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Tamara de Lempicka_at San Francisco's de Young Museum
An ART DECO must see ...
Tamara de Lempicka at San Francisco's de Young Museum
Large Photo of Tamara de Lempicka c1932 (age 38) at the entrance of the exhibition
Large Photo of Tamara de Lempicka c1932 (age 38)
at the entrance of the exhibition
Tamara de Lempicka is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and her highly stylized paintings of nudes.

She was born to a privileged Jewish family in Poland and grew up in St. Petersburg. Along with her family, she fled the Russian Revolution, settling in Paris during the 1920's and 30's where she studied and established her signature style and artistic reputation. When her career was at its zenith, she had to flee again, this time from the Nazis invading Paris, and she settled in the United States.

A stunningly stylish larger than life photo of Tamara de Lempicka greets visitors to the de Young's exhibition. Visually striking, the photo unmistakably seems to be Tamara de Lempicka's personal welcome. As the exhibition unfolds for the most part chronologically, Tamara de Lempicka's extraordinary life is revealed. Her wide array of paintings all possess graceful style, inventive color, and flair, but they aren't just about high society life. She does not lose touch with life's tragedies and pains along the way.

Born in 1894 as Tamara Rozalia Gurwik-Górska in Warsaw, Poland in 1894, her family endured the prejudice of anti-Semitism.
Tamara de Lempicka, The Bohemian Woman (La bohémienne) c1923 oil on canvas, private collectio
Tamara de Lempicka, The Bohemian Woman (La bohémienne) c1923
oil on canvas, private collection
Tamara de Lempicka, Russian Dancer , 1924-25 oil on canvas, Collection of Marek Roefler Villa la Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland
Tamara de Lempicka, Russian Dancer , 1924-25
oil on canvas, Collection of Marek Roefler
Villa la Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland
The Bohemian Woman was painted during Tamara's early years Paris. This early painting reveals Tamara's love of the color green which becomes prominent in many of her later works.

Russian Dancer shows a woman dressed in folk attire from Southern Russia. The model may be Tamara's friend, a Lebanese artist named Bibi Zogbé. She is wearing traditional garments that may have been owned by Tamara de Lempicka, including the stunning "kokoshnik" (headress), decorated with pearls. Tamara kept ties with the Russian expatriate community in Paris, and as part of her painting career, she created Russian themed artworks for them.

Tamara's father was a Russian-Jewish attorney for a French trading company and her mother was a Polish-Jewish socialite. When Tamara was a young girl, her family endured anti-Semitism to the point of masking their Jewish heritage by being baptized into the Polish Reformed Church.

At age 17, Tamara was sent to boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland. Tamara didn't like it there, and feigned illness to convince her parents to let her leave. Her grandmother then took her on a tour of Italy and the French Riviera to instill in her an interest the world of art and in particular, the Italian masters. Tamara was fascinated by Italian figures and Italian painting and sculpture, influencing her later work.


Produced by the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, this film features interviews with curator Furio Rinaldi and Tamara de Lempicka's great-granddaughter, Marisa de Lempicka. It outlines Lempicka’s life and career, from her childhood in Russia to her burgeoning art career in Paris to how she became an Art Deco icon.
Tamara de Lempicka, Still Life with Russian Doll (Hyacinth) c 1924 oil on canvas on cardboard, private collection
Tamara de Lempicka, Still Life with Russian Doll (Hyacinth) c 1924
oil on canvas on cardboard, private collection

Tamara de Lempicka, Still Life with Cauliflower c 1924-25
oil on canvas, collection of Roy and Jenny Niederhoffer

Still Life with Russian Doll (Hyacinth) was a painting for Russian expatriates who fled their home and all things familiar in order to escape the October Revolution. Paintings such as these served as humble remembrances of their home. At the time, the blue doll was a common Russian toy carved from wood.

Still Life with Cauliflower isn't specifically Russian, but this still life does show two apples and cauliflower, symbols of the simpler Russian peasant life, recognizable to many within the Russian ex patriot community. Note the similar tablecloth to the one in Still Life with Russian Doll.

