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AMERICAN PAINTINGS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
COLLECTIONS
From Gilbert Stuart to Georgia O'Keeffe
By Ilene Susan Fort with Trudi Abram
AMERICAN PAINTINGS IN SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA COLLECTIONS: FROM GILBERT STUART TO GEORGIA O'KEEFE offers a broad survey of American art in private hands throughout the region. Collectors in Southern California, although not as well known as their counterparts in the East, have amassed holdings just as impressive. Manifesting the area's celebrated eclectic spirit, they have acquired important paintings representing the full history of American art from the Federal period through the modern era, including significant works by luminaries such as Thomas Cole, Thomas Eakins, Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, Raphaelle Peale, Frederic Remington, John Singer Sargent, and James A.
M. Whistler.
The collectors whose taste is celebrated in this catalogue and the exhibition it documents are the most recent exemplars of a strong tradition...”