The Journal of San Diego History
SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY
Summer 1977, Volume 23, Number 3
James E. Moss, Editor
Thomas L. Scharf, Assistant Editor
Original Articles
- KONDO MASAHARU AND THE BEST OF ALL FISHERMEN
- By Don Estes
- MAURICE BRAUN: MASTER PAINTER OF THE CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE
- By Martin E. Petersen
- IN SEARCH OF THE ORIGINAL CALIFORNIAN: HERMAN TEN KATE’S EXPEDITION TO BAJA CALIFORNIA
- By Peter W. van der Pas
Original Document
- MY JOURNEY TO THE PENINSULA OF BAJA CALIFORNIA
- By Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate
Book Reviews
- The Broken Stones
- By Herbert L. Minshall
- The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization
- By Sherburne F. Cook
- Reuben Fleet and the Story of Consolidated Aircraft
- By William Wagner
- The Chemehuevis
- By Carobeth Laird
- San Diego: An Introduction to the Region
- Edited by Philip R. Pryde
- San Diego County Soldier-Pioneers: 1864-1866
- By Ed Scott
- Book Notes
San Diego History
On the Cover
CALIFORNIA SUMMERTIME
[image at left is from back cover]
Southern California’s peaceful back country near Warner’s Hot Springs is depicted on the cover by San Diego artist Maurice Braun. The life and work of this accomplished painter of the early twentieth century is discussed in an article in this issue of the Journal by Martin E. Petersen, Curator of Painting at the San Diego Fine Arts Gallery.
Braun is perhaps the best known of San Diego’s first painters. Born in Hungary, he emigrated to the United States with his family in the 1880’s. Starting out in New York City as a portrait painter, Braun soon moved to the West where he made his mark as a landscapist. In 1912 he founded the San Diego Fine Arts Academy and in 1929 joined with ten other local artists including Alfred Mitchell, Charles Fries and Everett Gee Jackson to from the Contemporary Artists of San Diego. Braun reached the height of his popularity during the 1920’s.
Courtesy Mrs. W. Murray Smith
Photograph by Harry Crosby
