's group, including Maynard Dixon, Jimmy Swinnerton and Clyde Forsythe, that would go down to Painter John Hilton's house at Thermal for sessions of talk and guitar music or companionable painting forays into the Mecca Hills or Box Canyon." In her book *The Man Who Captured Sunshine*, Katherine Ainsworth writes of the friendship between Nicolai Fechin and John Hilton. "Fechin hated to drive, in fact, probably had never learned, and requested John to drive him to scenic places and to the Indians he knew so well. In exchange, Fechin offered to criticize Hilton's work. "He was a stern task setter," recalled Hilton. "Fechin was a small intense man with steely, penetrating blue eyes. It was as though he possessed an inner smoldering fire of creativity and those eyes looked keenly into another person's soul and all shoddiness was burned away. With Nicolai, a person's petty meannesses and false pretenses shrank and disappeared." "To be with Nicolai Fechin was a priceless opportunity and I dropped everything I could to be with him. The first time he went through all my stuff, and I had painted like mad after Maynard Dixon had culled out most of my poor paintings, I nearly died because there were many which were salable. I couldn't help but protest weakly. 'Nicolai,' I said, 'if you destroy all of these, I shall go broke.'"		Cows and Aspens, National Cowboy Museum, Tulsa

Torry Pines, 1955, San Diego Museum of Art

"He was ruthless and merely said, 'Sell your cactus, sell your rocks, sell everything you have, but get to work on your art. Hard as times were, I had faith in Fechin and did as he ordered."

There was a human skull on a desk. For the next three months he said, "Don't paint, just draw. "He rigged up an electric light on a cord and hung it from the ceiling. "Now," he said, "light the skull from every angle and draw it. But bring your sketches to me when you think they are worth looking at." When I thought a sketch was pretty good, I'd take it up to Fechin's studio in Palm Springs. He'd take one look and usually tore the drawing up and merely said, "Now get back to your drawings." He kept saying, "Get behind the principle."

"For a long time, I didn't quite know what he meant," confessed Hilton, "and then one day it dawned on me. He meant that a successful painting had to go 'beyond the principle; or the mere surface and penetrate down into reality -- the thing itself."

Fechin's Russian paintings had been exhibited and sold in America prior to his arrival. He had been invited to show his work at an international exhibition at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh in 1910. He began to sell his work in the United States that year through W.S. Stimmel, a patron of Fechin in New York.

In his younger Russian days, Fechin helped found the Commune of Artists in 1910. He exhibited with the Itinerants from 1912 to 1922 and with the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia from 1922 to 1926. In addition, he designed sets and other scenic elements for the theatre from 1920 to 1922. He also painted portraits of notable Russian subjects. To the right is Fechin's portrait of Vladimir Lenin.

