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Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery Monthly March 2009 News, Articles, and Opinions from the world of California’s Heritage Art & Beyond, & Gallery and Museum exhibits, near & far
	Celebrating Early California, Western, and American Art 1580 Eastshore Road, PO Box 325 Bodega Bay, CA 94923, 707-875-2911 just below and around back of the Terrapin Creek Cafe Fridays, Saturdays, & Sundays, Noon until 5:00 PM (or other times by prearranged appointment) email: Art@BodegaBayHeritageGallery.com \| www.BodegaBayHeritageGallery.com	Linda Sorensen & Daniel Rohlfing
Current Exhibit: "Celebrate! The California Impressionists" Through April 20th (see preview) An exhibit featuring our most stunning paintings, created by well-known artists of California's past, whose work is widely represented in fine museums and prestigious private collections. Plan a trip to Bodega Bay (Map & Location)
Gallery Note -- We will be Closed Fri, Sat, & Sun, March 27, 28, & 29, returning Friday April 3.

John W. Hilton presenting "Twentynine Palms Oasis" for Ike's Oval Office, 1957	Jimmy Swinnerton's Little Jimmy & Canyon Kiddies in Animated Cartoons	Kathi Hilton is Painting Again	California Style Watercolors of the WPA Era Live On at the Smithsonian & the Irvine Museum
Update - Contemporary Museum of Art at the Presidio SF Chron 3/1/09 (this is a link to the newspaper itself)	Update - Sonoma Artist Jack Stuppin, new exhibit Press Democrat 3/1/09 (link)	Please forward our newsletter link to your art-loving friends. Need a reason to buy art in the near future? Sales tax goes up 1% April 1, No foolin'.	Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery Notes Our Neighboring Galleries Museum Exhibits Near and Far

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John W. Hilton presents Twentynine Palms Oasis. If you know the identity of the gentleman receiving the painting, please contact us and we will publish his name.	John W. Hilton presenting "Twentynine Palms Oasis" for Ike's Oval Office
	"Twentynine Palms Oasis" by John W. Hilton was John's gift to his friend and fellow painter Dwight Eisenhower on the occasion of his second inaugural in January, 1957. Ike placed the painting his Oval Office. After leaving office, Mamie Eisenhower presented the painting to the Eisenhower Memorial Hospital in Palm Desert, California.
	Katherine Ainsworth's biography of John W. Hilton, The Man Who Captured Sunshine, chapter 37, records the meeting of Hilton and Eisenhower before Ike became president. She writes, "On weekends the Hiltons packed up whatever paintings John managed to turn out during the week and drove over to join other members of the Palm Springs Artist Guild in the outdoor art show on the grass in front of the Desert Inn. While their lives centered about their Twentynine Palms home, they realized that Palm Springs offered the most lucrative sales prospects. One Sunday, John had just finished giving a painting demonstration when a quiet, smiling
man drew closer to the picture and reached out to touch the surface and left his fingerprint in the wet paint. The man was overcome with embarrassment and apologized profusely. John just laughed and said, "Think nothing of it, General Eisenhower, that fingerprint makes my picture a collector's item." They met again at a dinner party at the Cochran-Odlum Ranch a few weeks later. Eisenhower, an amateur painting enthusiast, quizzed John on the technique he used to obtain a certain effect in his paintings. 'The General looked a little surprised when I invited him to come out to our place for a painting session,' said Hilton and then added, 'but I guess he wasn't offended because he came several times. I don't think anybody but his driver ever knew where he was.' " Painting was quite important to the private side of Dwight Eisenhower. In our January issue, we had an article about Eisenhower's painting hobby. He kept a small and very private studio in the second floor White House residence, and would steal moments from his schedule to seclude himself in the tranquil moments of putting paint to canvas. John's presentation of Twentynine Palms Oasis was fifty-six years ago. Four years later, Eisenhower left the White House, and his belongings were shipped out, including John's painting. After Eisenhower's Death in 1969, Mamie Eisenhower presented Twentynine Palms Oasis to the Eisenhower Memorial Hospital in Palm Desert, California. And now for some bad news. Twentynine Palms Oasis is currently missing and may be lost. Based on the information in Katherine Ainsworth's biography, we contacted the Eisenhower Memorial Hospital, hoping to stop by on some future trip to the Southland and photograph the painting. We envisioned it hanging somewhere near the entrance with an appropriate plaque. We were surprised that the hospital did not know of the painting. But in the process of making our inquiries, we were fortunate to have contacted Jeannette DeBonne of the Eisenhower Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. She has been most appreciative of learning of Hilton's painting, and has been searching for it ever since. It seems that over the intervening years, the painting quietly disappeared. We hope it may have been placed in one of the hospital's many storage facilities, but it is quite possible it has found its way out the door. Ms. DeBonne is working to unearth leads to follow, but so far hasn't come up with the prize. We wish her encouragement as her search continues. If you have any information concerning this painting, please contact us.
