Selected Resources
www.wikipedia.com/TildenDaken
An in-depth look at Tilden Daken’s art and adventurous life, including a photograph of the enchanting home he built in the 1920s in Mill Valley, California, captured by Frank Schulenburg, head of public outreach for the Wikipedia Foundation.
www.askart.com/TildenDaken
Tilden Daken is featured on askart.com, known as the Artists’ Bluebook, an online database containing over 200,000 artists worldwide (some information can be accessed without membership). The site offers artist biographies, auction records, and references to museum works, books, and periodicals.
www.edanhughescollection.com
For over 50 years, the late Edan Hughes collected and researched the artists of early California. His book Artists in California, 1786—1940 (two volumes, 1,250 pages) contains biographies for 20,000 artists active in California before 1940. The site, maintained following his death, features Hughes’s online gallery, representing one of the largest personal collections of 18th-, 19th-, and early-20th-century California art.
www.CaliforniaArt.com
An informative site about pre-1945 California art, created by curator, writer, and California art historian Nancy Dustin Wall Moure. It contains lists and links to museums, publications, galleries, news, and events.
www.californiahistoricalsociety.org
The CHS holds one of the state’s richest collections of primary and secondary materials on the social, cultural, economic, and political development of California. CHS publishes a quarterly journal and offers an active public program schedule, including exhibitions, lectures and other public events.
