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Diego Rivera's America
now at SFMOMA thru January 2, 2023


Oakland's Robert Rishell
& his "Progress Through Labor"
mural in Sacramento

Painting of the Month
Robert Rishell, 1917-1976
Robert Rishell, 1917-1976, The High Trail
The High Trail
oil on canvas, 30 x 40

Linda's Studio News Gallery Notes

Diego Rivera's America
now at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art
thru January 2, 2023 / by Daniel Rohlfing
Linda Sorensen, waiting for the doors to open at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Linda Sorensen waiting for the doors to open
at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Diego Rivera, Self Portrait, 1941, oil on canvas Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Diego Rivera, Self Portrait, 1941, oil on canvas
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Diego Rivera (1886-1957) is revered throughout the art world. His art is rooted in the people and culture of his native Mexico. His images consistently value the common folk, featuring laborers, children, and women. He respects and joyously celebrates the subjects in his paintings. His goal was pure: filling his canvas with the beauty, the vibrancy and the life of the common Mexican people.

Rivera put it this way, “I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. When art is true, it is one with nature. This is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the masters Michelangelo, Cezanne, Seurat, and Renoir."
Diego Rivera, Dance in Tehuantepec, 1928, oil on canvas Collection of Eduardo F. Constantini, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Diego Rivera, Dance in Tehuantepec, 1928, oil on canvas
Collection of Eduardo F. Constantini, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Diego Rivera, Moon above the Market, 1929, oil on wax on canvas Private Collection, Mexico
Diego Rivera, Moon above the Market, 1929, oil on wax on canvas
Private Collection, Mexico
Diego Rivera, Tehuantepec Woman Washing her Hair, 1923 the model is Guadalupe Marin de Rivera, Diego's first wife
Diego Rivera, Tehuantepec Woman Washing her Hair, 1923
the model is Guadalupe Marin de Rivera, Diego's first wife
Diego Rivera, The Embroiderer, 1928, oil on canvas The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Diego Rivera, The Embroiderer, 1928, oil on canvas
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
In 1923 Mexico, no one was put off by the nudity in Tehuantepec Woman Washing her Hair. The painting was seen as a celebration of a tropical paradise, a remote place free of the perils of modernity or the prudishness of middle-class morality.

The Embroiderer is an example of the creative spirit of Mexico. The nation was proud of its regional crafts. The girl watching the embroiderer is either bored or is learning through observation. This is the first time this painting has been included in a Rivera exhibition.
Diego Rivera, The Grinder, 1926, oil on canvas Museo Nacional de Arte, Inbal, Mexico City
Diego Rivera, The Grinder, 1926, oil on canvas
Museo Nacional de Arte, Inbal, Mexico City
Diego Rivera, The Tortilla Maker, 1926, oil on canvas University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, Dean's Office at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center
Diego Rivera, The Tortilla Maker, 1926, oil on canvas
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, Dean's Office
at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center
Both The Grinder and The Tortilla Maker feature women in immaculate white dress busy at work in the kitchen, doing the everyday cooking tasks which indigenous people have been tending to for centuries. The blue wall was typical of kitchens in his neighborhood of Mixcalco in Mexico City.
Diego Rivera, The Corn Seller, 1926, chalk on paper Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Diego Rivera, The Corn Seller, 1926, chalk on paper
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Diego Rivera, Fiesta, 1926, graphite on paper Private Collection
Diego Rivera, Fiesta, 1926, graphite on paper
Private Collection
The Corn Seller holds her bouquet of corn much as the girls in his familiar calla lily paintings. These are lively paintings with the subject embracing the beauty and bounty of nature.

Fiesta
shows seated women selling crowns of red poppies and garlands of tuberoses alongside the canal in the Mexico City suburb of Santa Anita on the Friday of Sorrows, which takes place before Palm Sunday.

The figures are packed tightly, similar to the way Rivera presents figures in his murals. The man's blue overalls are the only clue that this is a twentieth century painting.
Diego Rivera, Flower Seller, 1926, oil on canvas Honolulu Museum of Art
Diego Rivera, Flower Seller, 1926, oil on canvas
Honolulu Museum of Art
Diego Rivera, The Flowered Canoe, 1931, oil on canvas Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City, Mexico
Diego Rivera, The Flowered Canoe, 1931, oil on canvas
Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City, Mexico
The Flowered Canoe shows people riding in a canoe on a Mexico City canal. The Aztecs built the system of canals before the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century. The canals were used to transport agricultural products, but were also used for recreation. The canoes "trajineras" (flat bottomed boats) were decorated with flowers and were hired for excursions. One can't help but be reminded of Venetian gondolas.
Diego Rivera, The Flower Carrier, 1935,  oil and tempera on particle board San Francisco Museuem of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Diego Rivera, The Flower Carrier, 1935,
oil and tempera on particle board
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Diego Rivera, Scavenger, 1935, oil and temera on particle board Museo Soumaya, Mexico City
Diego Rivera, Scavenger, 1935, oil and tempera on particle board
Museo Soumaya, Mexico City
The exhibition placard for The Flower Carrier reads, "Commissioned by Albert Bender for the new San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMOMA), The Flower Carrier has been interpreted as an icon of individual effort backed by collaboration and an uplifting representation of Mexico's poor but resilient working class. Every element seems locked in place, in perfect balance; note, for example, how the mass of flowers echoes the curve of the woman's torso and head. Although flower vendors were often seen on the streets of Mexico City in the 1930's, Rivera's omission of any sign of modernity could be seen as perpetuating stereotypes of Mexico as a tranquil pre-industrial utopia."
Diego Rivera, Tehuanas in the Market, 1935, oil on linen Collection of The Tobin Theater Arts Fund
Diego Rivera, Tehuanas in the Market, 1935, oil on linen
Collection of The Tobin Theater Arts Fund
Diego Rivera, Group at Market, 1935, Watercolor and ink on canvas St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Diego Rivera, Group at Market, 1935, watercolor and ink on canvas
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
In 1935, Rivera was seeking to reconnect with Mexican culture after having spent an extended period working in the United States. Tehuanas in the Market and Group at Market show scenes from the Oaxacan city of Tehuantepec southeast of Mexico City on the Pacific coast. The city was known for its matriarchal society, where women dominated the local markets and were known to taunt men.
Diego Rivera, Pinole Seller, 1936, oil on canvas Museo Nacional de Arte, Inbal, Mexico City
Diego Rivera, Pinole Seller, 1936, oil on canvas
Museo Nacional de Arte, Inbal, Mexico City
Diego Rivera, The Offering, 1931 Art Bridges
Diego Rivera, The Offering, 1931
Art Bridges
The Pinole Seller is offering roasted ground maize mixed with chocolate or spices from a lacquered gourd bowl.

