UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

JOHN PAUL JONES Head
JOHN PAUL JONES
Head
HELEN LUNDEBERG Arches IV
HELEN LUNDEBERG
Arches IV

EMERSON WOELFFER Head
EMERSON WOELFFER
Head

Our country has always been a melting pot – included are people from Europe, Philippines, Latin America, Africa, Asia, Pacific Islands, and, of course , the United States and Canada. In my gallery I have reflected this mix… this blending through the art of Ynez Johnston, Herman Kofi Bailey, Alfred Zalce, Jean Charlot, Ruth Asawa, John Paul Jones, Helen Lundeberg, Sam Francis, Emerson Woelffer, June Wayne, …. and many others, with the focus on American.


WOMEN

RUTH ASAWA Desert Flower
RUTH ASAWA
Desert Flower
DORR BOTHWELL Fisherman on the Dock
DORR BOTHWELL
Fisherman on the Dock
HELEN LUNDEBERG Three Oranges
HELEN LUNDEBERG
Three Oranges

JOYCE WAHL TREIMAN Indians
JOYCE WAHL TREIMAN
Indians

There are Artists – American artists, Japanese artists, Latin artists, surrealist artists, male and female artists….but most artist do not want to be identified through ethnicity or gender or any other appellation aside from ‘Artist’.
Nevertheless, we present art by 20th century California artists who just happened to be women! Using many styles, techniques and subjects, these artists have created prints, drawings and paintings to which we respond…and …we hope you do too.

Ruth Asawa
Dorr Bothwell
Peggy Bacon
Isabel Bishop
Corita Kent
Grace Clements
Amaranth Ehrenhalt
Claire Falkenstein
Ynez Johnston
Esther Lewis
Helen Lundeberg
Mina Pulsifer
Joyce Treiman
Muriel Tyler
Lette Valeska
These two painting by John Paul Jones are quite individual as visuals.
However, each reveals the personality of the artist… there is a meditative quietness – a stillness , a contemplative mood – that can be felt by the viewer- a glimpse of his inner history.

John Paul Jones 1924-1999
     and David Philip Levine 1910-2008

 

John Paul Jones and David Philip Levine were quite different in their personalities, their technique and their imagery – it appeared.
But, through their art, each revealed himself as sharing a meditative quietness – a stillness – with each other and with the viewer. They provoked a thoughtfulness, a comtemplative mood, a consideration of the subject that led to an understanding – in Levine’s work – of his period in history, and in Jones’s work – a glimpse of his inner history.

Additional works by these two artists are available and each bears out similar inner feelings.

JOHN PAUL JONES Violet Sisters
JOHN PAUL JONES
Violet Sisters
JOHN PAUL JONES Head
JOHN PAUL JONES
Head
JOHN PAUL JONES Pale Morning
JOHN PAUL JONES
Pale Morning

 

DAVID P. LEVINE Skylights and Rooftops
DAVID P. LEVINE
Skylights and Rooftops
DAVID P. LEVINE Subway Riders
DAVID P. LEVINE
Subway Riders

David P. Levine Weathered
David P. Levine
Weathered

 

 


New York 1912 – 1930s
Prints

Yes! I do focus on the art and artists of California 1930s – 1980s BUT sometimes I can’t overlook fine prints from ‘other American places’…like on this current webpage.

Each image by these renowned artists: Harry Sternberg, Hermann Struck and William Wolfson gives a glimpse of the active life in New York of this period – some intimate, some broad views. So many of us in California experienced the same or similar communities with nostalgia.

Imagine these prints on YOUR walls, where you can see them every day!
Click on the images for full details.

Enjoy!

