May 15, 2015Swann CommunicationsMaps & 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),…
Read more about California Artists Pauline Powell Burns and Beulah Woodard January 16, 2014 African American 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…