Tamara de Lempicka, Bouquet of Violets, c 1927 oil on board, Collection of Henryk Bury
Tamara de Lempicka, Bouquet of Violets, c 1927
oil on board, Collection of Henryk Bury
Tamara de Lempicka, Studio Corner c 1924 oil on canvas, collection of Marek Roefler Villa la Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland
Tamara de Lempicka, Studio Corner c 1924
oil on canvas, collection of Marek Roefler
Villa la Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland
Bouquet of Violets and Studio Corner give clues about Tamara's early struggling years in Paris. This studio corner and table with a bouquet of violets may well have been in Tamara's apartment at 1, Place de Wagram or 5 Rue Guy de Maupassant. Studio Corner may be a corner of Andre Lhoté's art academy in Montparnasse. Studio Corner plays on shades of blue, and the book shelf filled with drawing practice and reading manuals are evidence of Tamara's years of artistic study.

Paul Priestly is an art teacher and more recently, a self-confessed video YouTuber. Here he tells the incredible story of artist Tamara de Lempicka. This video is well produced, researched and presented.
In 1916, Tamara married Tadeusz Łempicki, a lawyer who worked for Tzar Nicholas II. For a brief time, they enjoyed a privileged and comfortable life in St. Petersburg. But during the Russian Revolution in 1917, Tadeusz Łempicki was arrested and jailed.

Tamara and members of her family were forced to flee. They made their way to Copenhagen, then briefly to London and eventually to Paris. Tamara strived for the release of Tadeusz Łempicki, going to the extent of gaining the help of a Swedish consul by granting him her special favors. When Tadeusz was released, he was able to catch up with the family in Paris.
Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait of a Man (Tadeusz Lempicki) 1929 oil on canvas, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne Centre de création industrielle, Paris
Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait of a Man (Tadeusz Lempicki) 1929
oil on canvas, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne

Centre de création industrielle, Paris
Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait of Baron Raoul Kuffner oil on panel, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne Centre de création industrielle, Paris
Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait of Baron Raoul Kuffner 1928-1932
oil on panel, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne
Centre de création industrielle, Paris
Portrait of a Man and Portrait of Baron Raoul Kuffner are Tamara's first and second husbands respectively.

Tamara married Tadeusz Lempicki in 1916 in St. Petersburg when she was 22 years old.
Their short lived marriage had to deal with fleeing Paris, his imprisonment and eventual release, their relocation to Paris, and Tamara's "freewheeling lifestyle." The skyscrapers in this portrait of him suggest it was done in New York during their first visit there in 1929. He is eligantly dressed, his large frame draped in the shimmering fabric of a classically tailored double breasted overcoat. His left hand holds a top hat, but the hand itself is left intentionally unfinished; his ring finger has no wedding ring.

Baron Raoul Kuffner married Tamara in 1934. His aristocratic title was acquired by his father Karl, and their main property was the Diószegh Castle in Hungary, the scene of the couple's early encounters. With this marriage, Tamara later became known as the Baroness with a Brush.
Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait of André Gide 1925 oil on cardboard, private collection
Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait of André Gide 1925
oil on cardboard, private collection
Tamara de Lempicka, Kizette on the Balcony, 1927 oil on canvas, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne Centre de création industrielle, Paris
Tamara de Lempicka, Kizette on the Balcony, 1927
oil on canvas, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne
Centre de création industrielle, Paris
Portrait of Andre Gidé This portrait was praised by critics for its chilling appearance. Andre Gidé (1869-1951) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947 for his novel Les Faux-monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters) which shocked readers with its honest treatment of homosexuality. Gidé was a member of the jury at the 1923 Salon d' Automne in which Lempicka exhibited. Meeting Andre Gidé was Tamara's entree into Parisian intellectual circles.

Kizette on the Balcony This was one of the first paintings which garnered Tamara de Lempicka critical attention. This young girl fills the picture plane bridging the gap between the domestic world inside the apartment and the outside world beyond the balcony. Part of her is connected to her childhood while she is about to embark on her adult life in the world just off her balcony. The success of this painting encouraged Tamara to use her daughter as a model more frequently. At the time, Tamara didn't want to be known as a mother, so when this painting was shown at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, it was simply titled On the Balcony.


