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NEW ACQUISITION!! "Spring Day" by Granville Redmond (1871-1935) 16 x 20 inches... Oil on canvas Please contact us for any additional information. #granvilleredmond #joshhardygalleries Biography Granville Redmond was born in Philadelphia in 1871, and at the age of two and a half was stricken with scarlet fever, which left him completely deaf. Shortly thereafter, Redmond’s family moved to San Jose, California, which afforded him the opportunity to study at the California School of the Deaf in Berkeley, where his artistic talents were recognized by his art teacher, Theophilus D'Estrella, who was also deaf. Redmond was encouraged to study at the San Francisco School of Design, where he distinguished himself, and was awarded funds to continue his studies in Paris at the Academie Julian. In Paris, he excelled again, and in 1895 a large canvas, Matin D’Hiver was accepted in to the prestigious Paris Salon. In 1898 Redmond returned to California, settling in the south and produced a fine body of work depicting Laguna Beach, Catalina Island, and San Pedro. While in Los Angeles, Redmond befriended Charlie Chaplin, who offered the artist small roles in his films, including that of the sculptor in City Lights. Redmond’s works pre-1910 were predominantly tonal, and classically decorative, very much in the vein of the San Francisco school as taught by Arthur Mathews. Redmond moved to Monterey County in 1908, and farther north the San Mateo 2 years later, where he stayed for 7 years. During those years Redmond’s palette brighten considerably, and he produced extremely popular vistas of California’s springtime landscape, lush with classic poppies and lupines. Remembered as one of the preeminent early California Impressionists, Granville Redmond died in Los Angeles in 1935.

Our exhibition is featured on the current issue of California Art Club (CAC) Newsletter. CAC was established in 1909, and many works in the Gardena High School art collection were by members of CAC. https://www.californiaartclub.org/

NEW ACQUISITION!!! "Carmel Mission" by E. Charlton Fortune (1885-1969) 16 x 20 inches, Oil on canvas... Long referred to as "A Cornish Village," recent research shows without a doubt this painting is actually a view of the Carmel Mission, as seen from across the Odello artichoke fields and the Carmel River. The painting's title is most likely "Grey Day," which Fortune exhibited at Gieves Gallery in London, July 1921. Special thanks to Pat Hathaway of California Views for providing the historic photo. Please contact us for additional information. ***Please "like" and "share" #echarltonfortune #carmelmission #carmelvalley #joshhardygalleries #charltonfortune #californiamission #pleinair #californiaimpressionism #oilpainting

NEW ACQUISITION! "Furnace, Pennsylvania" by Alfred Mitchell (1888-1972) 16 x 20 inches, oil on canvasboard... We are pleased to offer this beautiful work by Alfred Mitchell. Please contact us at the gallery for more information. ***************************************** Biography from Wikipedia: Alfred R. Mitchell (1888-1972) was an American landscape painter. Educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, he was the president of the San Diego Art Guild and the La Jolla Art Association. He became known as the "Dean of San Diego County artists". Alfred R. Mitchell was born on June 18, 1888 in York, Pennsylvania. He moved to San Diego, California in 1908 and studied with Maurice Braun in 1915. Mitchell won a silver medal at the 1915 PanamaCalifornia Exposition. He served in the United States Army during World War I. He enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1916, and won the Cresson Traveling Scholarship and the Edward Bok Philadelphia Prize to visit museums in Europe in 1920; he graduated from the academy in 1921. Mitchell was the President of the San Diego Art Guild and the co-founder of the San Diego Museum of Art. He was a co-founder of the Fine Arts Society of San Diego in 1925. He was also the founding secretary of the Associated Artists of San Diego in 1929; it later changed its name to Contemporary Artists of San Diego. Mitchell was also the founder of the Chula Vista Art Guild in Chula Vista, California in 1945. He was the co-founder and president of the La Jolla Art Association in La Jolla, California from 1951 to 1961. He exhibited his artwork at the San Diego Fine Arts Gallery from 1920 to 1927, and the La Jolla Library from 1923 to 1966. Mitchell became known as the "Dean of San Diego County artists". ***************************************** Another interesting read: MEMOIRS OF ALFRED R. MITCHELL, by Mary Mitchell Sadler (niece of the artist) https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journ/2001/july/mitchell-3/ (source: San Diego History Center) #alfredmitchell #furnacePA #furnacepennsylvania #urbanscenepainting #joshhardygalleries