Vladimir Lenin by Nicolai Fechin

California Impressionist George Gardner Symons 1861-1930	George Gardner Symons was born in Chicago during the Civil War. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago where he met his life long friend and studio partner, William Wendt. He and Wendt traveled throughout Europe. Symons studied in London, Paris and Munich. Upon returning to the United States, he changed his last name from Simon to Symons in an effort to avoid antisemitism. Symons exhibited often in New York with the best American painters of his day. After working as a commercial artist in Chicago, he established a studio in Laguna Beach with William Wendt. He visited California often, but maintained his primary studio in Brooklyn, New York, and often painted in Colerain, Massachusetts.	Symon's friend William Wendt, Photo Portrait
George Gardner Symons, Photo Portrait		Symon's friend William Wendt, Photo Portrait
Symons style combined elements of Realism and Impressionism. He is best known for his winter landscapes of rural Massachusetts but loved painting plein air in California. As early as 1896, both Symons and William Wendt were in the avant-garde, bringing new impressionism techniques to interpret the landscapes and light of Malibu Rancho near Los Angeles. In 1898, the pair painted for a time in Cornwall, England.	Covered Bridge	Dusk's Palette
Evening in the Berkshires	Lone Oak	Pines in Winter
Canyon at Granite Gate	Mission San Juan Capistrano	Coronado Island
Canyon at Granite Gate	Impressionism was just beginning to make inroads into America in the 1890's, encountering much the same headwinds it had encountered in France. The established artists of the time who had been rigidly trained in drawing and composition could not adjust to accept impressionism's bright colors nor tolerate its interest in light effects over their beloved dark emotional works. But Symons and Wendt proceeded and the Southern California landscape was eminently well suited as a location for impressionist paintings. The soft colors and shimmering atmospheric conditions offered by Southern California begged to be painted. On occasion, he would travel East to Arizona, doing desert landscapes, and he enjoyed doing scenes of the Grand Canyon.
Rocks and Sea	Fishing Village, St. Ives, Private Collection	California Beach
Today, Symons' works can be seen in many museums including the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Fleischer Museum in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was a member of numerous associations including the National Academy of Design, the National Arts Club, the Institute of Arts and Letters, the Lotos, Century, and Salmagundi Clubs. He was also a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and the Union Internationale des Beaux Arts et des Lettres.
Grand Canyon	Seacoast, available through Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery Collection	New England Forest, available through Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery Collection
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Henry Ossawa Tanner 1859-1937, an American in Paris, part of the Smithsonian's new exhibition "Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue"	Henry Osswana Tanner by Thomas Eakins 1902
Henry Ossawa Tanner was the first African American artist to achieve international acclaim. He first studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts becoming a favored pupil of American portraitist Thomas Eakins. Hindered by racism at home, he found greater acceptance and artistic freedom in France, making France his home beginning in 1891. In Paris, he studied at the Academie Julian and after WWI, the French awarded him a knighthood in the Legion of Honour for his paintings of African American troops, which he considered the pinnacle of his career.
His mother Sarah had been born a slave and had escaped the South via the Underground Railroad and his father, Benjamin Tucker Tanner, was a preacher of an African Methodist Episcopal Church and was a friend and sometimes

critic of Frederick Douglass. His parents nurtured in Henry a sense of pride regarding his heritage and gave him the middle name "Ossawa" after the Kansas town where John Brown launched his anti-slavery campaign.

Comedian Bill Cosby and his wife Camille have been significant collectors and proponents of African and African American Art and have now made their extensive collection available for the Smithsonian's new exhibition "Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue." Among their collection are two famous paintings by Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Banjo Lesson and The Thankful Poor.

To the right is a PBS interview of Bill and Camille Cosby. Gwen Ifell discusses with them the Smithsonian's Exhibition "Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue” including works from National Museum of African Art and the Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr. Collection.

The Banjo Lesson William and Camille Cosby Collection	Henry did not marry until he was 40 years old. He married American opera singer Jessie Ollsen in 1899, and their son Jesse Ossawa Tanner was born in 1903. Henry was quite successful in France, able to own a home in Paris and a country getaway in Etaples, Normandy. He loved living in France. First and foremost, to live free of racial oppression and prejudice was a relief, but even more so for Henry was that his art was judged and accepted on its own right, with none of the baggage associated with race. Back home in America, his success in France was noticed and celebrated.
	The Thankful Poor 1894 William and Camille Cosby Collection	The Tanner Family in France
Henry truly believed he could not fight racism and discrimination in America and still fulfill his artistic potential. Yet, he still managed to be a voice in America. Booker T. Washington visited Henry in Paris and wrote about his success for American readers. His growing American fame brought exhibitions in Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Chicago, Washington, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis. In 1925, the African American journal The Crisis published a journal with a cover article of Henry Ossawa Tanner, W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Samuel Taylor-Coleridge as models of African-American creative geniuses.
Henry Ossawa Tanner, Photo Portrait Archives of American Art	8 cent stamp, Henry Ossawa Tanner, issued Sept 10, 1973	A view of Fez, 1912 High Museum Collection, Atlanta
	Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City, NJ, White House Collection acquired during President Clinton's Administration	Spinning by Firelight, 1894 Yale University Art Gallery