Tamara de Lempicka, Young Girl in Pink (Kizette in Pink II) c 1928-1929 oil on canvas, collection of Patty and Jay Baker coutesy of Artis--Naples, The Baker Museum, Naples, FloridaTamara de Lempicka, Young Girl in Pink (Kizette in Pink II) c 1928-1929
oil on canvas, collection of Patty and Jay Baker
courtesy of Artis--Naples, The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida

In Paris, Tamara matured socially and artistically. She gave birth to her only daughter, Maria Krystyna (Kizette) in 1919. She pursued her art studies with Marice Denis and Andre Lhoté. Denis was an artist associated with Les Nabis symbolism and neo classicism. Lhoté was a French cubist painter of figures. Lhoté proved to be very influential on Tamara de Lempicka.

In Paris of the late 1920's, Tamara enjoyed the artistic and social life of Paris. In 1928, she became the mistress of Baron Raoul Kuffer, a wealthy art collector from the former Austria-Hungarian Empire. In 1931, she divorced Tadeusz Łempicki and, in 1933, she married the Baron.

Tamara exhibited her paintings at the Salon des Independents, the Salon d'Automne (Autumn Salon) and the Salon des moins de trente ans (Salon for under-thirties) for promising young painters. In 1925, she made her first breakthrough at the Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) -- an exhibition which later gave birth to Art Deco. It was at this exhibition that her paintings were noticed by American journalists from Harper's Bazaar and other fashion magazines.

Young Girl in Pink This is the second version of Young Girl in Pink. Both versions of this painting show Kizette wearing a fashionable tennis outfit. Tamara de Lempicka produced this canvas after the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes in France acquired the first version in 1928, which enjoyed critical success. Lempicka brought this second version with her when she traveled to the United States in 1929. When it arrived in San Francisco, it was acquired by Boris Kitchin, an entrepreneur living in nearby Hillsborough. In 1930 it was presented at an exhibition organized by art dealer Beatrice Judd Ryan at San Francisco's Galerie Beaux Arts. Interestingly, Kizzette seems to have kicked off her left shoe while she posed for this painting.

Before the rise of Naziism, Tamara de Lempicka paintings graced the cover of Die Dame in the late 1920's and early 1930's,
Die Dame was a stylish Berlin based magazine promoting "the modern woman."
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From 1927 through 1930, Tamara de Lempicka collaborated with Die Dame, a prestigious woman's magazine in Berlin, featuring colorful illustrations of fashion, literature, and the arts. Tamara de Lempicka's paintings made the cover, including her famous self portrait in a green Bugatti (an automobile praised for its design beauty and style) in July of 1929, Die Dame reached its popularity during Germany's inter-war years and was a platform to express the aspirations and successes of "the modern woman."

Tamara de Lempicka, The Communicant 1928 oil on canvas, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre de création industrielle, Paris
Tamara de Lempicka, The Communicant 1928
oil on canvas, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne,
Centre de création industrielle, Paris

Tamara de Lempicka, Kizette with a Polish Shawl 1933 oil on panel, private collection
Tamara de Lempicka, Kizette with a Polish Shawl 1933
oil on panel, private collection
The Communicant The placard of this painting points to its chromatic finesse and the sumptuous draping of Kizette's robe and hooded veil. The painting may have been done in part to mask the family's Jewish heritage in the face of Nazi era anti-Semitism.

The Communicant was first exhibited at the 1928 Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1928. A year later it was presented at Poland's Powszechna Wystawa Krajowa Posan in 1929 where it won a bronze medal. This event was organized to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Polish independence from the Russian Empire.

The Polish Girl, also known as Kizette with a Polish Shawl, was done in 1933. This painting was done in part as an expression of Polish pride and a reminder of Kizette's Polish roots. The image of her gazing eyes and youthful shining complexion is framed in ribbons of blond hair and shadows of her white and lusciously red flowered shawl. Posing with the book suggests that literacy and independent thought were qualities Tamara wanted to instill in her daughter and all young women.

