Category: 1940’s

Looking Back, 1940 – 1944

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, […]

1940 January 8, ๐™’๐™๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™š๐™ง ๐™๐™š๐™ฅ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง:

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.

1941 January, 4, ๐™’๐™๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™š๐™ง ๐™‰๐™š๐™ฌ๐™จ:

Architect William Harrison, who donated the plans for the Whittier Art Gallery in 1938, is praised by the
๐˜ˆ๐˜ณ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜Œ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜”๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ป๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ.

1941 June 4, ๐™’๐™๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™š๐™ง ๐™‰๐™š๐™ฌ๐™จ:

Pruett Carter, illustrator, exhibits illustrations from such magazines as ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ, ๐˜”๐˜ค ๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ด, and ๐˜“๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜‘๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ.
He is considered as โ€œone of the top ranking Illustrators for popular magazinesโ€.

1942 April 3, ๐™’๐™๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™š๐™ง ๐™‰๐™š๐™ฌ๐™จ:

Edgar Payne exhibits oil paintings. He is the author of ๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ˆ๐˜ณ๐˜ต, and ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜–๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜—๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ
(published 1941). He is โ€œone of the best known American artistsโ€ฆโ€.

1943 October 8, ๐™’๐™๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™š๐™ง ๐™‰๐™š๐™ฌ๐™จ:

Art Landyโ€™s painting, ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜™๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ณ, receives first place in water colors. โ€œThe 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 horrorsโ€ฆโ€

1944 March 13, ๐™’๐™๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™š๐™ง ๐™๐™š๐™ฅ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง:

Hanson Puthuff exhibits landscape paintings in oil. The artistโ€™s friend, Sam Hyde Harris will speak on the โ€œLife 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.