Fleischer Museum Exhibitions
Selections From The Irvine Museum
The following has been extracted from the brochure used during the exhibition.
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 Guy Rose, Laguna Eucalyptus c.1916 O/C 40"x30" (detail)
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Selections From the Irvine Museum was the first traveling exhibition of the newly established Irvine Museum in Irvine, California. The focus of the museum is the preservation and display of historic California art with an emphasis on Impressionist period works dating 1890 to 1930. The museum collection also includes many works of historical significance painted in the traditional styles of the nineteenth century. Finally, the museum has works from a period known as Regionalism, when artists began depicting both the rural and urban scenes in America during the 1930s and 1940s. |
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A landscape painter and a skilled printmaker, Benjamin Brown pursued his artistic education at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and later at the Academie Julian in Paris. Brown practiced a bold and vibrant form of Impressionism which convincingly portrayed the colorful California landscape which he adored.
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 Benjamin Brown, The Joyous Garden o/c 30" x 40" (detail)
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Among the ranks of California's wildflower painters, Granville Redmond stands paramount. His lush vistas of rolling hills covered with California poppies and lupines earned him great popularity in his day and that attraction has grown with the passage of time.
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The Summer Sea won a silver medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. It is a remarkable rendition of the bright and lucid atmosphere of the Northern California coast, painted in distinct and confident strokes of pure color. |
 Bruce Nelson, The Summer Sea o/c 30" x 40" (detail)
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Edgar Payne, Sierra Divide 1921 o/c 24" x 28" (detail) | Edgar Payne was so closely associated with paintings of the California Sierras that he was called "God of the Mountains" by Fred Hogue of the Los Angeles Times. Sierra Divide is perhaps Payne's best known work in this genre, having been reproduced in many contemporary and recent art publications. |
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Granville Redmond, Untitled poppy landscape o/c 32" x 80" (detail)
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Selections from the Irvine Museum 1992 - ISBN #0-9635468-0-5 ~ Essays by Jean Stern, Janet Black Dominik, and Harvey L. Jones.
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