Gottardo Fidele Piazzoni was a Swiss-born American landscape painter, muralist and sculptor of Italian heritage, a key member of the school of Northern California artists in the early 1900s.
Portrait of Gottardo in his San Francisco studio, ca. 1925
Silence by Gottardo Fidele Piazzoni, c. 1912, oil on panel, De Young Museum
The Land by Gottardo F. P. Piazzoni, 1932, oil on canvas, five panels, 12 x 6 2/3 ft. each, De Young Museum
The Sea by Gottardo F. P. Piazzoni, 1931, oil on canvas, five panels, 12 x 6 2/3 ft. each, De Young Museum
Arthur F. Mathews was an American Tonalist painter who was one of the founders of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Trained as an architect and artist, he and his wife Lucia Kleinhans Mathews had a significant effect on the evolution of Californian art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His students include Granville Redmond, Xavier Martinez, Armin Hansen, Percy Gray, Gottardo Piazzoni, Ralph Stackpole, Mary Colter, Maynard Dixon, Rinaldo Cuneo and Francis McComas.
Spring Dance
The Vision of Saint Francis