Monday, February 18, 2019

CALIFORNIA REPORT

Following up on the California fairs. 

The Los Angeles Fine Art Print Fair was at the Pasadena Convention Center February 1 and 2, Friday and Saturday, and the Inaugural Bay Area Fine Print Fair was at the KALA Art Institute in Berkeley is February 9 and 10, Saturday and Sunday. Thanks to all who braved rain, floods, and mudslides to visit the fairs.

 
Rudolph Ruzicka, Brooklyn Bridge, 1913

Throughout the days there was special interest in work by East Coast artists Hugh Mesibov, Rudolph Ruzicka, and Anne Ryan.


Pele DeLappe, Friday Night, Freeman Family, 1933
Of course we also saw the fascinating exhibition Gauguin, A Spiritual Journey, at the De Young Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, and the amazing and expansive California Women Artists Emerge, 1860—1960, show at the Pasadena Museum of History, curated by Maurine St. Gaudens and Joseph Morsman. It was especially great to see a gouache by Pele DeLappe included with works by other wonderful artists, both known and unknown to us. 

Sea Lions, Pier 39, San Francisco, February, 2019

And the sea lions at Pier 39 in San Francisco were as fabulous as ever. Hard to imagine that at first they weren’t welcome.