HARRY STERNBERG Palisades Park
HARRY STERNBERG Palisades Park

HARRY STERNBERG Pier 57 North River
HARRY STERNBERG Pier 57 North River

HERMANN STRUCK New York and Skyline from Brooklyn
HERMANN STRUCK
New York and Skyline from Brooklyn
WILLIAM WOLFSON Slushy Day
WILLIAM WOLFSON Slushy Day

WILLIAM WOLFSON The Marble Game
WILLIAM WOLFSON The Marble Game

LEONARD EDMONDSON
Abstraction

Known for his work as a printmaker of etchings, screenprints and lithographs, Leonard Edmondson used a wide variety of media that included painting in oils, acrylics, watercolors and drawing. He began his career as an artist with a multiple degrees from the University of California Berkeley. After service in the Army, he taught at UC Berkeley, at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles and served as chair of the Art Department at CalState Los Angeles.

By 1950, Edmondson’s art evolved from figuration to abstraction. He used viscosity etching technique while developing textural effects. His dynamic surreal and abstract imagery relates to Nature.

LEONARD EDMONDSON Gold Strike
Gold Strike

LEONARD EDMONDSON Flower Power
Flower Power

LEONARD EDMONDSON Tin Soldier II
Tin Soldier II

LEONARD EDMONDSON The Bathers
The Bathers

Edmondson wrote: “My vocabulary uses color, size and position of shapes and the shapes occupy shallow space.  My art is one of discovery.  I have found satisfaction in the spontaneous act of drawing and painting.”

Edmondson has a long record of exhibitions and his art can be found in illustrious collections – both private as well as public.


JUNE WAYNE

Crystalline

JUNE WAYNE held the key to opening doors for ‘women in leadership’. She was bold, charismatic, brash, exciting, abrasive, loving, angry, intelligent and creative.

Yes! She revealed paths encouraging artists to explore “new” techniques, to stimulating creativity in many directions…. She was a ‘force of nature’ asserting, supporting, demystifying the latent power in feminine instinct and intellect. She also had acquaintances in the male dominated scientific and technological sectors who were challenged by the physical world. In the early 1950s, she and her friends at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were exploring crystalline structure in science…and in art. There is such beauty in nature!

In her lithographs and paintings was evidence of this fascination….a breakthrough that described form cell by cell. At JPL the scientists manipulated physical elements; in JUNE WAYNE’s studio, she used the surface of the limestone to create forms for transfer to canvas and paper.

JUNE WAYNE At Last a Thousand III
At Last a Thousand III

JUNE WAYNE The Sanctified
The Sanctified

JUNE WAYNE The Dreamers
The Dreamers
JUNE WAYNE The Bride
The Bride
JUNE WAYNE The Advocate
The Advocate

JUNE WAYNE The Suitor
The Suitor

 


Photography

The Photograph…..what an exciting development in art techniques!
In the late 19th century, Alfred Stieglitz finally convinced us that ‘photography’ was a true art technique though Photography had already been part of the ‘language’ since the mid-1800s!
But Stieglitz pushed the envelope even further in linking the intaglio plate to the capture of a camera image….voila! the photogravure …and other nuances incorporating the camera captured image.
In this current gallery page we include a 1909 Camera Work #28, a complete issue that holds six images ‘shot’ by David Octavius Hill plus images by Paul Haviland, George Davison, Alvin Langdon Colburn and Marshall Kernochan from the mid-19th century… and continue our little ‘history’ with photographs from a broad view of the 20th century.

Hella Hammid’s “Roman Urchin” was one of the photographs she submitted for Edward Steichen’s “Family of Man”; Edmund Teske’s “Door in the Desert” reveals his penchant for creating almost-surreal compositions. Explore!

EDMUND TESKE Door in the Desert
EDMUND TESKE Door in the Desert
HELLA HAMMID Roman Urchin
HELLA HAMMID Roman Urchin

Camera Work

MARISA ROTH Dorothy Jeakins
MARISA ROTH Dorothy Jeakins

UNIDENTIFIED Sanskrit Reader
UNIDENTIFIED Sanskrit Reader

Drawings 2020

A drawing tells the plain truth. You can trust a drawing to reveal the artist’s thought processes. An artist envisions the basic structure of a composition.

