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
Untitled
LUNGREN, Fernand
Untitled
LUNGREN, Fernand
Untitled
LUNGREN, Fernand
Sunrise Sierra (Resurgence)
LUNGREN, Fernand
Desert Dawn
LUNGREN, Fernand
Bloody Canyon Trail
LUNGREN, Fernand
Through a Pass (Early Morning)
LUNGREN, Fernand
Desert Gorge
LUNGREN, Fernand
The Inner Gorge
LUNGREN, Fernand
Resurgents: Sunrise High Sierra
LUNGREN, Fernand
Study of a Rabbit Brush
LUNGREN, Fernand
Desert Gorge: Calico
LUNGREN, Fernand
Grand Canyon
LUNGREN, Fernand
Mission Canyon Creek
LUNGREN, Fernand
Grand Canyon
LUNGREN, Fernand
Colorado River
LUNGREN, Fernand
Canyon: Late Afternoon
LUNGREN, Fernand
Study in Reds: Calico
LUNGREN, Fernand
Flaming Cliffs
LUNGREN, Fernand
Colorado Rapids - The Water
LUNGREN, Fernand
Lungren's Home, Mission Canyon
LUNGREN, Fernand
Rainy Night: London
LUNGREN, Fernand
A Wet Day
LUNGREN, Fernand
The Green Avenue
LUNGREN, Fernand
The Canyon Wall
LUNGREN, Fernand
Cotton Woods: Owens Valley
LUNGREN, Fernand
In a Canyon (Calico)
LUNGREN, Fernand
Golden CottonWoods
LUNGREN, Fernand
Poppies and Lupin
LUNGREN, Fernand
Across the Sage
LUNGREN, Fernand
End of Inyo Range (unfinished)
LUNGREN, Fernand
Desert Wash
LUNGREN, Fernand
Red Mesa
LUNGREN, Fernand
White Canyon
LUNGREN, Fernand
Cotton Wood Meadow
LUNGREN, Fernand
Study: Canyon de Chelly
LUNGREN, Fernand
The Attack
LUNGREN, Fernand
Study for Attack
LUNGREN, Fernand
Study: Cotton Woods
LUNGREN, Fernand
Red Cliffs
LUNGREN, Fernand
Navajo Weaver
LUNGREN, Fernand
Mojave Butte