The Whittier Art Gallery continued to exhibit the work of prominent artists while bracing for World War II and living through the most difficult of the War years. Exhibits of the work of Edgar Payne, Enjar Hansen, Eleanor Colburn, Clyde Forsythe, Sam Hyde Harris, Hanson Puthuff, and others, […]
The exhibit of Richard Munsell ย oil and water color paintings was proclaimed, “Years outstanding local one-man painting show”, by Arthur Millier, Los Angeles Times art critic. Richard Munsell was a California Art Club exhibiting Member, 1935 – 1938. He taught at the Chouinard Art Institute.
Wayne Long is known widely through out California for his ceramic work.ย He is president of the Whittier Art Association.
The Whittier Art Association begins their annual Membership Drive, remembering their first year in the gallery
they built on Painter Ave.
Camera Club members remember the origin of the club’s name, “Circle of Confusion.”
Loan exhibit opens with 35 oil and water color paintings by American, Canadian, and European artists.
Pruett Carter, illustrator, exhibits illustrations from such magazines as ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฏ, ๐๐ค ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ด, and ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ.
He is considered as โone of the top ranking Illustrators for popular magazinesโ.
Otis Art Institute sends Traveling Exhibitions to Army bases and provides art kits to young artists in the service. Excerpts of servicemenโs letters were read at the galleryโs open meeting.
Clyde Forsythe and Dean Cornwall use โhumor, wit, and gay banterโ as they engage in an impromptu debate on commercial art verses pure art.
Art Landyโs painting, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ณ, receives first place in water colors. โThe Red Carโ creator must have hunted diligently through all California to find the ugliest combination of hill, houses, fence and vegetation, and then stuck a sadly drawn electric car with a gigantic power pole thrust up its middle smack in the center of the hill of horrorsโฆโ
Sam Hyde Harris exhibits 17 of his oil paintings. At the open meeting, he painted a Demonstration picture of the Sierra Madre Mountains. Ida OโKeeffe attended the presentation and helped serve refreshments.
Hanson Puthuff exhibits landscape paintings in oil. The artistโs friend, Sam Hyde Harris will speak on the โLife and Works of Hanson Puthuff at the open meeting.
Note:ย ย Hanson Puthuff painted the mural backgrounds for the animal dioramas in the Los Angeles
County Museum of History, Science, and Art.ย He is a member of the California Art Club.
Paul Lauritz exhibits 13 large oil paintings in the main floor gallery. He will demonstrate Charcoal drawing at an upcoming open meeting.
An exhibit of paintings of New Guinea by Whittier Art Association Past President Wayne Long, is planned.