Research Catalog

Title

The art & life of Conrad Buff / Libby Buff, George Stern ; essay by Will South.

Author

Buff, Conrad, 1886-

Publication

West Hollywood, Calif. : George Stern Fine Arts, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Buff, Libby.
• George Stern Fine Arts.
• South, Will.
• Stern, George.

Description

187 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.; 31 cm.

Summary

Born and raised in the repressive conservatism of nineteenth-century Switzerland, Conrad Buff spent a restless youth seeking an outlet for his artistic spirit. His talent would flourish in the majestic landscape and creative individualism of the American West. In the opening decade of the new century, his arrival in California coincided with the flowering of a dynamic movement in American art. Sketching and painting en plein air, Buff was inspired by the grandeur of the High Sierras and the drama of the wind-sculpted desert. In a long and prodigious career, he bridged the coloration and brushwork of impressionism with abstraction and structure of modern art. -- Jacket.

Alternative Title

Art and life of Conrad Buff

Subject

• Buff, Conrad, 1886- > Catalogs
• Buff, Conrad, 1886-1975 > Catalogs
• West (U.S.) > Catalogs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-173).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 0966669223 (pbk)
• 0966669225

LCCN

^^^00130994^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library