The Offering shows a scene from early November. On the Day of the Dead, two girls sitting next to a tiny altar bear offerings of food and a sugar skull. A marigold garland is draped from a nearby cactus. A boy wearing a sombrero carries another skull.
Diego Rivera, Mother and Child, 1926, oil on canvas Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Diego Rivera, Mother and Child, 1926, oil on canvas
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Diego Rivera, Sleeping Child, 1926, oil on canvas Private Collection
Diego Rivera, Sleeping Child, 1926, oil on canvas
Private Collection
These mothers in Mother and Child and Sleeping Child are most important for Rivera. Their protective spirt nurtures these children who will take charge in the revolutionary future. These mothers are unnamed, but Rivera treats them as Madonnas. Their braids reveal evidence that these young mothers are of indigenous heritage.
Diego Rivera, Girl with Coral Necklace, 1926, oil on canvas San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Diego Rivera, Girl with Coral Necklace, 1926, oil on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Diego Rivera, Child Sitting on a Petate, 1927, oil and wax on canvas San Franisco Museum of Modert Art
Diego Rivera, Child Sitting on a Petate, 1927, oil and wax on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Girl with Coral Necklace and Child Sitting on a Petate features Delfina Flores, a girl of 3 or 4 years old who was a frequent model for Rivera. Her coral necklace was commonly thought to offer protection from "mal de ojo," (the evil eye.) Her embroidered blouse and skirt are of a style typically worn by Nahua women in the town of Milpa Alta, outside Mexico City.
Diego Rivera, Seated Girls, 1928, oil on canvas Private Collection
Diego Rivera, Seated Girls, 1928, oil on canvas
Private Collection
Diego Rivera, Frida's Friend, 1931 Nader Museum, Miami, FL
Diego Rivera, Frida's Friend, 1931
Nader Museum, Miami, FL
Seated Girls features Diego Rivera's daughter Guadalupe, known as Pico. She sits next to a barefooted girl who is possibly the daughter of Luz Jimenez, one of Rivera's models.

The girls wear similar indigenous clothing, but Pico is distinguished by her store-bought shoes, cropped hair, and her lighter skin tone. The two girls might be friends but are not presented as equals. Pico is higher up on top of two cushions whose colors evoke those of the Mexican flag. Although Rivera thought highly of Mexico's indigenous people and valued their heritage, here he reveals the social and cultural hierarchy of his time.

Frida's Friend had no accompanying text on its exhibition placard. As I looked at this painting, I wanted to know his story.
Diego Rivera, Portrait of Roberto Rosales, 1930, oil on canvas Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York
Diego Rivera, Portrait of Roberto Rosales, 1930, oil on canvas
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York
Diego Rivera, My Compadre's Children, 1930 Colleccion Banco Nacional de Mexico
Diego Rivera, My Compadre's Children, 1930
Coleccion Banco Nacional de Mexico
Portrait of Roberto Rosales This portrait is rare because we know the subject's first and last name, no other information.

My Compadre's Children shows two boys identified as brothers, Modesto and Jesus Sanchez. Rivera sometimes painted children he recruited from the street, but most often, they were the children of his household staff or his compadres. Names of his child models were identified with only first names or left unidentified.
Diego Rivera, Portrait of Lucretia, 1926, oil n canvas Private Collection
Diego Rivera, Portrait of Lucretia, 1926, oil n canvas
Private Collection

From our Dec 2017 issue
Lucretia_Van_Horn_Woman_with_a_Purse
Berkeley & Palo Alto's
Lucretia Le Bourgeois Van Horn, 1882-1970

This article shows the stunning range of her artistic work.

One time Washington D.C. socialite and love interest of a young
army officer named Douglas MacArthur, Lucretia became a
Bay Area artist and activist and was a good friend of Diego Rivera.

American artist Lucretia Le Bourgeois Van Horn (1882-1970) has an amazing history. As a young, beautiful and talented aristocratic socialite in Washington D.C., she was at ease in wealthy and upper class circles. She studied at the Art Students League in New York and the Academie Julian in Paris. In Washington, she had an intense love affair with a young officer named Douglas MacArthur. She later married another army officer named Robert Van Horn.

In 1926, Lucretia, now age 44, traveled to Mexico City and befriended Diego Rivera (four years her junior) as he was working on his murals at the Ministry of Public Education. She appears in one of the panels, Guarantees -- Debris of Capitalism. She moved to Berkeley and later to Palo Alto where she was an active artist. She died in 1970 at the age of 88.
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Frida and Diego Rivera shows Frida Kahlo, 21 years younger than her husband. When the couple arrived in San Francisco in 1931, Rivera was 45 years old and was already an internationally celebrated painter. Frida was only 24, unknown and only beginning her career.

In San Francisco, Frida was referred to as "Rivera's wife" rather than by her own name. Reflecting their new relationship, Frida pictures Diego as the artist holding the palette and brushes while she demurely stands next to him. Her bright red rebozo and green dress is meant to draw attention to her, and provide a contrast to Diego Rivera's working denim shirt, jacket and jeans.

The banderole carried by the dove above Frida's head reads, "Here you see us, me Frieda Kahlo with my beloved husband, Diego Rivera. I painted these portraits in the beautiful city of San Francisco, California, for our friend Mr. Albert Bender, and it was in the month of April of the year 1931."



