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Mathews was a master of many media: oil painting, watercolor, pastel, gouache and fresco. [ citation needed ] He and Lucia designed detailed interior decoration schemes in what became known as the California Decorative Style.
Arthur Frank Mathews. View Arthur Frank Mathews’s 57 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available paintings, works on paper, and design for sale and learn about the artist.
- American
Renwick Gallery. Originally trained as an architect by his father, Arthur F. Mathews eventually shifted his focus to painting, where his architectural training informed his work. He traveled to Paris in 1884 to study at the Académie Julian until 1889.
- October 1, 1860
- February 19, 1945
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Mathews's landscapes celebrate California's distinctive topography, plant life, and tawny, golden tonalities. In "Afternoon among the Cypresses," he silhouettes the bent limbs and wide flat crowns of the Monterey-peninsula cypress trees to achieve a strong decorative effect.
Arthur Frank Mathews, was one of the most innovative and multitalented American artists of the nineteenth century. He achieved prominence as a tonalist landscape painter, as a furniture maker, as a illustrator, and as director of the San Francisco School of Design.
Arthur F. Mathews was an American Tonalist painter who was one of the founders of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Trained as an architect and artist, he and his wife Lucia Kleinhans Mathews had a significant effect on the evolution of Californian art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