Fishermen at Sea Smithsonian American Art Museum	In 1893, most African Americans featured in paintings were caricatures or pitiful figures of poverty. Tanner rejected such treatments, choosing to represent black subjects with dignity. He wrote, "Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, the ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior."
	The Arch, Brooklyn Museum of Art	His painting, *The Banjo Lesson* takes on this stereotyping head on. The banjo had become associated with slaves, a musical strumming instrument relic of Africa, now a cliche. But in Tanner's experienced and sensitive hand, he takes an older experienced man patiently and lovingly teaching a child to play. In so doing, he was providing powerful commentary about African American fathers as mentors and sages passing on the hard learned wisdom to the next generation. The Banjo Lesson was a large canvas and was accepted into the Paris Salon of 1894. The painting then came to America to the Hampton Institute near Norfolk, Virginia. From there it was loaned to Atlanta's Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895, hanging in the Negro Building. But American critics ignored the work, seemingly blind to its strong imagery confronting a culturally accepted stereotype.
View of the Seine Looking Toward Notre Dame 1896 Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City	Coastal Landscape, France Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City
Soon afterward, Tanner followed The Banjo Lesson with The Thankful Poor, but this effort also met with less than critical acceptance. At this point, Henry gave up painting subjects depicting African Americans choosing instead to paint Biblical themed works. He returned to Paris and painted scenes for the Paris Salon or painted religious works.
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Gallery News

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Bodega Bay artist
Florence Brass 1921 - 2014

We have lost a treasure! Florence passed away peacefully in her home on November 6, 2014 at the age of 93. Born in Weehawken, New Jersey in 1921, her talent as an artist led to a successful career as an advertising executive in New York City that spanned over five decades. When she moved to Bodega Bay in 1992, she retired from the ad business, returned to being a professional artist and became a partner in the Local Color Art Gallery. At the age of 93, she was still painting. An inspiration to many, she filled her life with work, artistry and the people she loved.

Florence is survived by her sons Bob and Jim Tischler, daughters-in-law Susan Head and Judith Tischler, granddaughter Rose Morris and her husband Zachary, grandson Zeke Tischler and his wife Brigette, niece Reina Delbos and her husband Phil and great granddaughter Marsella Morris.

There will be a celebration of Florence's life on Sunday, December 7th at 2:00 p.m. at the Sebastopol Community Cultural Center Annex, 425 Morris Street, Sebastopol, CA. See Florence's page on our site.

Jean Warren:
A Fall Show of Watercolors
through January 4, 2015

Christopher Creek Winery
641 Limerick Ln, Healdsburg, 10-5 daily
Reception- Sunday, December 7, 3- 6pm

Hole in the Head:
The Battle for Bodega Bay
and the Birth of the Environmental Movement

Nov 2 - Feb 9
Now at the Sonoma County Museum,
425 Seventh St., Santa Rosa, CA 707-579-1500

IT ALMOST HAPPENED ... half a century ago ...
The foundation for the Bodega Bay Nuclear Power Plant reactor
being built on Bodega Head ... today, our famous Hole in the Head

The exhibition chronicles the story of the nuclear power plant, proposed for construction at Bodega Head in 1958 and its defeat by members of the local community in 1964. Stories will focus on the lives of the individuals involved in the struggle against PG&E and the arguments made against the plant on one of California’s most pristine coastal areas. This project not only honors the region’s earliest environmental activists but shows their enduring legacy for our region.

The project will include an in-gallery exhibition featuring text, photographs, artifacts and multimedia—mostly in the form of edited video interviews. The interviews will include new video collected for this project, as well as edited segments from a rich collection of existing video histories in SCM’s collection. (Click to See the article in the Press Democrat)

