Saturday, August 15, 10:00 am, Monthly Program via Zoom.
Women Artists in Berkeley, 19001920
A presentation by Ann Harlow
Ann will discuss, with slides, 18 professional women artists who were active in Berkeley in the early 20th century, including Jennie V. Cannon, who called Berkeley the “art capital of the West” upon arriving there in 1907. Among the artists who achieved some renown were Anne Bremer, Florence Lundborg, Isabelle Percy West, Laura Adams Armer and Anne Brigman. Others have faded into obscurity, but their lives and work deserve renewed attention.
The talk was originally prepared for the Berkeley Hillside Club, which embodied the Arts and Crafts Movement and hosted several art exhibits during that period.
Ann Harlow , a past president of the Institute, is an independent art historian. Following three years of graduate work in art history at UC Berkeley, she worked in East Bay art museums for more than 20 years, often with an emphasis on historic California art. While spending a lot of time as a Berkeley Historical Society & Museum volunteer, she is working (still!) on a dual biography of Albert M. Bender and Anne M. Bremer. Bremer was one of the San Francisco artists who fled to Berkeley after the 1906 earthquake and fire.