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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
