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1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Contents |
Foreword / Charles C. Eldredge -- 1. The Background. Within the Closed Circle. A City's Evolution. Devastation and Reconstruction -- 2. Beginnings. Selden Connor Gile. August Francois Gay. Maurice Logan. Louis Bassi Siegriest. Bernard von Eichman. William Henry Clapp -- 3. At the Fair. The Meaning of the Fair. The Art at the Fair. After the Fair. A New World -- 4. Coming Together, 1917-1923. The Chow House. The Six at Work. New Painting Ideas. The Six Separately. The Manifesto -- 5. The Exhibition Years, 1923-1928. Modernism in the Bay Area. William Clapp at the Oakland Art Gallery. The Society's Six Annual Shows -- 6. Color Ascendant, 1919-1929. Bernard von Eichman. Louis Siegriest. Maurice Logan. Selden Gile. William Clapp. August Gay in Monterey -- 7. The Depression Years, 1930-1939. The Context. Selden Gile and the Group's Dispersal. Maurice Logan. Louis Siegriest. Bernard von Eichman. William Clapp. August Gay. The Golden Gate International Exposition -- 8. The Forties and Beyond. Selden Gile. Maurice Logan. Louis Siegriest |
| Summary |
Six plein-air painters in Oakland, California, joined together in 1917 to form an association that lasted nearly fifteen years. The Society of Six--Selden Connor Gile, Maurice Logan, William H. Clapp, August F. Gay, Bernard von Eichman, and Louis Siegriest--created a color-centered modernist idiom that shocked establishment tastes but remains the most advanced painting of its era in Northern California. Nancy Boas's well-informed and sumptuously illustrated chronicle recognizes the importance of these six painters in the history of American Post-Impressionism. The Six found themselves in the position of an avant garde not because they set out to reject conventionality, but because they aspired to create their own indigenous modernism. While the artists were considered outsiders in their time, their work is now recognized as part of the vital and enduring lineage of American art. Depression hardship ended the Six's ascendancy, but their painterliness, use of color, and deep alliance with the land and the light became a beacon for postwar Northern California modern painters such as Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud. Combining biography and critical analysis, Nancy Boas offers a fitting tribute to the lives and exhilarating painting of the Society of Six. Six plein-air painters in Oakland, California, joined together in 1917 to form an association that lasted nearly fifteen years. The Society of Six--Selden Connor Gile, Maurice Logan, William H. Clapp, August F. Gay, Bernard von Eichman, and Louis Siegriest--created a color-centered modernist idiom that shocked establishment tastes but remains the most advanced painting of its era in Northern California. Nancy Boas's well-informed and sumptuously illustrated chronicle recognizes the importance of these six painters in the history of American Post-Impressionism |
| Bibliography |
"Exhibition history": pages 210-18 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Society of Six.
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| SUBJECT |
Society of Six fast |
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Landscape painting, American -- California, Northern
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Landscape painting -- California, Northern -- 20th century
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Color in art.
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ART -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
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ART / American / General
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Color in art
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Landscape painting
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Landscape painting, American
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Northern California
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520919778 |
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0520919777 |
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058517783X |
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9780585177830 |
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