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REX BRANDT 1914-2000 Rex Brandt was born in San Diego, California. His family moved to Riverside, California in the early 1920s. Brandt began painting with watercolors at about age sixteen. He attended the Chouinard Art Institute while still in high school and later continued his art education at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his way by painting for the National Park Service.
During the 1930s Brandt taught art at Riverside Community College while producing Regionalist style watercolors of the Southern California landscape. After the 1940s, he painted many harbor and beach scenes in abstract and cubistic styles. He and Phil Dike co-founded the Brandt-Dike Summer School of Painting at Corona Del Mar, California. Brandt wrote eleven books on watercolor painting and contributed to twelve more on the same subject. His illustrations have appeared in many nationally-distributed magazines. He made six educational films and produced several large murals.
Brandt's paintings were included in the California Group exhibitions. He is recognized as one of the most skilled watercolor artists who worked on the West Coast. He was president of the California Water Color Society, vice-president of the American Watercolor Society and a director of the W.P.A, art project in the 1930s.
(Biographical information taken from The California Style, McClelland & Last.)
Click on a thumbnail below to see an enlarged image and start a slide show of Brandt works.
Paintings in the Permanent Collection:
Day at Corona del Mar
Picnic at Rockport
Storm, 1944
Day at Corona del Mar
Signed “Brandt”, lower right
Oil, 29” x 39”, 1943
1944 gift of the artist
| Picnic at Rockport
Signed “Brandt”, lower right
Casein, 17” x 27”, dated 1940
1986 gift of Helen and Francis Line
| Storm, 1944
Signed “Rex Brandt”, left center
Watercolor, 19” x 26”, 1944
1981 gift of Mrs. Sanford Ballou (Marian)
Value at acquisition: $1,800
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Museum Closure To cooperate with the nationwide response to COVID-19, CCMA is closed to the public until May 31, 2020 unless an "all clear" is given earlier. Beginning April 1, 2020 please direct museum inquiries to CCMA board chairman Nancy DeDiemar (nancy91762@gmail.com)
or 909-214-3459.
CCMA is continuing to accept applications for Art at Airport while closed.
Check here or on our Facebook page for updates to this notice.
Events at the Museum The April Artist Reception
has been cancelled.
Art at Airport
CCMA is managing the public art program at Ontario International Airport. Exhibits featuring the art of 20 regional artists may be seen in the passenger arrival/departure area of Terminals 2 and 4.
Visual artists interested in participating in the program can click on the EXHIBIT tab above for more information and the application form. CCMA is accepting artist applications during the museum closure period.
Life Drawing Session at CCMA
Postponed Until Further Notice
Live model
Sessions are the third Thursday of the month
10 am to 3 pm
$15 -- open to all
Open Studio at CCMA
Postponed Until Further Notice
Fridays from 11 am – 3 pm Where artists meet to create and share their artwork in an unstructured environment.
Open Studio at CCMA is a place for artists to come together and create art in the presence of other artists. It is intended to foster creativity, exchange, conversation, encouragement and freedom of artistic expression. All artists are welcome and invited to participate. Every Friday from 11 am to 3 pm at the museum.
CCMA in the News Inland Valley historian Joe Blackstock visits CCMA to view the nine paintings of the Barbara Line Memorial Collection. Click here to view article.
IEShineOn.com IEShineOn, an online source for events and activities in the Inland Empire, featured CCMA. To view the article, click here. Suzanne Sproul
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin columnist Suzanne Sproul reports on the Sheets, Sheets & Caughman exhibit Art for Living and Living for Art. To view the article, click here. Read about CCMA's 75th anniversary in 2016 by clicking here. David Allen Inland Valley Daily Bulletin columnist David Allen visits CCMA's outdoor sculpture at the front of the museum. The sculpture was created by Fullmer Construction superintendent Gary Rue entirely from materials leftover from construction the parking lot next door. Click here to see a photo and read David's blog. Trevor Summons
or click here to read about CCMA in Trevor Summon's column Foothills Reader Ontario, CA 91761-1623
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