Tamara de Lempicka, Her Sadness, 1923 oil on canvas, private collection, courtesy of Sotheby's
Tamara de Lempicka, Her Sadness, 1923
oil on canvas, private collection, courtesy of Sotheby's
Tamara de Lempicka, Face and Profile (Double Portrait), 1931 oil on panel, The Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, Berlin, Germany
Tamara de Lempicka, Face and Profile (Double Portrait), 1931
oil on panel, The Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, Berlin, Germany
Both of these portraits are of Ira Perrot, Tamara's lover. She was a poet, and frequently modeled for Tamara's paintings.

Her Sadness, done in 1923, is among Tamara's early paintings. Here, Ira Perrot is wearing a slightly oversized coat, frowning, with a penetrating gaze. A photo of this painting was published in the French magazine Arlequin with a poem written by Ira under her pseudonym, Ira Verte.

The poem was titled L'idole (The Idol), an ode to an unnamed object of adoration (possibly Tamara de Lempicka herself).

"White, black, gray is their kingdom of stone
their reign is the reign of hard minerals
their soul colder than cold stone
the icy gaze of their opal eyes."

Face and Profile (Double Portrait) offers two perspectives, profile and one slightly turned to our left. Ira's sweater is trimmed in green, one of Tamara's favorite colors.

Portrait of Ira P 1931 The exhibition placard for this painting reads "This painting stands out as one of Tamara de Lempicka's most powerful homages to lifelong love and muse, Ira Perrot."

"Holding a bouquet of calla lilies in a quasi-nuptial dress, Perrot is wearing a high fashion creation similar to the "conte blanc," a formfitting evening gown made of peau d'ange satin by Maison Blanche Lebouvier, featured in the fashion magazine L'Officiel in September of 1931."

"Lempicka's seductive painting cannily combines modern style and spirit with more traditional references, such as the diagonal compositional format and the cool, detached gaze typical of Italian Mannerist portraiture."

What I found amazing in this portrait are the sculptural folds found throughout, in the white gown, the calla lilies, and the red shawl.


Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait of Ira P 1931
oil on panel, private collection
Tamara de Lempicka,Brilliance (Bacchante) c 1932 oil on canvas, Collection of Rowland Weinstein, Weinstein Gallery, SF
Tamara de Lempicka,Brilliance (Bacchante) c 1932
oil on canvas, Collection of Rowland Weinstein, Weinstein Gallery, SF

Tamara de Lempicka, The Straw Hat 1930 oil on panel, Collection of Professor Mark Kaufman, Monaco
Tamara de Lempicka, The Straw Hat 1930
oil on panel, Collection of Professor Mark Kaufman, Monaco
Brilliance (Bacchante) and The Straw Hat were stunning, but the exhibition placards had no additional information identifying the models or any other information about these paintings. The dreamy blue eyes in both of these portraits was captivating.
Tamara de Lempicka, Irene and Her Sister, 1925 oil on canvas, Private collection,  courtesy of Irena Hochman Fine Art Ltd., New York
Tamara de Lempicka, Irene and Her Sister, 1925
oil on canvas, Private collection,
courtesy of Irena Hochman Fine Art Ltd., New York
Tamara de Lempicka, Saint-Moritz 1929 oil on panel, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, France
Tamara de Lempicka, Saint-Moritz 1929
oil on panel, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, France
Irene and Her Sister were Tamara de Lempicka's cousins. Like Lempicka, they also fled Russia arriving in Paris in 1921. Their geometric and nearly mechanical forms is contrasted by the natural background. This portrait was featured in 1927 in Vanity Fair. According to Kizette's biography of her mother, this painting started the Art Deco movement.
Saint-Moritz is a Swiss resort. In 1928, Saint-Moritz hosted the Winter Olympics. The German publication Die Dame placed this painting on their cover in the winter of 1928 to celebrate the opening of the Winter Games. Saint-Moritz was a place where European high society met Hollywood royalty, such as Charlie Chaplin and Gloria Swanson. The model in this painting is Ira Perrot, Tamara de Lempicka's long time lover and muse. The red sweater against the white snow is very close to the shades of red and white found in Switzerland's flag.
Tamara de Lempicka, Woman with a Green Glove 1928 oil on panel, private collection
Tamara de Lempicka, Woman with a Green Glove 1928
oil on panel, private collection
Tamara de Lempicka, Young Woman in Green (Young Woman with Gloves) c 1931  oil on board , Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre de création industrielle, Paris
Tamara de Lempicka, Young Woman in Green
(Young Woman with Gloves) c 1931

oil on board , Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne,
Centre de création industrielle, Paris
Woman with a Green Glove The slanted assertive pose and confident gaze of this woman expresses her power and social status.
This is not accidental. Tamara de Lempicka admired the Italian Mannerist portraiture of Agnolo Bronzio, Parmigianino and Jacopo Pontormo for their sophistication and style. The model for this painting is unidentified.

