Resources

Rebecca Solnit, Secret Exhibitions: Six California Artists, San Francisco, City Lights Books 1990
Caroline Jones, Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950 – 1965, Berkeley, University of California Press 1990
Local Color: The di Rosa Collection of California Contemporary Art, San Francisco, Chronicle Books 1999
The True Artist Is An Amazing Luminous Fountain, catalogue that accompanied the traveling exhibition featured in SMITTEN, 2004
Thomas Albright, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980 : An Illustrated History, Berkeley : University of California Press,1985

Related Links

The di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature
www.dirosapreserve.org
Find out how to visit the Preserve, listen to artist interviews, and
more.

Traditional Fine Arts Organization: Dunbier on Fine Art Valuation
www.tfaoi.com/articles/rd6.htm
Get tips on how to start your own art collection.

PBS American Masters series: Abstract Expressionism
www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/abstract_expressionism.html
See what many of the work in Rene di Rosa’s collection was rebelling against: Abstract Expressionism, a movement of non-0bjective, abstract painting.

The Artchive: Abstract Expressionism
http://artchive.com/artchive/abex.html
Explore the artists and techniques of the post-war art movement known as Abstract Expressionism

New York Times art review:
San Francisco Revolution in Style Recalled in a Traveling Exhibition
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE6D9113AF93AA1575BC0A966958260&pagewanted=print
Learn about the art and artists behind the Bay Area Figurative Movement.

John Natsulas Center for the Arts
http://www.natsoulas.com/html/collection/beat/bay_figure.html
Read about the waves of the Bay Area Figurative Movement that continue today.

Resource Library: The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Fountain: Selected Works from the di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature
http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/5aa/5aa362.htm
Read an essay about the Palm Springs, CA stop on the national tour of fifty works from the di Rosa collection.

San Francisco MoMA: Making Art Histories: On the Trail of David Park
http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail/98_exhib_david_park.html
Explore how art history emerges from the many different and often contradictory art practices simultaneously occurring in any particular time or region.

2Blowhards: Bay Area Figurative Artists
http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/2004/02/bay_area_figurative_artists.html
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Many of the artists whose work is in Rene’s collection are also in these museums:

Museum of Contemporary Art

www.moca.org

University of California, Berkeley Art Museum

http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/bam_collections/index.html

Oakland Museum of California

http://www.museumca.org/global/art/permgall.html

Hirshhorn Museum

http://hirshhorn.si.edu/

San Jose Museum of Art

http://www.sjmusart.org/content/collection/collection.phtml

Katzen Museum at American University