John Hilton's page on our site \| Back to the Top

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Most think of James Guilford Swinnerton as the dean of California’s Desert Painters. But he had an exciting career as a cartoonist before he produced his first desert canvas.	Jimmy Swinnerton's Little Jimmy & Canyon Kiddies in Animated Cartoons
	Jimmy Swinnerton's "Little Jimmy" guest stars with Betty Boop in 1936
We have discovered two animated cartoons on YouTube.com, honoring cartoon strip characters made famous by Jimmy Swinnerton decades before. The first cartoon is by Max Fleischer, with Swinnerton’s early newspaper cartoon character Little Jimmy as a guest star featured with Fleischer’s animated star, Betty Boop.
The second cartoon is a 1940’s era Warner Brothers color animated cartoon entitled "Mighty Hunters," featuring Swinnerton’s Canyon Kiddies. He drew the Canyon Kiddies strip for Good Housekeeping Magazine. For this animated project, Swinnerton provided 50 of his desert paintings to be used as backdrops. They give the animation a unique feel, merging the the two worlds of Swinnerton’s artistic life, cartooning and painting. Swinnerton attended the San Francisco Art Association Art School where his teachers included William Keith and Emil Carlsen, and he had a talented classmate and friend there named Maynard Dixon.	Warner Brothers honors Swinnerton's comic strip, "Canyon Kiddies, " c 1940's in "Mighty Hunters."
In 1892, William Randolph Hearst noticed the talented 17 year old Swinnerton, and hired him to illustrate the news for the San Francisco Examiner. Young Jimmy drew editorial cartoons, sports cartoons, and he even did a cute little bear cub to accompany the weather report. But his career jumped from there. The weather bear cub became a comic called The Little Bears, and Little Bears and Tykes. In 1896, Swinnerton transferred to the New York Journal. There, Jimmy’s Little Bears became Little Tigers. In 1904, Swinnerton created Little Jimmy, a smaller version of Jimmy’s persona who could be distracted from the simplest task, and yet survive improbable and disastrous consequences of impulsive curiosity. It proved to be quite popular among the comic loving public. Then came the turning point in young Swinnerton's life. Jimmy was diagnosed with tuberculosis, a virtual death sentence. Doctors gave him weeks to live. At the urging of William Randolph Hearst, Jimmy responded to the dreaded disease by removing himself to the dry California and Arizona deserts. After thriving in the urban whirl of New York, Jimmy fell in love with the desert. Years later, he joked of his illness, saying “I forgot to die.” But just like Little Jimmy who survived calamity after calamity, the grown up Jimmy lived on. He responded to the desert’s beauty by returning to his fine art roots, creating canvases of the beauty he saw before him. Many of his desert compositions feature new green life, thriving within an expansive landscapes of vast desert lands and unending sky. Soon, some of his canvases made their way back east, to dismal reviews by art critics. They didn't’t appreciate Swinnerton’s greenery in his paintings. They had a preconception of the Southwest as a wasteland. But Swinnerton persisted, and encouraged other artists to visit and paint the desert, like his old art school classmate, Maynard Dixon. Over time, Swinnerton collected a large group of desert friends and artists who used their artistry to let others know of the desert's appeal, among them artists Clyde Forsythe, John W. Hilton, LA Times editor Ed Ainsworth, and famed humorist, Will Rogers. As his identity as a painter grew though, he didn’t give up on his previous cartooning career. He developed a new strip, called Canyon Kiddies which was published in Good Housekeeping Magazine. These Canyon Kiddies were similar to Swinnerton's Little Jimmy