Nevada Art History (original) (raw)

Nevada Art History

with an emphasis on representational art

Introduction

This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "Nevada Art History." Articles and essays specific to this topic published in TFAO's Resource Library are listed at the beginning of the section. Clicking on titles takes readers directly to the articles and essays.

Following the links to _Resource Library_articles and essays are a listing of museums in the state which have provided materials to Resource Library for this or any other topic.

Listed after museums are links to _online_resources outside the TFAO website. Following these resources is information about offline resources including DVDs, paper-printed books, journals and articles. Our goal is to present complete knowledge relating to this section of Topics in American Art.

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(above: Maynard Dixon, Wild Horses of Nevada, 1927, courtesy of Jan Looper Smith. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Resource Libraryessays listed by author name in alphabetical order, followed by articles:

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Museums and other non-profit sources of Resource Library articles and essays:

Las Vegas Art Museum

Nevada Museum of Art

Other online information:

The Art of Ben Aleckis a 2023 exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art which says: "Aleck's paintings, illustrations, and prints give visual form to Indigenous stories about the stars, coyote, plants, the formation of Great Basin lands, and the origins of its people." Accessed 7/23

Hans Meyer-Kassel, Artist of Nevada is a 2018 exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art which says: "Particular emphasis is placed on Meyer-Kassel's romance with Nevada, where from his home in Genoa, his more formal, classically influenced style mellowed into a painterly perfection that resulted in breathtaking interpretations of Nevada's landscape." Also see biography from Online Nevada Encyclopedia. Accessed 2/18

Lorenzo Latimer and the Latimer Art Club, a 2004 exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art, explained the founding of the Latimer Art Club in Reno_._ Nevada Museum of Art says "Founding Latimer Art Club members represented in the exhibition are Minerva Pierce, Delores Young, S. P. Caughlin, E. Caughlin, Margarite Westbury, Nevada Wilson Riley, E. C. Moore, Mildred Lane, M. Erwin, Hildegard Herz, and Dora A. Groesbeck."

The Latimer School: Lorenzo Latimer and the Latimer Art Club is a 2021 exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art which says: "The Latimer Art Club was the founding volunteer organization of the Nevada Art Gallery, which is known today as the Nevada Museum of Art. The San Francisco-based painter Lorenzo Latimer first visited Fallen Leaf Lake on the south side of Lake Tahoe in summer 1914. It was there that he began to teach annual plein air painting classes. In 1916, he was invited by two students to teach a painting class in Reno. He returned for the next twenty years and became a cherished member of the Northern Nevada arts community. Accessed 11/22

Nevada Rock Art Foundation website. Accessed August, 2015.

Online Nevada Encyclopedia contains a section named Visual Arts: People (49 articles on individual artists found as of Jnauary 2009). [Link found to be expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO is saving the citation for use by researchers.]

Rock Art of Nevada from Online Nevada Encyclopedia. Accessed August, 2015.

Books, listed by year of publication, with most recently published book listed first:

_Embracing Scenes About Lakes Tahoe and Donner: Painters, Illustrators, & Sketch Artists, 1855-1915,_by Barbara Lekisch. 238 pages. Publisher: Great West Books (July 15, 2003). ISBN-10: 0944220142. ISBN-13: 978-0944220146. Product Description:: "We cannot describe Lake Tahoe, because this paper is not canvas; and if it were, there are no colors rich and pure enough to portray that marvelous sheet of liquid sapphire." (Sacramento Daily Union, July 27, 1863.). Herein a list of 150 artists who exercised their talents "about Lakes Tahoe and Donner," including their brief biographies and a list of their relevant works. Includes "Art Beginnings on the Pacific" by Benjamin P. Avery, "Charles Warren Stoddard and the Artist Colony," and the 1861 diary of Joseph Lamson." (text courtesy of Amazon.com)

Mapping The Empty: Eight Artists And Nevada, by William L. Fox. 200 pages. Publisher: University of Nevada Press (March 1, 1999). ISBN-10: 0874173140. ISBN-13: 978-0874173147. Product Description: "Throughout his career, poet and art writer William Fox has addressed the concatenation of issues imbedded in the relationships between art, land, and history. Nevada's vast open spaces have long inspired complex responses from a population largely shaped by European sensibilities toward land and its uses-responses ranging from the romantic to the deadly. In Mapping the Empty, Fox considers how eight of the state's most distinguished and innovative contemporary artists have responded to the harsh, enigmatic landscapes of the Great Basin and how, through their work, they have expressed and helped to define the West." (text courtesy of Amazon.com)

Sculptures at Hoover Dam, By Oskar J. W. F. Hansen. Published by U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, 1968. 20 pages

(above: Death Valley National Park, 2016, Photo by John Hazeltine)

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TFAO catalogues:

American Representational Artlinks to dozens of topics in American Representational Art

Audio Online a catalogue of online streaming audio recordings

Collections of Historic American Art notable private collections

Distinguished Artistsa national registry of historic artists

Geographic Tour of American Representational Art History a catalogue of articles and essays that describe the evolution of American art from the inception of the United States to WWII.

Illustrated Audio Onlinestreaming online narrated slide shows

Articles and Essays Onlinesubstantive texts published outside of Resource Library

Videos Online a comprehensive catalogue of online full motion videos streamed free to viewers

Videos an authoritative guide to videos in VHS and DVD format

Books general reference books published on paper

Interactive mediamedia in CD-ROM format

Magazines paper-published magazines and journals

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