Charles Reiffel (1862-1942) is widely regarded today as one of the
foremost figures of the California plein air school of landscape
painting. This book, accompanying an exhibition of the same name at
The San Diego Museum of Art and San Diego History Center, aims to
reevaluate Reiffel as a leading practitioner of Post-Impressionism
in the United States.
Charles Reiffel trained as a lithographer and traveled, worked,
and studied in Europe before establishing himself as an independent
artist in Silvermine, Connecticut. He finally settled in San Diego
in 1925. There, he immersed himself for the remainder of his life
in the landscape of Southern California, its coast and rolling
hills, discovering in its unique contours new motifs for his
striking mix of Post-Impressionist and Expressionist brushwork.
"Charles Reiffel: An American Post-Impressionist" proposes a
fresh assessment of the artist, firmly reestablishing his place as
a national figure in the canon of American painting and shedding
light on a splendid page in the history of American
Post-Impressionism and Expressionism.
Ariel Plotek is assistant curator at the San Diego Museum of
Art. Other contributors include Bram Dijkstra and Keith
Colestock.
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