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Nearly eight hundred miles, from San Diego Harbor northward, California's Coast has provided some of the world's most dazzling coastal scenery. This majesty enticed California's painters of all different periods and styles. This exhibit salutes these artists, focusing on historic painters of the Carmel Art Association, and other notable painters of the sea. |
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| Historic Painters of the Carmel Art Association |
Notable Painters of the Sea | ||
Charlotte Morgan |
George Bickerstaff Jon Blanchette Bennett Bradbury Dave Dalton Richard Dey DeRibcowsky Alexander Dzigurski |
Nels Hagerup Arthur Merton Hazard Anna Althea Hills Paul Lauritz Leon Lundmark Stephen Seymour Thomas James Gale Tyler |
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Historic Painters of the Carmel Art Association
 Pansies in a Basket |
Josephine Blanch attended the School of Design in San Francisco with life-long friend Mary DeNeal Morgan. The adventuresome pair made a trip to the Monterey Peninsula and Blanch loved the place and made it her home. She became curator of the Del Montey Hotel Art Gallery, specializing in local artists. For a period after the earthquake, Josephine's Blanch's gallery was the most important gallery in northern California. She also wrote for the Del Monty Weekly and wrote a history of art on the Monterey Peninsula entitled Barbizon Revisited. She is known for portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. She once restored an old adobe, and sold it to John Steinbeck. Top of Page |
 Furnace Creed Wash |
Ferdinand Burgdorff 1881 - 1975 After enjoying a miandering artistic career, including study in Paris and painting the desert southwest, Ferdinand Burgdorff settled in Carmel, building his house and studio near Pebble Beach on Rondo Road. His landscapes were both realistic and romantic, conveying mystery and drama in the landscape. At the time of his death at age 94, he was the oldest working member of the Camel art community. Top of Page
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 Pebble Beach 1956 |
 On the Old Wharf, Monterey 1948 |
 California Coast 1911 |
| Francis Harvey Cutting Francis Harvey Cutting was born in Riceville Iowa on October 8, 1872. He moved to California at the age of 21. He settled in Santa Clara Valley as a farmer, where he graduated from San Jose State College in 1897. He then studied art at College of the Pacific. His interest and talent as an artist led him to teach art classes. He later became devoted full time to his own painting, and soon became well known for his California seascape and coastal landscape paintings. His work has been exhibited at art galleries nationwide, as well as Gump Art Gallery in San Francisco and Stanford University. His last known work was created in 1963, at the age of 91. He died in 1964. Top of Page |
 Pacific Grove Cottage |
Josh was an artist for Walt Disney Studios for thirty years. His career began in the midst of the Great Depression, just after his graduation from the Chicago Art Institute. He participated in most of the Disney classic films, and for most of his tenure, his his title was director of special effects. Josh loved his job at Disney, but always thought of himself as a landscape painter first. On weekends and vacations, he would pack his station wagon and tear drop trailer and head off with his wife Libby and son Philip to paint the many dimensions of California's natural beauty. Top of Page |
 Coastal Rocks and Crashing Waves |
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 Red Barn SOLD |
 "Quaking Aspens" |
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 Coastal Estuary |
Warren Chase Merritt 1897-1969 |
Young Warren Chase Merritt was fascinated by the sea. As a boy, he sketched ships along the northern California town of Eureka, where his father was manager of the North Pacific Steamship Company. His father met with misfortune, drowned in a shipping accident. His family relocated themselves in Sausalito near San Francisco. As an artist, he worked on many murals and later in his career was an illustrator for Railroad Magazine. Top of Page
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When he was thirty-five years old, Ralph Miller moved to Los Angeles in 1893, and painted California and western scenes until his death in 1945. Over his career, he sold his works through local Los Angeles galleries including the Kanst Gallery, the Steckel Gallery, the Blanchard Gallery, and the Wilshire Gallery. His works reside in the Sante Fe Railway collection and the Santa Barbara Historical Society. Top of Page |
 Carmel Coast |
Charlotte E. Morgan 1867 - 1947 |
Charlotte studied art at the San Francisco School of Design with Arthur Frank Mathews, Amedee Joullin and Emil Carlsen, and studied further with Armin Hansen and L. P. Latimer. In 1896, she married Ross Morgan and settled in Berkeley where she taught in the public schools. A few years after her husband died in 1917, she moved to Carmel where she maintained a studio. Charlotte was involved in teaching and exhibiting art with the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club. She received a masters degree from Cal Berkeley in 1928, and she exhibited her paintings throughout California. She remained in Carmel until her death in 1947 at the age of 80. Top of Page |
| Charlotte Augusta Morton 1885 - 1974 |  Palo Verde |
