THE ARTIST AS CONSERVATIONIST

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1 THE ARTIST AS CONSERVATIONIST Looking at the Past Through Plein Air Paintings by Jean Stern Executive Director The Irvine Museum

2 Jean Stern, at Frederic Stern Art Gallery New Orleans, 1956

3 LOUIS AIKEN AT THE GRAND CANYON, 1905

4 WILLIAM R. LEIGH AT THE PETRIFIED FOREST

5 ELIZABETH AND JOHN GUTZON BORGLUM AT THE HISTORIC EL MOLINO THE OLD MILL, PASADENA

6 ARTHUR G. RIDER AT THE MISSION SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO

7 JACK WILKINSON SMITH IN THE SIERRA NEVADA

8 KRAIG KIEDROWSKI PAINTING IN MONUMENT VALLEY

9 NED MUELLER, MATT SMITH AND TRACY AVANT

10 JILL CARVER PAINTING ON THE WATER

11 BILL HOSNER PAINTING IN THE

12 THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL

13 George Inness: THE LACKAWANA VALLEY,

14 Asher B. Durand: AMERICAN WILDERNESS, 1864

15 EXPEDITIONS TO EXPLORE THE WEST

16 Lewis and Clark 1840s- John C. Frémont four expeditions from the Rocky Mountains to California 1853 to Frederick West Lander five expeditions to find routes to the West Coast for wagon trains and railroads (Civil War: ) 1867 to 1879Ferdinand Hayden: Yellowstone Canyon Clarence King: Sierra Nevada Mountains John Wesley Powell: Colorado River George Wheeler: Grand Canyon

17 These expeditions included scouts, surveyors, botanists, naturalists, and ethnologists. To record the physical appearance of the land, they also included photographers and artists.

18 Among the best known photographers were Carleton Watkins ( ) Timothy O Sullivan ( ) William Henry Jackson ( )

19 William H. Jackson: PHOTOGRAPHER S ASSISTANT with 18 x 22 glass plate camera on mule

20 Of the artists, the two who became best known were Albert Bierstadt ( ) Thomas Moran ( )

21 Carleton Watkins: YOSEMITE VALLEY FROM MARIPOSA TRAIL, 1866

22 Bierstadt: LOOKING UP THE YOSEMITE VALLEY, 1866

23 EDGAR PAYNE IN HIS PARIS STUDIO 1923 MONT BLANC, 62 x 62

24 Bierstadt: MONO LAKE, CALIFORNIA, oil/paper 14 x 19

25 Bierstadt: CYPRESS POINT, MONTEREY, oil/paper

26 Bierstadt: OLD FAITHFUL YELLOWSTONE PARK

27 William Henry Jackson: YELLOWSTONE CANYON, 1871

28 Thomas Moran: THE GRAND CANYON OF THE YELLOWSTONE 1872

29 Moran: THE GRAND CANYON

30 Moran: FORT GEORGE ISLAND, FLORIDA

31 Moran: PONCE DE LEON IN FLORIDA

32 IRVINE MUSEUM JOINT PROGRAMS WITH ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS The Nature Conservancy Natural Resources Defense Council California State Parks Palos Verdes Peninsula Conservancy Catalina Conservancy Crystal Cove Conservancy Capistrano Valley Conservancy Marin Agricultural Land Trust Palos Verdes Land Trust Martis Valley Land Trust Bolsa Chica Land Trust Balboa Park Committee of 100 Orange County Department of Beaches and Parks

33 NATIVE GRANDEUR, 2000 The Nature Conservancy of California and The Irvine Museum

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35 Albert Bierstadt: THE HETCH HETCHY VALLEY, c. 1875

36 From 1901 to 1914, John Muir led the Sierra Club in the battle to protect the Hetch Hetchy Valley from being flooded as a reservoir for the City of San Francisco. Thomas Hill: FOLLOWING THE TRAIL OF HETCH ETCHY

37 In 1914, work began on the O Shaughnessy Dam, which was completed in The reservoir and dam supply water and hydro-electric power for San Francisco and the cities of the Bay Area.

38 William Wendt: CRYSTAL COVE, 1912

39 CRYSTAL COVE, c. 1918

40 Arthur G. Rider: NEAR LAGUNA, c. 1928

41 Luxury Timeshare Development originally planned for Crystal Cove

42 Don Demers: CRYSTAL COVE, 2008

43 W. Jason Situ: CRYSTAL COVE IN MARCH, 2008

44 CRYSTAL COVE TODAY

45 Clyde Aspevig: YELLOWSTONE

46 Morgan Samuel Price: EGRETS IN PARADISE

47 West Fraser: RISING MOON

48 THEN AND NOW IN CALIFORNIA

49 Corner of Coast Highway and Broadway, 1996 Joseph Kleitsch OLD LAGUNA c. 1924

50 Cannery Village Newport Beach Arthur G. Rider NEWPORT HARBOR c. 1930

51 Edgar A. Payne CANYON MISSION VIEJO c Mission Viejo, 2002

52 William Wendt A CLEAR DAY c.1903 Saddleback Mountain from San Juan Capistrano 1998

53 William Wendt SERMONS IN STONE 1934 El Toro Road at Laguna Canyon Drive

54 Avalon Dance Hall Granville Redmond AVALON BAY, 1902 Avalon Bay, 2005

55 Mission Valley San Diego Charles Arthur Fries LOOKING DOWN MISSION VALLEY, SUMMERTIME, c. 1901

56 William Wendt RINCON FROM THE MONTECITO HILLS c Santa Barbara looking south to Rincon 2003

57 George Gardner Symons THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY, c Los Angeles, California Scenic Postcard

58 THANK YOU For Attending My Lecture