The Art of Arthur & Lucia Mathews

About this book

The Art of Arthur and Lucia Mathews is the most comprehensive Mathews retrospective ever published. A thorough overview of the decorative arts as they evolved in California it also surveys the Mathewses predecessors their contemporaries and the artists whose work they influenced. Harvey L. Jones a senior curator at the Oakland Museum ably reviews the Mathewses exuberant lives work and influence on the California style; the foreword is by a state librarian emeritus and professor of history at USC; and an essay by an expert on American decorative arts and crafts helps to put the Mathewses in the context of their time and place.