While I was out west last month, I stopped by the Portland Art Museum's exhibit on California Impressionism. (If you're interested, hurry! The exhibit closes on Sunday, September 9.) The small set of paintings from the Irvine Museum were breathtaking: the way that the artists of the time -- the late 19th and early 20th century -- played with light amid the state's great landscape is truly something to behold.
Below, left to right: Inner Harbor, Paul Starrett Sample, 1929; Southern Californian Coast, George Gardner Symons; Bend of the River, Channel Pickering Townsley, 1919; When Fields Lie Fallow, William Wendt, 1931.
