California - Exploration, Gold Rush, Statehood: When Spanish navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo became the first European to sight the region that is present-day California in 1542, there were about 130,000 Native Americans inhabiting the area. The terri
Learn about paintings illustrating California's history in the Bancroft Library of... Video: Displayed by permission of The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. (A Britannica Publishing Partner) A glimpse into California's gold rush towns ...
Thomas Cole transfixed the American art world in the mid 1830s with a series of allegorical paintings that suggested that the course of empire was inexorable, a cyclical decline from the idyllic pastoral state into ruin. The historiography of empire has not followed this neat linear trajectory. ...
"The Golden Dream" covers the imagery of the Gold Rush and the ways in which pictures of "honest" and "industrious" miners promoted a favorable interpretation of the tumultuous "Days of '49." California's latent agricultural potential, and the desire of Anglo-American settlers in California ...
There were also some truly hideous surrealist paintings of the missions, done by a friar. I did find some more interesting books in the shop, including a young adult fiction that is about a sailor from Cabrillo’s fleet who is reported as killed but actually joins the Chumash. At first ...
northern mining district which was once the center of the 1850s gold rush. The Shasta County Courthouse has been restored to its 1861 appearance and serves as a museum, with historical exhibits and a collection of historic California artwork featuring more than 100 paintings by early California ...
My landscape and seascape paintings are all about the natural beauty of California. The subjects range from dramatic views of the Eastern Sierras to the warm gentle beaches of Southern California. Come by and visit. The Studio is open Wednesday - Saturday 11:00 - 5:00. ...
The late Chiura Obata was a prominent California artist and Professor of Art at UC Berkeley. A Japanese immigrant, he was particularly well known for his paintings of the Sierra Nevada and of the Topaz, Utah camp at which he was incarcerated during World War II. Currently he is the subject...
See more of my Eastern Sierra paintings hereGold and Glory June Lake Loop Eastern Sierra sunset oil painting Available, Art, autumn, California, California art, California impressionism, California impressionist, California landscape, california landscape painting, California oil painting, daily painting, ...
The sunshine-drenched sprawl ofCaliforniagave us the Gold Rush and is home to some of the most expensive cities in the United States, but that doesn't mean you need a lottery win to vacation there. Some of the best experiences in the Golden State are free, from the towering redwoods of...