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The Society of Six
"The Oakland Six may constitute the most important modernist development that occurred in this country during the 1920s."--William H. Gerdts, author of American Impressionism
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Society of Six
Six plein-air painters in Oakland, California, joined together in 1917 to form an association that lasted nearly fifteen years. The Society of Six—Selden Connor Gile, Maurice Logan, William H. Clapp, August F. Gay, Bernard von Eichman, and Louis Siegriest—created a color-centered modernist idiom that shocked establishment tastes but remains the most advanced painting of its era in Northern California. Nancy Boas's well-informed and sumptuously illustrated chronicle recognizes the importance of these six painters in the history of American Post-Impressionism. The Six found themselves in the position of an avant garde not because they set out to reject conventionality, but because they asp...
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The Arts & Crafts House
Featuring British, European, and American houses from the 1850s to the 1930s, this book lends fresh insight into the lives of the architects and clients who rejected industrialization and fostered the arts and crafts movement. The pivotal roles played by William Morris, Philip Webb, Gertrude Jekyll, Gustav Stickley, and others are documented. 180 color illustrations.
