Canyon Magic Landmark Art from the Picerne Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
2010Fillmore, Gary
77 pages (color)
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1886 Speicher, Switzerland - 1975 Laguna Hills, California. Known for: Landscape painting, printmaking, illustration.
Born in Speicher, Switzerland, the son of an Alpine farmer, Conrad Buff, by the age of forty, had an established reputation as an artist, primarily realistic paintings that expressed his love of the... Read full biography
Born in Speicher, Switzerland, the son of an Alpine farmer, Conrad Buff, by the age of forty, had an established reputation as an artist, primarily realistic paintings that expressed his love of the American Southwest. He was apprenticed at age 14 to an uncle, a baker, and confectioner, and baking... Read full biography
Born in Speicher, Switzerland, the son of an Alpine farmer, Conrad Buff, by the age of forty, had an established reputation as an artist, primarily realistic paintings that expressed his love of the American Southwest. He was apprenticed at age 14 to an uncle, a baker, and confectioner, and baking became a hobby with him for the rest of his life. He also learned the trade of lace designing and making, which ultimately influenced his pointellist painting style, and which was then a major trade... Read full biography
Born in Speicher, Switzerland, the son of an Alpine farmer, Conrad Buff, by the age of forty, had an established reputation as an artist, primarily realistic paintings that expressed his love of the American Southwest. He was apprenticed at age 14 to an uncle, a baker, and confectioner, and baking became a hobby with him for the rest of his life. He also learned the trade of lace designing and making, which ultimately influenced his pointellist painting style, and which was then a major trade in Switzerland. But he felt constrained with having to copy patterns, and in the early 1900s went to Munich, where he lived the heady life of a young man. However, money ran out, and at age 19, he came to America and took the first train West. He was... Read full biography
Born in Speicher, Switzerland, the son of an Alpine farmer, Conrad Buff, by the age of forty, had an established reputation as an artist, primarily realistic paintings that expressed his love of the American Southwest. He was apprenticed at age 14 to an uncle, a baker, and confectioner, and baking became a hobby with him for the rest of his life. He also learned the trade of lace designing and making, which ultimately influenced his pointellist painting style, and which was then a major trade in Switzerland. But he felt constrained with having to copy patterns, and in the early 1900s went to Munich, where he lived the heady life of a young man. However, money ran out, and at age 19, he came to America and took the first train West. He was briefly on a Wisconsin ranch, working as a sheep herder and then for ten years roamed the West doing odd j... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (46)
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Canyon Magic Landmark Art from the Picerne Collection
2010Painters of Utah's Canyons and Deserts
2009Poulton, Donna L. and Vern G. Swanson304 pages (color)A Seed of Modernism- The Art Students League of Los Angeles
2008
(Exhibition catalog)Kovinic, Marian, Dr. Will South, Julia Armstrong-Totten (Pasadena Museum of California Art)160 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 pagesArt for the New Collector II Re-Emerging American Artists
2003
(Exhibition catalog)Editor: Spanierman Gallery64 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)110 Years of American Art:1830-1940 (Spanierman Galleries, LLC)
2001
(Exhibition catalog)Spanierman, Deborah (essay)136 pages (color)The Art and Life of Conrad Buff
2000George Stern Fine Arts with essays by Will South187 pagesAmerica Gone Modern: From the Twenties to the Sixties
2000
(Exhibition catalog)Spanierman Gallery56 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesCalifornia Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media
1998Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall560 pages (color)Painters of the Desert
1998
(Exhibition catalog)Willoughby, Jim54 pages75 Works, 75 Years Collecting the Art of California
1993
(Exhibition catalog)Laguna Art Museum139 pages (color)The Red Book Western American Price Index
1993Southwest Art126 pagesTransforming the Western Image in 20th Century American Art
1992
(Exhibition catalog)Hough, Katherine111 pages (color)Selections from the Irvine Museum
1992Stern, Jean; Janet Blake Doninik and Harvey L. Jones128 pages (color)American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick510 pages (color)Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990Gerdts, William H396 pages (color)Artists in California, 1786-1940
1989Hughes, Edan Milton637 pagesMantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pagesArtists 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 pagesSouthern California Art Publication 3, Dictionary
1984Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall291 pagesThe Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984Orr-Cahill, Christina199 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)California Artists 1935-1956
1981McCall, Dewitt Clinton III212 pages (color)Visitors to Arizona 1846-1980
1980
(Exhibition catalog)Ballinger, James K206 pages (color)Los Angeles Prints 1883-1980
1980
(Exhibition catalog)Feinblatt, Ebria/Bruce Davis111 pagesPainting and Sculpture in Los Angeles, 1900-1945
1980Wall, Nancy Dustin112 pagesSouthern California Artists 1890-1940
1979Editor, Laguna Beach Museum216 pages (color)American Western Art: The Harmsen Collection
1977Harmsen, Dorothy; Bill Harmsen (Foreward)256 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976Jaques Cattell Press756 pagesThe Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976Samuels, Peggy and Harold549 pagesSmithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975Editor, Smithsonian0 pagesPrint Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries
1975Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman246 pagesPainters of the Desert
1961Ainsworth, Ed111 pages (color)Illustrators of Children's Books 1744-1945
1961Mahony, Bertha E (others)527 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 1959 American Biographies
1959Gilbert, Dorothy (Editor)718 pagesWidening Horizons: Painters of the Western Desert
1952Ainsworth, Edward97 pagesAmerican Prize Prints of the 20th Century
1949Reese, Albert257 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 1947
1947Gilbert, Dorothy, (Editor)685 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pages