Young Woman in Green This painting is the star of this exhibition, featured prominently in all their advertising.

The exhibition placard reads, "An emblematic image of Art Deco, Young Woman in Green encapsulates the optimism of the interwar period by paying tribute to the era's dynamic "modern woman." The figure here is rendered through the aesthetic of the machine, her anatomy reduced to smooth geometric forms. Her conical breasts, curved hips, and deep navel are swathed in a green fabric that breaks up into folds and flutters, becoming a kind of second skin. As she shades her eyes with the edge of a wide-brimmed hat, this woman looks beyond the frame and into the future, expressing a sense of feminine freedom and hopefulness propagated by the fashions of the time."
Tamara de Lempicka, Nude with Buildings (Nu aux buildings) 1930 oil on canvas, collection of Caroline Hirsch
Tamara de Lempicka, Nude with Buildings (Nu aux buildings) 1930
oil on canvas, collection of Caroline Hirsch
Tamara de Lempicka, Woman with a Dove 1931 oil on panel, collection of Patty and Jay Baker coutesy of Artis--Naples, The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida
Tamara de Lempicka, Woman with a Dove 1931
oil on panel, collection of Patty and Jay Baker
courtesy of Artis--Naples, The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida
Nude with Buildings was exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1931. Although nude, this woman appears polished to perfection, carefully made up, eyebrows drawn and her hair in curls according to the fashion of the day. Her warm skin tones, the olive branch held in her right hand, her pink lips and fingernails contrast with the steely metallic skyscrapers behind her. This is a motif returned to again and again in Tamara de Lempicka's paintings following her trip to New York in 1929.

Woman with a Dove combines sentimentalism with sexuality. The dove is a symbol of love and purity. For Tamara de Lempicka, love and purity were deeply woven into the fabric of erotic expression.
Tamara de Lempicka,La belle Rafaëla 1927, oil on canvas, Collection of Tim Rice
Tamara de Lempicka,La belle Rafaëla 1927, oil on canvas, Collection of Tim Rice
Le belle Rafaëla shows a woman absorbed in her own erotic pleasure. Rafaëla was a sex worker who met Tamara de Lempicka in the Bois de Boulogne park in Paris. The two were lovers. This painting owes much to Tamara de Lempika's reverence for the work of other artists. The pose in this painting is traceable to Gustave Courbet's Bacchante. Its lighting and color palette is an homage to Caravaggio.
Tamara de Lempicka, The Refugess 1931 oil on panel, Musée d'art et d'histoire Paul Éluard, Saint-Denis, France
Tamara de Lempicka, The Refugees 1931
oil on panel, Musée d'art et d'histoire Paul Éluard, Saint-Denis, France
Tamara de Lempicka, Escape, (Somewhere in Europe) 1940 oil on canvas, Musée d'arts de Nantes, France
Tamara de Lempicka, Escape (Somewhere in Europe) 1940
oil on canvas, Musée d'arts de Nantes, France
The Refugees Although Tamara de Lempicka was a privileged person in life and counted among her interests the fashionable and stylish free expression of modern women, she did not forget the world around her. In The Refugees, the figures seem infused with her own family memories as a result of anti-Semitism and fleeing the Russian Revolution.

Escape (Somewhere in Europe) was done nearly a decade after The Refugees. This time, the world faced a new horror, the marching Nazi army as Europe descended into World War II. Leading up to her 1941 exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, this painting was used in a press campaign. The painting was meant as a gesture of solidarity with Europeans enduring war. This image was used in fundraising efforts to support the British Red Cross. This painting was done not long before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and America's entrance into the war.