in spirit, fun loving inquisitive kids exploring and reveling in the world around them. The Kiddies weren’t afraid of wolves, snakes, or other aspects of their environment. They didn’t fear the world around them; they accepted it as natural. In much of western European culture, children's literature taught that natural things were to be feared, for example, the wolves in or Peter and the Wolf, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Three Little Pigs. In contrast, the Canyon Kiddies saw the wolf, mountain lion, and rattlesnake, as their brothers. Jimmy infused his Canyon Kiddies with the cultural traditions and beliefs of the native American people of the Southwest, his desert dwelling neighbors. Through the Canyon Kiddies, Jimmy guided his American comic reading audience to appreciate and celebrate the culture of the American Indian, and the beautiful desert they lived in and which Jimmy loved.
James Swinnerton's Page on our website \| Back to the Top

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Kathi now lives and paints near Roosevelt, Utah	Kathi Hilton is Painting Again
	After a ten year long hiatus, we're pleased to announce that artist Kathi Hilton has returned to painting and her new works are gracing the walls of Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery. If you love the flowering beauty of California's deserts, you will love Kathi's work. Kathi grew up amid the sights, sounds and scents of her father's home and studio. Kathi's father, John W. Hilton, was an artist, but so much more. His varied adventurous enterprises are made of the stuff of legend, and his constant flow of intriguing guests and friends could create its own volume of Who's Who. It was in this environment that she learned painting, in a home where creating art was central.
click images below for a closer look
Spring's Promise	Valley Splendor	Awakening Spring
With her fine eye attuned to the soft shades of the desert, Kathi achieves a very intriguing luminescence by mixing her oil paints with fossil wax. Her compositions are distinctively her own, but are well rooted in an impressive lineage of great desert painters. She learned from her father, who in turn learned from famed desert artists and friends including James Swinnerton, Clyde Forsythe, and Maynard Dixon. Of her days growing up, Kathi tells the tale of one occasion when James Cagney was visiting her father. Cagney would escape the rigors of his Hollywood acting career and visit John on painting excursions. One day, as both men were at their easels, little Kathi joined in. She was frustrated that she couldn't paint as well as her father.
Smoke Tree	At one point, Cagney turned to young Kathi and said, "Kathi, don't worry. You don't have to paint like your father, just paint what's in your heart." Of that day, Kathi now says, "That's the day I became an artist." On another occasion, aviator Howard Hughes landed his plane on the highway in front of John's gem shop and art studio just south of Indio, California. He brought fresh Maine lobster, a true rarity in the California desert of the 1940's. The occasion was little Kathi's birthday, and Kathi reports that lobster still remains her favorite dish. At present, Kathi has five canvases at the gallery and there are more to come. Stop by and enjoy them, and maybe take one home.
Read about Kathi in Desert Magazine, Nov 1978	Kathi's Page on our Website	Back to the Top

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California Style Watercolors of the WPA Era Live On at the Smithsonian & the Irvine Museum After the depression, the government owned WPA art was warehoused and much of it was eventually lost. But fortunately, some survived, and it is being celebrated by two exhibits, one at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and another at Southern California’s Irvine Museum.
