November - December 2024

Volume 4, Issue 6

Monterey Wharf

photo taken by Horace Lyon

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President's Desk

Annual Meeting Review

On the 29^th of September, as required in our Bylaws, we held our Annual Membership meeting. I would like to share some of the topics of the meeting for those who could not attend. Using the generous grants from the Community Foundation of Monterey and fund-raising via the annual Monterey Gives campaign, we have undertaken major refurbishment projects at Stanton Center and at the Doud House. Below are a few photos to illustrate some of these activities.

We have much more to do. Please donate to the 2024 MCGives campaign beginning 14 November and help us put a new roof on Casa Serrano. Donate at: https://www.montereycountygives.com/

A copy of the meeting minutes will be provided upon request to: mhaa.org1931@gmail.com

As always, thank you for your support,

- Gary Spradlin, President, Monterey History and Art Association

Casa Serrano Art

Paul Hampden Dougherty (1877-1947)

Paul was born on September 6, 1877 in Brooklyn, New York. He was the eldest child of attorney John Hampden Dougherty (Columbia Law School 1874) & Alice Hill Dougherty. He grew up in affluent surroundings, was a student @ Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute & later @ New York Law School (NYLS) where he passed the bar in 1898. Instead of pursuing a legal career Paul decided to become a professional artist.

The 1900 US Census shows that he lived with his parents, 5 siblings (Walter, Alice, John, Malcolm & Eleanor) & 3 Irish born servants (Mary Coon, Margaret Clancey & Mary Logan) @ 258 Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn. This attractive 5 story French Second Empire house (part of a row of 4) was built (circa 1874-78) by Frederick T. Griffings & his wife Catherine who used 258 as their residence. Today it is listed in the Clinton Hill Historic District.

In 1902 Paul married Antje (Anna) Bertha Lund, a music student he met in Paris. A 8/31/1902 article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle announced “from abroad comes the news of a wedding of Brooklyn moment, the marriage of Mr. & Mrs. J. Hampton Dougherty’s son, Paul Dougherty, who has been, and is at present, an art student in Paris. There are few details of this bridal, all the word that has reached this city thus far being that Mr. Dougherty’s bride was Miss Anna Bertha Lund of Helsingborg, Sweden, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johannes Lund. The wedding took place in Helsingborg on August 7.” The couple moved to Nutley, New Jersey where they welcomed daughter Lisa in 1903. Sadly, Antje died of appendicitis a few weeks later.

Despite this setback Paul continued his artistic output. Page 8 of the 2/8/1909 NY Times mentioned this about his exhibition @ 450 Fifth Avenue. “The twenty paintings by Paul Dougherty at the Macbeth Galleries until Feb. 18 show the painter’s unusual ability to represent the movement of water and the character of a rocky shore. In his ‘Gray Gale’, the painting of the cold swirling waves and fine spray gives the precise sensation of tingling chill that comes with such atmospheric conditions. The color also is appropriate to the subject, and helps to emphasize its austerity.”

On June 29, 1916 he was issued a passport for travel to Canada, Japan & China shortly after his marriage to Marian Averell Clark.

He resided in Paris from 1920 to 1927. When he returned home, he & his final wife Paula moved to Tucson (hoping that its warm climate would help his severe arthritis). In 1931 the Dougherty couple moved to Carmel Highlands & became active in the Northern California art scene (especially with the Carmel Art Association). During these years, he continued to retain a strong presence in the East, exhibiting in the major annuals and winning the National Academy’s Palmer Memorial Prize in 1941.

Casa Serrano is privileged to include one of his oil paintings in its collection. Signed on the lower left ‘For Jean, Dougherty’, one finds additional information on its verso ‘heavy sea off Seal Rock Channel, Point Lobos (presented to his only pupil Jean Kellogg circa 1932).’ This painting was included in the August 1989 Carmel Art Association exhibition ‘Our First Five National Academicians.’

Paul died in Palm Springs (where he & Paula spent their winters) on January 9, 1947. Their home @ 1860 N. Vista Drive was designed by architect John Porter Clark & built by Alvah Hicks in 1942. It was designated a Class One Historic Site in 2014.

Paul was a member of the National Academy of Design, National Arts Club, the American Watercolor Society, the Century Association, Society of American Artists, the Lotos Club, the Salmagundi Club, the American Institute of Arts & Letters, Carmel Art Association & the Bohemian Club.

Michael Mazgai

Family home 258 Clinton Ave. Brooklyn, N.Y.

Passport Photo

June 29, 1916

Paul in his Carmel Highlands Studio

Jean Kellogg- Carmel Highlands

His home 1860 N Vista Drive, Palm Springs (Architect John Porter Clark- Builder Alvah Hicks 1942)

Local People

Kip Hudson

A longtime member of Monterey History & Art Association and former Board member, Kip moved to Monterey in 1968. Her husband, Jay, had taken a position as assistant administrator with the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, CHOMP. Kip grew up in Oakland, CA. She went to UC Berkeley where she majored in Child Development and had plans to be a teacher. Kip and Jay met when they both worked for Oakland Recreation Department while they were students at Cal. The two were married in 1960 and immediately moved to Montgomery, Alabama where Jay served 3 and a half years in the Air Force Medical Service Corps. They had moved back to Oakland when the opportunity came to move to Monterey.

