The Fernand Lungren Bequest

Description

In 1959, The Fernand Lungren Bequest became the first group of paintings acquired by the AD&A Museum for its permanent collection. Fernand Harvey Lungren (1857-1932) was among Santa Barbara’s most distinguished artists of the early twentieth century. Although he began his career as part of the circle of the American artist William Merritt Chase and spent an extended period in Paris where he was influenced by the work of James McNeill Whistler, it was Lungren’s journey to the American Southwest that most profoundly affected him. Sponsored by the Santa Fe Railroad which wished to commission images of the Southwest to entice eastern tourists, Lungren made his first excursions west in the early 1890s. By the 1920s, Lungren’s Santa Barbara studio became a center for the local arts scene where the artist displayed his Native American artifacts alongside canvases depicting the glowing, solitary beauty of the American desert. The Fernand Lungren Collection belongs to the art historical heritage of Santa Barbara and has particular meaning for the AD&A Museum which functions as a hands-on, teaching museum. It was Lundgren’s intent that his collections be given to “people of the City of Santa Barbara” for public enjoyment and edification. In his will, the artist bequeathed his painting collection, a body of 188 paintings and 131 drawings, to the Santa Barbara Teachers’ College, the forerunner to the UC Santa Barbara, and his collection of Native American artifacts to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. It was Lungren’s wish that the gift of his collection “will result in as much pleasure to the community as I have in making it.” In the early 1960s, the collection was physically transferred to UC Santa Barbara and, in line with the artist’s pedagogical intent of exhibition and teaching, works from the Fernand Lungren Collection are experienced by students, faculty and community members at AD&A Museum today.

Collection Items

Lungren, Fernand
Oil on canvas, unstretched

Untitled

Untitled

Untitled

LUNGREN, Fernand
Sands of Silence

LUNGREN, Fernand
Sierra Nevada

LUNGREN, Fernand
Greeting the Sun

LUNGREN, Fernand
A Mountain Fire, Late Afternoon

LUNGREN, Fernand
Surf After Storm

LUNGREN, Fernand
Moonrise at the White Mesa, Arizona

LUNGREN, Fernand
Starlight in the Desert

LUNGREN, Fernand
The Arm of the Law: Hyde Park Corner, London

Sunrise Sierra (Resurgence)

Desert Dawn

LUNGREN, Fernand
Full Moon in the Mojave Desert

LUNGREN, Fernand
Sand Spectres: Death Valley

LUNGREN, Fernand
The Carpet of the Desert (Evening)

LUNGREN, Fernand
Afterglow: Painted Desert

Bloody Canyon Trail

LUNGREN, Fernand
Death Valley (Morning)

LUNGREN, Fernand
Along the Shore (Evening)

Through a Pass (Early Morning)

Desert Gorge

LUNGREN, Fernand
Desert Sand (Evening); "Days End Desert, Arizona"

LUNGREN, Fernand
Poppies and Lupin

The Inner Gorge

LUNGREN, Fernand
A Dry Lake (Evening)

LUNGREN, Fernand
Death Valley: Dante's View

LUNGREN, Fernand
A Cloudburst

LUNGREN, Fernand
Liverpool (Docking a Liner)

LUNGREN, Fernand
From the Valley of the Shadow (Sierras)

LUNGREN, Fernand
In the High Sierras

LUNGREN, Fernand
Rose Buttes: Moonlight

LUNGREN, Fernand
Study for Death Valley (for Toledo Museum picture)

LUNGREN, Fernand
In the Abyss: Grand Canyon

LUNGREN, Fernand
Aspens: Arizona

LUNGREN, Fernand
Study of Desert Lava

Resurgents: Sunrise High Sierra

LUNGREN, Fernand
New Snow: Sierras

LUNGREN, Fernand
A Prospector

Study of a Rabbit Brush

Desert Gorge: Calico

Grand Canyon

Mission Canyon Creek

Grand Canyon

Colorado River

Canyon: Late Afternoon

Study in Reds: Calico

LUNGREN, Fernand
Afterglow in the Desert

LUNGREN, Fernand
Into the Depths, Grand Canyon

LUNGREN, Fernand
Beyond the Gorge, Grand Canyon

Flaming Cliffs

Colorado Rapids - The Water

LUNGREN, Fernand
Silver River

Lungren's Home, Mission Canyon

Rainy Night: London

A Wet Day

LUNGREN, Fernand
City Nocturne

LUNGREN, Fernand
Trafalgar Square

LUNGREN, Fernand
In the Park

The Green Avenue

The Canyon Wall

LUNGREN, Fernand
Mountain Lake: High Sierra

LUNGREN, Fernand
Entrance to Canyon del Muerto from Canyon de Chelly

LUNGREN, Fernand
Rivers of Stone

Cotton Woods: Owens Valley

LUNGREN, Fernand
Lower Red Rock Canyon

In a Canyon (Calico)

LUNGREN, Fernand
Grand Canyon

LUNGREN, Fernand
Rabbit Brush in Bloom

LUNGREN, Fernand
Panamint Valley: Late Afternoon

Golden CottonWoods

Poppies and Lupin

Across the Sage

LUNGREN, Fernand
Pink Cloud

End of Inyo Range (unfinished)

LUNGREN, Fernand
The Sentinel

LUNGREN, Fernand
Arm of the Grand Canyon

Desert Wash

LUNGREN, Fernand
Canyon de Chelly: Rabbit Brush

LUNGREN, Fernand
Lava in the Desert

Red Mesa

LUNGREN, Fernand
The Pink Cloud No. 2

LUNGREN, Fernand
Indian Boys Playing

LUNGREN, Fernand
Road to the Corral

LUNGREN, Fernand
Silent Sea

White Canyon

Cotton Wood Meadow

Study: Canyon de Chelly

LUNGREN, Fernand
The Freighter

The Attack

Study for Attack

Study: Cotton Woods

Red Cliffs

LUNGREN, Fernand
An Overlook

LUNGREN, Fernand
Canyon de Chelly

Navajo Weaver

Mojave Butte
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