Frida Kahlo, Frieda and Diego Rivera, 1931, oil on canvas San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Frida Kahlo, Frida and Diego Rivera, 1931, oil on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Frida Kahlo, Portrait of Mrs. Jean Wight, 1931, oil on canvas Collection of Gretchen and John Berggruen, San Francisco
Frida Kahlo, Portrait of Mrs. Jean Wight, 1931, oil on canvas
Collection of Gretchen and John Berggruen, San Francisco
Frida Kahlo, Portrait of Dr. Leo Eloesser, 1931, oil on masonite University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, Dean's Office at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center
Frida Kahlo, Portrait of Dr. Leo Eloesser, 1931, oil on masonite
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, Dean's Office
at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center
While Diego worked on his commissioned San Francisco murals, Frida painted. Mrs. Jean Wight was the wife of artist Clifford Wight, a technical assistant to Rivera in San Francisco and beyond. No doubt, Frida painted Mrs. Wight while their husbands worked on murals. Jean Wight is seated in front of an open window with a green curtain partially drawn to reveal a dense skyline, possibly from Diego and Frida's San Francisco apartment. The "trompe l'oeil paper scroll" at the bottom of the portrait, a convention adopted from 19th century Mexican paintings, identifies Mrs. Wight, the date, location and the artist.

Portrait of Dr. Leo Eloesser. A good friend of Diego and Frida, Dr. Eloesser was a pioneering thoracic surgeon at San Francisco County Hospital. Frida received treatment from him during her San Francisco stay. In the portrait, to Dr. Eloesser's left is a drawing by Diego Rivera. On the table, a model schooner bears the inscription, "Los Tres Amigos," describing the relationship between Dr. Eloesser, Diego and Frida.
Diego Rivera, Still Life and Blossoming Almond Trees, 1931 Fresco on steel frame base,  Stern Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Diego Rivera, Still Life and Blossoming Almond Trees, 1931
Fresco on steel frame base,
Stern Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA

After Diego Rivera completed work on Allegory for California, he and Frida spent several weeks in the Spring of 1931 at the home of Sigmund and Rosalie Stern in Atherton. There, Rivera accepted Rosalie's invitation to paint a mural for an outdoor dining area, Still Life and Blossoming Almond Trees.

This smaller fresco idealized the workers and produce of Northern California agriculture. The children treating themselves to the basket of fruit were portraits of the Stern's three grandchildren.

Prior to painting, the wall was specially prepared to allow the painting to be moved at a later date.

Diego Rivera, Allegory of California, mural Diego Rivera's first SF commission, stairway of the Pacific Stock Exchange
Diego Rivera, Allegory of California, 1930-31,
mural, Diego Rivera's first SF commission,
stairway of the Pacific Stock Exchange
(depicted at this SFMOMA exhibition by a wall-sized projection)
Allegory of California was painted in the stairway of the Pacific Stock Exchange Luncheon Club (now City Club). At the time, it was feared Rivera would paint anti-capitalist themes into the fresco, but the final product wasn't as anti-capitalist as critics feared.

The mural highlights California's major industries centered on a woman wearing a necklace made of wheat. It appears Rivera was intent on avoiding controversy as his mural shows no evidence of social strife, even though it was painted early in the Great Depression. But his meaning was clear, because the business and government leaders at the Luncheon Club were reminded that what they ate were the products of workers and not the intricacies of financial speculation.
Diego Rivera, Portrait of Edsel B. Ford, 1932,  oil on canvas mounted on masonite, Detroit Institute of Arts
Diego Rivera, Portrait of Edsel B. Ford, 1932,
oil on canvas mounted on masonite, Detroit Institute of Arts
After leaving San Francisco, Diego and Frida traveled to Detroit. Their work in Detroit was mostly financed by Edsel B. Ford, Henry Ford's son, now president of Ford Motor Company. This portrait was based on a 1929 photo of Edsel Ford rather Edsel sitting for the portrait. Ford is behind a drafting table and the chalkboard behind him shows the 1933 Speedster Edsel helped design. Rivera painted Portrait of Edsel B. Ford after Ford gave Rivera a four door sedan as a gift. But Diego and Frida never learned how to drive, relying on chauffeurs and assistants.
Diego Rivera, Man at the Crossroads, 1934, fresco mural was commissioned by and soon plastered over and destroyed by Nelson Rockefeller.  Rivera was angered by Rockefeller's request and refused to remove an image of Vladimir Lenin (center right). Only black and white  photos remained. Later, Diego Rivera repainted the compostion in Mexico under the name, Man, Controller of the Universe. This fresco is located in the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City.
Diego Rivera, Man at the Crossroads, 1934, fresco mural (15 3/4 feet by 37 1/2 feet).
was commissioned by and soon plastered over and destroyed by Nelson Rockefeller. Rivera was angered by
Rockefeller's request to remove an image of Vladimir Lenin (center right). Later, Diego Rivera repainted the composition
in Mexico under the name, Man, Controller of the Universe. This fresco is now at the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City.
In 1934, Diego Rivera traveled to New York to paint Man at the Crossroads at Rockefeller Center. A three paneled work, this mural showed aspects of contemporary social and scientific culture. A worker in the center panel controls machinery. The panel on the left The Frontier of Ethical Evolution represented socialism while the panel on the right The Frontier of Material Development represented capitalism.

Reflecting the ideological tension between capitalism and communism, this mural sparked controversy, too lengthy to discuss here, but in the midst of a dust-up between critics and Rivera and his loyal crew, a small portrait of Lenin was added to the portrait (right center). This was the only thing objected to by the Rockefeller family, even though the mural contained other communist references such as the hammer and sickle. On May 6, 1933, Rivera declined a Rockefeller family request to remove the Lenin portrait, replacing him with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Rivera countered that he would be amenable to exchange Lenin's portrait with one of an American abolitionist such as Nat Turner, John Brown, or Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Then Rivera took a stand, "Rather than mutilate the conception [of this mural], I shall prefer the physical destruction of the conception in its entirety, but preserving, at least, its integrity."

In the end, the Rockefeller family ordered Rivera and his crew to stop work on the project. Rivera was paid in full. After various proposals and negotiations, in February of 1934, the mural was destroyed. At the time, Rivera said, "This mural's destruction ... will advance the cause of the labor revolution."

