Art and Artist

Print, Photographic
1993-278-01
Bruno Schneider
A black and white portrait of a smiling Bruno Schneider, artist, outside with hills in the background.. He has a mustache and is wearing a flannel type shirt under a dark sweater with buttons. He painted the mural in the Community Center Hall. He had... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-361-01
Cabin of the Painters-Welch's
An original photograph of the cabin of the painters, Thaddeus and Ludmilla Welch. The Welches and their dog are standing in front of the cabin which is located north of Stinson Beach. The cabin is surrounded by trees and vines and looks like it is... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-362-01
Thaddeus Welch
An original photograph of Thaddeus Welch with a paint brush in his hand and a pipe in his mouth, seated before his easel. He is sitting in a flat, grassy area with trees and hills surrounding him, somewhere on Mount Tamalpais. His painting is vis... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-455-01
Michael Knowlton
A black and white photo of Michael Knowlton, an artist living in Stinson Beach. He is wearing an aloha shirt standing in front of a display of his paintings.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-629
McBatten at painting
Artist puts the finishing touches on an impressionistic painting of two fisherman on a rolling sea with a few clouds overhead. She is standing at an easel with her back to the photographer. Behind that is a painting/mural with a handwritten sign say... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-685-01
Stinson from a Painting by Thad Welch
Photographic print copy of black and white postcard taken by SBHS Staff from postcard collection of Jane Gipner who lives on Calle del Mar near Avenida Balboa. The postcard has caption on top, "Stinson Beach, Marin Co., Cal. from a Painting by Thad W... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-706-01
Artist at the Rocks
A black and white photographic print of a young woman (Eva Dunn) with an easel and paints for her small canvas. She is neatly dressed, has short curly dark hair and sits with her back to the sun facing large boulders on the beach.... View Full Record
sculpture
1994OB-100-01
Two Miles of Sand Castles
Plastic mold of a pair of female breasts mounted on a mauve board in a gray frame. The breasts, in white, extend 3-dimensionally out from the board. A casual line of sand flows from the left top of the frame, over the left breast, and continues down... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1996-124-01
Claudia Chapline Gallery
B&W photo of Claudia Chapline sitting on a concrete bench outside her Gallery at 3445 Shoreline Highway. She is dressed in a black sweater and gray pants with mocassin-like shoes. Next to her stands a metal art sculpture of a cow facing the doorway... View Full Record
painting
1999OB-101-01
Steep Ravine to SF
This is a Bruno Schneider landscape. From a scrubby hillside (in shades of green, blue and yellow), above the blue waters and outcroppings of the Steep Ravine cove, the view takes in the extensive coastline toward San Francisco in the distance, whic... View Full Record
Postcard
2001-161-01
Diehard Outdoor Painters
This is a postcard announcement of a show by the Stinson Beach DIEHARD Outdoor Painters at the Stinson Beach Art Center Gallery (Jan 28 - Feb 26, 1989). The 7 artists named are: Tamae Agnoli, Frances Hiller Healey, MaryBelle O'Brien, Peggy Pepper, S... View Full Record
Print, copy
2001-219-01
Ed's Superette
This is a pen and ink sketch of the Stinson Beach Market when it was Ed's Superette. The windows, the balcony, the railings, the payphone, bulletin board and signs are all rendered in detail. It was done by Ken Shockey, local artist, for one of the... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2002-141-01
Schwering, James
Color photograph of Jim Schwering taken by Procter Jones. Jim Schwering, an artist and illustrator, spent many years working as a court artist for Channel 4 News in San Francisco. He moved from Pennsylvania to Stinson Beach in 1969 with his wife Gai... View Full Record
Disk, DVD
2004A-126
Remembering Peter Allen
Peter Allen, who was a major artist and colorful Stinson Beach character, is immortalized in this DVD. Chuck Olin chronciles his life in stages - from his creation of a wooden seal sculpture to scenes from his surfer's funeral at the beach. Peter com... View Full Record
drawing
2005OB-100-01
Drawing of Artists
Ink drawing of a figure drawing class. A nude model sits on a bed in the center. Five artists are sketching her: a pony-tailed man sitting on a stool with a sketch pad and a person behind him sitting next to a table with paintbrushes in glass jars ar... View Full Record
Catalog
2006L-100
The Years at White Gate Ranch, Stinson Beach, California 1963-1976
This is the exhibition catalogue for the same titled show at the Bolinas Museum by the artists Robert Hudson, Cornelia Schulz, Martha Shaw and Richard Shaw. The show was held at the museum April 21 to June 18, 1995. Martha & Richard Shaw lived and... View Full Record
painting
2007OB-100-02
Pair of Ruddy Duck
