Oral History Interview with Ray Strong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oral History Interview with Ray Strong write by . This book was released on 1993. Oral History Interview with Ray Strong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An interview of Ray Strong conducted 1993 September 14, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, at the artist's studio, in Santa Barbara, California. Strong discusses his family background and early art education; his move to San Francisco and contact with Jimmy Swinnerton, Maynard Dixon, and Frank Van Sloun; studying at California School of Fine Arts; his feeling of responsibility for art and nature; his murals at the Bohemian Club in San Francisco, 1934; and his involvement with socialist causes.
Ray Stanford Strong, West Coast Landscape Artist
Ray Stanford Strong, West Coast Landscape Artist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ray Stanford Strong, West Coast Landscape Artist write by Mark Humpal. This book was released on 2017-12-14. Ray Stanford Strong, West Coast Landscape Artist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout his long and prolific career, Ray Stanford Strong (1905–2006) strove to capture the essence of the western American landscape. An accomplished painter who achieved national fame during the New Deal era, Strong is best known for his depiction of landscapes in California and Oregon, rendered in his signature plein air style. This beautiful volume, featuring more than 100 color and black-and-white illustrations, is the first comprehensive exploration of Strong’s life and artistry. Through family papers, archives, photographs, and a two-year series of interviews conducted with the artist personally, Mark Humpal traces Strong’s journey from his childhood on an Oregon berry farm to his artistically formative years in New York and San Francisco. After moving back to the West Coast, Strong produced important works for the WPA, executed major diorama projects for two world expositions, helped organize the Santa Barbara Art Institute, and served as teacher and mentor for a new generation of plein air artists. But, as Humpal emphasizes, Strong distinguished himself by resisting the drumbeat of the avant-garde. During an era when many artists were experimenting with abstract expressionism, Strong never relinquished his personal vision and adherence to a more traditional style. With his outgoing personality, he forged friendships and associations with such prominent artists as Frank Vincent DuMond, Maynard Dixon, Ansel Adams, Frank Lloyd Wright, and John Steinbeck. Ultimately, Strong had little concern for his place in the sweep of art history. The proficiency he achieved through years of formal and informal study allowed him to craft a personal style difficult to categorize but unique and engaging. By expanding our understanding and appreciation of Strong’s artistic contributions, this book offers a fitting tribute to one of America’s finest landscape artists.
Into the Great White Sands
Into the Great White Sands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Into the Great White Sands write by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish. This book was released on 2018. Into the Great White Sands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Varjabedian's photographs reveal snow-white dunes of gypsum, striking landforms, storms and stillness, panoramic vistas and breathtaking sunsets, intricate wind-blown patterns in the sand, ancient animal tracks, exquisite desert plants, and also the people who come to experience this place that is at once spectacular yet subtle.
Oral History Interviews
Oral History Interviews - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oral History Interviews write by Raymond H. Willms. This book was released on 2010. Oral History Interviews available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Electricity
Electricity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Electricity write by Ray Robinson. This book was released on 2007-12-01. Electricity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This novel of a thirty-year-old epileptic woman and her estranged family is “mesmerizing . . . and unexpectedly tender” (Jim Crace, author of Harvest). Lily O’Connor lives with epilepsy, uncontrollable surges of electricity that leave her in a constant state of edginess. Prickly and practical, she’s learned to make do, to make the most of things, to look after—and out for—herself. Then her mother—whom Lily has not seen for years—dies, and Lily is drawn back into a world she thought she’d long since left behind. Reunited with her brother, a charismatic poker player, Lily pursues her own high-stakes gamble, leaving for London to track down her other, missing brother Mikey. In the pandemonium of the city, Lily’s seizures only intensify. As her journey takes her from her comfort zone, it leads her into the question of what her life is meant to be. “A wry, ingenuous, hugely compassionate heroine.” —The Guardian “A gritty tour of both London and the wrecked neurological pathways of epileptic Lily O’Connor. With equal parts hip misanthropy and sweet, clean-hearted sentiment, Ray Robinson convincingly channels the voice of a woman at war with the material world, for whom language itself arrives as a jarring shock to the brain.” —Jonathan Raymond, author of The Half-Life
