Crown Point Press, part of the centennial
celebrating the life and work of Richard
Maurice Braun (1877-1941), California Hills, 1914. Oil on canvas, 41 x 53 in. Gift of the Irvine Museum.
Beyond the Frame
Digital meets traditional in this
immersive online exhibition presented
by the UCI Jack and Shanaz Langson
Institute and Museum of California
Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993), Green, 1986. Color aquatint,
spit-bite aquatint, soap-ground aquatint and drypoint, 53
⁄ x 40¾ in. Crown Point Press Archive, gift of Crown Point
Press, 1991.28.1274. © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation.
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Art (Langson IMCA). Beyond the Frame:
Impressions of California is an interactive,
digital experience showcasing a selection
of Langson IMCA’s collection of
California Impressionist paintings. Art
lovers can move through 28 paintings
by 25 historic artists—including
Maurice Braun, Elanor Colburn, Edgar
Payne, Charles Rollo Peters, Granville
Redmond and Guy Rose—accompanied
by new insights about the genre,
background information about each
of the artists, art historical context and
environmental history. The show is best
viewed on your largest monitor at full
screen with headphones. Beyond the
Frame will be available at www.imca.
uci.edu/exhibition/beyond-the-frame
through September 12, 2025.
Richard Diebenkorn
in Color
The de Young Museum, part of the
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,
presents Richard Diebenkorn in Color at
Diebenkorn. The exhibition features a
chronological survey of 20 prints from
Diebenkorn’s color printmaking sessions
at Crown Point Press, including color
woodcuts produced at its program in
Kyoto, Japan. Diebenkorn made his first
color prints at Crown Point Press in
1980 and produced many more over the
following 13 years. The exhibition is on
view through February 12.
Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874-1960), Church at Ranchos de Taos,
before 1917. Oil on canvas, 45½ x 47½ in. Courtesy American Museum
of Western Art - The Anschutz Collection. Photo by William J. O’Connor.
Near East to Far West
More than 80 artworks exploring the
ways in which the style and substance of
French Orientalism directly influenced
American artists and their representations
of the American West are on view in an
exhibition opening at the Denver Art
Museum. “French Orientalism refers
to artworks produced by French artists
during the 1800s inspired by North Africa
and the greater Islamic world,” the Denver
Art Museum notes. Near East to Far West:
Fictions of French and American Colonialism
is on view March 5 to May 28.
On the Horizon
Over the course of the 19th century,
scientists, artists and society at large