Wisdom (La sagesse) This is a painting meant to picture wisdom, personified by this woman engrossed in reading a book. The painting is inspired by a painting by the early Netherlandish master Jan van Eyck, Portrait of a Man, done 500 years earlier in 1433.


Jan van Eyck, Portrait of a Man
National Gallery, London
(Self portrait?) 1433
Tamara de Lempicka, Wisdom (La sagesse) 1940-41 oil on panel, Colección Pérez Simón, Mexico
Tamara de Lempicka, Wisdom (La sagesse) 1940-41
oil on panel, Colección Pérez Simón, Mexico
The young woman reading a book in La sagesse is similar to the composition Tamara used in Kizette with a Polish Shawl 1933, pictured earlier in this article.

I really enjoyed this exhibition and learning about Tamara de Lempicka's incredible life.

Artistically she was rooted in the classic paintings of the Italian Renaissance. She was trained in cubism and managed to add her own sense of style, blending what she had learned along the way.

Her world view was a mixture of luxury and horror. She was privileged in Saint Petersburg, having to flee in the face of the Russian Revolution. In Paris, she thrived in the social life of the art world, only having to flee again, this time in the face of the invading Nazi threat.

After her death in 1980, Tamara de Lempicka still remains culturally significant. When interviewed by Vanity Fair Magazine in 1990, Madonna said, "I have a ton of her (Tamara's) paintings in New York, I have a Lempicka museum.

"Two of her Lempicka paintings were featured briefly in the opening frames of Madonna's videos, Open Your Heart (1987) and Vogue (1990.) Tamara's work in the 1920's and 1930's fits well for women in modern times, as they express undeniable confidence, competence, beauty and style.

After visiting this exhibition, I must say Tamara de Lempicka is worth knowing. I wholeheartedly recommend you make a plan and visit the de Young Museum soon. This is a MUST SEE exhibition. The exhibition runs through February 9, 2025.

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Jean is a Signature member of the National Watercolor Society,
California Watercolor Association and full member of Society of Layerists in Multi-Media.
http://www.JeanWarren.com / 707-875-9240

Jean Warren Watercolor

What's nearby in Sonoma County?
Sebastopol Center for the Arts

IN SEBASTOPOL - Sebastopol Center for the Arts
... see website for on-line activities sebarts.org
home of Sonoma County's Art @ the Source and Art Trails
282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472  707.829.4797
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hursdays through Sundays 10:00am to 4:00pm

Corricks Kevin Brown
Corrick's Keven Brown
IN SANTA ROSA
Corrick's Art Trails Gallery | http://www.corricks.com/arttrailsgallery
637 Fourth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 | Contact:: http://www.corricks.com/contact-us

Corrick's has been a Santa Rosa Treasure since 1915,
a downtown stationery store serving as the community's "cultural hub."
Corrick's has long supported local artists with its impressive "ART TRAILS GALLERY,"
including paintings by Linda Sorensen.
Corricks offers a number of originals by famed Santa Rosa artist, Maurice Lapp ... (see our August 2017 article)

located on Fourth Street, steps away from Santa Rosa's revitalized town square
and Fourth Street's Russian River Brewery
Linda Sorensen's White Barn 1880, currently available at Corricks
Linda Sorensen's
White Barn circa 1880,
Sea Ranch

currently available at
Corricks Logo
BBHPhoto Dennis Calabi
Dennis Calabi
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 144
Easton, Crustacean Dancing Dream, American Alabaster
Annex Galleries Santa Rosa 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
Rik Olson

IN GRATON - Graton Gallery
home of many of Sonoma County's best artists
http://www.gratongallery.com
Sally Baker, Tim Hayworth, Bruce K. Hopkins,
Rik Olson, Susan Proehl, Sandra Rubin, Tamra Sanchez, Mylette Welch
Graton Gallery | (707) 829-8912  | artshow@gratongallery.com
9048 Graton Road, Graton CA 95444 | Open Saturday and Sunday check website

Christopher Queen Gallery IN DUNCANS MILLS - Christopher Queen Galleries
3 miles east of Hwy 1 on Hwy 116 on the Russian River
http://www.christopherqueengallery.com |707-865-1318| Back to the Top
Paul Mahder Gallery Thumbnail IN Healdsburg - Paul Mahder Gallery
http://www.paulmahdergallery.com