Attributed to Fragonard, “Education of the Virgin ” is ‘finished’ and ‘says it all’ to me…as a ‘first idea’, this drawing can stand independently.

The drawing by Lorser Feitelson: Study for “Love, Eternal Recurrence” . is a preparatory drawing for a post-surrealist painting created in 1936 in the collection of the Phoenix Art Museum.

Frode Dann’s simple drawing of a Fluffy Cat is complete, as is Grace Clement’s “Architectural Elements”. While Dann depicts his cat without commentary, Grace Clement laid her paper on a corrugated cardboard to capture the texture of the cardboard to her direct drawing.

WILLIAM DOLE Via dello Studio
WILLIAM DOLE
Via dello Studio
FRODE NELLSON DANN Fluffy Cat
FRODE NELLSON DANN
Fluffy Cat

GRACE CLEMENTS Architectural Elements
GRACE CLEMENTS
Architectural Elements
JH FRAGONARD (ATTRIBUTED) Education of the Virgin Mary
JH FRAGONARD (ATTRIBUTED)
Education of the Virgin Mary
WILLIAM THEO BROWN Nanny and Child
WILLIAM THEO BROWN
Nanny and Child

LORSER FEITELSON Study for Love
LORSER FEITELSON
Study for Love

 

 


JUNE WAYNE

(1918, Chicago-2011, Los Angeles)

In 1960, June Wayne opened the Tamarind Lithography Workshop to train journeymen printers in assisting  artists in the lithography print technique.  She realized that the artists could apply their familiar tools (crayon, pencils, liquid pigments, charcoal, etc) to draw directly on the lithograph stone as if they were actually working directly on a piece of paper!

JUNE WAYNE The Sanctified
The Sanctified
JUNE WAYNE The Witnesses I
The Witnesses I
JUNE WAYNE The Witnesses II
The Witnesses II
JUNE WAYNE Shine Here to us and thou art everywhere
Shine Here to Us and Thou Art Everywhere
JUNE WAYNE At Last a Thousand III
At Last a Thousand III

JUNE WAYNE Nevelson
Nevelson
June Wayne expanded the understanding of the symbiotic relationship of lithography, bringing renowned artists – Frank Stella, Richard Diebenkorn, etc. – to share her passion. Here are examples of Her artistry, before and after the founding of Tamarind!

Women Artists

Los Angeles, California
I ‘ve been reading a couple of terrific books about women artists in New York of the 1930s to 1960s approximately: Avis Berman’s “Rebels on Eighth Street” and Mary Gabriel’s “Ninth Street Women”; both are so well written, engaging, colorful and informative! It is New York scene and ‘abstract expressionism’ it depth.
I – on the hand – have a focus upon the female artists OFF the east coast and cite June Wayne, Dorr Bothwell, Ynez Johnston, Helen Lundeberg, Jay Rifkin, Claire Falkenstein, Mabel Alvarez, Lola Alvarez-Bravo, Ruth Asawa, alice Asmar, Amanda Blanco, Lette Valeska, Hella Hammid, Elizabeth Catlett, Grace Clements, Corita Kent, Luchita Hurtado, Esther Lewis, Emmy Lou Packard, Ruth Peabody, Mina Pulsifer, Betye Saar, Elise Seeds, Henrietta Shore, Miriam Slater, Bonnie Stone, Joyce Treiman, Muriel Tyler, Beth VanHoesen, Beatrice Wood, and there are many others with whom I’d have liked to have relations, but were already being well represented elsewhere.
ESTHER LEWIS I Remember the Beauty of your Youth
ESTHER LEWIS I Remember the Beauty of your Youth

GRACE CLEMENTS Architectural Elements
GRACE CLEMENTS Architectural Elements
EMMY LOU PACKARD Child with Cat
EMMY LOU PACKARD Child with Cat

MINA PULSIFER Homeward (Homeward Bound)
MINA PULSIFER Homeward (Homeward Bound)
LETTE VALESKA The Learner
LETTE VALESKA The Learner

HELEN LUNDEBERG The Edge
HELEN LUNDEBERG The Edge

 

MELTING POT of the Arts

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California presents a melting pot of the arts. A blending of influences pervades the studios, galleries and museums. We present works by artists of Latin America, of Asia, of Native America, of Israel, of the United States and of Europe.

