Gardena High School Art Collection

Galleries will be open on Thursday and Friday before the new mandates require us to close for at least three weeksso grab your mask and come enjoy the art, inc...luding GIFTED: Collecting the Art of Southern California at Gardena High School, 19191956. This is a remarkable collection of early 20th century American art that also stands as one of the best exemplars of a high school art collection in the country. Organized by the GHS Art Collection, Inc. in association with the Gardena High School student body, this exhibition is the first to look at Gardena High School’s ambitious endeavor within a regional and national context. From 1919 to 1956, the Gardena High School student body selected, purchased, and donated some 70 works of art to the high school. The students’ choices show a high level of sophistication due to the level of discourse in collaboration encouraged at the school and in the community. Gardena High School's exercise in collecting art and organizing a purchase prize exhibition exposed students and their wider community to lessons in aesthetic discernment and art appreciation, as well as debate, good citizenship, and collaboration. And because the collection gained regional and national attention, it inspired other regional public high schools and junior colleges to initiate art collections as well. Visit bit.ly/oma-open for available tickets on Thursday and Friday, November 12 and 13. While the galleries are closed, the Pop-Up Museum Store is allowed to remain open in the lobby Thursday through Saturday 11:00am5:00pm and Sunday 11:00am4:00pm for your upcoming holiday and gift-giving needs. You can also stay connected and museum from home through our #VirtualOMA programming, including OMA Live. Pictured above: gallery view of GIFTED: Collecting the Art of Southern California at Gardena High School, 19191956. #art #artexhibition #artatoma #oceanside

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From Oceanside Museum of Art: OMA Live: Renewed, Refreshed, Reopened Thursday, October 1, 7:008:00pm LIVE STREAM... members free, visitors $5 Join us live from OMA for a virtual evening of celebration. Capturing the excitement of our recent reopening, hear directly from artists, curators, and the OMA team as we explore fresh artwork, secret renovations, and a renewed commitment to our community and mission. The program will highlight four newly installed exhibitions at OMA: Allan Morrow: After Fires, Pamela Earnshaw Kelly: Witness, GIFTED: Collecting the Art of California at Gardena High School, 1919-1956, and Southern California Contemporary Quilts. https://90085.blackbaudhosting.com//OMA-Live-Renewed-Refre

GREAT NEWS!!! Oceanside Museum of Art to reopen on September 17! Come see our exhibit "GIFTED: Collecting the Art of California at Gardena High School, 1919-1956."

GREAT NEWS!!! Oceanside Museum of Art to reopen on September 17! Come see our exhibit "GIFTED: Collecting the Art of California at Gardena High School, 1919-1956."

Oceanside Museum of Art has beautifully installed our exhibition, they are ready for the public as soon as the California Governor lifts the restriction. Stay tuned! Photos courtesy provided by Oceanside Museum of Art

TONIGHT! Virtual Road Trip: Impressions Of California Thursday, August 13 7:008:30pm... Set out on the open road with Robin Douglas as your guide to an incredible treasure trove of art museums along the Southern California coast. Inspired by OMA’s current exhibition GIFTED: Collecting the Art of California at Gardena High School, 1919-1956, witness the majesty of the Golden State through the eyes of California Impressionists, painters of color and light. Visit esteemed collections up and down the coast, with a few brilliant surprises and local tips for eating on the road. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the art-inspired ride. Tour stops include the Laguna Art Museum, the Irvine Art Museum, the Norton Simon Museum, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Register for this donation-based live stream via bit.ly/oma-aug13.

Virtual Road Trip: Impressions Of California Thursday, August 13 7:008:30pm Set out on the open road with Robin Douglas as your guide to an incredible treasure... trove of art museums along the Southern California coast. Inspired by OMA’s current exhibition GIFTED: Collecting the Art of California at Gardena High School, 1919-1956, witness the majesty of the Golden State through the eyes of California Impressionists, painters of color and light. Visit esteemed collections up and down the coast, with a few brilliant surprises and local tips for eating on the road. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the art-inspired ride. Tour stops include the Laguna Art Museum, the Irvine Art Museum, the Norton Simon Museum, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Register for this donation-based live stream via bit.ly/oma-aug13.

Our exhibition opens tomorrow at the @Oceanside Museum of Art!

OMA is getting ready for our exhibit...

