1918 (ca.), Anne Bremer, Sentinels -- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
From the museum label: A key supporter of avant-garde ideas in San Francisco's early twentieth-century art community, Bremer organized exhibitions of modern art by local artists, taught classes, and hosted salon-style gatherings in her studio. She first saw works by Matisse in the home of Sarah and Michael Stein in 1906 and those by other European Modernists in 1910-11, during an extended stay in Paris. Sentinels evidences how she adapted both local and international modernist approaches into her own distinctive style. Working with bold colors, broad brushstrokes, and a flattened sense of depth, she captures the light and atmosphere of the Northern California coast—a subject she revisited often throughout her career.
1918 (ca.), Anne Bremer, Sentinels -- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
From the museum label: A key supporter of avant-garde ideas in San Francisco's early twentieth-century art community, Bremer organized exhibitions of modern art by local artists, taught classes, and hosted salon-style gatherings in her studio. She first saw works by Matisse in the home of Sarah and Michael Stein in 1906 and those by other European Modernists in 1910-11, during an extended stay in Paris. Sentinels evidences how she adapted both local and international modernist approaches into her own distinctive style. Working with bold colors, broad brushstrokes, and a flattened sense of depth, she captures the light and atmosphere of the Northern California coast—a subject she revisited often throughout her career.