Pioneers of Artists’ Alley (Victor Clyde Forsythe, Frank Tenney Johnson, Jack Wilkinson Smith, Eli Harvey, Norman Rockwell) by Elaine Adams, California Art Club Newsletter, Summer 2007
At the start of the twentieth century, California attracted an eclectic array of creative and philosophical thinkers who were lured out west in search of the spirit of adventure that was California. Many of these individuals formed groups that became colonies of one sort or another. Although settlements devoted to social or spiritual causes have historically drawn considerable attention and scholarship, distinct arts groups also existed and are worthy of examination.
