Anya Fisher is known for her strong, organic, abstracted female forms; her use of flattened perspective and strong, jewel-like colors are descended both from Russian icons and modernism.

Anya Fisher was born in Odessa, Russia, to an affluent artistic family; she and her remaining family fled Odessa during the Bolshevik Revolution. Fisher emigrated to Minnesota, and later moved to California, where she studied with Rico LeBrun at the Jepson Art Institute. She worked professionally in the arts as a painter, poet, and teacher for most of her adult life. She died in Pasadena.

Collections (selected list):
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California

Exhibitions (selected list):
(2003,2001) Sullivan Goss, Ltd., Santa Barbara, California
(1986-1984) Sullivan Goss, Sierra Madre, California
(1983) Pasadena Public Library, Pasadena, California
(1975) Jack Carr Gallery, Pasadena, California
(1974) Pasadena Society of Artists at Pacific Culture Museum, Pasadena, California
(1969) University of Southern California
(1964) Manhattan Galleries
(1959) Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
(1958) Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California
(1951) Anthes Gallery, Los Angeles
(1950) Forsythe Gallery, Los Angeles

Education:
(1951) M.F.A., Jepson Art Institute, Los Angeles

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Nell Walker Warner was born April 1, 1891 in Falls City, Nebraska. She was educated in Colorado Springs and Missouri before graduating from the Los Angeles School of Art & Design in 1916. She traveled through Europe before returning to the U.S. After painting seascapes and harbor scenes on the East Coast she made her was to California. She became an active member of the southern California art community, where she studied with Paul Lauritz and Nicolai Fechin.

In 1950, she moved to Carmel, where she painted until her death in 1970. Called one of the best flower painters in American, she is best remembered for her floral still lifes and New England harbor scenes.

Exhibitions (selected list):
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln , NE
Springville Museum of Art, Springville , UT

Exhibitions (selected list):
(1955, 63, 66) Artists Guild of America, Carmel, CA
(1945) California Palace of the Legion of Honor, CA
(1940) Golden Gate International Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
(1930) Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA (prize)
(1931) California State Fair, Sacramento, CA (prize)
(1928) Wilshire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
(1925-38) California Art Club, Los Angeles, CA
(1925) California Eisteddfod, CA (prize)
(1925) Southern California Fair, CA

Sarah Vedder is a contemporary landscape painter based in Carpinteria, California. Vedder is among a unique group of painters who recognize the importance of the recent confluence of the environmental movement with the rediscovery of the tradition of American landscape painting. Her work is characterized by the combination of traditional and abstract qualities of 19th and 20th century landscape painting with a contemporary sensibility that reflects current values.

I want to make my work reflective and emotionally resonant. I use a limited palette, in keeping with the contemporary art precept of creating richness of result with economy of means. I am interested in relative value, and in using composition to support the emotional content of the painting. I have been influenced by the tonalist movement in American art, with its emphasis on the essential aspect of a landscape rather than the specific or incidental. My goal is to awaken an emotional response in the viewer.
– Sarah Vedder

Exhibitions (selected list):
(2004) “Political Landscape,” Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
(2003, 2002) Sullivan Goss, Ltd., Montecito, CA

(2002) Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA

(2002, 1998) Marin Agricultural Land Trust, Marin, CA

(2000, 1998, 1993) Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA
(1998) Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA

(1997, 1996) California Heritage Gallery, San Francisco, CA
(1996, 1995, 1994, 1992, 1990-87) Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
(1999, 1997) Nature Conservancy, Santa Cruz Island, CA
(1996) Ellen Easton Gallery, Montecito, CA
(1993) The Columbia Club Foundation, Indianapolis, IN

(1992) C.I. Clark Galleries, Bakersfield, CA
(1992-87) Arlington Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
(1977, 1975) Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA

Education:

Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

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Lockwood de Forest, one of America’s fine atmospheric painters, took the lessons of the Hudson River school and applied them in his own manner, creating a looser landscape “sketch.” As well as being a painter, de Forest was an interior & building designer and furnishings importer, who had working partnerships with Louis Comfort Tiffany, among others. He was recognized by his peers, as evidenced by his election to the prestigious National Academy of Design.

