Regionalism
Regionalism was an American art movement that emerged in the Midwest in the early 1930s and continued into the early 1940s. While Grant Wood, the leading artist of Regionalism and creator of the infamous American Gothic painting, considered the movement to be a new type of modern art, Regionalism also has deep historical roots in American art
Orange County Art Guide
Museum Exhibitions The Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University: Narrative Visions: 20th Century California Art from the Hilbert Collection Bowers Museum: March 19, 2016 – September 5, 2016 Mummies of the World Ongoing Mystery from the Tomb: The Face Beneath the Mask Ongoing from June 11, 2016 California Bounty: Image and Identity, 1850 – 1930
Interview With Gordon McClelland
Our Student Art Ambassadors Nadia Hayford, Alex Allen, and Manon Wogahn teamed up with students Farrah Su and Murphy Studebaker from the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts to put together this interview with Gordon McClelland, the curator of “Narrative Visions,” the current show at the Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University.
Orange County Art Guide
Museum Exhibitions The Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University: Narrative Visions: 20th Century California Art from the Hilbert Collection Bowers Museum: March 19, 2016 – September 5, 2016 Mummies of the World Ongoing Mystery from the Tomb: The Face Beneath the Mask Ongoing from June 11, 2016 California Bounty: Image and Identity, 1850 – 1930
Dong Kingman
Dong Kingman , also known as Dong Moy Shu, was born in Oakland, California on March 31, 1911. At the age of 5, his family moved back to Hong Kong in order to open a dry goods business. In Hong Kong, he attended the Chan Sun Wen School where he excelled in both drawing and
Gordon McClelland on Curating "Narrative Visions" at the Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University
Chapman students from Dodge College of Film and Media Arts teamed up with our Student Art Ambassadors to put together a filmed interview of Gordon McClelland, the Curator of “Narrative Visions,” which is currently on display now at the Hilbert Museum of California Art. The full interview will be available soon!
OC + LA Art Guide: May
ORANGE COUNTY Museum Exhibitions The Hilbert Museum of California Art: Narrative Visions: 20th Century California Art from the Hilbert Collection Bowers Museum: April 16, 2016 – August 28, 2016 Once Upon a Time March 19, 2016 – September 5, 2016 Mummies of the World December 12, 2015 – May 29, 2016 Popol Vuh: Watercolors of Diego Rivera
Influences of Animation in the Hilbert Museum
The piece Bunker Hill, which is currently on display in the Hilbert Museum of California Art, was made by Preston Blair in 1938. As the title implies, the watercolor shows a scene of Bunker Hill, a residential area in Los Angeles that was characterized by unique Victorian Houses and eccentric characters that began to inhabit
Sticking Together: How Collage Revolutionized Art
Many of us remember collage as an activity from elementary school classrooms. We often associate it with the cutting up of old magazines for a social studies or science project. Glue stick in hand, collage became a common way for us to deliver a theme when we were children. However, not everyone is aware of
Interview With Curator Gordon McClelland
Recently, our Art Ambassadors teamed up with students from the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts to film an interview with Gordon McClelland, curator of the inaugural exhibition “Narrative Visions” at the Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University. We will be posting the full interview soon, but in the meantime, enjoy this preview.