Gay Palm Springs California, This Week, Aug 23- Aug 29, 2017
Now celebrating our 23th year! This weekend Mr. Barracks Contest Weekend Meet and Greet, Saturday at 9pm and Sunday victory Party and World Famous Beer Bust. Page 11. Comic Con Weekend Comic Con Palm Springs has brought together some of the most passionate and talented people from the world of comic books and entertainment to produce an exciting new Comic Con in one of the most famous and fun cities in the world. See page 12.
Now celebrating our 23th year! This weekend Mr. Barracks Contest Weekend Meet and Greet, Saturday at 9pm and Sunday victory Party and World Famous Beer Bust. Page 11.
Comic Con Weekend Comic Con Palm Springs has brought together some of the most passionate and talented people from the world of comic books and entertainment to produce an exciting new Comic Con in one of the most famous and fun cities in the world. See page 12.
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E. CHARLTON FORTUNE - GAY WOMAN ARTIST -<br />
FEATURED AT PASADENA MUSEUM OF ART<br />
E. Charlton Fortune was born in <strong>California</strong><br />
in 1885. She was classified as an American<br />
Impressionist artist. Her early work was<br />
compared to the Impressionist movement<br />
in Europe although her work was beyond<br />
the Impressionist style with a uniqueness of<br />
its own.<br />
She didn’t focus on nature alone but on nature<br />
and the influence of humans in nature<br />
including architecture and people integrated<br />
into the content. Her works were known<br />
for vivid color and depicting how humans<br />
affected the environment. She also painted<br />
many portraits.<br />
co-established the Fortune and Ryland firm<br />
which concentrated on creating liturgical<br />
arts for Roman Catholic Churches. In<br />
1955, she received the papal award Pro<br />
eccesia et Pontifice for outstanding achievement<br />
in creating liturgical art.<br />
The Opening on Sunday, <strong>Aug</strong>ust 20 at the<br />
Pasadena Museum of Art features many of<br />
Fortune’s early landscape works and examples<br />
of the liturgical art she became known<br />
for at the end of her life career.<br />
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- adamsartexpose@gmail.com<br />
Forune’s background coming from a<br />
wealthy family provided her opportunity to<br />
study in Europe and the U.S. She was also<br />
introduced to the prime art movements of<br />
the time of which her early work demonstrates<br />
the influence she received from this<br />
exposure.<br />
She was very independent in not wanting to<br />
be gender identified in her work. Her birth<br />
name was Euphemia Charlton Fortune. As<br />
a child into adolescence, she was called Effie<br />
by family and friends. When she began<br />
to show her work she changed her signature<br />
to E. Charlton Fortune which gave her<br />
name more of a masculine sound and many<br />
times she was identified as a male artist<br />
until she became more widely recognized<br />
in the art community.<br />
After studying and working in Europe<br />
during the early 1900’ s she returned to<br />
<strong>California</strong> where she joined the Carmel<br />
Art Association. In 1928 her interest in<br />
art turned to religious subject matter. She<br />
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