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What's showing in Bodega Bay?
	Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery 1785 Coast Highway One, Bodega Bay, CA 94923, 707-875-2911 \| Map & Location Celebrating Early California Art - original paintings by famous artists of the past - and local artists Vineyards, Orchards, Ranches & Farms	"Composed by the Ocean" Joshua Meador
	The Ren Brown Collection "One Ocean One Voice" Mayumi Oda ... silkscreen prints and recent paintings through Nov 9 http://www.renbrown.com \| Back to the Top
	Alas no more ... A salute to our friends and good neighbor Local Color Artist Gallery They've closed their doors October 8, "Thank you to all of our patrons and collectors through the years." Back to the Top Special note ... A Memorial Service for Florence Brass will be held at the Sebastopol Community Center Annex, Sunday, December 7, 2:00 PM
What's showing nearby? in Sonoma, Napa & Marin Counties
	IN DUNCANS MILLS Christopher Queen Galleries 3 miles east of Hwy 1 on Hwy 116 on the Russian River "The Traveling Painters" Bart Walker, Paul Kratter, & Sergio Lopez http://www.christopherqueengallery.com \|707-865-1318\| Back to the Top
	IN DUNCANS MILLS Quercia Gallery "Infinite" -- paintings by Ron Quercia, Sep 1 - Dec 29 Hours: 11am-5pm, Thur - Mon (707) 865-0243 http://www.quercia-gallery.com \| Back to the Top
	NOW IN SANTA ROSA Calabi Gallery \| http://www.calabigallery.com 456 Tenth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 \| email: info@calabigallery.com \| 707-781-7070 Famed master conservator Dennis Calabi brings his rare knowledge and experience to present a tasteful and eclectic array of primarily 20th century artwork. http://www.calabigallery.com \| Back to the Top	Easton, Crustacean Dancing Dream, American Alabaster
	IN Santa Rosa The Annex Galleries specializing in 19th, 20th, and 21st century American and European fine prints The Annex Galleries is a member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA). http://www.AnnexGalleries.com \| Back to the Top
	IN GRATON Graton Gallery http://www.gratongallery.com Graton Gallery \| (707) 829-8912 \| artshow@gratongallery.com 9048 Graton Road, Graton CA 95444 \| Open Wednesday ~ Saturday 10:30 to 6, Sunday 10:30 to 4
	IN BODEGA Bodega Landmark Gallery Collection 17255 Bodega Highway Bodega, California USA 94922 Phone 707 876 3477 http://www.artbodega.com \| Lorenzo@ArtBodega.com \| Back to the Top
	IN Healdsburg Hammerfriar Gallery http://www.hammerfriar.com (707) 473-9600 \| Jill@hammerfriar.com 132 Mill Street, Healdsburg, CA 95448 \| Open Tues - Fri 10 to 6, Sat 10 - 5, Sun 12 - 4
	IN PETALUMA Vintage Bank Antiques Vintage Bank Antiques is located in Historic Downtown Petaluma, corner of Western Avenue and Petaluma Blvd. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Warren Davis and the rest of the team at Vintage Bank Antiques has assembled a spectacular inventory of paintings. From the 18th Century to Contemporary Artists. We have paintings to suit every price point and collector level. If you have a painting for sale, please consider Vintage Bank Antiques. Contact Warren Davis directly at WarrenDavisPaintings@yahoo.com, 101 Petaluma Blvd. North, Petaluma, CA 94952, ph: 707.769.3097 http://vintagebankantiques.com \| Back to the Top
	IN PETALUMA Petaluma Art Center "... to celebrate local artists and their contributions and involve the whole community	Petaluma Art Center Photo:Anita Diamondstein
Lee Youngman	IN CALISTOGA the Lee Youngman Gallery Featuring the work of contemporary painter Paul Youngman, and the works of famed painter, Ralph Love (1907-1992) http://www.leeyoungmangalleries.com \| Back to the Top Left ... Lee Youngman, Right ... Paul Youngman	Paul Youngman