Alden Krider - Activities of the National Youth Administration 1937, Oil on canvas
Unlike the Works Progress Administration (WPA) enacted during the Great Depression of the 1930’s, our recently passed stimulus package does not contain a provision to put artists to work for the national good. Yet, there are two wonderful museum exhibits recalling the images and artists that arose from their depression era work. The purpose of the WPA artists program - including painters, playwrights, musicians, actors, sculptors, or filmmakers - was to create art which encouraged the communal work ethic -- that idea that Americans were pulling together to get through hard times. In the realm of painting, scenes of workers in agriculture and industry portrayed Americans at work. “1934: A New Deal for Artists” is presently on exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. It explains the story of how federal officials knew it was essential to employ the talents and labors of America’s artists to sustain America’s spirit. Artists were encouraged to depict "The
American Scene." Artists were not only employed to embellish public buildings, but they were also provided a sense of pride in serving their country. Their work embodied that spirit, reminding Americans		Carl Rosenberg Winter Scene 1934
throughout the country of the quintessential values of hard work, community, and optimism. The exhibit runs through January 3, 2010, so if you’re going to be in Washington, this is one exhibit you’ll like to consider attending. The exhibit is drawn from the Smithsonian’s collection, and includes fifty-six paintings	Edmund Lewandowski Fishermen's Village 1937
providing a striking visual record of America surviving a challenging episode in its history with character and strength. The Irvine Museum is presenting “The Good Life California Watercolors, 1930 to 1950.” The exhibit runs through May 16, 2009. The paintings in this exhibit celebrate California life. The point examined in the title of the exhibit is that even though one was poor or challenged during the great depression, one was always blessed by the California life. The Irvine exhibit includes works by Standish Backus (1910-1989), Rex Brandt (1914-2000), Phil Dike (1906-1990), Dong Kingman (1911-2000), Nat Levy (1896-1984), Barse Miller (1904-1973), Paul Sample (1896-1974), Milford Zornes (1908-2008) and many others.
Rex Brandt 1914-2000 Newport Jetty	Arthur Riley 1911-1998 Clam Forks	Frank Meyers 1899-1956 Cash For Your Car
Phil Dike 1906-1990 Elysian Park, LA 1934	Emil Kosa Jr. 1903-1968 Cloverleaf Fever	Stan Backus 1910-1984 San Bernardino Train Yard, 1930
	The spirit of the WPA watercolor artists still lives on. The California Watercolor Association is presenting its national competition at the Presidio’s Officer’s Club in San Francisco, March 18 - May 24. For more details, visit their site. http://www.californiawatercolor.org Events during the Exhibition -- Awards Reception - March 22, 2:00 to 4:00, Presidio Officers' Club Moraga Room, Paintouts - April 4 and May 2 , Jazz in the Gallery - April 30, 6:30 pm, Artists in the Gallery - every Friday 1:00 to 2:30, People's Choice Award - voting from March 18 to April 26 Directions - http://www.presidio.gov/directions
REVIEW Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery's WPA California Style Exhibit presented in March and April, 2008	Back to the Top	Smithsonian American Art Museum The Irvine Museum California Watercolor Association

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Gallery Notes

We will be Closed Fri, Sat, & Sun, March 27, 28, & 29. A little vacation is in order. We'll be back Friday, April 3rd.
For our friends in the Palm Springs area, the Historical Society of Palm Desert Presents "Early Desert Artists: Longevity and Landscape," A celebration of three desert artists who are still painting at age 90 and up: Carl Bray, Bill Bender, & Sally Ward.