Re-post from Fresno Art Museum: We LOVE a monochromatic outfit! William Frederick Foster depicted a beautiful monochromatic look in his painting Girl in Brown. Foster successfully interpreted various textural qualities throughout the portrait. During interviews with Gardena High School alumni in an episode of the KQED Los Angeles public television program Visiting with Huell Hauser, the story is told that the painting had become very dirty during its time in storage. Once it ...was cleaned in the late 1990s, conservators and alumni were surprised to discover that the Girl in Brown was holding a hat. The woman in the painting is suggested to be Foster’s estranged wife, Audrey Marye. Susan Anderson, exhibition curator and author of the GIFTED catalogue mentions this because the sitter is in turn-of-the-century attire and the couple had long been separated by 1930. With that information, it calls into question the date of the painting's completion which is said to be 1930. For more behind-the-scenes information like this, check out the exhibition’s catalogue for sale through the link below. https://www.paypal.com/instantcommer/checkout/4JN7NVLKG8NXJ . . . Gift to GHS, 1934 William Frederick Foster Girl in Brown, c. 1930 Oil on canvas 51 x 36 inches . . . GIFTED: Collecting the Art of California at Gardena High School, 1919-1956 is organized by the GHS Art Collection, Inc, in association with the Gardena High School Student Body and curated by Susan M. Anderson. #fresnoartmuseum #membershipmatters #YOURmuseum #FAMFRESNO #GARDENAGIFTED #Fresnoart #fresnoartist #fNARM #museumsfromhome @ Fresno Art Museum

Anyone up for some ocean breeze? Courtesy of Fresno Art Museum. AYE, AYE, Captain! Which ship would you rather be on? I hope you don't get seasick. William Ritschel’s Making Port is being tossed about at sea with the shore just visible in the distance, highlighting the power of the sea in man’s struggle against nature. Ritschel spent several years in the Imperial German Navy before becoming an artist.... Joe Gleason’s Head Winds shows a crew's struggles to secure the sails as water gushes from the deck, while more waves loom in the background. Gleason was also a sailor and worked for the Hollywood studios on films whose plots involved sailing and clipper ships. Armin Hansen’s Before the Wind depicts a small fishing vessel with two fishermen fastening the sails before the onslaught of a storm. Hansen got first-hand experience on boats when he signed on as a crew member of a trawler in Belgium, taking his paints with him. Arthur Beaumont’s Task Force is a large United States Navy ship pushing through rough seas during World War II. During that war, Beaumont illustrated ships and battle scenes for outlets like National Geographic at the request of the War Department. . . . Class of Summer 1933 William Frederick Ritschel Making Port, 1917 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches . Class of Summer 1935 Joe Duncan Gleason Head Winds (or Storm at Sea), c. 1935 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches . Class of Summer 1939 Armin Carl Hansen Before the Wind (or Crossing the Bank in a Gale or Crossing the Banks), c. 1912 Oil on canvas 29 x 36 inches . Class of Summer 1946 Arthur Edwaine Beaumont Task Force (or Destroyer Task Force), c. 1945 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches . . . GIFTED: Collecting the Art of California at Gardena High School, 1919-1956 is organized by the GHS Art Collection, Inc, in association with the Gardena High School Student Body and curated by Susan M. Anderson. #fresnoartmuseum #membershipmatters #YOURmuseum #FAMFRESNO #GARDENAGIFTED #Fresnoart #fresnoartist #fNARM #museumsfromhome @ Fresno Art Museum

Repost from the wonderful Fresno Art Museum: Bringing Art to the People Gardena High School’s senior classes of 1931 and 1932 were the first groups of students to suffer the effects of the Depression. The students were determined to continue adding to their collection despite economic difficulties. Their success was possible because of the greater involvement of the Gardena community. Local clubs and civic groups helped with the fundraising and organizing of the Purchase Priz...e Exhibit. The idea of bringing art to the people was a common theme during the Depression era. The hard work of the Gardena community and their art for everybody movement allowed the students to purchase Kathryn Leighton’s painting Chief Bullchild, the collection's first painting by a woman. Leighton was hired by the Great Northern Railroad to paint 22 portraits of the Blackfeet elders which they used to promote tourism in a cross-country tour. At the time, the Blackfeet tribe suffered widespread poverty and deprivation on the reservation. Leighton is said to have accomplished some seven hundred Native American portraits over the years. The man in the painting is George Bull Child. He was a pictograph artist and noted weather dancer who copied the earlier work of tribal artists onto deerskin robes as a means of upholding and recording the vanishing traditions of his people. . . . Class of Winter 1931 Dan Sayre Groesbeck Loading the Barge, c. 1924 Oil on canvas 29 x 48 inches Class of Winter 1932 Kathryn Woodman Leighton Chief Bullchild, c. 1928 Oil on canvas 44 x 36 inches Class of Summer 1932 Benjamin Chambers Brown Mt. Lowe in Winter (or Opalescent Morning, Mt. Lowe, California or Snow on Mt. Lowe), 1925 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches . . . GIFTED: Collecting the Art of California at Gardena High School, 1919-1956 is organized by the GHS Art Collection, Inc, in association with the Gardena High School Student Body and curated by Susan M. Anderson. #fresnoartmuseum #membershipmatters #YOURmuseum #FAMFRESNO #GARDENAGIFTED #Fresnoart #fresnoartist #fNARM #museumsfromhome @ Fresno Art Museum

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Happy Friday! Hope all in great spirits.