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Links to current museum exhibits relevant to Early California Art
The Greater Bay Area
The Walt Disney Family Museum This museum tells Walt's story from the early days. (on the Parade Grounds) 104 Montgomery Street, The Presidio of San Francisco, CA 94129 "All Aboard: A Celebration of Walt's Trains through Feb 9 -- view location on Google Maps --		San Francisco *de Young Museum* Keith Haring: The Political Line through Feb 16
San Francisco California Historical Society Yosemite: A Storied Landscape through Jan 25		San Francisco Legion of Honor Houghton Hall: Portrait of an English Country House through Jan 18 Permanent European and Impressionist Paintings
San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum		Oakland Oakland Museum of California Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California through April 12 -- ongoing Gallery of California Art -showcasing over 800 works from the OMCA's collection
San Francisco SFMOMA Now ... More Open than ever ... see our website but closed for renovations http://www.sfmoma.org/our_expansion		*Santa Rosa* *Sonoma County Museum* coming -- Nov 2 - Feb 8 Hole in the Head: The Battle for Bodega Bay and the Birth of the Environmental Movement
Santa Rosa Charles M. Schultz Museum "Peanuts in Wonderland" through April 26		Moraga Hearst Art Gallery Pueblo to Pueblo: The Legacy of Southwest Indian Pottery Oct 12 through Dec 14
Sonoma Mission San Francisco de Solano Museum featuring the famed watercolor paintings of the California Missions by Christian Jorgensen		Sonoma Sonoma Valley Museum of Art 551 Broadway, Sonoma CA 954 (707) 939-7862
Ukiah Grace Hudson Museum *Days of Grace:* California Artist Grace Hudson in Hawaii through Dec 28 http://www.gracehudsonmuseum.org		Bolinas Bolinas Museum featuring their permanent collection, including Ludmilla and Thadeus Welch, Arthur William Best, Jack Wisby, Russell Chatham, Alfred Farnsworth.
Walnut Creek The Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts		San Jose San Jose Museum of Art approximately 2,000 20th & 21st century artworks including paintings, sculpture, new media, photography, drawings, prints, and artist books.
Monterey Monterey Museum of Art Warren Chang through April 6 http://www.montereyart.org		Palo Alto Cantor Art Center at Stanford University Rodin! The Complete Stanford Collection
Sacramento Crocker Art Museum Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art through Jan 11 & their marvelous Permanent Collection		Sacramento Capitol Museum Governor's Portrait Gallery Permanent Exhibits (including one of our galllery's favorite artists, Robert Rishell's portrait of Gov. Ronald Reagan)
Stockton's Treasure! Time to visit & see The Haggin Museum! -Largest exhibition of Albert Beirstadt paintings anywhere, plus the works of Joseph Christian Leyendecker, Norman Rockwell's mentor. see our Newsletter article, April 2011
Southern California (and Arizona)
Los Angeles Los Angeles Museum of Art Art of the Americas, Level 3: Artworks of paintings and sculptures from the colonial period to World War II— a survey of of art and culture & "Levitated Mass"		Irvine The Irvine Museum Scenic View Ahead The Westways Cover Art Program through Jan 15
*Santa Barbara* The Santa Barbara Museum of Art Degas to Chagall: Important Loans from The Armand Hammer Foundation		Palm Springs Palm Springs Art Museum Permanent Collection American 19th century Landscape Painting "A Grand Adventure" through Jan 4 an exhibition of a century of major Western painting including works by Bierstadt and Moran and Dixon.
San Diego San Diego Museum of Art Permanent Collection		Pasadena The Huntington Library American Art Collection Paintings by John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, Robert Henri, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, William Keith, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Hart Benton and many more.
Pasadena Norton Simon Museum -Permanent collection, European impressionist and post impressionist paintings See our newsletter from March 2014		Pasadena Museum of California Art
Prescott, AZ Phippen Museum *Architecture in Art* through July 13
& Beyond
Seattle, WA Seattle Art Museum		Portland, OR Portland Art Museum Permanent Collection: American Art
Washington D.C. The Renwick Gallery Permanent ... Grand Salon Paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum		Chicago, IL Art Institute of Chicago Permanent collection: the Impressionists
Cedar Rapids, IA The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Grant Wood: In Focus is an ongoing permanent collection exhibition.		Bentonville, AR Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Washington D.C. The National Gallery Permanent collection American Paintings		Philadelphia , PA The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia , PA Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Campus		Brooklyn, NY The Brooklyn Museum American Art Permanent Collection
New York , NY The Whitney Museum of American Art The largest selection of works by Edward Hopper

