Installation of Santa Barbara Project: Rene sitting
One of seven mounted digital photographs taken at the Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College of John Sonsini painting his subjects. A worker in a gray shirt and construction boots, Rene, sits with his legs splayed and his hands crossed as Sonsini paints his portrait.
Installation of Santa Barbara Project: Miguel standing close
One of seven mounted digital photographs taken at Santa Barbara City College of John Sonsini painting his subjects. A worker in a collared blue striped shirt, Miguel, stands, looking at the camera, while Sonsini paints his portrait focusing on the legs.
Installation of Santa Barbara Project: Moises
One of seven mounted digital photographs taken at Santa Barbara City College of John Sonsini painting his subjects. A worker in a pale blue tank top and jeans, Moises, sits with his fingers laced as Sonsini paints his portrait, focusing on his facial features.
Installation of Santa Barbara Project: Rene signing
One of seven mounted digital photographs taken at Santa Barbara City College of John Sonsini painting his subjects. A worker in a gray shirt and ball cap, Rene, signs the back of Sonsini's portrait of him. Sonsini, in the background and with his hands crossed, looks at the photographer.
Installation of Santa Barbara Project: Miguel standing
One of seven mounted digital photographs taken at Santa Barbara City College of John Sonsini painting his subjects. A worker in a collared blue striped shirt, Miguel, stands as Sonsini paints a full body portrait of him.
Installation of Santa Barbara Project: John painting Miguel
One of seven mounted digital photographs taken at Santa Barbara City College of John Sonsini painting his subjects. A worker in a collared striped blue shirt, Miguel, stands in the left corner as Sonsini, with his back to the camera, paints a full body portrait. Title, materials, dimensions, date, and artist signature labeled on reverse.
Installation of Santa Barbara Project: Miguel signing
One of seven mounted digital photographs taken at Santa Barbara City College of John Sonsini painting his subjects. A worker in a checkered blue shirts, Miguel, stands alongside Sonsini, their backs to the camera, as both men sign the reverse of a canvas.
Small ink and oil painting on panel of a ship navigating rocky waves.
Gift of Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills
Ink and oil painting on panel; defined ink lines and shapes superimposed on a pink ground. At lower right, birghtly colored shapes.
Abstract composition primarily in shades of brown and green.
Small oil painting of Miguelito Creek, Lompoc, California.
Estate of Frances Garvin and Keith Julius Puccinelli
Bust portrait of female in colonial dress.
Virgin and Christ Before St. Carlos Borromeo
Oil on slate painting of the Virgin and Christ with St. Carlos Borromeo.
Gift of Dr. Stephen S. Goodspeed and Mrs. John Goodspeed Ainsworth
Artist unknown, Mexican
Spanish Colonial. Kneeling saint in ecclesiastical costume with child
Artist unknown, South/Central America
Siren in a Landscape (Lorelei in Oregon)
45 x 32 in image; 53 x 39 7/8 x 2 5/16 in framed
Large acrylic painting; multi-colored horizontal and vertical lines set against a black ground. Work is suspended from the reverse by a rod attached at the back.
Gift of Laurence Eisenstein and Robin Zimelman
BEVERLOO, Cornelis called CORNEILLE
Gift of Lawson, Cynthia, Vanessa and Michael Desroshers
Fable in White (Fabbundel im Weiss)
Oil on canvas painting detailing single woman standing between two men seated at a table positioned in the center foreground set against a breakfront.
Large painting of colorful shapes set on a royal blue background; centralized image of a yellow facE
An abstract depiction of Nevada Falls with a bright beige cliff and white waterfall in the foreground; rolling grey hills in the background, and abstracted pine trees scattered throughout.
BOWERS, Cheryl, also known as BERGMAN, Ciel
Oil and magna on canvas painting with an abstracted maroon-colored environment containing a red rock, nude female and a blue archlike form containing smaller abstracted forms. Signed and dated, B. '65 in black; lower right.
Stick figure made of numbers contemplates a clock lying on a neon colored table. Background is black.
Large acrylic painting on paper in greens with circular motif
image: 18 1/8 x 32 1/4 inches; framed 19 x 32 3/4
black tentacles reaching up through garbage on beach
Sketches of dishes in a drying rack, a woman with her hair in curlers, and a traffic signal.
