California Impressions: Landscapes from the Wendy Willrich Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
2006Burgard, Timothy Anglin; Alfred C. Harrison, Jr.
112 pages (color)
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1860 Markesan, Wisconsin - 1945 San Francisco, California. Known for: Handcrafted items, decorative, muralist, educator.
A central figure with his wife Lucia in turn-of-the-century, post earthquake San Francisco, Arthur Mathews devoted himself to reconstruction of the fine arts in the Bay Area. He had diverse talents... Read full biography
A central figure with his wife Lucia in turn-of-the-century, post earthquake San Francisco, Arthur Mathews devoted himself to reconstruction of the fine arts in the Bay Area. He had diverse talents that embraced architecture, mural painting, furniture making, printing, and urban design, and his... Read full biography
A central figure with his wife Lucia in turn-of-the-century, post earthquake San Francisco, Arthur Mathews devoted himself to reconstruction of the fine arts in the Bay Area. He had diverse talents that embraced architecture, mural painting, furniture making, printing, and urban design, and his style became known as California Decorative. His murals and paintings came to exemplify the Art Nouveau style. He was also a proponent of the American Renaissance style, based on classical disciplines... Read full biography
A central figure with his wife Lucia in turn-of-the-century, post earthquake San Francisco, Arthur Mathews devoted himself to reconstruction of the fine arts in the Bay Area. He had diverse talents that embraced architecture, mural painting, furniture making, printing, and urban design, and his style became known as California Decorative. His murals and paintings came to exemplify the Art Nouveau style. He was also a proponent of the American Renaissance style, based on classical disciplines and subject matter of the Italian Renaissance. In his allegorical paintings, Mathews often included female figures in classical dress and used a Tonalist approach with flat patterns and intense color. Described as "fairy tales for grownups," (Boas),... Read full biography
A central figure with his wife Lucia in turn-of-the-century, post earthquake San Francisco, Arthur Mathews devoted himself to reconstruction of the fine arts in the Bay Area. He had diverse talents that embraced architecture, mural painting, furniture making, printing, and urban design, and his style became known as California Decorative. His murals and paintings came to exemplify the Art Nouveau style. He was also a proponent of the American Renaissance style, based on classical disciplines and subject matter of the Italian Renaissance. In his allegorical paintings, Mathews often included female figures in classical dress and used a Tonalist approach with flat patterns and intense color. Described as "fairy tales for grownups," (Boas), these paintings answered society's need for a sense of refinement and elegance. He was credited with b... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (64)
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California Impressions: Landscapes from the Wendy Willrich Collection
2006Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907
2006Shields, Scott A.346 pages (color)The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesThe Art of Arthur and Lucia Mathews
2005Jones, Harvey L; Kenneth R. Trapp (essay)0 pages (color)Enchanted Isle: A History of Plein-Air Painting in Santa Catalina Island
2003Stern, Jean; Roy C. Rose and Molly Siple256 pages (color)Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
2002
Available For Sale.Hughes, Edan Milton1,249 pagesFor Sale<a href="mailto:info@askart.com">Available For Sale</a>.California Watercolors 1850-1970, An Illustrated History & Biographical Dictionary
2002McClelland, Gordon T; Jay T. Last231 pages (color)American Impressionists Abroad And at Home
2001Weinberg, H Barbara; S Larkin0 pagesThe Gilded Edge
2000Wilner, Eli et al0 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesArtful Players: Artistic Life in Early San Francisco
1999Hjalmarson, Birgitta255 pages (color)California Impressionism
1998Gerdts, William; Will South284 pages (color)California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media
1998Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall560 pages (color)California Impressionists
1996
(Exhibition catalog)Landauer, Susan; Donald D. Keyes and Jean Stern103 pages (color)Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in Bay Area