Because Rivera was concerned that the Rockefellers would destroy the work, Rivera had the mural photographed. In late 1933, Rivera traveled to Mexico City and asked the Mexican government that he be allowed to paint the mural on a blank wall at the Palacia de Bellas Artes. Rivera repainted the mural from the photos taken in New York. He gave the mural a new title, Man, Controller of the Universe. This new mural includes a portrait of Leon Trotsky alongside Karl Marx and Charles Darwin.

Diego Rivera, Man Controller of the Universe (or Man in the Time Machine), 1934, fresco, 4.85 x 11.45 meters in the
Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Diego Rivera, Study for "Man at the Crossroads", 1932, ink, charcoal and gouache on paper Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City
Diego Rivera, Study for "Man at the Crossroads", 1932, ink, charcoal and gouache on paper
Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City
Diego Rivera, The Seventh of November, Moscow, 1928 San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Diego Rivera, The Seventh of November, Moscow, 1928
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Diego Rivera, Opponent of Nazisim, 1933, fresco on steel mesh and Celotex panel in wood framework, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles, CA
Diego Rivera, Opponent of Nazisim, 1933,
fresco on steel mesh and Celotex panel in wood framework,
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles, CA
In Mexico, Diego Rivera was interested in the urban proletariat. But in 1927-28, he was a delegate to the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Bolshevik Revolution, and he witnessed the organization of the proletariat on a massive scale. The Seventh of November, Moscow shows a demonstration in Red Square.
Opponent of Nazisim shows a strong and determined worker responding with firmness and resolve to the threat of Nazi Germany. This painting was done nearly nine years before the United States entered the war.
Diego Rivera, Third International, 1933, freco on fiberglass and polyesster support in metal framework done in New York for the Communist League of America. The painting shows Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin approvingly looking upon  Leon Trotsky, his political heir as he presides over the victoriouos Red Army marching in Red Square. Below them are six diverse annonymous workers, including one Asian man and one African man, ready to lead the world revolution.
Diego Rivera, Third International, 1933, fresco on fiberglass and polyester support in metal framework
done in New York for the Communist League of America. The painting shows Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin approvingly looking upon
Leon Trotsky, his political heir as he presides over the victorious Red Army marching in Red Square.
Below them are six diverse anonymous workers, including one Asian man and one African man, ready to lead the world revolution.
After his trip to Russia, Diego Rivera stopped in New York where he painted two small frescoes for the Communist League of America, a Leon Trotsky organization.

Third International looks back in time to the foundation of the Comintern, the International Communist Movement in 1919 meant to radically reform the long term abuses of Czarist Russia, giving power and honor to the common people.

In this painting, Lenin looks on towards his political heir, Leon Trotsky, who presides over the victorious Red Army marching in Red Square. Below Lenin and Trotsky are six anonymous workers including an Asian and an African man, all ready to lead the world revolution.
Diego Rivera, Portrait of Gladys March, 1946, oil on canvas Collection of Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa
Diego Rivera, Portrait of Gladys March, 1946, oil on canvas
Collection of Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa
Diego Rivera, Portrait of Lupe Marin, 1938, oil on canvas, Museo de Arte Moderno, Inball, Mexico Cit
Diego Rivera, Portrait of Lupe Marin, 1938, oil on canvas,
Museo de Arte Moderno, Inbal, Mexico City

Portrait of Gladys March, 1946. In 1944, journalist Gladys March interviewed Diego Rivera. She returned frequently to his studio. In 1960, three years after Rivera's death, she published an entertaining biography of his life.

In this portrait, Rivera has her seated in one of the studio's blue denim upholstered recliners. The same denim fabric was used for the studio's curtains, something Diego wanted as a link for his admiration of working class people everywhere.

Portrait of Lupe Marin was Diego's former wife. By the time he did this portrait, the couple had been divorced for a decade. They had two daughters, Guadalupe (known as Pico) and Ruth. The family remained close. Although Lupe is pictured here with a modern dress and shoes, her jewelry reveals an embrace of indigenous culture. The necklace of green jade with silver balls was made by artisans in Taxco.

Diego Rivera's Mexico City Studio Photo by Esther Born, 1935
Diego Rivera's Mexico City Studio
Photo by Esther Born, 1935
Diego Rivera, Portrait of Corliss Lamont, 1954, oil on canvas Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire
Diego Rivera, Portrait of Corliss Lamont, 1954, oil on canvas
Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire
Diego Rivera, Portrait of Frances Ford Seymour and Frances de Villers Brokaw, oil on linen Private Collection
Diego Rivera, Portrait of Frances Ford Seymour 1941
and her daughter, Frances de Villers Brokaw
, oil on linen
Private collection
Portrait of Corliss Lamont shows Corliss, who, although he was from a family of great wealth, was a leading socialist and advocate for civil liberties during the Cold War. He was cited for contempt for testimony before Sen.
Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist subcommittee in 1953 for refusing to reveal his political associations. In this portrait, Rivera shows Corliss Lamont looking at a reproduction of Raphael's 1506 painting, Saint George and the Dragon. Rivera considered Lamont as a hero who triumphed over evil.

Portrait of Frances Ford Seymour (1908-1950) and her daughter, Frances de Villers Brokaw
shows an elegant Frances Ford Seymour with her daughter holding a bouquet of calla lilies. Both are wearing embroidered blouses from Puebla, and the green and pink skirts may be a reference to the Mexican flag. Frances was Henry Fonda's second wife, and was the mother of Jane and Peter Fonda. She died by suicide three months after Fonda asked for a divorce.
Diego Rivera, Girl in Blue and White, 1939, oil on canvas Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles, CA
Diego Rivera, Girl in Blue and White, 1939, oil on canvas
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles, CA
Diego Rivera, Man Smoking, 1937, tempera on masonite Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Diego Rivera, Man Smoking, 1937, tempera on masonite
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Diego Rivera, Woman with Calla Lilies, 1945, oil on masonite Private Collection
Diego Rivera, Woman with Calla Lilies, 1945, oil on masonite
Private Collection
Deigo Rivera, Nude with Calla Lillies, 1944, oil on particle board The model is Nieves Orozco, an Otomi ballet dancer. In an interview after this painting became famous, she recalled the pain of  kneeling for hours on the rough woven petate. Private Collection
Deigo Rivera, Nude with Calla Lilies, 1944, oil on particle board
Private Collection

In the 1940's, Diego Rivera revisited themes he had used in his paintings twenty years earlier. His famous paintings of women embracing enormous bunches of oversized calla lilies are scenes he could not have observed in any market. These paintings are highly stylized and seem to be universally appealing. In a sense, the embrace of these flowers reflects an embrace of life.

