Chaffey Community Art Association
Museum of Art
THE BARBARA LINE COLLECTION
Nucleus of the Chaffey Community Art Association Permanent Collection of
fine paintings was the Barbara Line Collection. This was a succession of
fine paintings donated by Francis and Helen Line, beginning in 1941, as a
memorial to their lovely young daughter.
Desert River, Conrad Buff, 1941
Barbara Line Memorial Collection
Signed “Conrad Buff” lower right
Oil
48”x 72”
1941 on stretcher bar
1941 Barbara Line Memorial purchase
CONRAD BUFF 1886-1975
Conrad Buff was born in Splicher, Switzerland. He studied in Munich, Germany in 1905, but was primarily self-taught. The following year, he emigrated to Los Angeles. He supported himself as a house painter and sheep herder. He began painting desert landscapes and developed a life-long friendship with Maynard Dixon. In 1922, he married Mary Marsh, who wrote children's books, which Buff illustrated.
Buff also painted murals and worked in lithography.
Buff's interest was in flat planes of color, constructing them like an architect designing a building, to create massive movement in two dimensions. His work was gentle and lyrical.
The nine paintings of the Barbara Line Collection are:
Desert River, Conrad Buff, 1941.
Blue House, Thomas Craig, 1941.
Storm at Sequoia, Emil Kosa, Jr., 1941.
Mineral King, Paul Lauritz, 1941.
After the Sing, Marjorie Reed Lindgren, 1941.
Iron Mountain, Clyde Scott, 1941.
Location (map):
THE J. FILIPPI WINERY, North Wing
12467 Baseline Road, Rancho Cucamonga, California 91739
Mailing Address:
Chaffey Community Art Association Museum of Art
P.O. Box 3902, Rancho Cucamonga, California 91729
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