The opening reception is Friday, March 6 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Historical Society of Palm Desert. Carl Bray and Bill Bender will be in attendance. The art show and sale will continue from March 7 to March 14 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Historical Society of Palm Desert: 72-861 El Paseo (behind Staples), Phone Number: 760.346.6588. Coordinator Contact: Hal Rover 760.799.2565
New Hudson River School painter Ellen Perantoni, who our gallery represents, is one of the 4 artists whose works have been chosen for inclusion in the Hudson Valley Quadricentennial celebrations this month (March 2009): New York City, Oswego, Peekskill, Lake Placid. One of her paintings will be projected as the backdrop of four performances of violinist /fiddler legend Mark O'Connor. Contact us for links and details.
Sales tax goes up 1% April 1st.
Booklets of several of our exhibitions are available. Pick them up at the gallery or send us your mailing address.
- Painters of the Desert; Regionalist Watercolors;
- 19th Century Paintings of Northern California;
- Painters of Carmel (plus other Master Painters of the Sea).
- A booklet of our California Impressionists paintings is still in the works.
The gallery offers access to a collection of reference material - even Sister Wendy, of course. There are many books including a huge volume about Edward Hopper. There are also various slide shows available, such as Milford Zornes, and DVDs about various art movements and artists (including 4 Men Paint 1 Tree, Disney's short film that includes Joshua Meador 1911-1965). On a rainy day or any other gallery day, please accept our invitation to sit down and browse for a while, or have a DVD shown for you. Please speak up and tell us in advance about what you may wish to view or look through.
See the video on our Alexander Dzigurski page entitled The Palette & Symphony.
We still have a good selection of small, affordable works by Alexander Dzigurski II.
In addition to the desert paintings by Kathi Hilton (daughter of John W. Hilton) that we have showing, additional paintings are available that we can quickly obtain from the artist according to the preferences of interested persons. Please contact us for details.
Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery is a member of the Sonoma County Gallery Group, which publishes a map of fine art galleries and has a website with information on a wide variety of current exhibitions. http://www.scgg.org . We are also members of the Petaluma Arts Council, which has a marvelous new exhibition space in the train depot visitor's center area off Washington Street at Lakeville Road in Petaluma. The Weather Report juried exhibit continues through March 28. www.petalumaartscouncil.org.
Our Archives page has links to our previous gallery exhibits and monthly newsletters.

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What's showing at Bodega Bay Galleries & Beyond? click on their links and discover the wonder to be found in the galleries of West Sonoma County
	IN BODEGA BAY Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery 1580 Eastshore Road, PO Box 325 Bodega Bay, CA 94923, 707-875-2911 Fridays, Saturdays, & Sundays, Noon until 5:00 PM (or other times by prearranged appointment) Current Exhibit: Celebrate! (through April 20th) \| (Map & Location) Art@BodegaBayHeritageGallery.com \| www.BodegaBayHeritageGallery.com
	NEW IN BODEGA BAY SMITH & KIRK FINE ART & CUSTOM FRAMING GALLERY Libby Kirk's fused glass and Gary Smith's Custom Framing along with works by a variety of local artists, including works of the late Gail Packer. Conveniently located next to The Ren Brown Collection 1785 A Highway One, PO Box 1116, Bodega Bay, CA 94923 SWFraming@Comcast.net \| 707-875-2976
	IN BODEGA BAY Local Color Gallery Current Gallery Exhibit: Small Works Members Show now offering the stunning photography of Jerry Dodrill 1580 Eastshore Road, Bodega Bay, 707-875-2744 http://www.localcolorgallery.com \| Back to the Top	Matanzas Creek Lavender Florence Brass