The model for Woman with Calla Lilies and Nude with Calla Lilies is Nieves Orozco, an Otomi ballet dancer who also worked as a model at Mexico's Academy of San Carlos. In an interview after she had become internationally famous, she recalled the pain of kneeling for hours on the rough woven petate in Rivera's chilly studio.

Visitors to SFMOMA's Diego Rivera's America, viewing his Girl in Blue and White, Weaving and Winding Thread
Visitors to SFMOMA's Diego Rivera's America, viewing his Girl in Blue and White, Weaving and Winding Thread
Girl in Blue and White, Weaving and Winding Thread all celebrate Mexico's indigenous cultures and their persistence to survive despite centuries of colonial control. Luz Jimenez modeled for Rivera since the 1920's. She was a skilled weaver from the town of Milpa Alta.
Diego Rivera, Weaving, 1936, tempera and oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Diego Rivera, Weaving, 1936, tempera and oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Diego Rivera, Winding Thread, 1936, oil on canvas Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Diego Rivera, Winding Thread, 1936, oil on canvas
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Diego Rivera, Maja Guarino, 1940, oil on canvas, Private Collection
Diego Rivera, Maja Guarino, 1940, oil on canvas,
Private Collection
Diego Rivera, Mandrake, 1939, oil in canvas The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Diego Rivera, Mandrake, 1939, oil in canvas
The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
In Maja Guarino and Mandrake, the model is Maja Guarino, the daughter of an obscure Italian painter. She is wearing a wedding dress, but holds objects associated with Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. Both paintings seem to be caught between the promise of a new beginning with the finality of death.

Rootlike emanations to the right in each of these paintings make reference to mandrake, a hallucinogenic herb long thought to have medicinal and magical powers. Although difficult to see in these photos, the paintings have spiderwebs which heighten the spooky atmosphere. In Maja Guarino, the spiderweb trails down to the lower left where Rivera signed the painting.
Pan American Unity, Fresco, 22' x 75', 1940, The Roberts Family Gallery, floor 1, SFMOMA

A truly epic work, originally for the Art in Action exhibition at Treasure Island's Golden Gate International Exhibition in 1940.
The public watched as Diego Rivera and his team of artists worked on the mural. The official name of this mural
is The Marriage of the Artistic Expression of the North and of the South on This Continent, Fresco on plaster, 22 feet x 74 feet.
but it is more commonly known as Pan American Unity, 1940, San Francisco Modern Museum of Art

Not to be missed ...

Diego Rivera's Pan American Unity mural is not located with the rest of the Diego Rivera's America exhibition. It is located on the first floor in the Roberts Family Gallery on the first floor of SFMOMA. Admission to this part of the museum is free, and its entrance is across from the Cellarmaker Brewing Company on Howard Street.

The formal title for Pan American Unity is The Marriage of the Artistic Expression of the North and of the South on This Continent. It's huge, 22 feet high by 74 feet wide, weighing thirty tons. The mural celebrates artist, artisans, architects and inventors who use technology as tools to shape society.

 Diego Rivera's Pan American Unity opening day at its new home at SFMoma
Diego Rivera's Pan American Unity
opening day at its new home at SFMOMA
Rivera painted this mural on ten steel-framed panels, making it the largest "portable" mural he ever created. This mural is on the move. It is only on display in SFMOMA's Roberts Gallery through January 2024. We will feature this mural in a future Newsletter article, looking at each panel and exploring the array of people and activities Diego Rivera used.
Exhibition page, Diego Rivera's America at SFMOMA | Back to the Top

Robert Rishell, The High Trail, 30 x 40 painting available through Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery
Our Painting of the Month,

The High Trail
by Robert Rishell 1917-1976, oil on canvas, 30 x 40
Oakland's Robert Rishell
& his "
Progress Through Labor"
mural in Sacramento
Robert C. Rishell was instrumental in founding the Oakland Museum, and remained active in its support the rest of his life.

He was son of an Oakland Mayor, Clifford E. Rishell (Mayor 1949-1961). He was a graduate of the California College of Arts and Crafts, and later a member of the Society of Western Artists.

He was a member of the Bohemian Club and enjoyed camp-outs in the Bohemian Grove with close friends like Edgar Bergen and Herman Wouk. He was chosen to paint the official gubernatorial portrait of Ronald Reagan.

Robert Rishell radio interview, March 1, 1969 with Bob Avery,
KGO Radio from the Desert Southwest Art Gallery in Palm Desert, California.

Robert Rishell's 1974 portrait of Gov. Ronald Reagan,
California State Capitol Collection
Robert Rishell at age 20 working on Progress through Labor Mural
20 year old Robert Rishell painting Progress Through Labor, 1937
Robert Rishell studied under Xavier Martinez. He was influenced to paint California's deserts by friend and artist Jimmy Swinnerton and he became a friend of another desert painter, John W. Hilton.