Lockwood de Forest II was born in New York in 1850, the son of Henry G. and Julia Weeks de Forest. He began to paint and draw at an early age. At the age of nineteen de Forest had already begun formal training as an artist in Rome at the Corridi school, and had adopted his relative Frederick Church, the famous Hudson River School painter, as his mentor. Although he demonstrated multiple skills in his career, he painted passionately throughout his life.

De Forest was during his lifetime best known as a designer. He was a strong proponent of Indian-inspired design, for which there was a fashion in the late nineteenth century. His travels fueled his interest in eastern art and architecture, and he used his knowledge to further develop his design business. He traveled extensively, from Italy and Greece to the Holy Land and south into the Persian Empire and India; eventually he traveled throughout the United States, Mexico and even to China, Japan and Korea. He recorded his travels not only with design work, but with carefully rendered landscapes, which became increasingly atmospheric over the course of his career.

Captivated by the light and landscape of the South Coast, de Forest began wintering in Santa Barbara around the turn of the century, and moved to Santa Barbara permanently in 1919, where he lived until his death in 1932.

Collections (selected list):
New York Historical Society, New York
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska

Awards/Affiliations (selected list):
(1891)Associate, National Academy of Design
(1898)Member, National Academy of Design

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Edith White was born in Decorah, Iowa, in 1855, with her family was an early settler in California, arriving in 1859. White studied at Mills College in Oakland, the School of Design in San Francisco, and the Art Students League in New York. She was an ative member of the southern California art community, establishing studios in Los Angeles and Pasadena. In her later years she moved to Berkeley, California, where she remained an active artist until her death in 1946. She is best remembered for her decorative landscapes and floral still lifes. For more information on Edith White and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

Olaf Wieghorst was born in Denmark in 1899, where he first learned the horsemanship that would be a major theme throughout his life. At the age of 19, Wieghorst immigrated to the U.S., where he joined the 5th Cavalry, patrolling the U.S.-Mexican border. Following his service, he floated around the Southwest, working at times as a cowboy. Eventually settling in New York, Wieghorst was painting in his spare time when his western paintings caught the attention of the Grand Central Galleries, who would exhibit his works. In 1944 Wieghorst moved to southern California, where the majority of his works were produced. His works remained very much in demand throughout his life, and he was often commissioned to paint horse portraits for wealthy clients. For more information on Olaf Wieghorst and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

Virgil Williams was born in Dixfield, Maine, in 1830. After receiving his degree from Brown University, Williams studied art in New York, and in Rome with William Page, whose daughter he would marry. Returning to the States, Williams would maintain a studio in Boston while teaching at Harvard University and the Boston School of Technology. In 1874 he took a position as Director of the newly opened San Francisco School of Design, where he would be a major influence on early-California painting. Though he was a resident of California for 12 years before his death, he rarely painted its landscape, having preferred European subject matter. For more information on Virgil Williams and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

Carl Wimar was born in Germany in 1828, and came to the U.S. in 1843, settling near St. Louis, Missouri, where he was first exposed to and fascinated by the Native Americans who lived in the area. In 1852 he returned to Germany to study at the Dusseldorf Academy, learning the exacting draftsmanship that he would later use to depict the Native American subjects he sought. Upon his return to the U.S. Wimar made sketching expeditions along the Missouri River, looking for subject matter. Sadly, Wimar contracted tuberculosis, from which he died at 34, unable to complete a number of lucrative commissions. For more information on Carl Wimar and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

Mahonri MacIntosh Young was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1877. He was the grandson of Brigham Young, the second leader of the Church of Latter Day Saints and former Governor of Utah. Earning his tuition and travel expenses as an illustrator, Young attended the Art Students League, returning to Utah in 1901. With a modest inheritance from his grandfather, Young was afforded further study at the Academie Julian in Paris, where he changed his focus from painting to sculpture. Young returned to the states, settling in New York where he was very much in demand for his works. He was made an associate of the National Academy of design in 1912. For more information on Mahonri Young and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

A sculptor of traditional western subjects, works by Grant Speed are in the collections of the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, the Cowboy Artists of America Museum in Kerrville, Texas, the Springville Museum of Art in Utah, and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. For more information on Grant Speed and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website