MARIO AVATI Nature Morte a l'Estampe
MARIO AVATI
Nature Morte a l’Estampe

HANS BROSAMER The Lord's Prayer
HANS BROSAMER
The Lord’s Prayer
PABLO O'HIGGINS Birdcatcher (Chichiquilatero)
PABLO O’HIGGINS Birdcatcher (Chichiquilatero)

FRANCISCO TOLEDO Los Pollos
FRANCISCO TOLEDO Los Pollos
GEORGE HERMS Academic Collage : antifasciste
GEORGE HERMS Academic Collage : antifasciste

CHARLES CRODEL Bahnkurvebei-Probstzella
CHARLES CRODEL
Bahnkurvebei-Probstzella
EVERETT GEE JACKSON Seated Tarascan Woman with Cup
EVERETT GEE JACKSON Seated Tarascan Woman with Cup

Tyrus Wong Horse Looking Down
Tyrus Wong Horse Looking Down

SWEETEN YOUR LIFE

As my Gallery winds down, I find many fine pieces of art
that I’m now willing to make available.
I’ll continue to offer ‘treasures’ to sweeten your
home/office as these pieces have sweetened mine!

LORSER FEITELSON Girl Reading
Girl Reading

STANTON MACDONALD-WRIGHT Haiga Portfolio - #2 Basho:A cloud of Cherry Blossoms:A Temple Bell - is it from Ueno?
Haiga Portfolio – #2 Basho:A cloud of Cherry Blossoms:A Temple Bell – is it from Ueno?

JOHN ALTOON About Women
About Women
PHIL DIKE Balboa Harbor
Balboa Harbor

TYRUS WONG Horse Prancing
Horse Prancing
JOYCE WAHL TREIMAN Studio Ladder and Model
Studio Ladder and Model

HELEN LUNDEBERG Arches IV
Arches IV
MARY CORITA KENT Tomato
Tomato

JOHN PAUL JONES Blue Maze
Blue Maze
HERBERT BAYER Swirls (Seven Convolutions)
Swirls (Seven Convolutions)

OSKAR FISCHINGER Abstraction #17
Abstraction #17
"STANTON

AMARANTH ROSLYN EHRENHALT Are You
Are You

MEXICO – UNITED STATES
OUR NEIGHBORS – OURSELVES

So close…and yet there is a border and a language dividing us.
But, the border is porous and the language is a common one, used fluidly and flexibly throughout both countries.
EMBRACE THE ELEMENTS WE SHARE.

CELIA CALDERON Nina China
CELIA CALDERON
Nina China

FRANCISCO MORA Juan A. Mateos
FRANCISCO MORA
Juan A. Mateos
CARLOS GARCIA ESTRADA Bosque
CARLOS GARCIA ESTRADA
Bosque

JEAN CHARLOT Pilgrims
JEAN CHARLOT
Pilgrims

AMARANTH ROSLYN EHRENHALT
(b.1931)

John Paul Jones 1924-1999
and David Philip Levine 1910-2008

John Paul Jones and David Philip Levine were quite different in their personalities, their technique and their imagery – it appeared.
But, through their art, each revealed himself as sharing a meditative quietness – a stillness – with each other and with the viewer. They provoked a thoughtfulness, a comtemplative mood, a consideration of the subject that led to an understanding – in Levine’s work – of his period in history, and in Jones’s work – a glimpse of his inner history.

Additional works by these two artists are available and each bears out similar inner feelings.


AMARANTH ROSLYN EHRENHART Wend
Wend

AMARANTH ROSLYN EHRENHART Quagga
Quagga