Robert Rishell was a WPA era artist. As a 20 year old artist, he undertook painting a mural entitled Progress Through Labor as part of the WPA. It portrays the vital role of public works and unions, providing much needed employment during the Great Depression. Artists like Rishell were tasked with creating art meant to communicate that common people working together was how the nation would get through the hard times.
Robert Rishell Progress through Labor Mural, located in the State Building and Construction Trades Offices, Sacramento, California
Robert Rishell, Progress Through Labor Mural, 1937, State Building and Construction Trades Council, Sacramento
The film below tells the story of where Rishell's Progress Through Labor mural was originally displayed, how it was saved, restored and how it was moved to its new home with the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California, 1231 I Street, Suite 302, in Sacramento.
These
Robert Rishell paintings
are also available from
Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery
Robert Rishell, Trail of the Giants
Trail of the Giants
(Bohemian Grove)
oil on canvas, 30 x 40
Robert Rishell, Fisherman's Day Off, 1951
Fisherman's Day Off

oil on canvas, 30 x 36
Robert Rishell Guardian
Guardian
oil on canvas, 40 x 30
Robert Rishell, Princess, Family Horse, 1946
Princess, Family Horse
oil pastel, 23 x 29
Robert Rishell, California Desert Scene
California Desert Scene,
1951
oil on canvas, 20 x 30
Robert Rishell, Mountain Trail
Mountain Trail
oil on canvas, 11 x 14
Robert Rishell's page on our gallery website | Back to the Top

Linda Sorensen ... ART TRAILS 2022 is here!
Linda's Studio at Atelier One, 2860 Bowen St., Graton, Sat & Sun Sept 24--25, and Oct 1--2, 10-5
Linda Storensen, Promo for Art Trails '22, Oct 1 & 2

SONOMA COUNTY-WIDE - ART TRAILS: The final open studios of Sonoma County Art Trails 2022, a juried program of Sebastopol Center for the Arts ("SCA"), will be October 1-2. Hours are 10:00a.m. to 5:00p.m.

We hope you enjoy the event, and that we get to see you at Linda's studio. Linda's artist studio is at Atelier One, Studio #5 (first floor, south end), 2860 Bowen St. in Graton. Five artists including Linda are participating in Art Trails at Atelier One (Art Trails #19 Britta Kathmeyer, #38 Nancy Dempster, #39 Karina Nishi Marcus, #40 Elizabeth Peyton, #41 Linda), and a total of 117 professional artists are participating this year.

Collector's Guides are available at major distribution points, at SCA, and from participating artists. The online Collector's Guide is available at sonomacountyarttrails.org Linda and most of the participating artists are available by appointment year-round.

Sonoma County Art Trails | Linda's ETSY Shop | Linda's website | Back to the Top

Gallery Notes
Jos Sances Or the Whale, now at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts
Jos Sances' Or, The Whale
Cover Art, Sonoma County Art Trails catalog, 2022
ART TRAILS 2022
OPEN STUDIOS CATALOG

Sebastopol Center for the Arts - Two exhibitions to see,
282 S. High St., Sebastopol, California.

Jos Sances' magnificent and monumental piece "Or, The Whale" is back at SebARTS’ Auditorium! ...
This 51-foot scratchboard masterpiece details the history — and cost — of American capitalism. Or, The Whale was one of SCA's most popular exhibits last year, and is back by popular demand. Come see it during gallery hours, Thurs-Sun 10am-4pm.

Sonoma County Art Trails Preview Exhibition
...
117 local artists are participating this year. Art Trails OPEN STUDIOS opened last weekend and continues this weekend only, Saturday and Sunday, October 1 & 2, 10-5. Stop by the Sebastopol Arts Center, see the preview show and Jos Sances' Whale, grab a catalog with helpful maps and head off to see your favorite artist's OPEN STUDIO.

 

The Flower Carrier
, 1935

An Exhibition Opportunity for you in San Francisco

Diego Rivera's America
through January 2, 2023
at SFMOMA


150 artworks from the pinnacle of Diego Rivera's career -
paintings, frescoes, drawnings, murals

from our Aug 2022 issue
Edward Hopper, Self Portrait
Edward Hopper,
A Look Back to a 2008 Exhibition
at the Art Institute of Chicago

A NEW EDWARD HOPPER EXHIBITION
Edward Hopper’s New York

Oct 19, 2022 - March 5, 2023
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Recently, we looked back at the phonemenal Edward Hopper exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008. Now, a new major Edward Hopper exhibition is to be held in New York. Hopper lived in New York for almost 60 years. This exhibition at the Whitney Museum looks at Hopper's paintings of New York. And yes, Night Hawks will be there!

Link to the Whitney's Hopper Exhibition page


in Bodega Bay
Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery Showroom Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery Showroom
Art Trails 2022
Linda Sorensen's ART TRAILS OPEN STUDIO
Sat & Sun, Sepember 24-25, 10-5
Sat & Sun, October 1-2, 10-5
open other times by appointment in Graton or Bodega Bay
http://www.BodegaBayHeritageGallery.com | Call or Text 707-875-2911
email: Art@BodegaBayHeritageGallery.com

Joshua Meador Mendocino Coast
"Mendocino Coast"
Joshua Meador
Ren Brown
Ren Brown
The Ren Brown Collection
1781 Coast Highway One, Bodega Bay, 94923
707-875-2922 |  rbc4art@renbrown.com
http://www.renbrown.com | Back to the Top
Reb Brown Sign Thumbnail

Linda Sorensen Peak, south of Hopland, CA

Linda Sorensen Paintings

You may meet Linda and view her paintings at her studio in Graton by appointment,
or arrange to see specific paintings at other locations. Linda paints colorful and imaginative
landscapes emphasizing design and influenced by abstraction and Post-Impressionism.

LindaSorensenPaintings.com | 707-875-2911

Linda Sorensen at her easel, photo by John Hershey
\Jean Warren Sand Harbor
Bodega Bay's Jean Warren Watercolors
Bodega Bay resident Jean Warren says her paintings are reflections
of the places she has lived and traveled.
Jean is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society,
California Watercolor Association and full member of Society of Layerists in Multi-Media.

http://www.JeanWarren.com / 707-875-9240

Jean Warren Watercolor

What's nearby?
in Sonoma, Napa & Marin Counties
Sebastopol Center for the Arts IN SEBASTOPOL - Sebastopol Center for the Arts
... see website for on-line activities
home of Sonoma County's Art @ the Source and Art Trails
282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472  707.829.4797
Hours when able to reopen: Tue - Fri 10am - 4pm, Sat & Sun 1 - 4pm
Corricks Kevin Brown
Corrick's Keven Brown
IN SANTA ROSA
Corrick's Art Trails Gallery | http://www.corricks.com/arttrailsgallery
637 Fourth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 | Contact:: http://www.corricks.com/contact-us