(707) 473-9150 | Info@paulmahdergallery.com
222 Healdsburg Avenue, Healdsburg, CA 95448 | check for hours
Petaluma Arts Council Art Center

IN PETALUMA - Petaluma Arts Center
"... to celebrate local artists and their contributions and involve the whole community"

Petaluma Center for the Arts

Links to current museum exhibits relevant to Early California Art
The Greater Bay Area
The Walt Disney Family Museum
-- see website for details
This museum tells Walt's story from the early days.
(on the Parade Grounds) 104 Montgomery Street,
The Presidio of San Francisco, CA 94129

-- view location on Google Maps
--
Disney Museum Exterior Thumbnail San Francisco
... see website
de Young Museum
Permanent Collection
De Young Museum Thumbnail
San Francisco
closed, see website
California Historical Society
California Historical Society Thumbnail San Francisco
Legion of Honor

... see website
-Permanent European and Impressionist Paintings
San Francisco Legion of Honor Museum
San Francisco
open, see website for details
Contemporary Jewish Museum

San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum Thumbnail Oakland
... see website
Oakland Museum of California

-- ongoing Gallery of California Art
-showcasing over 800 works
from the OMCA's collection
Oakland Museum Thumbnail

San Francisco
SFMOMA

http://www.sfmoma.org

SF Museum of Modern Art

Santa Rosa
...
see website
The Museums of Sonoma County

Sonoma County Museum Thumbnail
Santa Rosa
... see website
Charles M. Schultz Museum

Charles M Schultz Museum Santa Rosa

Moraga
... see website
St Mary's College Museum of Art
Hearst Art Gallery

Hearst Art Gallery Thumbnail
Sonoma
Mission San Francisco de Solano Museum

featuring the famed watercolor paintings
of the California Missions
by Christian Jorgensen
Mission San Francisco de Solano in Sonoma CA Sonoma
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art

... see website
551 Broadway, Sonoma CA
(707) 939-7862
Sonoma Museum of Art Exterior Thumb
Ukiah
Grace Hudson Museum

... see website
http://www.gracehudsonmuseum.org
Grace Hudson Museum

Bolinas
Bolinas Museum

... see website
featuring their permanent collection,
including Ludmilla and Thadeus Welch,
Arthur William Best, Jack Wisby,
Russell Chatham, Alfred Farnsworth
.

Elizabeth Holland McDaniel Bolinas Embarcadero thumbnail
Walnut Creek
... see website
The Bedford Gallery, Lesher
Center for the Arts
Lesher Ctr for the Arts Walnut Creek CA San Jose
San Jose Museum of Art

... see website
approximately 2,000 20th & 21st
century artworks including paintings, sculpture,
new media, photography, drawings, prints, and artist books.
San Jose Museum of Art Thumbnail
Monterey
Monterey Museum of Art

... see website
Ongoing exhibitions ...
Museums Permanent Collection
including William Ritschel, Armin Hansen
and E. Charlton Fortune

http://www.montereyart.org
Monterey Museum of Art Palo Alto
... see website
Cantor Art Center at Stanford University
Cantor Art Center at Stanford University

Monterey
Salvador Dali Museum

prepurchased tickets required, ... see website

Salvador Dali Museum Monterey Sacramento
Crocker Art Museum
... see websites
http://www.crockerartmuseum.org
Sacramento
Capitol Museum

... see website
Governor's Portrait Gallery
Permanent Exhibits

(including one of our galllery's favorite artists,
Robert Rishell's portrait of Gov. Ronald Reagan
Capitol Museum Sacramento Thumbnail Stockton's Treasure!
The Haggin Museum

... see website
-Largest exhibition of Albert Bierstadt paintings anywhere, plus the works of Joseph Christian Leyendecker, Norman Rockwell's mentor.
see our Newsletter article, April 2011
Haggin Museum Stockton
Southern California (and Arizona) (for all museums below, see websites for hours and protocols.
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
UCI IMCA
(University of California, Irvine
Institute and Museum of California Art)

(formerly The Irvine Museum)


