June 25, 2012 at 3:25pm 59 notes
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Source: Los Angeles Times
Some summer art for you: The Huntington Library features three dozen works by the Regionalist artist Roger Medearis. In his restarted art career, Medearis turned to his adopted environs, and the exhibition includes such paintings as “The Beach,” a lively scene of sunbathers, surfers and even a few swimmers crowding a highly stylized Pacific cove, and “Home in the San Gabriels” (1996), showing houses set against the mass of the San Gabriel Mountains. “He was pretty attached to the landscape, and to the change of light,” Betty says. “People have said his work is surreal.” Image: Roger Medearis, “The Beach,” 1970. Acrylic and egg tempera on canvas bonded to panel, 15 x 18 inches. Credit: The Huntington Library

Some summer art for you: The Huntington Library features three dozen works by the Regionalist artist Roger Medearis.

In his restarted art career, Medearis turned to his adopted environs, and the exhibition includes such paintings as “The Beach,” a lively scene of sunbathers, surfers and even a few swimmers crowding a highly stylized Pacific cove, and “Home in the San Gabriels” (1996), showing houses set against the mass of the San Gabriel Mountains. “He was pretty attached to the landscape, and to the change of light,” Betty says. “People have said his work is surreal.”

Image: Roger Medearis, “The Beach,” 1970. Acrylic and egg tempera on canvas bonded to panel, 15 x 18 inches. Credit: The Huntington Library

October 10, 2011 at 1:50pm 53 notes
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Source: Los Angeles Times

A new exhibit at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens will showcase the aerospace industry’s impact on Southern California over the last 100 years. View more photos on Framework.

Photos credit: Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens