Six plein-air painters in Oakland, California, joined together in 1917 to form an association that lasted nearly fifteen years. The Society of Six?Selden Connor Gile, Maurice Logan, William H. Clapp, August F. Gay, Bernard von Eichman, and Louis Siegriest?created a color-centered modernist idiom that shocked establishment tastes but remains the most advanced painting of its era in Northern California. Nancy Boas's well-informed and sumptuously illustrated chronicle recognizes the importance of these six painters in the history of American Post-Impressionism. The Six found themselves in the position of an avant garde not because they set out to reject conventionality, but because they aspired to create their own indigenous modernism. While the artists were considered outsiders in their time, their work is now recognized as part of the vital and enduring lineage of American art. Depression hardship ended the Six's ascendancy, but their painterliness, use of color, and deep alliance with the land and the light became a beacon for postwar Northern California modern painters such as Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud. Combining biography and critical analysis, Nancy Boas offers a fitting tribute to the lives and exhilarating painting of the Society of Six.
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Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-13
9780520210554
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96169995
Product Key Features
Book Title
Society of Six: California Colorists
Author
Nancy Boas
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1997
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
305mm
Item Width
229mm
Item Weight
1179g
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Title_Author
Nancy Boas
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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