Special note to our readers: The Laguna Art Museum has
generously offered to provide two free pairs of day passes to their wonderful
facility to the first and second readers who post their comments below. We’ll contact those readers directly to
request their mailing addresses so that the passes can be sent to them by the
Museum.
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| Clarence Hinkle - photo credit: Laguna Art Museum |
The first exhibit is a retrospective of the work of 20th
century artist Clarence Hinkle, whose student, Millard Sheets, became one of the best known
watercolorists in the Early California Art genre. To view additional examples of this artist’s
work, click here And, check out photographs of the exhibit of the museum's Flickr page here.
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| Modern Spirit - photo credit: Laguna Art Museum |
The next exhibit not to be missed is titled
“Modern Spirit and the Group of Eight”, which provides a fresh perspective on the art and culture of the 1920s in Los Angeles. Paintings by Mabel Alvarez, Clarence Hinkle, Henri De Kruif, JohnHubbard Rich, Donna Schuster, E. Roscoe Shrader, Edouard Vysekal, and Luvena Buchanan Vysekal provide a pictorial description of the Modernist Realist trend that was popular during that period in history.
Click here to view a very informative group of videos on theLaguna Art Museum
Click here to view a very informative group of videos on the
Also currently on display, continuing through October 28th, 2012, is “Abstract Classicists”, a group of paintings from the museum’s permanent collection. The featured artists include Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersly, John McLaughlin, Florence Arnold and Helen Lundeberg.
For additional information, directions, and hours, the
museum’s full website can be found at www.lagunaartmuseum.org. Their address is 307 Cliff Drive Laguna Beach, CA 92651, telephone: (949) 494-8971.
