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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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Keywords (54)
Art Method
- •Art Design
- •Craftsperson, Handicrafts
- •Decorative Art, Decoration Design, Ornamental Arts
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
- •Bronze
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Gouache
- •Oil Paint
- •Pastel Painting/Drawing
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Art Nouveau (Stile Liberty, Jugendstil, Modernesta)
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
- •Tonalist, Tonalism
Art Subject
- •Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Hand-Crafted Objects
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
- •Seascapes, Seasides
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •California Before 1940
- •Catalina Island
- •Europe
- •Monterey, Carmel California
- •Northern California Before 1900
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
- •Bohemian Club
- •San Francisco Art Association-
Art Teacher
- •Jules-Joseph Lefebvre
Art School
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
- •California School of Design/Mark Hopkins Institute, Teaching
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Arts and Crafts Movement, Late 19th/Early 20th Centuries
- •Figure Specialty
- •Mural Specialty
Artist Colony
- •Monterey and Carmel-By-The-Sea
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Del Monte Art Gallery, Monterey
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Art Movement
- •Art Nouveau
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons