May 15, 2015Lauren KristinMaps & Atlases A Famous Cartographic Blunder: The Island of California Read more about A Famous Cartographic Blunder: The Island of California For more than a century the state of California was thought to be an island. How? Misinformation by way of maps. In Mapping the West: America’s Westward Movement 1524-1890 (2002),… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about California Artists Pauline Powell Burns and Beulah Woodard January 16, 2014 African-American Fine Art California Artists Pauline Powell Burns and Beulah Woodard Among the featured artists in Swann’s February 13, 2014 auction, Shadows Uplifted: The Rise of American-American Fine Art, are Pauline Powell Burns and Beulah Ecton Woodard. These early Californian artists… Share Facebook Twitter