What's showing in Bodega Bay?
	Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery 1785 Coast Highway One, Bodega Bay, CA 94923, 707-875-2911 \| Map & Location Celebrating Early California Art - original paintings by famous artists of the past - and local artists Vineyards, Orchards, Ranches & Farms	"Composed by the Ocean" Joshua Meador
	The Ren Brown Collection "One Ocean One Voice" Mayumi Oda ... silkscreen prints and recent paintings through Nov 9 http://www.renbrown.com \| Back to the Top
	Alas no more ... A salute to our friends and good neighbor Local Color Artist Gallery They've closed their doors October 8, "Thank you to all of our patrons and collectors through the years." Back to the Top Special note ... A Memorial Service for Florence Brass will be held at the Sebastopol Community Center Annex, Sunday, December 7, 2:00 PM
What's showing nearby? in Sonoma, Napa & Marin Counties
	IN DUNCANS MILLS Christopher Queen Galleries 3 miles east of Hwy 1 on Hwy 116 on the Russian River "The Traveling Painters" Bart Walker, Paul Kratter, & Sergio Lopez http://www.christopherqueengallery.com \|707-865-1318\| Back to the Top
	IN DUNCANS MILLS Quercia Gallery "Infinite" -- paintings by Ron Quercia, Sep 1 - Dec 29 Hours: 11am-5pm, Thur - Mon (707) 865-0243 http://www.quercia-gallery.com \| Back to the Top
	NOW IN SANTA ROSA Calabi Gallery \| http://www.calabigallery.com 456 Tenth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 \| email: info@calabigallery.com \| 707-781-7070 Famed master conservator Dennis Calabi brings his rare knowledge and experience to present a tasteful and eclectic array of primarily 20th century artwork. http://www.calabigallery.com \| Back to the Top	Easton, Crustacean Dancing Dream, American Alabaster
	IN Santa Rosa The Annex Galleries specializing in 19th, 20th, and 21st century American and European fine prints The Annex Galleries is a member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA). http://www.AnnexGalleries.com \| Back to the Top
	IN GRATON Graton Gallery http://www.gratongallery.com Graton Gallery \| (707) 829-8912 \| artshow@gratongallery.com 9048 Graton Road, Graton CA 95444 \| Open Wednesday ~ Saturday 10:30 to 6, Sunday 10:30 to 4
	IN BODEGA Bodega Landmark Gallery Collection 17255 Bodega Highway Bodega, California USA 94922 Phone 707 876 3477 http://www.artbodega.com \| Lorenzo@ArtBodega.com \| Back to the Top
	IN Healdsburg Hammerfriar Gallery http://www.hammerfriar.com (707) 473-9600 \| Jill@hammerfriar.com 132 Mill Street, Healdsburg, CA 95448 \| Open Tues - Fri 10 to 6, Sat 10 - 5, Sun 12 - 4
	IN PETALUMA Vintage Bank Antiques Vintage Bank Antiques is located in Historic Downtown Petaluma, corner of Western Avenue and Petaluma Blvd. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Warren Davis and the rest of the team at Vintage Bank Antiques has assembled a spectacular inventory of paintings. From the 18th Century to Contemporary Artists. We have paintings to suit every price point and collector level. If you have a painting for sale, please consider Vintage Bank Antiques. Contact Warren Davis directly at WarrenDavisPaintings@yahoo.com, 101 Petaluma Blvd. North, Petaluma, CA 94952, ph: 707.769.3097 http://vintagebankantiques.com \| Back to the Top
	IN PETALUMA Petaluma Art Center "... to celebrate local artists and their contributions and involve the whole community	Petaluma Art Center Photo:Anita Diamondstein
Lee Youngman	IN CALISTOGA the Lee Youngman Gallery Featuring the work of contemporary painter Paul Youngman, and the works of famed painter, Ralph Love (1907-1992) http://www.leeyoungmangalleries.com \| Back to the Top Left ... Lee Youngman, Right ... Paul Youngman	Paul Youngman

Hole in the Head: The Battle for Bodega Bay and the Birth of the Environmental Movement Nov 2 - Feb 9 Now at the Sonoma County Museum, 425 Seventh St., Santa Rosa, CA 707-579-1500

Hole in the Head:
The Battle for Bodega Bay
and the Birth of the Environmental Movement

Nov 2 - Feb 9
Now at the Sonoma County Museum,
425 Seventh St., Santa Rosa, CA 707-579-1500