Ray Strong, often referred to as the “dean” of Santa Barbara landscape painting, was the subject of the summer exhibition at the Wildling Art Museum, which opened to the public on June 30. The exhibition of over 35 oil paintings, entitled “Along the Way: Ray Strong Landscape Painter,” had representative works from almost every decade of the artists’ life.
Read MoreOil paintings, watercolors and prints depicting the Central Coast of California between 1836 and 1960 and celebrating “its rural pristine and fertile nature,” were selected by guest curator, Frank Goss, for the exhibition at the Wildling Art Museum in Los Olivos, which opened on April 7. Goss titled the exhibition, “The Final Eden: Early Images of the Santa Barbara Region,” because it is his thesis that the paradise that once was California, a land of boundless resources and unlimited opportunities, has shrunk through urbanization and exploitation, and the Central Coast, not yet paved over, is “the Final Eden.”
Read MoreA new exhibition at the Wildling Art Museum in Los Olivos, “Picturing the Wilderness: Photographs by Josef Muench, Macduff Everton, and David Maisel,” opened on January 26. Karen Sinsheimer, Curator of Photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, who organized this exhibition for the Wildling, selected these three artists for their different points of view on the wilderness subject.
Read MoreThe American wilderness, as seen through the eyes of artists over the last two centuries, was featured in a new exhibition at the Wildling Art Museum in Los Olivos, which begun on October 20. More than 30 works by well-known artists, including John James Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, Charles Russell, and Ansel Adams, were exhibited.
Read MoreThe Wildling Art Museum presented “Sierra Grandeur,” a selection of oil paintings from the Schaeffer Foundation Collection from July 14-October 14, 2001. The exhibition comprised paintings of the Sierra Nevada by California artists active between 1880 and 1950.
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