Looking for Beauty: Humboldt’s Plein Air Community Shows Why Art Matters

Authors

CM PhillipsFollow

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Description

This historic publication serves as Humboldt County's first anthology of painters. It showcases a snapshot in time of thirty-seven members of Humboldt's Plein Air community—from beginners to world-renown professionals—in an avant-garde design that blends layers of paintings with commentaries about them, photographs of the artists, and responses to the prompt, "Does art matter in this crossroads of our time?"

Now more than ever, it is an important question to ask. In this book, you'll find answers from thirty-seven different artists, with each response as unique as Humboldt's thriving Plein Air community. In he words of Plein Air painter Steven Taylor, "I am a part of an active art community, and this is our story."

Designed and compiled by CM Phillips
Artist photographs by Kristy Hellum
Foreword by James Woglom

ISBN

978-1-73-219989-7

Publication Date

9-2022

Publisher

SequoiaSong

City

McKinleyville, CA

Keywords

Landscape painting, Plein air painting, Landscape painters, Humboldt County, California, 21st century

Disciplines

Painting

Recommended Citation

Phillips, CM. Looking for Beauty: Humboldt’s Plein Air Community Shows Why Art Matters. The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt, 2022. https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/monographs/15.

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