Early California

EARLY CALIFORNIA

EARLY CALIFORNIA It is tough to think of California before the land developers and PR guys got involved. Before the beach was crowded, before the two-piece bathing suit, before the eucalyptus tree was imported, before macadam made graph paper out of every alluvial plain.

Back when the only palm trees were in the little spring near Palm Springs, when the only roads were well worn paths following the trading routes of C a l i f o r n i a’s n a t i v e s , when visiting the neighbors meant three days on a buckboard, when a package from home had to come ‘round the Cape.

Our current exhibit recalls these early days of a young State.

Most of these paintings were done before t h e w o r d “s u b d i v i s i o n” w a s c o i n e d . T h e y memorialize streams, rivers, trees, glens, glades, flowers, meadows, estuaries, lagoons, outcroppings, and vistas – many o f w h i c h a r e g o n e t o d a y.

There are several ways to share this early view of California. When my wife and I walk up on the Sedgwick where the land is still untouched the odor of California scrub sends us back a hundred years.

W h e n w e v i s i t t h e Tu o l u m n e M e a d o w w e hear the wind moving like lowing cattle in the confers like the earliest visitors must have heard. When we visit the streams feeding from Mount Shasta we see trout dancing through the eddies as they have for thousands of years.

But there is one more way to see this early view of California.

Visit our little village and look at the work of these painters who packed up their colors and brushes and canvases and painted for you and I.

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- Frank Goss

LOCKWOOD DE FOREST (1850-1932) L A G O O N AT S A N TA B A R B A R A , 1 9 0 2 21.75 x 30 inches | oil on canvas

CHRISTIAN JORGENSEN (1860-1935) OAKLAND MARSH..., c. 1900 11 x 14.75 inches | watercolor on paper

COLIN CAMPBELL COOPER (1856-1937) E S T U A RY, c . 1 9 3 0 s 17.75 x 21.5 inches | oil on canvas

T H O M A S M c G LY N N ( 1 8 7 8 - 1 9 6 6 ) MONTEREY PENINSULA, c. 1930s 26.25 x 36 inches | oil on canvas

CHRISTIAN JORGENSEN (1860-1935) E A R LY O A K L A N D , c . 1 9 1 5 31 x 47 inches | oil on canvas

A RT I S T S F E AT U R E D : Charles Par tridge Adams | Helen Balfour | Colin Campbell Cooper | Angel Espoy Henr y Chapman Ford | Lockwood de Forest | Helen Gleiforst | Ralph Holmes Christian Jonnevold | Christian Jorgensen | Alexis B. Many | Thomas McGlynn K a r l E u g e n N e u h a u s | L u d m i l l a W e l c h | R o b e r t Wo o d

ON EXHIBIT

NOVEMBER 29 - DECEMBER 31

RECEPTION

S AT U R D AY , D E C E M B E R 2 FROM 5 - 7 PM

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COV E R : RO B E RT WO O D ( 1889- 1979) O F F M O N T E R E Y, N D 28 x 36 inches | oil on canvas L A S T PA G E : C A R L H E N R I K J O N N E V O L D ( 1 8 8 9 - 1 9 7 9 ) INDIAN ENCAMPMENT ALONG SACRAMENTO RIVER..., c. 1880s 28 x 36 inches | oil on canvas

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