Two ruddy ducks sitting in a nesting position with their heads facing left have their back to the viewer. The duck on the left is brown with a speckled back and a white stripe running out from its blue beak. The duck on the right has a bluish fanta... View Full Record
painting
2007OB-100-03
Wood Duck
Wood duck seen in profile painted on an oblong piece of driftwood with a protruding rounded top. Duck has a black head with white stripes in the feathers sticking out from the back and a white patch in a half circle around its eye. Its back is black... View Full Record
painting
2007OB-100-04
Pair of Mallard with 5 Young
A pair of mallards seemingly drifting on the water followed by 5 yellow ducklings - 4 in a row and one slightly apart and above. The mallard in the front is bluish gray with a black head and tail. Its back is dark gray and mottled, its underbelly i... View Full Record
painting
2007OB-100-05
Snowy Egret
Snowy egret in profile on a rectangular driftwood board. It is standing on yellow legs facing right. It has a yellow eye, black beak. There is a slit in the driftwood at the top that extends down to the egret's neck. Signed S.F. Boyle 82... View Full Record
painting
2007OB-100-06
Ring Necked Duck
Sitting ring-necked duck facing forward painted on rectangular driftwood board. Duck is black with yellow eyes and white on its sides. Its bill is blue in the center with 2 white stripes - one where it connects with its head and the other just befo... View Full Record
painting
2007OB-100-07
Pintail Duck
Sitting Pintail duck seen mainly from behind with its head turned to the side so it is in profile. Rust colored head and neck with a yellowish stripe running from the top of its head all the way down its neck on either side. Grayish back with v-shap... View Full Record
painting
2007OB-100-08
Five Ducks in Air
Five ducks in flight in somewhat of a V-shape, all with wings outstretched and all with blue bills and feet. Three are black and white and the other two in the center are brown and white and gray. Signed S.F. Boyle 84.... View Full Record
painting
2007OB-100-09
Three Ducks in Air
Three ducks in flight, 2 lower than the 3rd above them. All have white underbellies, two have black throats and heads while the other's neck and head are two shades of brown brown and it has a white ring around its bill. All have outstretched wings... View Full Record
Card
2010A-104
Ginny Felch Open Studio
An open studio invitation card from the photographer, Ginny Felch, May 10 -11 of 1998. It shows a photograph of the shoreline with many people wading in the surf and children running through it. It is printed in sepia tone and bordered with a blue l... View Full Record
Card
2010A-105
Let's Go Painting
An invitation card to a painting show by the local group called Diehard Outdoor Painting Club. The show was titled, "Let's Go Painting" and held at Bolinas Gallery in the August of 2008. The artists involved were: Tamae Agnoli, Janice Cline, Patty Ga... View Full Record
Watercolor Painting
2010OB-102-01
Landscape with Coconut Tree
A watercolor painting of a very lush green landscape with a coconut tree in front and banana plants and green trees on the background. The painter's signature, Schneider '31, is painted in a brown-orange tone on the lower center of the painting. On t... View Full Record
Book
2011L-104
Seaglass
A book of 44 Stinson Beach poems by the poet, Claudia Chapline, who reflects on her life in Stinson Beach.... View Full Record
Xerox
2012-107
Our Story
This is a printed copy of a color photo. In the photo the artist, Kerry Livingston (who is our librarian) is standing next to her creation -- a quilt titled 'Our Story" -- made on the occasion of a book show at the Gallery Route One in Point Reyes St... View Full Record
Book
2012L-100
Blackwater Babylon
A book of paintings and essays about war in the Middle East by Michael Knowlton. 30 pages.... View Full Record
Periodical Pages
2012L-101
Peter Allen
Two-page excerpt from an article on Peter Allen and his marine mammal sculptures, which appeared in the Jan-Feb 1989 issue of In-Marin magazine. These pages show mainly his sculptures in color photos but the article is incomplete. Page one shows his... View Full Record
Book
2012L-103
Pastoral California The Art of Thaddeus and Ludmilla Welch
This is a biography of the California painter who resided in Steep Ravine with his painter wife. It includes 22 reproductions of their paintings and 3 photographs: Thaddeus, Ludmilla, and Thaddeus with his friend, John Twachtman. Thaddeus was born in... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2013-100-15
SB Art Center Holiday Show Artists
Richard Lambert, sculptor, and Peggy Thordis Larson, painter, pose beside one of his marble sculptures at the All Star Holiday Show at the SB Art Center (currently occupied by 'Made' Craft Gallery located in NE unit of Avilla's Barn, 3448 Shoreline H... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2013-100-18
Howdy Allen at work
Charles Howard (Howdy) Allen in his cowboy hat and a plaid shirt in his artist's studio in Stinson Beach. Looking down at his work table, he holds a palette in one hand and a painting implement in the other. There are four paintings visible on the w... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2013-100-19