Although Kip did not become a teacher, she soon became involved with a number of organizations on the Monterey Peninsula, first as a volunteer and Board member and later as a consultant and Board facilitator. She joined the League of Women Voters shortly after moving to Monterey and served 2 years as an “Observer” at City Council meetings. At the time, Minnie Coyle was the first and only woman mayor of Monterey. Kip was later appointed to the Monterey Planning Commission and served several years during a time of major construction in the city. These experiences helped her learn the workings of a city and would come in handy later when the Stanton Center was to be built.

Kip gives much credit to Gordon Paul Smith for spearheading the campaign to create the Monterey Maritime Museum and the Stanton History Center. She also feels there were good working partnerships between the City of Monterey and California State Parks. Construction of the Stanton Center began on July 15, 1991 and opened on October 31, 1992.

Kip has served as a founding member and Board president of Leadership Monterey Peninsula and the Monterey Peninsula College Foundation. She also has been Board President of Community Foundation for the Monterey Peninsula. In 1993 she was awarded the Outstanding Citizen Award from the Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce. She has also been honored with the Laura Bride Powers Award from MHAA.

Kip and Jay have two sons who attended MPUSD schools and now live with their families in California.

Kip has seen many changes occur on the Peninsula since moving here 56 years ago. Some of the most significant changes were the building of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the closing of Fort Ord and the opening of California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB). She continues to enjoy life with her husband living in Monterey.

If you have a friend or relative that would like to share their story about living in or around Monterey, please contact Monterey History and Art Association at MHAA.org1931@gmail.com.

Jo Mora Gathering

On the morning of Saturday, October 5, over 60 Jo Mora afficionados came together for the first-ever Jo Mora Gathering. The Gathering began with a symposium in The Stanton Center Theater. Presenters were: Mike Beck via pre-recorded video (performing In Old California); Neal Hotelling (Jo Mora and Samuel Morse, a Symbiotic Relationship); Scott Gale (Curating the Jo Mora: Cartographer Exhibit); Bill McQuerry (A Friendship and A Saddle); Griff Durham (Jo Mora and the Visalia Stock Saddle Company); Terry Trotter (1936 Fable Mural: Celebration of Pan & The Compass Rose); Melody Burgess and Susan DeLay (Digitizing the Jo Mora Collection); Peter Hiller (Six Jo Mora Sculpture Stories, and a short bonus presentation on Jo Mora and Artificial Intelligence); Mark McDonald (The Story of Mora's Carmel Woods Serra Art Installation); and Joss Grandeau (The World of Jo Mora in Books). Presenters took full advantage of the Theater's state-of-the-art projection and sound system to share rich supporting imagery with the audience via PowerPoint slides. It is not a stretch to say that the audience was fully engaged and absolutely delighted with the symposium, as evidenced in the Q&A lively sessions, and in comments during breaks. Attendees were treated to a few surprises during the symposium, including a miniature black-and-white keepsake print of the Evolution of the Cowboy carte, created from Griff Durham's letterpress block.

At the end of the Saturday symposium, The Gathering continued upstairs at The Stanton Center with a reception for the Jo Mora: Cartographer exhibit. Attendees enjoyed wine and light fare as they viewed the exhibit and chatted with presenters and other attendees. Four members of Los Amigos, our Casa Serrano volunteer group, served as hostesses during the reception: Cathy Collum, Susan Mar, Barbara McKinder, and Kathie Ritter. A surprise was pulled out of the Jo Mora archive room just for the reception: several single color proofs for Mora's 1945 California carte.

On Sunday October 6, The Gathering continued. Events began with a viewing of the Mora room at Casa Serrano. Charley Osborne, grandson of Samuel F.B. Morse, loaned two items to MHAA to share with attendees. The first item is a bronze statue of Morse, created by Mora in 1944, which is believed to be the last bronze Mora made. The second item is a drawing Mora made for Morse after Morse was thrown by his horse in the late 1930's. In the drawing, the horse has its tail between its legs as it apologizes to Morse for the mishap. These two loaned objects were placed on the center table in the Mora room. In The Sala Grande, Scott Gale gave a short PowerPoint presentation on the building of the Mora collection at Casa Serrano, the culmination of several months of research into the subject. Gale walked attendees through the sequence in which objects have been added to the room over many decades. The story of how the collection was built is a fascinating one, and often touching as well, as many objects have been donated in memory of beloved family members.

The Sunday program, and The Gathering, concluded with one of Terry Trotter's famous walkabouts at The Trotter Pacific Grove Gallery/Museum. Terry spoke about many of the Mora-related items on display in the upstairs section. Attendees were split into two groups to maximize their experience - meaning, Terry gave the same presentation twice. The Trotters were inspired by The Gathering to enhance the display of Mora items in their Pacific Grove space. Paula and Terry worked hard for a few months to give Gathering attendees the best possible experience.