Irvine Museum Thumbnail
Santa Barbara
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art Thumbnail Orange

Hilbert Museum, Chapman University

Hilbert Museum Chapman University Orange CA
San Diego
San Diego Museum of Art
Permanent Collection

San Diego Museum of Art Thumbnail Pasadena
Norton Simon Museum
-an Impressive Permanent collection,
European impressionist
and post impressionist paintings
See our newsletter from March 2014
Norton Simon Museum Pasadena
Los Angeles
California African American Art Museum
adjacent to the LA Coliseum
(see our newsletter articleof their
Ernie Barnes Exhibition September 2019)
California African American Art Museum San Marino (near 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.

Huntington Library Art Collection Pasadena
Phoenix, AZ
Phoenix Art Museum
an excellent sampling of
Artists of the American West
Phoenix Art Museum

Palm Springs
Palm Springs Art Museum

Permanent Collection
American 19th century Landscape Painting

Palm Springs Art Museum Thumbnail
& Beyond
Honolulu, HI
Honolulu Museum
(see our Newsletter article
from February, 2015)


Honolulu Museum of Art Kamuela, HI (Big Island)
Issacs Art Center
65-1268 Kawaihae Road
Kamuela, HI  96743
(See our Dec '16 article "Hawaii's Paul Gauguin," 
modernist Madge Tennent, 1889-1972)

Isaacs Art Center
Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Museum
( see our article Mar 2018
French and American Paintings )
Seattle Art Museum Portland, OR
Portland Art Museum

Permanent Collection: American Art
Portland Art Museum Thumbnail
Washington D.C.
The Renwick Gallery

Permanent ... Grand Salon Paintings
from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Renwick Gallery Washington DC Chicago, IL
Art Institute of Chicago
Permanent collection:
the Impressionists
Art Institute of Chicago Thumbnail
Cedar Rapids, IA
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Grant Wood: In Focus

is an ongoing permanent collection exhibition.
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

Bentonville, AR
Crystal Bridges
Museum of American Art

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Washington D.C.
The National Gallery
Permanent collection
American Paintings
Tha National Gallery Washington DC Thumbnail Philadelphia , PA
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art Thumbnail
Philadelphia , PA
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Campus
Barnes Foundation Campus Philadelphia Brooklyn, NY
The Brooklyn Museum
American Art
Permanent Collection
The Brooklyn Museum Thumbnail
New York , NY
The Whitney Museum of American Art
The largest selection of works by Edward Hopper
The Whitney Museum of American Art New York New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Its extensive collection of American Art
Metropolitan Museum New York
Detroit, MI
Detroit Institute of Arts
American Art
Permanent Collection
Detroit Institute of Arts Ottawa, Ontario
National Gallery of Canada
Canada National Gallery of Art
Denver, CO
Denver Art Museum
Denver Art Museum Exterior

Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Our Gallery Showroom and Linda Sorensen's Studio in Graton

Linda Sorensen's artist studio is open by appointment.  To contact Linda, email, text or call. LindaSorensen@Earthlink.net / 707-875-2911.  

Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery and Linda Sorensen's studio
Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery .com / Linda Sorensen Paintings . com
Art@BodegaBayHeritageGallery.com / LindaSorensen@Earthlink.net  707-875-2911
Atelier One, Studio 5, 2860 Bowen St, Graton, CA 95444 (not a mailing address)

If you wish to sell a painting to us ...

At present, we are acquiring few paintings. We are interested in considering works by Joshua Meador, or exceptional paintings by a few other Historic California artists. We do not do miscellaneous consignments but do represent artist estates. We do not provide appraisal services.

DO NOT CALL AND EXPECT A THOUGHTFUL ANSWER REGARDING YOUR PAINTING (especially, do not leave a voicemail message requiring us to phone you), ... INSTEAD, Please EMAIL US (Art@BodegaBayHeritageGallery.com) along with a high resolution jpeg image of your painting. Include the name of the artist, its title, dimensions and condition. Please include any history or provenance. Rather than responding off the cuff, in a timely fashion we will read your note, do our homework, and write back and let you know if we wish to acquire your painting or we may give you our our ideas on how best to market your painting through other resources.