Known as the intellectual and artistic leader of the California watercolor artists, Phil Dike was strongly influenced by avant-garde* painters Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, and Charles Burchfield. He... Read full biography
Known as the intellectual and artistic leader of the California watercolor artists, Phil Dike was strongly influenced by avant-garde* painters Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, and Charles Burchfield. He was born in Redlands, California, and was exposed to art from his childhood because his... Read full biography
Known as the intellectual and artistic leader of the California watercolor artists, Phil Dike was strongly influenced by avant-garde* painters Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, and Charles Burchfield. He was born in Redlands, California, and was exposed to art from his childhood because his grandmother, Eliza Twigg, was a painter. He first studied art in high school with Mary Louise Arnold whom Dike later described as so sombre and dressed in such heavy shoes that she looked "like Washington... Read full biography
Known as the intellectual and artistic leader of the California watercolor artists, Phil Dike was strongly influenced by avant-garde* painters Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, and Charles Burchfield. He was born in Redlands, California, and was exposed to art from his childhood because his grandmother, Eliza Twigg, was a painter. He first studied art in high school with Mary Louise Arnold whom Dike later described as so sombre and dressed in such heavy shoes that she looked "like Washington crossing the Delaware" (Edan Hughes). In 1924, he began his art education at Chouinard Art Institute* in Los Angeles, and in 1928 went to the Art Students League* in New York where he studied with Frank DuMond and George Luks. He traveled throughout Europe... Read full biography
Known as the intellectual and artistic leader of the California watercolor artists, Phil Dike was strongly influenced by avant-garde* painters Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, and Charles Burchfield. He was born in Redlands, California, and was exposed to art from his childhood because his grandmother, Eliza Twigg, was a painter. He first studied art in high school with Mary Louise Arnold whom Dike later described as so sombre and dressed in such heavy shoes that she looked "like Washington crossing the Delaware" (Edan Hughes). In 1924, he began his art education at Chouinard Art Institute* in Los Angeles, and in 1928 went to the Art Students League* in New York where he studied with Frank DuMond and George Luks. He traveled throughout Europe and studied for a year, 1930, in France at the American Academy of Fontainebleau, and exhibited at that time a... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (52)
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Santa Cruz Art League Statewide Art Exhibition Index, First through Twenty-Seventh, 1928-1957 (Publications in California Art, No. 12)
2015
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
547 pages
California Scene Paintings
2013
McClelland, Gordon T. and McClelland, Austin D.
215 pages (color)
The House that Sam Built: Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945-1985 (Huntington Library Exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
2011
Nelson, Harold (Editor)
192 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Everyday Life in California, Regional Watercolors, 1930-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
2004
California Heritage Museum
56 pages (color)
California Holiday: The E Gene Crain Collection (Laguna Art Museum) (Exhibition catalog)