Roaming around Huntington Gardens and Museum

On Wednesday my friends Penny and Tom joined me for lunch and walk around the beautiful Huntington Gardens and Museums (we didn't make it to the Library) in San Marino.  I was particularly interested in the special additions to the Scott Gallery which features American artists. Here are some new paintings that I enjoyed:

"Indians Making Canoes (Montagnais Indians)," 1895, watercolor, by Winslow Homer, 1836-1910 

"Study for Gassed," 1918-19, charcoal, by John Singer Sargent, 1855-1925
The final painting hangs at the Imperial War Museum in London and shows the horrors of WW I.

"Francoise Holding a Little Dog," pastel on paper, by Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926

"Study for Spring Turning," 1936, charcoal, chalk and graphite, by Grant Wood, 1891-1942

"Cypress Trees, Point Lobos," 1930-33, Colored crayon on paper, by Henrietta Shore, 1880-1963  

"Palm Springs Landscape with Shack," 1925 by John Frost 1890=1937

"Hiraqla Variation III," 1969 by Frank Stella, b. 1936
Hiraqla is an archaeological site in Iraq that contains a half-built circular structure probably constructed around 800 CE.

"See Saw," 1969 by Frederick Hammersley, 1919-2009

"Masthead," 1979, Lithograph, by Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008

Tares," 1972, Collage on paper, by Robert Rauschenberg

"Global Loft (Spread)," Solvent transfer on fabric and paper collage to wooden panels, with acrylic paint and three metal brushes, 1979 by Robert Rauschenberg

"Arcanum III," Silkscreen, collage and watercolor on paper, 1981 by Robert Rauschenberg

"Soldier," 1944, Tempera on Masonite Charles White, 1918-1979
"Soldier reflects on his time in the Army.  It almost certainly alludes to the humiliations of black soldiers, who, like White himself, were frequently denied the privilege of serving their nation in battle."  "He found all African-American  troop assigned to brute labor on the home front."

"Preacher," 1940, Tempera on board, by Charles White
White was born in Chicago where he studied at the Art Institute.  After WW II, he moved to Southern California, taught at the Otis Art Institute and lived in Altadena. 

"Ghost Ranch Cliffs," 1940-42 by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986
She called this view near her New Mexico home her "backyard."

"Cactus," 1927 by Henrietta Shore

"Campo Santo,' by Maynard Dixon, 1875-1946

"San Gabriel Valley," 1916 by Edgar Alwin Payne, 1882-1947
"Born in Germany, Payne studied at the Art Institute of Chicago.  In 1906, he settled in California permanently.

"Summer Fantasy," 1924 by George Bellows, 1882-1925
"L:ate in his career, Bellows looked to European Modernists" including Paul Cezanne and Henri Matisse.  The paintings's triangular composition and juxtapositions of strong oranges, viridian greens, and deep blues show Bellows reinterpreting their example.