Peter Allen with his whale
Peter Allen stands against the retaining wall of the beachfront property owned by Bob Evans. He stands head to nose with a great whale that he had sculpted into the seawall.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2015-110-01
John Grissim at the Bar
Locals at the Sand Dollar congregate at the bar. John Grissim in yellow windbreaker and brown cowboy hat is foremost. Everyone between and him and Charlie Lenhoff at the far end of the bar are unidentified. John Grissim was a journalist and author wh... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2015-110-02
Connie Veit & Gino Skye at the Sand Dollar
On the porch of the Sand Dollar Restaurant Connie Veit poses with Gino Skye. She has a colorful scarf wrapped around her shoulders, he has on a white shirt and black hat with a red headband. She is smiling and he seems to be laughing. Gino Sky was a... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2015-110-03
Shirley Sanford
Shirley Sanford prepares to get into her automobile outside the Sand Dollar Restaurant. She is wearing a blue jacket with fur lining and is holding a cane in her right hand, her left is on the open car door window. She was a stained glass artist and... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2015-107
Tamae & Val
(Artist) Tamae & (Architect) Val Agnoli stand close together in what may be the Sand Dollar. Val has on a leather jacket and black t-shirt and is looking through his glasses as the camera. Tamae, wearing a black & red sweater leans into his shoulder... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2015-109
John Grissim & Ed Leslie
John Grissim (in tan turtle-neck sweater & jeans) and Ed Leslie (in black sweater w/a logo on it over a white shirt) flank an unidentified blond is a beige sweater. John is embracing her with one hand around her shoulder and the other at her waist.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2015-108
Gino & Tamae on Bolinas Beach
Tamae Agnoli and Gino Skye sit on the beach in Bolinas with a crowd of people -- the only recognizable face is Annie Crotts sitting a short distance behind Gino -- on what is presumably the 4th of July. They seems to be clapping - possibly for the St... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-364-01
Summit House
A black and white photograph of Constantine DeSella posing at the Summit House at the top of Bolinas Ridge on the Fairfax-Bolinas Road. Bolinas Museum, Jack Mason Museum and others also have this image. The Summit House has long split shingles on th... View Full Record
print,photographic
1993-228-01
Peter Allen and family
In this black and white photograph artist/sculptor Peter Bishop Allen with his child Molly on his hip and his wife Desiree Mann Allen beside him, stand between two of his giant sculptures of dolphins which arch up over their heads. Molly is a tow-hea... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-284
Bruno Schneider
Portrait from the waist up of artist Bruno Schneider standing outside beside a house. He is in a white open neck shirt and dark jacket. He has grey or blond hair and a mustache and is very handsome. See also 1993-278... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-363-01
Thaddeus Welch at Steep Ravine
Artist Thaddeus Welch sitting on an outdoor bench holding a cat. To his right are two large landscape paintings leaning against some type of support. In the background is a split rail fence. The background is rustic but the man wears a suit and ti... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-380-01
Bolinas Bay painting
Photographic print in color of Bolinas Bay painted with the sun shining on the sand and surf from below heavy clouds. Duxbury reef is touched by the sun in the distance. It is a scene without structures. The shoulder of a hill fills the foregrou... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-381-01
Painting of Stinson Beach
This a photograph of a painting of Stinson Beach. It shows Bolinas Bay. Painter unknown.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-382-01
Landscape painting of Stinson Beach
This is a photographic copy of a landscape painting of Bolinas Bay and the hills of Stinson Beach. It shows Bolinas Mesa in the background. Painter unknown.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-453-01
Bathers on the Beach
This is a photo of a painting by Michael Knowlton. There is a large sandy beach facing the ocean with several rocks on the shoreline in the background to the left. On the beach are several groups of people in bathing suits stretched out on beach to... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-517-01
Shoreline similar to Bolinas Bay
This is a black and white photographic print of a painting of a rocky coastline with the cliffs coming to the sea. It shows part of a gilded frame. This is a painting done from Steep Ravine cottage #5. There are offshore rocks cropping up, some veg... View Full Record
Print, copy
1993-872-01
Road to Bolinas Bay
