Regionalism, The California View William Frates Buttresses of the Land

Buttresses of the Land

"Dad wrote that he painted this of the Parthanon

Dad was invited to teach art classes in Klamath Falls

Hewitt Watercolor Workshops

and in examining the transition from Impressionist-inspired landscape painting to Modernism in California

Regionalism, The California View William Frates Buttresses of the LandRegionalism, The California View, Watercolors 1928 1949 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1988 88 pages, 74 illustrations, softcover, new $79. 00 By Susan M. Anderson In the 1930s, a period of great social and economic change, American artists sought to free themselves from European influences in an effort to create a truly American art. Contemporary American art critics since the late 1920s had been advocating an American art that did not rely on European