A leader in the American Printmaking movement, Frances Gearhart’s work was embedded in the time and place of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Personifying a handcrafted aesthetic and conveying a sense of directness, Gearhart’s prints celebrated the California landscape – its mountains, trees, lakes and coastline. Featuring over sixty of her block prints and ten watercolors, the exhibition is the first Gearhart retrospective and will provide a comprehensive look at the artist’s legacy and influence, including her never before seen prints. Also on view will be the prints from the previously unfinished and unpublished children’s book that Gearhart co-authored with her two sisters, entitled, Let’s Play.

This exhibition is organized by the Pasadena Museum of California Art and curated by Susan Futterman and Roger Genser.

This exhibition is sponsored by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation, Historic Lighting, John Moran Auctioneers, Pasadena Arts League, Print Research Foundation, United Picture & Frame Company, Westmount Asset Management, Cheryl Bode, in honor of Nancy and George Bode, Bill and Claire Bogaard, John and Nancy Carlton, Andre and Ann Chaves, Simon Chiu, Vin and Erica Di Bona, Todd and Dorothy Evans, Lauren Frankel, Laurence Gould, Donald and Adria Hillman, Harvey and Ellen Knell, Hannah S. Kully, Ron and Elaine Lee, J. Fred Mueller Jr. and Claire A. Glidden, Mary Lois Nevins, Jonathan and Thim Scheer, Geoffrey and Reba Thomas, Larry Title, Gerard Vuilleumier, David and Julianne Worrell, and Anonymous.