Charlotte Augusta Morton was born in Tescott, KS on November 7, 1885. After graduating from Kansas State College, Morton studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and in New York City at the Art Students League and Pratt Institute. Prior to moving to the Monterey Peninsula, she taught briefly at San Jose State College in 1947. In Carmel she developed a postcard business depicting local scenes, and in her leisure painted watercolors of the local wild flowers. She died in Carmel on July 20, 1974. Top of Page
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William Ritschel studied art at the Royal Academy in Munich before emigrating to New York City in 1895. Much of his young life was spent at sea, and it is not surprising that as an artist his focus was on capturing the sea with its many personalities. Ritschel settled in Carmel in 1911, becoming one of the first artists to establish residence there subsequent to the devastating earthquake in San Francisco in 1906, and that is where he died in 1949. On the rocky cliffs of Carmel Heights he built a home called "Castellammare", named for an Italian seaport town south of Naples. Top of Page |
| Davis Francis Schwartz 1879 - 1969 | ||
Davis Francis Schwartz was born in Paris, Kentucky in 1879. He studied at the Chicago Art Institute, and then at art schools in Dayton and Cleveland, Ohio; he then spent three years in Montreal studying under Adam S. Scott. He worked as a commercial illustrator in Ohio for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He moved to California in 1903 and worked for the Los Angeles Times before moving to San Francisco in 1924. In 1924 he was elected artist for the State Board of Harbor Commissioners . He established a studio in the Ferry Building and for 30 years acted as custodian of the huge relief map of the State of California there. During the 1940s he sometimes signed his works "Francis Davis" due to anti-German sentiment. He worked in both oil and watercolor and won many awards. His memberships included the Carmel Art Association, Oakland Art Association, Santa Cruz Art League, and Society of Western Artists. His works are held by the California Historical Society, St. Mary's College, the State Museum Resource Center (Sacramento), and Shasta State Historical Museum. Top of Page |
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 "Mt. Tamalpais" |
 Mission San Antonio de Padua |
 Boys Fishing on the Bay 1940 |
 Eucalyptus and River SOLD |
 San Francisco Bay Sailing |
 Embarking Schooner |
| Nell Gertrude Walker Warner 1891 - 1970 | |
Nell Walker grew up in Nebraska and Kansas, graduating from the Lexington College for Young Women in Missouri in 1910. After a brief teaching position in Colorado Springs, she moved to Los Angeles, graduating from the Los Angeles School of Art and Design in 1916. She taught in LA girls schools, and painted backdrops for silent films. In 1920, she married a surgeon, Dr. Bion Smith Warner, and traveled in Europe. While living in La Canada and La Crescenta, California, she furthered her painting studies with Nicholai Fechin, Fritz Werner and Paul Lauritz. In 1945, she married Emil Shostrom and moved to Carmel, CA where she had been a frequent visitor. She resided in Carmel the next 18 years until her death in 1970. She was praised as one of America's foremost painters of flowers, and her western and California landscapes were well known. She was a member of numerous art associations, was exhibited widely, and her paintings won many awards. Top of Page |
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 Path the the Sea |
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| Abel George Warshawsky 1883 - 1962 | |
Abel George Warshawsky was a successful American impressionist painter in Paris before World War II. He arrived there in 1908, commencing an active thirty year career in the Paris art world. From Paris, he made painting excursions throughout France and Italy, and returned to the United States from time to time to sell his works. In Paris, he knew Amedeo Modigliani, Paul Signac and Auguste Renoir, as well as American artists Winslow Homer, Leon Kroll, Hugo Robus and William Zorach.
In the late 1930's though with the death of his first wife and the coming of the war, he left France and established a studio in Monterey, California. There he painted portraits, taught classes, and became well known for his paintings of the |
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George Bickerstaff 1893 - 1954 Top of Page |
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| Jon Blanchette 1908 - 1987 Top of Page | ||
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| Bennett Schroeder Bradbury 1914 - 1991 Top of Page | ||
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| Richard Dey De Ribcowsky 1880 - 1936 Top of Page |
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| Alexander Dzigurski 1911 - 1995 |
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| Nels Hagerup 1864 - 1922 |
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| Arthur Merton Hazard 1872 - 1930 Top of Page |
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| Anna Althea Hills 1882 - 1930 |
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| Stephen Seymour Thomas 1868 - 1956 Top of Page |
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| James Gale Tyler 1855 - 1931 Top of Page |
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