	IN BODEGA BAY The Ren Brown Collection The gallery was established in 1989 and specializes in contemporary art from both sides of the Pacific. Current Exhibit: Yoshio Ikezaki: The Poetry of Paper Sumi Paintings, Paper Sculpture & Collage February 26 - March 29, 2009 http://www.renbrown.com \| Back to the Top
	IN DUNCANS MILLS Christopher Queen Galleries 3 miles east of Hwy 1 on Hwy 116 on the Russian River Current Show: "The Very Frugal Collector" Paintings $2000 & Under, Sunday March 8th, 2009, Champagne Reception 1 to 3pm, Show Hangs Through May 1st http://www.christopherqueengallery.com \| Back to the Top
	IN DUNCANS MILLS Quercia Gallery New Show Opening March 6: "In Nature" An installation of Landscapes. Reception Mar. 7 3-6pm. Hours: 11am-5pm, Thur - Mon (707) 865-0243 http://www.quercia-gallery.com \| Back to the Top
	IN CALISTOGA the Lee Youngman Gallery Lee Youngman features the contemporary paintings of Paul Youngman and other Sonoma and Napa County artists. Also, she has a superb selection of paintings done by her father, famed artist Ralph Love. http://www.leeyoungmangalleries.com \| Back to the Top	Paul Youngman "Mustard"
	IN TOMALES Tomales Fine Art exhibits the works of Jeanette Le Grue, Timothy Horn, Christin Coy, John Poon, Nancy McDonald, Randall Sexton. For aspiring and recreational artists, workshops are available. photo to the left ... Jeannette Le Grue with her 2nd place painting, "Picture of Lilies, " at the San Juan Capistrano Awards ceremony. http://www.TomalesFineArt.com \| Back to the Top
	IN FORESTVILLE The Quicksilver Mine Co. 6671 Front St. (Hwy. 116) Downtown Forestville PHONE: 707.887.0799 March 6—April 12, 2009 REEMERGENCE: NEW WORK Al Longo, Artist Reception: Saturday March 7, 4—6pm http://www.quicksilvermineco.com \| Back to the Top
	IN GRATON Graton Gallery 9048 Graton Road, Graton, California (707) 829-8912 Current Show: "Gesture & Stillness" - March 3 - April 12, 2009 Sally Baker - Vibrant watercolor still life paintings inspired by Asian aesthetic and love of color, Marsha Connell - Paintings reflecting the spirit of place - mood, shape, color, and spatial relationship, Gerry Arrington - Trompe l’oeil ceramics - sensual aspects of form, surface, texture and presence Opening Reception - Sat. March 7 :: 3 to 5:30 pm http://www.gratongallery.com/ Back to the Top
	IN BODEGA Bodega Landmark Gallery Collection regional seascape and landscape painting, fine art photography, blown glass, etching, sculpture, ceramics, stained glass, woodwork, and jewelry by local artists. 17255 Bodega Highway Bodega, California USA 94922 Phone 707 876 3477 http://www.artbodega.com \| Lorenzo@ArtBodega.com \| Back to the Top
	IN VALLEY FORD West County Design Currently Showing: Small Packages Works by Deborah Cushman, Dana Hooper, Janet Moore, Wendy Schwartz and Jean Warren 14390 Highway One • Valley Ford, CA 94972 • 707.876.1963 (Across from the Valley Ford Hotel and Rocker Oysterfeller's Restaurant) http://www.westcountydesign.com \| Back to the Top
	IN FREESTONE Boho Gallery 463 Bohemian Hwy, Freestone, CA 95472 Phone 707-874-9792 "an eclectic range of art that includes romantic wine country landscapes, whimsical animal portraits, and contemplative visual abstracts that allude to natural objects and mystery." Jan, Feb, & March: By appointment only April through December: Fri, Sat. & Sun 11 to 6 barbara@bohogallery.com \| http://www.bohogallery.com \| Back to the Top
	IN PETALUMA Vintage Bank Antiques Vintage Bank Antiques is located in Historic Downtown Petaluma, corner of Western Avenue and Petaluma Blvd. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Warren Davis and the rest of the team at Vintage Bank Antiques has assembled a spectacular inventory of paintings. From the 18th Century to Contemporary Artists. We have paintings to suit every price point and collector level. If you have a painting for sale, please consider Vintage Bank Antiques. Contact Warren Davis directly at WarrenDavisPaintings@yahoo.com http://vintagebankantiques.com \| Back to the Top

