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(above: Joseph Kleitsch (1882-1931), Madonna of the apples,1927, oil on canvas, 27.9 x 36.2 in. Source: Bonhams. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Leon Amyx: Painter of the Salinas Valley, Biography by Chet Amyx and Sandy Hunter, Catalogue Introduction by Susan M. Anderson

The American Scene: Regionalist Painters of California 1930-1960: Selections from the Michael Johnson Collection by Susan M. Anderson

Dream and Perspective: American Scene Painting in Southern California by Susan M. Anderson

(above: Colin Campbell Cooper, Portrait Of the Artist's Wife, oil on canvas, 25 11/16 x 20 1/2 inches, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Modern Spirit: The Group of Eight & Los Angeles Art of the 1920s by Susan M. Anderson

Regionalism: The California View by Susan M. Anderson

A Seed of Modernism: The Art Students League of Los Angeles, 1906-53 by Julia Armstrong-Totten, Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, and Will South

Plein Air Painters Paint the Town of Santa Ana by Ann Avery Andres

The Plein Air Scene by Sarah Beserra

The Metamorphosis of California Landscape Art by Rexford E. Brandt

George Gibson (1904-2001), Scene Painter by Janet Blake

"In Love with Painting": The Life and Art of Clarence Hinkle by Janet Blake

Acquisition of an Archive: The Graphic Works of Ed Ruscha by Karen Breuer

Quick--Draw at High Noon by Aleta Carpenter

Bellosguardo: A View from Italy by Timothy J. Clark

Journey of Fr.Serra by Louisa S. Cooper and Richard Heimann

John Bankston: Locating Desire by Daniell Cornell

The Arts in Santa Barbara by Janet Blake Dominik

The California Water Color Society: Genesis of an American Style by Janet Blake Dominik

Ranchos: The Oak Group Paints the Santa Barbara Countryside by Ellen Easton

Jennie V. Cannon: The Untold History of the Carmel and Berkeley Art Colonies, vol. one, East Bay Heritage Project, Oakland, 2012 by Robert W. Edwards*

Peter Zokosky: The Nature of Being by Gordon L. Fuglie

Speculative Terrain - Recent Views of the Southern California Landscape from San Diego to Santa Barbara by Gordon L. Fuglie

The Land of Sunshine by William H. Gerdts

(above: Granville Richard Seymor Redmond, Golden Morrow Poppy Field, 1931, Laguna Art Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Bicoastal Artists of the 1870s by Ann Harlow

Exeter's Mural Art by John Hazeltine

Sampler Tour of Art Tiles from Catalina Island by John Hazeltine

William Wolff: Themes and Motifs by Art Hazelwood

Journey of Fr.Serra by Louisa S. Cooper and Richard Heimann

James Doolin's Illusionistic Vision by Patricia Hickson

Theodore Wores: Man of Purpose and Vision by Susan Hillhouse

California Watercolor Painters in Context by Donelson Hoopes

Early California Art by Sandy Hunter

Charles F. Keck (1913-2003): Paintings from the 1940s and 1950s, Biography by Sandy Hunter, Catalogue Introduction by Susan M. Anderson

Landscape Painters of Northern California 1870-1930 by Harvey L. Jones

Scene in Oakland, 1852-2002: Artworks Celebrating the City's 150th Anniversary by Harvey L. Jones

Twilight and Reverie: California Tonalist Painting 1890-1930 by Harvey L. Jones

(above: Granville Richard Seymor Redmond, Pastoral Scene At Sunset, 1912, oil on canvas, 22 x 28 inches, Private collection, Los Angeles, California. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Hard-Boiled Wonderland by Julie Joyce

Landscape and Language: The Paintings of David Ligare by Patricia Junker

Chester Arnold: Realizing Meaning by Karen Kienzle

The Carmel Monterey Peninsula Art Colony: A History by Barbara J. Klein

Painting World War II: The California Style Watercolor Artists by Glen Knowles

Artists of Invention: a Century of California College of the Arts by Philip E. Linhares

The Perception of Appearance by Norman Lundin

Art at Scripps: The Early Years by Mary MacNaughton

The San Francisco Art Association by Betty Hoag McGlynn

The Santa Cruz Art League by Betty Hoag McGlynn

The Carmel Art Association by Betty Hoag McGlynn

Mission San Juan Capistrano: An Artistic Legacy by Gerald J. Miller

California Art at the Oakland Museum by Paul Chadbourne Mills

An Unstill Life: S.C. Yuan / Paintings by Kathleen Moodie

Loners, Mavericks & Dreamers: Art in Los Angeles Before 1900 by Nancy Moure

Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and the Eucalyptus School in Southern California by Nancy Moure

75 Works, 75 Years, Collecting the Art of California: The Years 1918 - 1955; exhibition description by Nancy Moure

California, Seen: Landscapes of a Changing California, 1930-1970 by Ronald C. Nelson

The California Missions in Art - 1786 to 1890 by Norman Neuerburg

San Diego Beginnings by Martin E. Petersen

You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty by Renny Pritikin

California Landscapes by Sue Ann Robinson

(above: Colin Campbell Cooper, The Lotus Pool, El Encanto, Santa Barbara, between circa 1921 and circa 1922, oil on canvas, 35.9 x 29 inches, Reading Public Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Keeping the Faith: Painting in Santa Catalina 1935-1985 by Roy C. Rose

The Paintings of Robert Chiarito and Patrick Morrison by Stephanie Sanchez

Maurice Logan, Artist and Designer by Marvin A. Schenck

Monterey: The Artist's View, 1925 - 1945 by Kent Seavey

In and Out of California: Travels of American Impressionists by Deborah Epstein Solon

What Made Laguna Beach Special by Deborah Epstein Solon

In and Out of California: The Participatory Nature of Early California Art by Will South

California Style: 1930s and 1940s by David Stary-Sheets

Art in California: 1880 to 1930 by Jean Stern

Artists in Santa Catalina Island Before 1945 by Jean Stern

The California Missions in Art: 1890 to 1930 by Jean Stern

The Development of Southern California Impressionism by Jean Stern

Impressionist Style in Perspective by Jean Stern

Impressionism in California, 1890-1930 by Jean Stern

Landscape of Light: Impressionism in California by Jean Stern

Landscape Painting in California by Jean Stern

Masters of Light by Jean Stern

Native Grandeur: Preserving California's Vanishing Landscapes by Jean Stern

"The Outsiders" -- Modernism in California, 1920-1940 by Jean Stern

The Society of Six by Terry St. John

Continuity and Change: Southern California's Evolving Landscape by Sarah Vure

The Development of an Art Community in the Los Angeles Area by Ruth Westphal

Ray Strong at 98 by Michael Whitt

The Northern Scene by Raymond L.Wilson

Towards Impressionism in Northern California by Raymond L. Wilson

Chapman University Guggenheim Gallery: To Move the Stars by Eve Wood

A Seed of Modernism: The Art Students League of Los Angeles, 1906-53 by Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick and Julia Armstrong-Totten

The Historic Landscapes of Malibu by Michael Zakian

* This online volume includes numerous scholarly biographies of regional historic artists

(above: George Samerjan, Lettuce Workers, Calexico, CA Post Office, 1942, tempera. Treasury Department Section of Painting and Sculpture)

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