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Laguna Art Museum www.lagunaartmuseum.org Exhibitions: Laguna College of Art + Design’s graduate MFA in Painting and Drawing California Artists:: Late nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries Laguna College of Art + Design’s graduate MFA in Painting and Drawing exhibition spring 2012 Opening reception: Saturday, May 5 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the museum Laguna Art Museum will host Laguna College of Art + Design’s graduate MFA in Painting and Drawing exhibition in spring 2012. The exhibition will be on display in the museum’s lower level galleries. LCAD’s MFA in Painting and Drawing is a two-year program in which students turn focused research into the formal and conceptual potentials of representational painting and drawing. Designed as an immersion in the history, theory, and practice of representation, LCAD’s MFA in Painting and Drawing program functions as a laboratory where students can investigate contemporary subject matter within the pictorial tradition. The MFA exhibition at Laguna Art Museum will show the breadth of this research from current MFA students. In 2011, Laguna Art Museum and LCAD announced a new collaboration that will further engage students with the museum and extend the relationship between the two institutions and their community. California Artists:: Late nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries On view in the museum’s Upstairs Gallery is a selection of works from the Laguna Art Museum collection representing artists who worked in California in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Both northern and southern California artists are represented and include: Mischa Askenazy, Franz Bischoff, Carl Oscar Borg, Maurice Braun, Benjamin C. Brown, Frank Cuprien, William Swift Daniell, Edwin Deakin, Anna Hills, Thomas Hunt, Martin Jackson, Edgar Payne, Hanson Puthuff, Julian Rix, F. Carl Schmidt, Jack Wilkinson Smith, Gardner Symons, and William Wendt. Their varied styles are a reflection of their widely diverse backgrounds. That diversity is a direct result of the surge of immigration that occurred after the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. As artists ventured west—first to San Francisco and then to Los Angeles—they began creating paintings that were shipped east, to Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York City. Paintings showing the grandeur of the western landscape drew attention from critics and dealers, which further encouraged artists to travel west. Some remained permanently, others only for a few months or years, and some maintained studios on both coasts. |
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