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In 1842, he became interested in California and agreed to travel there for Virmond. [1] Vischer is best known for his pencil sketches of California landscapes throughout the 1860s and 1870s. He sketched a wide variety of scenes and objects, but most commonly the California missions, trees, mountains, and rural scenes
The terms California Impressionism and California Plein-Air Painting describe the large movement of 20th century artists who worked out of doors (en plein air), directly from nature in California, United States. Their work became popular in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California in the first three decades after the turn of the 20th ...
William Keith (November 18, 1838 – April 13, 1911) was a Scottish-American painter famous for his California landscapes. He is associated with Tonalism and the American Barbizon school . Although most of his career was spent in California, he started out in New York, made two extended study trips to Europe, and had a studio in Boston in 1871 ...
Artists who were born in, have lived in, have worked in or been involved with California. Also, art movements based in California. The category also includes artisans from California (see Category:Artisans
Their scenic paintings moved U.S. leaders in Washington, D.C., including President Abraham Lincoln.Their visual examples helped define how the United States managed and legislated the territory and then new U.S. state of California, especially represented by the preservation of Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove.
The short story collection The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches, Twain's first book, contains 27 short stories and sketches. [2] It was published by the American News Company in 1867 under the editorship of Twain's friend Charles Henry Webb. [13]
Among the Sierra Nevada was created in Rome in winter 1867–68, four years after Bierstadt's trip to the Sierra Nevada. [4] [5] The painting measures 72 by 120 + 1 ⁄ 8 inches (183 by 305 cm) and has an elaborate frame measuring 96 + 1 ⁄ 4 by 144 + 3 ⁄ 8 by 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (244 by 367 by 18 cm).
In 1863, Evans became local editor for some years of The Daily Alta California in San Francisco, and continued in that capacity for several years. [3] He lived in the city for 12 years, and he famously feuded with Mark Twain when both were in the city. [4] Evans died 22 October 1872, [5] a passenger on the steamship Missouri, when it burned at ...