EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Southwest Textiles
Awakening from the
2001
Multi-Venue Quilt Show
(subject to change)
2000
The Fourth Dimension:
Work from four
Mendocino County
Ceramic Sculptors
February 5 - May 28
Contemporary Art
Navajo and
Rio Grande Rugs
From the Collection of
San Francisco Bay Area
Resident Ruth Belikove
June 10 - October 15
19th Century
California Dream:
Environmental History
Historical Events, Social
and Economic Forces
Driving California's
Current Environmental
Crisis
Oct. 25th - Dec. 17
Travel Exhibit Organized
by the Oakland Museum
Votes for Women:
Unfinished Business
A CERA Traveling Exhibit
by the Huntington Library
tracing the History of the
Women's Suffrage
Movement
January 13 - March 10
History 1848 - 1920
In cooperation with
Mendocino College
and Others
Late March - Late June
Historic/Contemporary
Crafts
Early Northern California Landscapes
July 17, 1999 through January 23, 2000
The work of over a dozen talented landscape painters from one hundred years ago glows in a new art and history exhibit organized by the Grace Hudson Museum. Opening Sat., July 17th, 1999 and running through January 23, 2000, "Drawing from Nature: Early Northern California Landscapes" features the work of artists such as Guiseppe Cadenasso, Henry Percy Gray, Lorenzo Latimer, Mary DeNeale Morgan, Virgil Williams and Theodore Wores, and charts the interconnections between them.
Exhibited paintings come from private and public collections including those of the Hearst Art Gallery at St. Mary's College in Moraga, The Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley, and Christopher Queen Galleries at Duncans Mills, California. Rounding out the show are historic photographs, manuscripts and memorabilia."
Artists in this new exhibit all share a link with the Museum's namesake, Grace Carpenter Hudson. Most were either her fellow students or her art instructors at the California School of Design in San Francisco.
Class from the Hopkins (Mark) Art Institute ca. 1896
California Historical Society GN-02910
By the outset of the 1870's artists flocked to San Francisco, the "Paris of the West", attracted by the area's beautiful scenery and gentle climate, as well as the generous patronage of San Francisco's nouveau riche. As early as 1871, a group of artists had created a society to bring together "all who have any desire to encourage the progress of fine arts", the San Francisco Art Association. The all male Bohemian Club, with it's similar goal of stimulating and improving cultural life, was formed the following year. Both organizations became the focus of the city's artistic and literary community.
One of the San Francisco Art Association's principal aims was the founding of an art school, a goal realized with the establishment of the California School of Design in 1874, the first art school west of the Mississippi. One of the earliest students was Grace Carpenter [Hudson], from rural Mendocino County, who attended from 1880 - 1884. At that time the School of Design was the only art school known in the United States or Europe to offer a landscape class in which teachers actually took their students outside to sketch, rather than drawing from existing work or from memory. Advertisements for the school emphasized its instruction in "drawing from nature".
Raymond Dabb Yelland with class from
the Hopkins (Mark) Art Institute ca. 1895
California Historical Society FN-23522
While Grace Carpenter went on to achieve fame as a painter of American Indian portraits, many of her School of Design teachers, fellow classmates and later colleagues became well known landscape artists. "Drawing from Nature" celebrates their artistic achievements. It also honors their vision of beautiful Northern California, from L.P. Latimer's stately redwoods to Manuel Valencia's panoramic view of the Napa River, to the monumental majesty of Christian Jorgensen's Yosemite Pass.
"El Portal" Christian Jorgensen, 1907
Collection of Hearst Art Gallery
St. Mary's College
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