Edwin DeakinĮdwin Deakin (1838 – 1923) was an artist best known for his romantic landscapes and his architectural studies, especially the Spanish colonial missions of California. Many forms of wildlife have made their home there, including swans, ducks, geese, turtles, frogs, and raccoons. Today, Australian eucalyptus trees fringe the eastern shore of the lagoon. At seventy-seven, Deakin found inspiration in this view, which he painted several times after the exposition’s close. The expanse of water provides a mirror surface to reflect the grand buildings and an undisturbed vista to appreciate the structures from a distance. “Palace of Fine Arts and the Lagoon” by Edwin Deakin depicts the pergola around a central rotunda situated by the artificial lagoon. The lagoon was intended to echo those found in classical settings in Europe. “Palace of Fine Arts and the Lagoon” by Edwin Deakin Died: 1937 (aged 81), Santa Barbara, California.Birth: 1856, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Title: Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco.He also became Dean of Painting at the Santa Barbara Community School of Arts. (1856 – 1937) was an American Impressionist painter, renowned for his architectural paintings, especially skyscrapers in New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago.Ĭooper was an avid traveler he was also known for his paintings of European and Asian landmarks and natural landscapes, portraits, florals, and interiors.Ĭooper moved to Santa Barbara, California, in 1921, which became his home base for the rest of his life. Colin Campbell CooperĬolin Campbell Cooper, Jr. The Coopers spent the winter of 1915–16 in Los Angeles and later decided to move there permanently. He also participated in the Panama–California Exposition in San Diego in 1916. He created a series of paintings depicting the exposition’s buildings, including the Palace of Fine Arts. Cooper’s first trip to California was to visit the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.Ĭooper exhibited in the Exposition of 1915, winning the gold medal for oil and the silver medal for watercolor. He then moved to New York City, where he painted the city’s new skyscrapers. In this painting, he applies the color and brushwork of Impressionism to a nocturnal depiction of the buildings under a sky with stars.Ĭooper taught at the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, between 18. The 1915 Exposition featured the largest collection of art that the city had seen with hundreds of examples of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism art styles.Ĭolin Campbell Cooper, who was nearly 60, had long embraced Impressionism. The most prominent building of the complex, a 162 feet (49 m) high open rotunda, is enclosed by a lagoon on one side and is neighboring a large, curved exhibition center on the other side, separated from the lagoon by colonnades.Ĭonceived to evoke a decaying ruin of ancient Rome, the Palace of Fine Arts became one of San Francisco’s most recognizable landmarks. A renovation of the lagoon, walkways, and a seismic retrofit were completed in early 2009. It is one of only a few surviving structures from the Exposition. This painting shows the original structure before it was completely rebuilt from 1964 to 1974. “Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco” by Colin Campbell Cooper depicts the monumental structure originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition to exhibit artworks. Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, In Art
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