Weekly Critique group: Tuesday 1PM at the Santa Cruz Art League 526 Broadway.
The third Tuesday will be an open paint day and/or presentation day. These have proved to be enjoyable. Bring your supplies and join us. *note: We have eliminated the first Tuesday as an open paint day.
A reminder: Please send your SCWS annual $35 dues to Dale Johnson. Also, if you have a gallery page on this website, please remember to also send a $10 fee to take care of the annual hosting fee with Iversen Design. Also reminder: you must be a member to have a page on the website. If you are needing a refresher on posting on your page, please contact Aimée.
Plein Air: Thursdays (Call Shirley for location and time- Shirley’s phone number appears on the membership calendar on this site.)
If you would like to receive the membership newsletter for contact information on Plein Air and other membership events, please refer to ‘contact page’ and become a member. ($35 yearly)
Show Opportunities:
Santa Cruz Watercolor Society annual show at the Blitzer Gallery for the month of August:
SCWS Annual Show: R. Blitzer Gallery 2801 Mission St. EXT. (Old Wrigley Building)
hours: Tuesday- Saturday 12AM- 5PM
Our show:
August 4-August 28, reception: Friday, August 4;
last day open to public: Saturday, August 26
drop off: August 1, pick up August 28
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Exhibits In Bay Area:
Legion of Honor
https://legionofhonor.famsf.org/exhibitions/degas-impressionism-and-paris-millinery-trade
Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade
June 24, 2017 – September 24, 2017
ROSEKRANS COURT, SPECIAL EXHIBITION GALLERIES 20B-F
Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade is a groundbreaking exhibition featuring 60 Impressionist paintings and pastels, including key works by Degas—many never before exhibited in the United States—as well as those by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Édouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and 40 exquisite examples of period hats.
Best known for his depictions of Parisian dancers and laundresses, Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917) was enthralled with another aspect of life in the French capital—high-fashion hats and the women who created them. The artist, invariably well-dressed and behatted himself, “dared to go into ecstasies in front of the milliners’ shops,” Paul Gauguin wrote of his lifelong friend.
Degas’ fascination inspired a visually compelling and profoundly modern body of work that documents the lives of what one fashion writer of the day called “the aristocracy of the workwomen of Paris, the most elegant and distinguished.” Yet despite the importance of millinery within Degas’s oeuvre, there has been little discussion of its place in Impressionist iconography.
The exhibition will be the first to examine the height of the millinery trade in Paris, from around 1875 to 1914, as reflected in the work of the Impressionists. At this time there were around 1,000 milliners working in what was then considered the fashion capital of the world.
This exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Saint Louis Art Museum. Presenting Sponsor: John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn and Diane B. Wilsey. Patron’s Circle: Marion Moore Cope.
The catalogue is published with the assistance of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowment for Publications.
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