1995Nash, Steven A216 pages (color)Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
1993
(Exhibition catalog)Carr, Carolyn K408 pages (color)California Grandeur and Genre (Collections of James Coran and Walter Nelson-Rees)
1991Chelette, Iona and Katherine Hough107 pages (color)American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface430 pages (color)Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990Gerdts, William H396 pages (color)O California ! 19th & Early 20th Cen Landscapes
1990Vincent, Stephen et al272 pages (color)Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Blaugrund, Annette304 pages (color)If Pictures Could Talk Stories About California Paintings
1989Coran, James/W A Nelson-Rees382 pages (color)Artists in California, 1786-1940
1989Hughes, Edan Milton637 pagesThe American Canvas/Paintings from Collection Fine Art Museum, San Fran
1989Simpson, Marc (Mills, Saville)254 pages (color)American Works on Paper III
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Spanierman Gallery150 pages (color)Idle Hours Americans at Leisure 1865-1914
1988Pisano, Ronald G155 pages (color)Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pagesPlein Air Painters of California: The North
1986Westphal, Ruth Lilly220 pages (color)300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986Zellman, Michael David1,102 pages (color)Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History
1985Albright, Thomas349 pages (color)Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985Dawdy, Doris1,184 pagesWho Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesArts of the American Renaissance
1985
(Exhibition catalog)Hirschl & Adler Galleries123 pages (color)Mathews The California Decorative Style
1985
(Exhibition catalog)Jones, Harvey117 pages (color)The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984Orr-Cahill, Christina199 pages (color)California Museums The Los Angeles Times Book of
1984Wilson, William288 pages (color)The Quest for Unity American Art between World's Fairs 1876-1893
1983
(Exhibition catalog)Detroit Institute of the Arts272 pages (color)A Century of California Landscapes
1983Gibson, Dunn & Critcher52 pages (color)Dictionary of American Artists
1982Opitz, Glenn372 pagesThe West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections
1982
(Exhibition catalog)Trenton, Patricia197 pages (color)From Exposition to Exposition Northern California Painting 1915-1939
1981
(Exhibition catalog)Baird, Joseph Armstrong Jr88 pagesImpressionism, the California View
1981
(Exhibition catalog)Jones, Harvey L; John Caldwell; Terry St. John104 pages (color)Catalogue of American Painting
1981San Diego Museum of Art240 pages (color)American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64
1980Burke, Doreen Bolger479 pagesAmerican Art from the Gallery's Collection October 4 - 25, 1980
1980Galleries, Hirschl and Adler112 pages (color)Dictionary of American Art
1979Baigell, Mathew390 pagesSouthern California Artists 1890-1940
1979Editor, Laguna Beach Museum216 pages (color)American Imagination and Symbolist Painting
1979
(Exhibition catalog)Eldredge, Charles C176 pages (color)Crocker Art Museum: Handbook of Paintings
1979West, Richard (Essay); Alfred Neumeyer; Joseph A. Baird, Jr.202 pages (color)Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910
1977
(Exhibition catalog)Hills, Patricia194 pages (color)Recent Ideals of Americn Art
1977Sheldon, George William176 pagesThe Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976Samuels, Peggy and Harold549 pagesPainting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era
1976San Francisco Mus Modern Art272 pages (color)Yesterday's Artists on the Monterey Peninsula
1976Spangenberg, Helen88 pages (color)American Marine Painting A Loan Exhibition
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Virginia Museum151 pages (color)Seascape and the American Imagination
1975
(Exhibition catalog)Stein, Roger B144 pages (color)Mathews Masterpieces of the California Style
1972
(Exhibition catalog)Jones, Harvey/George Neubert105 pages (color)Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor
1971Graham, F Lanier111 pages (color)Exhibition of American Painting
1935
(Exhibition catalog)De Young Memorial Museum120 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pagesThe History and Ideals of American Art
1931Neuhaus, Eugen444 pagesSan Francisco, Panama Pacific Exposition (official catalogue)
1915
(Exhibition catalog)Panama Pacific Expositon72 pagesPanama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit
1915Walter, John; Pedro Lemos112 pages