Corrick's has been a Santa Rosa Treasure since 1915,
a downtown stationery store serving the community's "cultural hub."
Corrick's has long supported local artists with its impressive "ART TRAILS GALLERY,"
including paintings by Linda Sorensen.
Corricks offers a number of originals by famed Santa Rosa artist, Maurice Lapp ... (see our August 2017 article)

located on Fourth Street, steps away from Santa Rosa's revitalized town square
and Fourth Street's Russian River Brewery
Corricks
BBHPhoto Dennis Calabi
Dennis Calabi
IN SANTA ROSA- Calabi Gallery | http://www.calabigallery.com

We are located at 456 Tenth Street in Santa Rosa.
Contact us with any questions at (707) 781-7070 or info@calabigallery.com
456 Tenth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 | email: info@calabigallery.com | 707-781-7070
Famed master conservator Dennis Calabi brings his rare knowledge and experience
to present a tasteful and eclectic array of primarily 20th century artwork.

http://www.calabigallery.com | Back to the Top
Easton Crustacean Dancing Dream 144
Easton, Crustacean Dancing Dream, American Alabaster
Annex Galleries Santa Rosa IN Santa Rosa - The Annex Galleries
specializing in 19th, 20th, and 21st century American and European fine prints
The Annex Galleries is a member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA).
http://www.AnnexGalleries.com | Back to the Top
Rik Olson

IN GRATON - Graton Gallery
OPEN Weekends, see website for up to date information
home of many of Sonoma County's best artists
http://www.gratongallery.com
Sally Baker, Tim Hayworth, Bruce K. Hopkins,
Rik Olson, Susan Proehl, Sandra Rubin, Tamra Sanchez, 11Mylette Welch
Graton Gallery | (707) 829-8912  | artshow@gratongallery.com
9048 Graton Road, Graton CA 95444 | Open Saturday and Sunday check website

Christopher Queen Gallery IN DUNCANS MILLS - Christopher Queen Galleries
3 miles east of Hwy 1 on Hwy 116 on the Russian River
http://www.christopherqueengallery.com |707-865-1318| Back to the Top
Paul Mahder Gallery Thumbnail IN Healdsburg - Paul Mahder Gallery
http://www.paulmahdergallery.com

(707) 473-9150 | Info@paulmahdergallery.com
222 Mill Healdsburg Avenue, Healdsburg, CA 95448 | check for hours
Petaluma Arts Council Art Center

IN PETALUMA - Petaluma Arts Center
"... to celebrate local artists and their contributions and involve the whole community"

Petaluma Center for the Arts

Links to current museum exhibits relevant to Early California Art
The Greater Bay Area
The Walt Disney Family Museum
-- see website for details
This museum tells Walt's story from the early days.
(on the Parade Grounds) 104 Montgomery Street,
The Presidio of San Francisco, CA 94129

-- view location on Google Maps
--
Disney Museum Exterior Thumbnail San Francisco
... see website
de Young Museum
Permanent Collection
De Young Museum Thumbnail
San Francisco
closed, see website
California Historical Society


California Historical Society Thumbnail San Francisco
Legion of Honor

... see website
-Permanent European and Impressionist Paintings
San Francisco Legion of Honor Museum
San Francisco
open, see website for details
Contemporary Jewish Museum

San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum Thumbnail Oakland
... see website
Oakland Museum of California

-- ongoing Gallery of California Art
-showcasing over 800 works
from the OMCA's collection
Oakland Museum Thumbnail

San Francisco
SFMOMA

Diego Rivera's America
through Jan 2, 2023
http://www.sfmoma.org

SF Museum of Modern Art

Santa Rosa
...
see website
The Museums of Sonoma County

Sonoma County Museum Thumbnail
Santa Rosa
... see website
Charles M. Schultz Museum

Charles M Schultz Museum Santa Rosa

Moraga
... see website
St Mary's College Museum of Art
Hearst Art Gallery

Hearst Art Gallery Thumbnail
Sonoma
Mission San Francisco de Solano Museum

featuring the famed watercolor paintings
of the California Missions
by Christian Jorgensen
Mission San Francisco de Solano in Sonoma CA Sonoma
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art

... see website
551 Broadway, Sonoma CA
(707) 939-7862
Sonoma Museum of Art Exterior Thumb
Ukiah
Grace Hudson Museum

... see website
http://www.gracehudsonmuseum.org
Grace Hudson Museum

Bolinas
Bolinas Museum

... see website
featuring their permanent collection,
including Ludmilla and Thadeus Welch,
Arthur William Best, Jack Wisby,
Russell Chatham, Alfred Farnsworth
.

Elizabeth Holland McDaniel Bolinas Embarcadero thumbnail
Walnut Creek
... see website
The Bedford Gallery, Lesher
Center for the Arts
Lesher Ctr for the Arts Walnut Creek CA San Jose
San Jose Museum of Art

... see website
approximately 2,000 20th & 21st
century artworks including paintings, sculpture,
new media, photography, drawings, prints, and artist books.
San Jose Museum of Art Thumbnail
Monterey
Monterey Museum of Art

... see website
Ongoing exhibitions ...
Museums Permanent Collection
including William Ritschel, Armin Hansen
and E. Charlton Fortune

http://www.montereyart.org
Monterey Museum of Art Palo Alto
... see website
Cantor Art Center at Stanford University
Cantor Art Center at Stanford University

Monterey
Salvador Dali Museum

prepurchased tickets required, ... see website

Salvador Dali Museum Monterey Sacramento
Crocker Art Museum
Open Thurs - Sun, 10-5, masks, ... see websites
http://www.crockerartmuseum.org
Sacramento
Capitol Museum

... see website
Governor's Portrait Gallery
Permanent Exhibits

(including one of our galllery's favorite artists,
Robert Rishell's portrait of Gov. Ronald Reagan
Capitol Museum Sacramento Thumbnail Stockton's Treasure!
The Haggin Museum

... see website
-Largest exhibition of Albert Beirstadt paintings anywhere,
plus the works of Joseph Christian Leyendecker,
Norman Rockwell's mentor.
see our Newsletter article, April 2011
Haggin Museum Stockton
Southern California (and Arizona) (for all museums below, see website for hours and protocols.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Museum of Art

