Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: A Place Where Great Souls Mingle 1. A New Eden: Jules Tavernier and the Beginning of Monterey's Art Colony 2. Listening to the Earth: William Keith and George Inness 3. Evening Meditations: Charles Rollo Peters and the Mystery of Monterey 4. Pacific Parnassus: Arthur and Lucia Mathews's Arcadia by the Sea 5. An Atmosphere of Nostalgia: Evelyn McCormick and the "Adobe Painters" 6. Manufacturing Dreams: Francis McComas and California "Reductivism" 7. Eternal Spirit: Gottardo Piazzoni and the Reverence for Land and Sea 8. Altars of an Undiscovered Shore: Arnold Genthe and the Colony at Carmel-by-the-Sea Conclusion: A Fabulous Dawn Darkened Biographies William Adam Mary Brady Charles Dickman Harry Stuart Fonda Maren Froelich Charles Bradford Hudson Isabel Hunter Christian Jorgensen Charles Chapel Judson Bertha Stringer Lee Xavier Martinez Mary DeNeale Morgan Eugen Neuhaus Jane Gallatin Powers Granville S. Redmond Julian Walbridge Rix Meyer Straus Elizabeth Strong Joseph Dwight Strong Jr. Leon Trousset Arthur Vachell Carl von Perbandt Theodore Wores Sydney Jones Yard Raymond Dabb Yelland Notes Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

Scott A. Shields is Chief Curator at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California.