NEW ACQUISITION!! Emerald Bay, Tahoe by Gregory Kondos (b.1923) 40 x 50 inches, oil on canvas... Painted in 2016. We are extremely pleased to offer this master work by Gregory Kondos! #joshhardygalleries #gregorykondos #tahoe #californiaart About Kondos: A resident of Sacramento, California where he has a studio adjacent to his home, Kondos is known for bold, modernist landscape paintings---brightly lit canvases with big cobalt-blue skies, large areas of solid color, flowing rhythm, and simple design. His work is intended to suggest lonely, solitary aspects of the land. He was born to Greek immigrant parents in Lynn, Massachusetts, and moved with his family to Sacramento, California in 1927. His parents encouraged his early art talent, and by 1941, he was attending Sacramento Junior College to study art, but was interrupted by three years on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. He later completed his degree, spent a year at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and then went to California State University in Sacramento, intending to teach college, which he did at Sacramento Junior College for 27 years. He retired in 1982, and to honor him, students and faculty named the campus art gallery, which he founded, in his honor. Some of his early landscapes were influenced by Willem de Kooning and other abstract expressionists, but Wayne Thiebaud, California pop artist and realist, influenced him towards the work that became his hallmark. Much of his subject matter comes from his travels to Europe including Greece, Yosemite National Park where he especially loves to paint, and from the Southwest, where he has a home in Santa Fe. In 1995, he was elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and in 1998, he completed a 570 foot long scene of the Sacramento River in colored and etched glass for the front of the new terminal at the Sacramento International Airport. Source: Donald J. Hagerty, Leading the West, pp. 37-38

"Picnic" by Roland Petersen (b. 1926) 43 x 69 inches, acrylic on canvas, 2010. #joshhardygalleries #californiaart #modernism #picnic #rolandpetersen #bayareafiguratives...Continue reading

*** NEW ACQUISITION *** "Springtime in the Valley" by Alfred R. Mitchell (1888-1972) 16 x 20 inches, oil on board.... Signed lower left. A very beautiful work and excellent example work of Alfred Mitchell. Please contact us for more details. If you like this painting, please "Like" and "Share". #alfredmitchell #springart #californiapleinair #joshhardygalleries #sandiego #springtime #californiaart #alfredrmitchell #pleinairpaintings #californiaimpressionist Biography: Alfred Mitchell, born in York, Pennsylvania, became a painter of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism who settled in San Diego in 1908. His plein-air paintings provide an historical record of the growth of San Diego in the early 20th century. Mitchell was an adventurous young man, who, as a teenager, went West to Nevada during the Gold Rush where he prospected for gold and drove a coach. Then he went to Southern California, and in 1913, began training at the San Diego Academy of Art. This was the city's oldest art school, and it had been founded by Maurice Braun, who regarded Mitchell as one of his most important pupils. He encouraged Mitchell to return to his native state and study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Enrolling there in 1916, Mitchell studied with Joseph Pearson, and New Hope Impressionists Daniel Garber and Edward Redfield. With these influences, his style turned from Braun's 'feminine' Impressionism toward the Pennsylvania school's stronger brush work and strong color as well as clear light and strong outlines. Mitchell returned to San Diego in the early 1920s and became a major influence in the art community. He was president of the San Diego Art Guild in 1922-23; he helped found the Laguna Beach Art Association; and in 1918, the La Jolla Art Association where he exhibited his works regularly. Along with Braun and other artists and sculptors, Mitchell formed the Associated Artists of San Diego in 1929, later changing the name to Contemporary Artists of San Diego, which as a group represented the strong professional art community that had developed there. Because of its strong color and emotional undertones, much of Mitchell's art is categorized more as Post-Impressionistic, although his painting "Summer Hills" of 1929 is a fully Impressionist piece. Many Southern California landscapists of the 1920s composed ideal scenes within their studios, but Mitchell continually painted outdoors, "en plein air", within a radius of San Diego, and often included buildings in his paintings, thus creating a valuable record of the development of the area. Source: Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media" Edan Hughes, "Artists in California" Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"