Art of the Americas, Level 3:
Artworks of paintings and sculptures
from the colonial period to World War II—
a survey of of art and culture
& "Levitated Mass"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Irvine
UCI IMCA
(University of California, Irvine
Institute and Museum of California Art)

(formerly The Irvine Museum)

The Resonant Surface:
Movement, Image and Sound
in California Painting
... through Feb 19, 2022
Irvine Museum Thumbnail
Santa Barbara
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art Thumbnail Orange
Our Golden State:
Landscape Paintings
from the Hilbert Collection
November 9 - April 18, 2022

Hilbert Museum, Chapman University

Hilbert Museum Chapman University Orange CA
Pasaden
Norton Simon Museum
-an Impressive Permanent collection,
European impressionist and post impressionist paintings
See our newsletter from March 2014
Norton Simon Museum Pasadena San Marino (near Pasadena)
The Huntington Library

American Art Collection
Paintings by John Singer Sargent,
Edward Hopper, Robert Henri,
Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran,
William Keith, Mary Cassatt,
Thomas Hart Benton and many more.

Huntington Library Art Collection Pasadena
San Diego
San Diego Museum of Art
Permanent Collection
San Diego Museum of Art Thumbnail

Palm Springs
Palm Springs Art Museum

Permanent Collection
American 19th century Landscape Painting

Palm Springs Art Museum Thumbnail
Phoenix, AZ
Phoenix Art Museum
an excellent sampling of
Artists of the American West
Phoenix Art Museum
Los Angeles
California African American Art Museum
adjacent to the LA Coliseum
(see our newsletter articleof their
Ernie Barne's Exhibition September 2019)

California African American Art Museum
& Beyond
Honolulu, HI
Honolulu Museum
(see our Newsletter article
from February, 2015)


Honolulu Museum of Art Kamuela, HI (Big Island)
Issacs Art Center
65-1268 Kawaihae Road
Kamuela, HI  96743
(See our Dec '16 article "Hawaii's Paul Gauguin," 
modernist Madge Tennent, 1889-1972)

Isaacs Art Center
Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Museum
( see our article Mar 2018
French and American Paintings )
Seattle Art Museum Portland, OR
Portland Art Museum

Permanent Collection: American Art
Portland Art Museum Thumbnail
Washington D.C.
The Renwick Gallery

Permanent ... Grand Salon Paintings
from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Renwick Gallery Washington DC Chicago, IL
Art Institute of Chicago
Permanent collection:
the Impressionists
Art Institute of Chicago Thumbnail
Cedar Rapids, IA
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Grant Wood: In Focus

is an ongoing permanent collection exhibition.
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

Bentonville, AR
Crystal Bridges
Museum of American Art

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Washington D.C.
The National Gallery

Permanent collection
American Paintings
Tha National Gallery Washington DC Thumbnail Philadelphia , PA
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art Thumbnail
Philadelphia , PA
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Campus
Barnes Foundation Campus Philadelphia Brooklyn, NY
The Brooklyn Museum
American Art
Permanent Collection
The Brooklyn Museum Thumbnail
New York , NY
The Whitney Museum of American Art

Edward Hopper’s New York
Oct 19, 2022 - March 5, 2023

The largest selection of works by Edward Hopper
The Whitney Museum of American Art New York New York , NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Its extensive collection of American Art
Metropolitan Museum New York
Detroit, MI
Detroit Institute of Arts
American Art
Permanent Collection
Detroit Institute of Arts Ottawa, Ontario
National Gallery of Canada
Canada National Gallery of Art
Denver, CO
Denver Art Museum
Denver Art Museum Exterior


 

Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery is mostly online. We maintain a gallery showroom (by appointment only) at the Atelier One artist studios building in Graton, California, sharing space with Linda Sorensen's artist studio.

Our newsletter includes reports/articles about artists, museum exhibits, and other arts subjects, often with videos and links.

For the duration of the pandemic, we will observe safe mask wearing and social distance protocols. We do not transact financial business or collect data via our website. All client contact/information is via phone, text, email or in person by appointment.

Daniel Rohlfing
Daniel Rohlfing
For an appointment, email or call ... Art@BodegaBayHeritageGallery.com / 707-875-2911

To view and purchas paintings from us, you may ...



Visit our gallery showroom in GRATON, CA ...


Have us pring selected works to your home ...
Call or email for a an appointment. (up to 200 miles from Bodega Bay).


Or, purchase from our website.
We offer FedEx shipping (included in price) in the U.S. for major purchases. 707-875-2911.

Our Gallery Showroom and Linda Sorensen's Studio in Graton

Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery specializes in Historic California Paintings 1850-1950 and the contemporary art of Linda Sorensen.  Our gallery showroom and Linda's artist studio are open by appointment.  We ask visitors wear masks and practice social distancing. Email, text or call us for an appointment.  As our collection is larger than what we have on display at any one time, we want to learn your interests and preferences. After listing to your wishes, we will have the paintings you want to view ready for your visit.

Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery and Linda Sorensen's studio
Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery .com / Linda Sorensen Paintings . com
Art@BodegaBayHeritageGallery.com / LindaSorensen@Earthlink.net  707-875-2911
Atelier One, Studio 5, 2860 Bowen St, Graton, CA 95444 (not a mailing address)

If you wish to sell a painting to us ...

At present, we are acquiring few paintings. We are interested in considering works by Joshua Meador, or exceptional paintings by a few other Historic California artists. We do not do miscellaneous consignments but do represent artist estates. We do not provide appraisal services.

DO NOT CALL AND EXPECT A THOUGHTFUL ANSWER REGARDING YOUR PAINTING (especially, do not leave a voicemail message requiring us to phone you), ... INSTEAD, Please EMAIL US (Art@BodegaBayHeritageGallery.com) along with a high resolution jpeg image of your painting. Include the name of the artist, its title, dimensions and condition. Please include any history or provenance. Rather than responding off the cuff, in a timely fashion we will read your note, do our homework, and write back and let you know if we wish to acquire your painting or we may give you our our ideas on how best to market your painting through other resources.