Monterey Peninsula Carte

available to purchase in the Stanton Center Museum Store

Jo Mora getting help from his son, Jo Jr., on one of the relief panels for the Native Sons of the Golden West building in San Francisco

Terry Trotter giving a walkabout at his Gallery.

Photos: Michael Mazgai

Peninsula Diary

This article was originally published in the Monterey Peninsula Herald on November 26, 1958.

Thanksgiving Day, 1878

Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27, 1878 was clear and very cold in California. The temperature dropped to 28 degrees that night, the precursor of the coldest month on record to date. The day was religiously, sportively and gastronomically observed, according to the desire of the individual.

In San Francisco, with boat and bicycle races, baseball games, pigeon shooting and numerous other sporting events, it was conspicuously a day of pleasure. Turkeys retailed dressed at 20 cents a pound, chickens were 50 cents each, ducks 50 cents a brace; potatoes, carrots, beets, turnips and cabbage each sold at 1 cent a pound; fresh butter was 30 cents and Boston firkin 14 cents a pound; eggs were scarce, at 40 cents a dozen. Everybody was happy and had plenty of good things of the season, except mining stock investors, who were downcast and had to content themselves with corn beef and cabbage.

The mining stock market was the month’s absorbing object of interest. At the beginning, speculators were paying $200 a share for Sierra-Nevada, and other stocks were at buoyant prices.

The new State Constitutional Convention, in session at Sacramento, had numerous strenuous debates this month, the creation of a board of railroad commissioners and the regulation of corporations being subjects of diversified views. The convention lost three delegates during the month; one went insane and was committed to Stockton State Hospital; Col. James M. Storey from Mariposa died Nov. 16, and Bernard K. Kenney from San Francisco died Nov. 21.

Ruins of an old castle six miles from Santa Cruz city upon the Rancho Locke were described in papers of the month. They consisted of a number of stone pillars upon a black hillside; of concentric layers of stone, perforated in the middle, they were about ten feet high. Several had fallen and their stones were strewn around. When and by whom the castle was built, no one of that date, 80 years ago, remembered.

A brilliant meteor passed over California north the night of Nov. 23. It sped from east to west, apparently over Marysville, Yuba county, which was made as light as day, and burst into a shower of green and red light. Another meteor, almost as brilliant, was observed the night of the 26th.

Fall River, Shasta County, Indians had declared war against the Hat Creek tribe, and a battle in which the former were victorious was fought this month. The Fall Rivers captured four doctors, one squaw and three fighting bucks, all of whom were promptly hanged. Another battle was expected soon.

November was clear and cold but a good month for nimrods. George Stout of Courtland, Sacramento County, killed 208 ducks in one day, Nov. 10^th four Placerville, El Dorado County, hunters killed 200 quail along Hangtown Creek, and one afternoon a Marysville, Yuba County, hunter bagged 82 quail along the Yuba’s banks. In Lake County, Mrs. Daniel Hansen killed a grizzly bear that dressed 400 lbs. and Miss Emma Wallenford, a Napa City school teacher, dispatched at a distance of 200 yards in Hope Valley a buck that dressed 150 lbs.

George Wood found a deposit of grasshopper eggs, acres in extent, four miles from Sierraville, Sierra County, also 80 years ago. The eggs impervious to fire, water, and frost, were the size of a grain of wheat and were attached to strings that held together a dozen or more. They were deposited in the soil from two to six inches in depth, and hogs were rooting for and feasting upon them.

Maj. Ramon Pico undertook, at Sacramento, to ride 25- miles in one hour, using six horses. He lost by 4 minutes and 26 seconds.

The foregoing were some of the news stories recorded in an early San Francisco newspaper of 1878.

The San Francisco Daily Evening Newspaper, 1878.

News and advertisements in the Daily Evening Newspaper.

Library News

Urgent repairs have been made to the front doors and to the shed roof on the back of the library. We hope that a new roof and new paint for the library can be accomplished in the new year.

The library is participating in Christmas in the Adobes on Dec 13 and 14. Our volunteer harpist, Yvonne Crane, will be playing again this year. We’ll have our Christmas stockings (made from ties), many interesting books for sale, and Jo Mora tree ornaments for your holiday shopping list.

HOLIDAY BOOK SALE AT MPL

DECEMBER 6 and 7 2024

10 am – 4 pm

Our library has been invited to participate in the Holiday Book Sale held at Monterey Public Library on December 6 and 7. There will be a preview and reception on Thursday evening at the library from 5 to 7 pm.

We hope that our members will support this fundraising event and find some treasures “in the stacks”.

Holiday Gift Shopping at Stanton Center

Need a unique gift this season? We have Jo Mora ornaments, candles, greeting cards, soaps, children's items, Cartes and much more. The Musuem Store is open during our regular museum hours. Stop in and see what we have!

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