NEW ACQUISITION! "By Morro Bay" by Dana Bartlett (1882-1957) 25 x 30 inches, oil on canvas... Exhibited: Fleischer Museum, Scottsdale AZ, 1993 Oakland Museum, 1993 The Irvine Museum, 1993 California State Capitol (Senate Art Loan Program), 1996-1999 ***Please "Like" and "Share" Dana Bartlett studied at the Art Students League in New York under William M. Chase and with Charles Warren Eaton. The first decade of his career was spent as a designer and commercial artist -- first in Portland, Oregon for Foster and Kleiser and then in San Francisco. He moved to Los Angeles in 1915 intending to become a landscape painter. His first exhibit in 1916 included oil paintings, watercolors and pastels as well as black and white monotypes, which he heightened with a slight tint of watercolor. Antony Anderson, then art critic for the Los Angeles Times, found his nocturnal landscapes (for Bartlett was intrigued by the moods of nature) among his best works. Until 1930 Bartlett was a frequent exhibitor with the California Art Club and the Painters and Sculptors exhibitions. His decorative Southern California landscapes, complete with eucalyptus trees and purple mountains painted in pale pastels are almost the epitome of "Eucalyptus School" paintings. In 1924 he traveled to Europe with the intention of making a special study of how Titian, Turner and Monticelli applied their color. Upon his return he experimented with the use of Venetian tempera as an underpainting. What resulted were a number of imaginative landscapes and still lifes painted in a high decorative fashion with brilliant, jewel-like transparent glowing colors, which are unique product in Southern California. In 1920 and 1927, Bartlett organized circulating exhibitions of his own works and in 1928 he opened an art gallery for sketches and small paintings and also taught at the Chouinard School of Art. Although he is listed in the 1940-41 volume of Who's Who in American Art, little record is left of his art activities after 1930 other than he was a member of the Laguna Beach Art Association until 1936. BIBLOGRAPHY: Moure & Smith, PSCA #3 Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1916, 3-2-2. Who's Who in American Art, 1936-37, 1940-411 Westphal, Ruth, Plein Air Painters of California, The Southland. Westphal Publishing, Irvine, California 1982.2 Hughes, Edan Milton, Artists in California 1786-1940 Southern California Artists 1890-1940, Laguna Beach Museum of Art (Biography from Fleischer Museum) #Joshhardygalleries #danabartlett #morrobay #pleinair #californiaartclub #artstudentsleague

NEW ACQUISITION!! "Sunlight and Shadow" by Paul Lauritz (1889-1975) 36 x 48 inches, oil on canvas... Please contact us for any additional information. ***Please "Like" and "share" #PaulLauritz #Joshhadygalleries #Californiapleinair Biography Paul Lauritz was born in a small art colony of Larvik, Norway on April 18, 1889. Lauritz was exposed to art at an early age, studying with local and foreign artists in Larvik. At age 16 he moved to eastern Canada to live with his sister and found work as a hardrock driller in a mine. Working his way west, he worked as a commercial artist in Vancouver and Portland, Oregon, where he began painting landscapes and portraits. The meager existence in artwork led him to Alaska with the Gold Rush. Unsuccessful as a miner, he again turned to painting and became a close friend of artist Sydney Laurence. The two artists held a joint exhibition before Lauritz left Alaska. In 1919 he settled in Los Angeles and established a studio-home in the Lyceum Theatre on Spring Street. When not teaching at the Chouinard and Otis Art Institutes or in his studio, he made painting excursions to the Sierra, up the California coast as far north as Carmel, to Mexico (1921), the Columbia River (1924), and Norway (1925). While in his native land, he was commissioned by the King of Norway to do a painting for the royal palace. Lauritz was an involved member of the Los Angeles art community and served for six years on the Los Angeles Municipal Art Commission. A versatile painter, his diverse subjects include desert scenes, portraits, snow scenes, marines and landscapes. He continued painting until his demise at his home in Glendale, CA on October 31, 1975. (Source: California Art Club)

NEW ACQUISITION!! "Pebble Beach Cypress" by Mary deNeale Morgan (1868-1948) 20 x 24 inches, oil on board... Please contact us for more information. ***Please "Like" and "Share" #MaryMorgan #Joshhardygalleries #CarmelArtists #PebbleBeachCypress Biography Mary DeNeale Morgan (May 24, 1868 October 10, 1948) was an American painter, especially in watercolor, and printmaker. A native of San Francisco, Morgan was the second of seven children; her mother's parents had emigrated to California from Scotland in the 1850s. She grew up in Oakland, where her father was city engineer for some years. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and took some instruction with William Keith, a family friend, of whom she has been called a favorite pupil. She opened a studio in Oakland in 1896, and for a short while also taught art at Oakland High School. In 1909 she moved to Carmel-by-the-Sea, purchasing a house and studio from watercolorist Sydney Yard. In 1914 she took classes with William Merritt Chase when he came to the town for the summer, at her instigation. From 1917 to 1925 she directed the Carmel School of Art, and she was among the founders of the Carmel Art Association. In 1928 she was recognized by Scribner's for her work. During World War II she traveled weekly to Fort Ord to sketch some of the men stationed there. Morgan was a member of National Association Women Painters and Sculptors, New York (later National Association of Women Artists), California Water Color Society, Carmel Club of Arts and Crafts. Morgan moved to Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, in 1910. Morgan never married, and died in Carmel-by-the-Sea. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_DeNeale_Morgan)

NEW ACQUISITION!! "Carmel Dunes" by Guy Rose (1867-1925) 24 x 29 inches, oil on canvas...Continue reading

Can't wait for this exhibition to travel to Monterey Museum of Art next year!