Gift of Councilman Joel Wachs, Los Angeles
COURBET, Gustav (Studio)
Vertical oil painting in greens; black bird forms at center; black cloud-like forms at top.
CRESPI, Giuseppe Maria or His Circle
DE COCK, Jan (attributed to)
DE ERDELY, Francis
Abstracted image of black, white and brown tree trunks;woodpecker with orange wings at upper right. Signed at lower.
DU CHATTEL, Frederikus Jacobus
Oil on canvas painting of a single male figure gliding in a rowboat on a stream; bridge and building in the background.
Portrait of Christophorus Butkens (1590-1650), a Cistercian monk.
Oil Platform, 1970 from the ECO-SCAPES series
Gift of Miss Elizabeth Berenson throught the UCSB Art Affiliates
Oil, pastel, pencil on Tullis handmade paper
Several round shapes on a purple field; In Untitled, painter Michelle Fierro played with the printed surface of this work by adding pencil marks and hand painted details. Fierro described working at the Tullis studio as "freeing" and found the input of Tullis' son, Richard as vital as he helped her with technique and encouraged her to explore aesthetically. This working process allowed her reintroduce color into her work.
Painted wood panel detailed with cartoon faces; written phrases about coca cola and religious greetings; on reverse signed and dated.
From God, My Visions Are Coming True
Painting of a field of flowers, hills, and a bridge covered with people walking positioned between two mountians at left and right. mountains. The sky is composed of anthropomorphic clouds and floating people. The lower half of the painting is filled with text describing a vision, the subject of the painting.
Desert Storm War, Pray for United Worlds
Coke bottle-shaped panel with Desert Storm narratives interspersed with colorful images of housing. Panel includes a cap depicting a smiling face with figures on a bridge.
Skeletal bones, image of person viewing a compass, blue square
Gift of Lisa and Michael Darling in Memory of David Gebhard
Man wearing green tunic, carrying book and staff.
Brightly colored acrylic painting; large brush strokes in muti-colors on unframed canvas.
Image of slightly burnt toast againts a white background. Titled lower right corner; signed, dated, and titled on reverse by the artist with the words "I toast Fran and Keith!"
A small square with abstract patterns and black dots against a white background. Signed,dated, and titled by artists on reverse.
portrait; male with mustache identified as Peter Krasnow
June Harwood belongs to a group of California painters from the late-1950s who pursued a hard-edge geometric style of abstraction. Broad areas of unmodulated color interlock to form tense compositions of positive and negative spaces. Harwood's compositions are often marked by a dynamic energy through the use of irregular forms.
Gift of Mr. Robert H. Hartman through UCSB Art Affiliates
The title of this work alludes to the biblical story of Salome, who infamously appeals for the execution of John the Baptist after dancing for King Herod on his birthday. While the depiction of Salome exhibiting the severed head of John the Baptist has been a popular subject in art through the centuries, Hawkins take is particularly novel. Rather than focusing on the female protagonist, the artist emphasizes the victims ghoulish head, which seems to hover over a smoking barrel. Like many other examples of Hawkins works, this painting references the subjects prevalence in art history and points to the relationship between desire, sex, and violence. Signed LH and dated 11 at lower right.
Throughout his career, James Hayward has explored the potential of abstraction through monochromatic painting. These tense and luminous early canvases, which seem to capture and hold light, later give way to textured, physical surfaces which resist illusion. Hayward works with spontaneity and deliberation, as he says, not a mindless intuition, but a fortified one.
Large panoramic painting of a desert landscape with mountains in background.
Abstract composition primarily in shades of red, pink and black with lavender and yellow.
Small acrylic painting of circular pattern superimposed on spiral-like grid.
Inkjet painting of a gradation of colored dots printed on silk; the dots descend from bright blue and pink to deep green.
Courtesy of Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills
JACKSON, J.B. (After Titian)
Print of 1530 Titian painting of same title that was destroyed in 1739. Man attacking Peter, 2nd man feeling; Putti above.
Gift of E. Bruce Robertson and Thom Kren
Gift of Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design
Acrylic on canvas with centralized image of a red and white fish superimposed on three yellow figures.
Gouache painting in dark blue highlighted by white representing a shimmering effect. Gallery label on reverse.