History Comes To Life with painters Alice Klauber & Robert Henri

4355 Bonita Road,Bonita CA 91902

03 June, 2022

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History Comes to Life with re-enactments of 1915 painters Alice Klauber and Robert Henri Celebrate California Plein Air painting and painters Alice Klauber and Robert Henri at the museum during a History Comes Alive talk on Friday June 3 at 11am. Meet Alice Klauber and Robert Henri in the museum featuring re-enactments by Alice's grandniece Janet Klauber and friend Anne Porter who will bring history to life and shed light on San Diego's painterly history. Photo Above: from the SDMA featuring Henri and Klauber in the studio. (event photo from SDMA collection featuring Henri and Klauber) In 1915 the San Diego Panama-California exposition in Balboa Park introduced residents and visitors to the landscape of California and what was to become the movement known as California Plein air. The 1915 exhibition brought together a community of American artists and visiting European artists to celebrate the Golden State. The painters exhibiting in 1915 were seen as breaking with tradition through their impressionistic, decorative examination of California terrain which includes the mixture of raw color, rough brushstrokes and thorough scientific examination of light and texture. About the Chair of the art department, 1915 San Diego Panama-California exposition: Alice Ellen Klauber (1871-1951) Born in San Diego, California on May 19, 1871, the daughter of Theresa Epstein and Abraham Klauber. While living with her grandparents in San Francisco, Alice attended public schools and later studied art locally at the School of Design and the ASL. She further studied with William M. Chase, Robert Henri in Spain (1907), Hans Hofmann at UC Berkeley (1930) and Alfredo Ramos Martinez (1944). As a close friend of Henri, her correspondence with him led to his visit to San Diego in 1914. Viewed today as the most important woman organizer in the cultural development of San Diego, she served as Chair for art & lectures, music, poetry & literature exhibits and lectures for the Panama-California Exposition (1915). Via Robert Henri Alice was instrumental in bringing several Ash Can and Impressionist school artists’ work for 1915 Exposition exhibits including William Glackens, Henri, George Luks, Maurice Prendergast, Joseph Sharp and John Sloan. Robert Henri ( June 24, 1865 – July 12, 1929) An American painter and teacher. In 1886, Henri enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied under Thomas Anshutz, a protege of Thomas Eakins, and Thomas Hovenden. In 1888, he traveled to Paris to study at the Académie Julian, where he studied under the academic realist William-Adolphe Bouguereau, came to admire greatly the work of Francois Millet, and embraced Impressionism. He was admitted into the École des Beaux Arts. He visited Brittany and Italy during this period. At the end of 1891, he returned to Philadelphia, studying under Robert Vonnoh at the Pennsylvania Academy. In 1892, he began teaching at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. Henri pioneered the Ashcan School of American realism as well as being a popular and influential teacher at the Art Students League of New York. (from Wikipedia) Henri was a champion of both American and Women artists, encouraging them to paint and exhibit.