A colored print from a slide of a painting by Thaddeus Welch. A dirt road leads down towards Bolinas Bay and Stinson Beach, although since this is a completely rural scene it should probably be identified as Rancho Baulines. Three grazing cows are... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1994-406
Thad Welch Studio
This is a black and white photo of the interior of Thad Welch's art studio. There are several paintings mounted on the walls, and two standing upright leaning against the wall.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1996-128-01
Stinson Beach Painting
This color photograph is of a framed painting. The frame is antiqued gold and the painting is a view down a grassy (the grass is golden) wooded slope to a bay the farther curve of which is a sandspit dividing an inner lagoon from the ocean. The fa... View Full Record
Postcard
1998-102-01
Sea Rose House-Painting
This color print is of a painting of the house described in #1998-101. The view is at a slightly different angle and the house takes up the whole frame eliminating the background objects in the previous photo. The print is mounted on a card the bac... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1998-112-01
Stinson Beach Bookstore
This color photograph is of a painting by the artist Dino. It shows the outside of the Stinson Beach Bookstore. It is a blue building with two upstairs windows and a deep overhang covering the length of the building where the front entrance is. A... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1998-114-01
Sand Dollar Restaurant
This is a color photograph of a watercolor by Catherine Anderson of Petaluma California. It shows a white building with blue trim. The front of the building has an overhang supported by posts creating a front porch at the blue, dutch entry door. T... View Full Record
painting
1999OB-100-01
Stinson Beach
Panorama of Stinson Beach/Bolinas Bay. Green, blue, gold and brown hillside slopes down toward a sandy beach, although there are some large boulders extending into the ocean at the base in the foreground. Whitecaps on the ocean where they near the... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2000-203-01
The Bungalow (drawing)
This color photograph is of an ink and watercolor sketch of a building by Ken Shockey, a local artist. Owned by Jimmy Mayers and known as The Bungalow, this building was a small grocery store with gas pumps in front and family living quarters in the... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2001-216-01
Jimmy Dixon with Syd Boyle's Art
Jim Dixon points to a piece of art painted by his stepgrandfather, Syd Boyle, titled "Ducks Unlimited." It is hanging on a shingled wall displaying many of Syd's other paintings on driftwood, the largest is painting of two penguins..... View Full Record
Postcard
2004-102-04
Stinson Beach 1908
A Black and White postcard made, possibly, from a water color of Stinson Beach and the hills looking toward San Francisco. Shows stylized houses on the hill (16) and people on the beach. Under the painting is written the title: Stinson Beach 1908. On... View Full Record
Ephemera
2005A-101-01
Bolinas Lagoon
An invitation card for the Bolinas Museum show titled "Bolinas Lagoon, Paintings from the Past, 1870-1930" The front of the card shows a painting of a schooner docked at the Bolinas wharf probably painted from spit of Stinson Beach. It is written und... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2007-102-01
Thaddeus Welch Painting, Bolinas Beach
A color digital photo print of a painting by Thaddeus Welch in 1893. The original painting is in the collection of Bolinas Museum. The painting is titled 'Bolinas Beach' since this area was all part of the Rancho Bolinas at that time. It depicts gree... View Full Record
painting
2007OB-100-01
Penguins
Two black and white penguins standing facing left. Penguin in front has holds his head slightly raised as if looking up. Slightly behind him the penguin's beak is tilted downward although he appears to be looking straight ahead. He also has a circ... View Full Record
sign
2009OB-100-01
Dipsea Highway sign
On masonite board painted red is an Indian in profile - shoulder length hair held in place with red bandana, yellow blanket with red and black stripe near top and red and blue dash and diamond shaped border on bottom covers his shoulder. Printed on t... View Full Record
Poster
2011A-102-01
West Marin Music Festival
A poster for the West Marin Music Festival, August 10 to18, 1991. The design of the poster is a reproduction of a painting by Gary Stephens titled, "The Bridge Club" done in 1985, oil on canvas size 18" x 22". The original colorful painting was reduc... View Full Record
Documents
2015A-115-04
Harold Schwarm Retrospective and Obit
This is a copy of West Marin Citizen, October 30,2014 issue, with Harold Schwarm Obituary and announcement of his retrospective show coming up at Claudia Chapline Gallery. The article continues on the back of the page.... View Full Record
Digital Image
2016A-100-03
Stinson Beach in the '70s
Based on remembrances of Poet Gino Sky who lived in Stinson during the 1970s, an anecdotal history of musicians, artists and poets who also resided here was pieced together and displayed at the Stinson Beach Historical Society Annual Meeting and fund... View Full Record