Art in California. A Survey of American Art with Special Reference to Californian Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Past and Present Particularly as those Arts were Represented at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

San Francisco: R.L. Bernier, 1916 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Thick quarto. 189pp. plus 332 plates (8 printed in color). 22 essays, biographical index of California artists, index to illustrations. Printed letterpress. Half linen and brown boards, paper spine label. Tiny puncture to head of spine. A fine and clean copy. First edition. Considered the primary reference on early California art and artists. An invaluable account of the development of art in California, particularly those early artists that exhibited at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915. Contributors to the essays include Bruce Porter, Porter Garnett, Willis Polk, Pedro J. Lemos, John McLaren, Louis Christian Mullgardt, Bernard R. Maybeck, et al. Essays include The Beginning of Art in California; California's Place in Art; Primitive Art in Southern California; Six Landscape Painters of Southern California; Art Ideals in California Universities; William Keith and His Times; California and Its Etchers; The California Society of Etchers; and more. Also includes "California to the Artist," an opening poem by George Sterling. .