Links to current museum exhibits relevant to Early California Art and beyond
Oakland Oakland Museum of California The Art and History Galleries are currently under renovation, and will reopen in 2010. Exhibit:Future of Sequoias: Sustaining Parklands in the 21st Century February 7–August 23, 2009		San Francisco de Young Museum de Young Museum: American Painting Collection, & "Warhol Live" Warhol Live presents an exploration of Warhol’s work through the lens of music. Feb 14 - May 17
San Francisco California Historical Society Fine Arts Collection ... & Hobos to Street People: Artists' Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present February 19- August 15, 2009		San Francisco Legion of Honor Permanent Collection, plus Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique Feb 7 - May 31
San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum "Jews on Vinyl" And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl February 6 - June 9, 2009		Moraga Hearst Art Gallery Saint Mary's College of California Bert Monroy: A digital artist paints with light January 17 - April 5, 2009
Coming to SF's Presidio the Contemporary Art Museum of the Presidio report of the latest from the SF Chron, March 1, 2009		Also Coming to SF's Presidio The Walt Disney Family Museum "Opening is just months away"
Sonoma Sonoma Valley Museum of Art 551 Broadway, Sonoma CA 95476 (707) 939-7862 A.R.T.S 2009: Art Rewards the Student MARCH 14 - APRIL 5, 2009		Santa Rosa Sonoma County Museum Historic paintings, plus Exhibition: January 23 – March 29, 2009 Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon .
Monterey Monterey Museum of Art Permanent Collection		Santa Rosa Byatt Claeyssens Gallery Sonoma Academy Jack Stuppin. "Songs of the Earth" through Friday, March 27. 1:00 to 4:30 pm on Tues and Thurs or by appointment
Sacramento Crocker Art Museum Permanent Exhibit, plus Animals in the Drawing Room: Portraits by Mari Kloeppel February 6 – May 31, 2009		Ukiah Grace Hudson Museum http://www.gracehudsonmuseum.org The target date to reopen the Grace Carpenter Hudson painting exhibition is March 8th. Please check before making the trip.
San Jose San Jose Museum of Art Songs of the Earth: Landscapes by Jack Stuppin Jan 8 - April 5		Sacramento Capitol Museum Permanent Exhibits
San Diego San Diego Museum of Art Visible Places: Works on Paper by Women through March 22, 2009		Irvine The Irvine Museum The Good Life California Watercolors, 1930-1950 through May 16
Pasadena Norton Simon Museum Matisse’s Amours: Illustrations of Pierre de Ronsard’s Love Poems February 13–June 8, 2009		Palm Springs Palm Springs Art Museum Permanent Collection; American Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting 02.11.09 - 05.09.09 ANNENBERG WING
Seattle, WA Seattle Art Museum The Indian Paintings of George de Forest Brush, Feb 26 - May 24, 2009		Santa Monica California Heritage Museum
Dallas, TX Dallas Museum of Art Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs October 3, 2008–May 17, 2009 Exhibit Coming to SF's de Young Museum, Summer, '09		Long Beach Long Beach Museum of Art California Seen: Landscapes of a Changing California, 1930-1970 through April 5, 2009
Chicago, IL Art Institute of Chicago Impressionists Return New Galleries Open December 19, plus Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth February 14–April 26, 2009		Portland, OR Portland Art Museum Permanent Collection
Washington D.C. The Renwick Gallery George Catlin's Indian Gallery through April 26, 2009, plus Graphic Masters I: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Works on Paper, through May 25, 2009		Washington D.C. The National Gallery Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age February 1–May 3, 2009
Atlanta, GA High Museum of Art Vermeer's The Astronomer "Evolution and Exploration of the MASTERPIECE," through September 6, 2009		Roanoke, VA The Taubman Museum 19th & 20th Century Paintings John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Robert Henri, Childe Hassam & others. Permanent Exhibit