Some
California Impressionists
George Stern Fine Arts
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What is it you want to consider about my views (or
anyone’s) of Jean Mannheim, an elegant painter of a sumptuous
self-portrait (In My Studio) and a Palm Springs Desert Scene,
if not to wonder as the intellectuals did for so long about Mary Cassatt,
what this person meant to be doing in this place? Millard Sheets takes your Romantic Coast
(Palos Verdes) and makes a painting of it. What more could he do? Maurice
Braun puts together a California Landscape or Mission Valley or
Bay Vista, suddenly imprecise to you in the scheme of things? William Wendt painted the Cahuenga Pass in
oil on canvas around 1912. It’s ocherous and kelly and sand, not the
sad maybe you usually dose yourself with in passing, but the real look you
douse yourself with when you’re there. The Romantic painters meet the Impressionists as at
a Salon in W.F. Jackson. Clarence Hinkle’s Beach Scene, Laguna
is pinks, aqua and lime. And then you go buy Carmel Valley of around
1918 by Guy Rose. These men could paint. |
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